Wilda Diaz is one of the most popular and richest Politician who was born on September 14, 1964 in Perth Amboy, New Jersey, United States. As of July 9, Diaz cut off the town’s medical emergency services and handed over the responsibility for ambulances over to Raritan Bay Medical Center to decrease the city’s sprawl but not reducing the quality of services.
A 2010 attempt by a former city employee to recall the mayor on charges of gross mismanagement, failure to stabilize taxes and lack of redevelopment in the city failed to move forward after the deadline to collect 5,546 signatures required for a recall election was not met.
Christie appointed Diaz to the state’s Housing Opportunity Task Force on February 17, 2010. As a member of the task force, Diaz endorsed Republican efforts to abolish the state’s affordable housing program, which was criticized by advocates for the poor. Diaz was one of only two Democrats who joined a roster of 56 Republican mayors from Middlesex, Monmouth, Burlington, Ocean, Hunterdon and Mercer Counties in support of Governor Christie’s constitutional amendment proposal of capping real estate taxes at 2.5% (known locally as the “Cap 2.5 Amendment”). She also has received criticism for breaking her campaign promise to end the practice of granting residency waivers, which have allowed at least four high-paid municipal employees to work without having to establish residency in the city.
Diaz encouraged voters to vote against the budget for schools during 2009 and the voters took note of the suggestion and rejected the proposed budget almost two-to-one. In conjunction along with Perth Amboy Business Improvement District (BID), Diaz launched an effort in June 2011 to end the littering.
“The upcoming election in Perth Amboy could be a referendum on Mayor Wilda Diaz… Council President Joel Pabon Sr., a Customer Service supervisor for the US Postal Service who was on the school board, ran for council with former Mayor Joe Vas in 2008. Today he is being supported for re-election by Diaz. Dianne Roman served as city administrator under former Mayor Joe Vas but she is also being supported for re-election to the school board by Diaz, who kept her on the municipal payroll. Pabon is actually calling his slate ‘the Mayor Diaz Team,’ which includes Councilman William Petrick and newcomer Sergio Diaz. Roman is running under the ‘Restoring Educational Priorities’ banner with Thomas Thor and Republican Junior Iglesia.”
On March 14, 2009, the local Republican Club honored Diaz at an event attended by Chris Christie, a former United States Attorney for the District of New Jersey who was actively seeking the Republican Party nomination for governor for the November 2009 general election against incumbent governor Jon Corzine. Diaz cooperated in an investigation being conducted by federal and state law enforcement agencies relating to activities connected to former Mayor Vas’s administration. Despite her affiliation with the Democratic Party, Diaz hired several Republicans to serve in her administration. In May 2010, she supported three Republican candidates for city council, including former city committee chairman Kenneth Gonzalez, and appointed another former city GOP leader, Maria Garcia, to the municipal planning board.
