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22 NEW JERSEY COPS ■ MARCH 2014 COMMITTEE SPOTLIGHT: NEW DELEGATES Work as important as any in the union Several years ago, a Local’s State Delegate would retire, and the transition to the new person would sometimes go like this: “Some new delegates would end up with their previous delegate handing them an empty brief case and saying, ‘have fun,’” reports Mark Messinger, State Delegate for North Plainfield Local 85 and chairman of the State PBA New Delegates Committee. That was before former Sussex County Local 138 State Delegate and PBA Se