Hamilton is well represented in the race for the 14th District’s two seats in the New Jersey Assembly: four of the five candidates call Mercer County’s largest municipality home.

Republicans Rob Calabro and Bill Harvey, Democratic incumbent Wayne DeAngelo and Gene Baldassari, a candidate from the Modern Whig Party, all hail from Hamilton. Longtime Democratic Assemblywoman Linda Greenstein is a Plainsboro resident.

Baldassari has worked as a cost analyst for Fedders Corporation, a digital marketer and a part-time musician. He founded Byte Supplies marketing firm and the Providers Dance Combo band. He is a graduate of Steinert High School, Mercer County Community College and the College of New Jersey. He holds degrees in computer science, communications and marketing.

He is the past president of New Jersey’s chapter of the National Health Federation and the past director of Fair Tax NJ’s 4th Congressional District branch. Baldassari has authored a book calling for free market competition in the legal trade.

Baldassari is running on the platform of, among other things, breaking the hold of the two-party system in New Jersey, cutting property taxes and introducing election reforms that would limit terms.

Calabro owns Porfirio’s Italian Food Market in Hamilton and operates two additional locations of the market, in Trenton and Lawrenceville. He currently serves on the Hamilton Township Planning Board. Calabro also is a member of the Sons of Italy. He previously served as a board member of the Hamilton YMCA.

A lifelong resident of Hamilton, Calabro is a graduate of McCorristin Catholic High School and has a bachelor’s degree in business administration from The College of New Jersey. He is a parishioner of Saint Gregory the Great Roman Catholic Church. He and his wife, Gina, have three children.

DeAngelo is serving his first term in the Assembly. He serves as vice chairman of the Telecommunications Committee and is on the Labor Committee as well.

In the community, DeAngelo serves as the president of the Mercer County Building Trades. He also is a member of the board of trustees of the Mercer County ARC, the Ancient Order of Hibernians and the Hamilton Elks Club No. 2262 and a youth soccer coach for the Hamilton Wildcats. He previously sat on the Board of Trustees of the United Way of Mercer County.

DeAngelo is on the Hamilton Planning Board and was previously a member of the Hamilton Township Zoning Board. He spent four years on the Hamilton Township Council and served as council president. A lifelong resident of Hamilton Township, he graduated Steinert High School in 1983. DeAngelo and his wife, Toni, have two daughters.

Greenstein has served in the New Jersey General Assembly since 2000. She is deputy speaker of the Assembly Democratic Leadership team and serves as chairwoman of the Assembly Judiciary Committee. She also is a member of the Health and Senior Services Committee.

Before her election to the Assembly, she served five years as a member of the Plainsboro Township Committee. She sat on the West Windsor-Plainsboro Board of Education and was vice president of the Mercer County School Boards Association.

Greenstein holds degrees from Vassar College, Johns Hopkins University and the Georgetown University Law Center. She previously was a senior staff attorney at the Community Health Law Project, and supervised the Public Interest Legal Clinic at Montclair State University.

She was a clinical associate professor at Seton Hall Law School, where she supervised the Disability Law Clinic. Greenstein has also served as deputy state attorney general and as an assistant district attorney in Philadelphia.

She is a board member for the Central New Jersey Council of the Boy Scouts of America and the New Jersey Council for the Humanities. Greenstein and her husband, Michael, live in Plainsboro and have one son.

Harvey, a Hamilton resident who operates his own legal practice in the Mercer County area, began his career as an intern with Legal Aid Society in their New York Criminal Appeals Bureau. In 2005, he served as an associate with Clemente Mueller in Morristown, and, in 2008, handled litigation matters on behalf of Harleysville Insurance.

Harvey is a graduate of Montclair State University and a 2005 graduate of New York Law School. He is an executive committee member of the New Jersey State Bar Association, Young Lawyers Division.