THE INTERNET — An anonymous Wikipedia user edited Assembly Speaker Vincent Prieto's Wikipedia page today to call him a "full-time leech" because of his three public jobs.

Prieto, a Democrat who leads the state Assembly, is also a construction code official in his hometown of Secaucus and in Guttenberg, earning more than $200,000 combined.

Before today, the biography section of Prieto's Wikipedia page ended, "He is a resident of Secaucus with his wife Marlene and two children." It was edited today to include, "and has been a full-time leech collecting three public salaries from NJ tax payers."

The edit to his biography has since been deleted. Prieto spokesman Phil Swibinski declined to comment on the Wikipedia page.

The sentence fragment appears to be the only contribution to the online encyclopedia by the user, identified only by an IP address.

Prieto has been the target in recent days because the state Legislature fast-tracked a package of bills being pushed by Gov. Chris Christie, including one that would have allowed Christie to profit from any book he writes before leaving office in 2018. The bills did not come up for a vote last night, and the book deal appears to be dead.

The package of bills included one sponsored by Prieto that would have ended the state's requirement that governments and businesses pay for legal notices in newspapers. Christie argued the requirement is an unnecessary subsidy for newspapers in the internet age. Newspaper publishers said ending the requirement would lessen transparency and cost hundreds of jobs. Christie has said he will try to get the bill passed next year.

Democrats, who control the state Legislature, agreed to consider the bill that would have allowed Christie to profit from book sales in exchange for Christie agreeing to approve salary increases for some state employees.

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