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OneSkirt wrote:
Everyone can make a difference in coming out to cast a vote for their local committee man & woman. Each district (usually a block or two in size) gets to choose one man & one woman. Team Fulop is trying to get as many of our people voted in on these roles as possible in order to try to start building a better HCDO. We get to vote for the new leadership, and that can affect assistance and cooperation that Mayor Fulop receives. So even if it doesn't sound like it affects you, its a big help to Fulop if you help get as many of his people in there as possible by coming out to vote. The ballot positions are way down at the bottom center in the #'s 16 & 17 area.

Plus, Team Fulop is seeking to make these committee seats more active in their respective districts to improve everyone's communication with the administration. So if you all get out to vote for us, it really will help.

Just an FYI - don't plan to vote for local committee members today via provisional ballot. I planned to cast a provisional this morning because I wasn't able to get my mail-in ballot off in time. The ballot I received at the station did *not* include candidates for local committee (which was actually the main reason I was voting).

The poll workers didn't know that local committees were even on the ballot today and tried to convince me that I was thinking mistakenly of next week's runoff election. (I wound up finding someone who could drop off my mail-in ballot at the BOE.)

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murican wrote:
Team Fulop candidates occupy ballot positions 16C & 17C for committeepersons,
See here for a complete listing of Team Fulop commitee seat candidates http://stevenfulop.com/committee

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murican wrote:
Vote today 6am-8pm.
Fulop supported committeepersons are in Row C in the bottom two slots of the ballot.

Column C is empty. Rows are listed by number. What are the names you are referring to?

Ward E

E1 Irina Bereznaya
E2 Stephanie Daniels & Peter O'Reilly
E3 Bradley Tishman
E6 Michelle Timek & Robert Zuckerman
E7 Evette Gaetan
E8 Steven Sanders
E10 Robert McHugh
E11 Lawrence Cappoli
E12 Frank Scalcione & Ellen Simon
E13 Patricia Andes & Eric Fleming
E14 Taryn Boland & Dale Hardman
E15 Elizabeth Beaver & David Weltz
E17 Leda Duif & Stuart Culpepper
E18 Andrea Gaines & Philip Rivo
E19 Debbie Davis & Samuel Stoia
E20 Arie Sladowsky & Bonnie Sladowsky
E23 Robert Rafford

I live in District 9 - am I to assume there are no committee candidates running for my district? - and this would explain why my sample ballot is sparse.

bjay wrote:
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OneSkirt wrote:
Everyone can make a difference in coming out to cast a vote for their local committee man & woman. Each district (usually a block or two in size) gets to choose one man & one woman. Team Fulop is trying to get as many of our people voted in on these roles as possible in order to try to start building a better HCDO. We get to vote for the new leadership, and that can affect assistance and cooperation that Mayor Fulop receives.

OK, that makes sense.

What about all those people running unopposed for other seats? Is there any political benefit to withholding a vote for them?

MikeZ wrote:
I just received my sample ballot and can't believe how confusing it is.

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bodhipooh wrote:
Honestly, that video doesn't show anything rude. You can argue that motorcycle exhausts are loud (inherently, some of them are) but there is a difference between a loud pipe, and a guy being a rude a-hole. From your video, I see nothing wrong. What do you expect them to do? Push their bikes down the block until they hit a main road?

I am not saying that there aren't valid complaints against rude, obnoxious bikers, but I have to say that I am starting to think that some people are expecting complete peace and quiet, and that's just not going to happen in the downtown neighborhood when you have so many bars and restaurants that attract both locals and out-of-towners.

And, honestly, if you have a beef with motorcycles, you better buy some noise cancelling headphones, or spend money sound proofing your place, because the bike riding season is JUST getting started. And, from what I have seen so far, there are more bikers than ever in this area, so you are in for a hellish few months.

Maybe you don't hear them near you, but I have been hearing these guys for years. They are VERY loud, they rev up their bikes like crazy, enough so that last night, car alarms went off a couple times last night.

You don't seem to understand, they're not just driving to somewhere and happen to pass by our houses, they are doing laps around town, and using Jersey Ave and other streets as a drag strip for back-and-forth driving all night long. At TWO IN THE MORNING.

T-Bird wrote:
Agree entirely with the idea of instant runoffs. Also - seems excessive to have a May 14 Municipal Election, a June 4 primary and a June 11 runoff. Getting people to show up for the runoff will be akin to trying to give away free dental surgery.

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radryan03 wrote:
I see this as an interesting turning point for our city.

Clearly DT cared enough to vote (consistently). The rest of Jersey City doesnt seem to care enough to even select their own representation.

I am not arguing a good or bad point here... Does this mean we are at the beggining of a new Jersey City, where the ways of DT will start to consume the surrounding neighborhoods?

I think the concern has to be the opposite for Ward E in the run-off. Getting people out to vote for the at-large candidates again, when Ward E is already decided.

Annod wrote:
Was he involved with The Hague Building at 2600 Kennedy Boulevard?

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TimSPC wrote:
I would sell it and donate the money to the Jersey City Museum.

Sell it to whom? The desk itself should be a museum object. If nothing else, it could be exhibited within city hall, accompanied by an informative label. (And that still from Boardwalk Empire.)

Sell it to the highest bidder. If said bidder wishes to donate it in such a way so it can be on public display, so be it.

I don't think we should have nostalgia for a corrupt past.

Prismatic wrote:
Holy crap that's a packed house.

dcj wrote:
Well earned, Mr. Fulop. Now the real work starts to make this place one of the best mid sized cities around. No time to waste.