{"id":852094,"date":"2026-06-08T04:08:20","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T04:08:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/852094\/"},"modified":"2026-06-08T04:08:20","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T04:08:20","slug":"politics-pubs-parades-and-the-parish-joan-quigley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/852094\/","title":{"rendered":"Politics, Pubs, Parades, and the Parish: Joan Quigley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the first part of our two-part conversation, former New Jersey Assemblywoman Joan<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-182008\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/JQuigley-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\"\/><strong>Joan Quigley<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Quigley reflects on her upbringing in an Irish-American family in Jersey City, her early involvement in civic activism, and her groundbreaking career as a woman in Hudson County politics.<\/p>\n<p>She shares personal stories about Irish identity, family history, and the political culture of mid-century Jersey City, including her role in the city\u2019s first St. Patrick\u2019s Day Parade and local grassroots organizing efforts.<\/p>\n<p>Quigley also discusses how she entered politics through campaign work, eventually becoming one of the few women in leadership within the Hudson County Democratic organization. Throughout the conversation, she highlights the importance of relationships, resilience, humor, and mentorship in both politics and public service.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/episode\/0sRuvi6oMZ2F7ZnBsrqrVu?si=i3MV8_SXSn6tJV8RaMP3xg&amp;nd=1&amp;dlsi=a1ffbf2dc57b4203\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">To hear the JOAN QUIGLEY PODCAST, <strong>PLEASE<\/strong> GO HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Hosted by Stacy McCormack,\u00a0Politics, Pubs, Parades, + the Parish\u00a0is a series of<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-181254\" src=\"https:\/\/www.insidernj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_20260525_092731.heic\" alt=\"\"\/> interviews with people you most likely know &#8211; many of them in New Jersey politics &#8211; telling stories that seem to get better with age.<\/p>\n<p>This is the first in a two-part series featuring Assemblywoman Quigley.<\/p>\n<p>Please look for Part Two next Monday and\u00a0look for other podcasts featuring other New Jersey political difference-makers in the coming weeks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In the first part of our two-part conversation, former New Jersey Assemblywoman Joan Joan Quigley Quigley reflects on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":852095,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5122],"tags":[348003,5229,113002,32521,348004,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,21701,80,10358,348005,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":["post-852094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-the-parish","tag-america","tag-hudson-county","tag-jersey-city","tag-joan-quigley","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-newyork","tag-newyorkcity","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-parades","tag-politics","tag-pubs","tag-stacy-mccormack","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116712525779454035","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=852094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852094\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/852095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=852094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=852094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=852094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}