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Re: Jersey City Public Schools - No A/C and no Fans? What's going on?

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Do any of you have children in the Jersey City Public Schools? I did not think so!

Posted on: 2013/9/16 0:52

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john1952

Re: Cory Booker: the inexorable rise of Newark's neoliberal egomaniac

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You can pick it up at 280 Grove Street, Jersey City. Same shit. There are no two people more alike in NJ politics. You like one you like the other. You don't like, you don't like the other!

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nyrgravey9 wrote:
You have to send me some of that Kool Aid you're drinking, man...

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nyrgravey9 wrote:
Here's a great video of a Newark resident rebuking Bookers "great achievements" and so called progress in Newark:

http://youtu.be/tRTSrun6htA

If you truly support Booker, smash yourself in the head with a tack hammer because you are obviously mentally deficient.

Yes, because one person's view outweighs all...

Sorry, but she called Newark the Murder Capital of the World. That is quite clearly wrong.

She can scream that the city isn't better from every tower. That doesn't mean she's right.

Posted on: 2013/9/13 18:36

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john1952

Re: Team Fulop do as I say not as I do

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Your kidding what is this McCarthyism? Name names

Go read the Jersey and the Reporter. Look at the pictures on nj.com for a start.

Read what Fulop has said in every frickin press release.

Posted on: 2013/9/13 18:33

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john1952

Re: Bergen Lafayette: Couple slain in botched carjacking

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This story still makes me cry

Posted on: 2013/9/13 15:32

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john1952

Re: Expanding city government - Will Jersey City's new Resident Response Center undercut City Council

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Yet another recently hired political hack. Yes you.

So Mayor Fulop cannot upgrade the quality of government without spending more money. You are saying by this that Healy was doing a good job with the resources he had. You are crazy. If he would fix the broken parts of government and we would not even need a Mayor's Action Bureau.

You are more crazy if you think the people are are getting treated with respect, and the jobs are getting done. Just more people with the same result.

I don't want to pay more taxes for better services that not the deal I was promised. I need tax relief. If the mayor can do this and provide better services, more power to him, but first cut taxes. We are in a crises.

The only thing good about the mayor hiring his campaign staff down to the people that hung the door knockers is that most of the Kool Aid drinking are no longer posting here.

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Pamrapo wrote:
This is a necessary change in Fulop's commitment to upgrade the quality of government.

In the old days, city government worked so poorly you needed a councilmember or a department director to get anything done. so coulncilmembers could look like heroes by simply making a phone call and getting somebody to so their job.

When the phone calls are getting answered, residents are getting treated with respect, and the jobs are getting done, the better councilmembers will find something more significant to do. Working with the administration on an initiative. Working their ward, listening to residents, and thinking about what are the next steps to move the city forward.

Posted on: 2013/9/13 15:24

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john1952

Re: Expanding city government - Will Jersey City's new Resident Response Center undercut City Council

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Agreed!

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dtjcview wrote:
An org change of this size needs to be done top-down, and takes a bit longer than 2-3 months. I don't think Steve alone can micromanage this. And cost savings isn't simply about reducing headcount.

Having said that, like most people, I'll be watching my property tax bill for next year very closely, and expect to see a dramatic improvement in services, or a dramatic reduction in my bill. Or both.

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john1952 wrote:
This person says it better me.

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JPhurst wrote:

2. Although a very nice idea, expanding the number of employees at a time when we face a structural deficit is not going to sit well with some people. At the very least, complete the desk audit/restructuring and reduce headcount where you can.

Because if our tax bills are going up, people are not going to be crazy about seeing all these new hires unless they are lights out fantastic. Though maybe with Frank Scalcione in RRC I can get a pizza delivered with my building permit?

Posted on: 2013/9/12 17:44

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john1952

Re: Expanding city government - Will Jersey City's new Resident Response Center undercut City Council

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Who says they are "too effective"? How did you come to this conclusion. They added dead weight if you ask me. A bunch of people that hung door knockers.

Fulop talked about metrics, so what and where are the metrics.

In the picture in the story they are helping someone buy a property and another with naturalization. What! Why do I have to pay for this? Why is the job of city government.

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nyrgravey9 wrote:
Wait a second, I want to make sure I am understanding this correctly.

We're criticizing the RRC for being too effective and actually handling all of the requests that are submitted in an orderly, systematic and accountable fashion? Why, just because it leaves the city council members with less to do?

Yeah, that's a terrible idea...

Get your heads out of your collective asses guys. I can't speak for all residents, but I wouldn't be making a leap by saying residents prefer results to bureaucratic garbage.

But again, I'm just one resident...

Posted on: 2013/9/12 17:43

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john1952

Re: Council person Osborne presents Pedestrian plan

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Then why can't Fulop follow it? Why can't Fulop just undo Healys deed without taking bond money to do it.

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JPhurst wrote:
Whatever the "complete streets" plan, it wasn't working well. The Healy administration turned Grand Street into a death trap by removing parking and expanding the number of driver lanes. I fail to see how undoing that decision costs the taxpayers money.

Posted on: 2013/9/12 17:30

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john1952

Re: Expanding city government - Will Jersey City's new Resident Response Center undercut City Council

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This person says it better than me.

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JPhurst wrote:

2. Although a very nice idea, expanding the number of employees at a time when we face a structural deficit is not going to sit well with some people. At the very least, complete the desk audit/restructuring and reduce headcount where you can.

Because if our tax bills are going up, people are not going to be crazy about seeing all these new hires unless they are lights out fantastic. Though maybe with Frank Scalcione in RRC I can get a pizza delivered with my building permit?

Posted on: 2013/9/12 17:16

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john1952

Re: Council person Osborne presents Pedestrian plan

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Yes, Jersey City has adopted Complete Streets and everything going forward must be designed to safely accommodate all users, including pedestrians and bicyclists.

Going forward with capital and grants, not paying for retrofitting our streets out of our taxes (including debt.)

Ward E and their Councilwoman will push for more spending because more of them live in tax abated buildings and will not feel the spending increase as the rest of us will. Ward E wants services and help desks that the rest of us don't want or need. We need tax relief more than anything else.

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arcy wrote:
Back to the original topic,
Jersey City passed a complete streets resolution in 2011

The resolution stipulates that all new construction and reconstruction in the city must be designed to safely accommodate all users, including pedestrians and bicyclists.

http://njbikeped.org/wp-content/uploa ... te-Streets-Resoultion.pdf

tp://www.jerseycityindependent.com/ ... -streets%E2%80%99-policy/

In 2013, The Jersey City Police Department has received a $27,900 grant from the New Jersey Division of Highway to beef up pedestrian and traffic safety in the city.
http://www.nj.com/jjournal-news/index ... s_jersey_city_police.html

Jersey City has been chosen as a focus city by the FHWA and the NJTPA and they will be participating in a Pedestrian Safety Pilot program

And Jersey City is part of a Pedestrian Safety Pilot program with the DOT
http://safety.fhwa.dot.gov/ped_bike/p ... ction/njersey/njersey.pdf

More info re: Complete Streets
http://www.state.nj.us/transportation ... ydevelopmentguide2012.pdf

Posted on: 2013/9/12 17:04

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john1952

Re: Concerns about Source4Teachers Privacy And Data Collection for Jersey City students and teachers

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What! Are those private forprofit schools paying anything and they are collecting info on our kids?

What is the deal on this?

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brewster wrote:
Does this have anything to do with the completely bizarre and intrusive form my HS freshman son was given to fill out? It appears to be a shill for the "for profit higher education" industry. After the personal data it requested was a list of colleges, obscure and apparently for profit, and a request to pick the ones you were considering. Another list was of professions, all apparently things you can train for at "for profit" schools. Things like Doctor or Lawyer were not present.

At the bottom of the form in small type was the information that it was voluntary. I told him to throw it away.

Posted on: 2013/9/12 2:42

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john1952

Re: Bonding, Debt and Taxes

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Leave poor Fletch alone. He stuck his neck out now you want to knock if off. You Fulop people are pretty ugly.

You are a genius with you BS detective work. NOT.

You got a job with the city too. Right. Your handle started posting on election day. You are one those other flamers that posted through the election and got a job too. Go to hell and get lost before you get benefits. Hope Fulop gets at least a little wise and sobers up from his election elation and cans you.

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SteveWilson29 wrote:
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Dahood wrote:
wtf??

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SteveWilson29 wrote:
Why are you posting under a fake name, Fletch?

Fletch's last post under his old name, FGJCNJ1970, was on September 5.

"John1952", supposedly a man named John Dewey, started posting on September 9. Public records show there is no John Dewey living in Jersey City.

Fletch and "John" have the exact same posting style. Double spaced, wordy, high cadence. Exact same agenda, exact same rhetorical style of accusations framed as thinly veiled questions.

Note this post by Fletch. Compare to this post by "John". Feel free to trawl through the posting histories of both user accounts to get the full picture, if you have the time and stomach to do so.

Posted on: 2013/9/12 2:40

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john1952

Re: bonding

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As I said on the other posting, it passed. Do you own or rent?

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arcy wrote:
What was the result of this? Did the ordinance pass? I hope so. I fully support using bond money towards pedestrian safety and bicycle lanes

Posted on: 2013/9/12 2:33

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john1952

Re: Bonding, Debt and Taxes

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Yes it passed. You sound nice enough, but do you own property that pays non abated taxes. If not you are lucky.

Since when do bike lanes cost a million bucks. Please give me a bucket of paint. I don't pad bids.

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arcy wrote:
What was the outcome of this? Did the ordinance pass? Thanks

Posted on: 2013/9/12 2:31

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john1952

Re: Concerns about Source4Teachers Privacy And Data Collection for Jersey City students and teachers

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Are they collecting information from students? That makes no sense and would be wrong.

I thought they were brought in because the BOE was not capable of finding qualified substitutes. Though they did a piss poor job explaining on channel 1.

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teachparentlove wrote:
I spent some more time searching and was unable to find the company's privacy policy anywhere. I find this incredibly suspect considering that this company is collecting a database on health, religious, and personal information of students and teachers. I know a lot of people are not that concerned about this, but data collection is an emerging topic and a hot and valued trend in the business world. In the not-to-distant future a lot of people are going to wake up and be surprised to learn that corporations and other entities have so much information on them that they can predict their behavior better than their closest friends can. I encourage parents and teachers in Jersey City to demand that the district make the privacy policy of Source4teachers available in writing.

The company has other issues as well including physical and sexual abuse allegations. Unfortunately, contracting services out decreases accountability.

"Other complaints by parents and district teachers include substitutes unable to speak English with others texting and talking on cell phones when they should have been following lesson plans left by teachers. Other allegations include a sub calling students in a learning disabled math class at Schuyler-Colfax Middle School as "stupid." - See more at: http://www.northjersey.com/news/21180 ... ge=1#sthash.TaljNi7L.dpuf

PS It was none other than Kevin Bush who have us the double speak explanation of the privacy policy when asked.

Posted on: 2013/9/11 15:57

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john1952

Expanding city government - Will Jersey City's new Resident Response Center undercut City Council

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http://www.nj.com/hudson/voices/index ... sey_cit.html#incart_river

At least the Jersey still has Earl Morgan to cut through the crap.

Why do we to expand, hire and increase the Mayor's action bureau?

By Earl Morgan/For The Jersey Journal
on September 11, 2013

Like most mayors, Jersey City's new one, Steve Fulop, understandably wants to start his administration with a bang.

So he's been busy ramping up police sweeps in high crime areas and revamping the city's Office of Employment and Training. But, his recasting of what used to be called the Mayor's Action Bureau to the Resident Response Center, a much more powerful entity, could become problematic.

Administration officials say this response center will be more democratic than its predecessor, more professional and more centralized -- indeed more like the sort of operation Fulop would have been familiar with in his former job at the banking powerhouse Goldman Sachs.

This new agency will supposedly relieve City Council members of having their days and time cluttered with those pesky calls from constituents who might want a tree trimmed or some other such thing.

Council candidates run for office pledging to improve, or reclaim, neighborhoods in their wards. But during a recent council meeting, the new city corporation counsel, Jeremy Farrell, interpreted the Faulkner Act -- which spells out Jersey City's form of government -- to inform the council members they have no right to tell department directors what to do. However, the director of the Resident Response Center, who wasn't elected, says she, if need be, can convene meetings with department heads and their minions.

Of course, City Council members can call the response office to report a constituent complaint. But it might be bit be awkward at a block association meeting if all a council member can offer as solutions to issues raised is the assurance to dutifully call the matters in to the response team and ask them to jump right on them.

Administration officials say council members will be kept in the loop. OK, but if all it takes to handle constituent issues is to pick up a phone and make a call, residents can do that themselves.

What clout will council members have to keep campaign pledges they made to improve conditions in their wards? What platform will they run on for re-election? That they made the most calls to the response team?

Of course, it's the Faulkner Act that mandates existence of a City Council. But what does it matter to the voters who is elected to that body if their principal duty is showing up twice a month to vote yea or nay on the agenda created by the mayor and the president of the City Council.

Council members representing troubled parts of the city -- such as Ward F and Greenville -- are expected to do more than just make a series of phone calls.

The Fulop administration may have meant well when it created the Resident Response Center, but, combined with Farrell's pronouncement about the role council members are expected to play in this administration, it was at best na?ve.

Posted on: 2013/9/11 15:48

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john1952

Re: Bonding, Debt and Taxes

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Thank you and thanks for fixing/the correct link.

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luvHomeMyJC wrote:
My 2 cents ... payoff the debt since we are paying interest on the debt. But then again I am no Financial Expert just a property owner with an increased tax bill.

Posted on: 2013/9/11 15:44

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john1952

Bonding, Debt and Taxes

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I am going to post my comments about a bond ordinance up for vote tonight here since it got lumped in with bike lanes and crosswalks on this board.

We should be talking about the city debt. Fulop people talked about the structural deficit but then instead of fixing it they keep spending.

The more we borrow, the more we have to pay for debt and my taxes keep going up. At some point I am forced out of my home.

There was a person on the other thread that said that "Gull Cove / Liberty Harbor" met and want those things, but those people are in tax abatement buildings, they do not care what the cost is because they will not bear the burden of tax increases. I voted for Fulop and the whole team to stop increasing taxes and cut spending. They are not doing that.

Here is what I posted on the other thread. I am not a troll or anything, I am a man being crushed by continuing tax increases. I am real and the taxes increases are real.

This article and the writer misrepresents the bonding and its purpose. They are re-appropriating $1 million in unspent bond monies not needed for its original purpose instead of paying down the bonds.

Jersey City is up to it eye balls in debt and this money should be returned to pay it down and not treated like fee money. Paying down debt will provide tax relief for us suckers not in tax abated buildings.

Do traffic stripping and bike lanes cost a $1 million? No way no how. You are being snowed again.

The bond money is a back door way to pay for Councilwoman Osborne's speed bumps instead of paying back the debt. It says so in the ordinance.

Its all here - http://cityofjerseycity.com/uploadedF ... Reading/Agenda%20Document(13).pdf

This is a fact and an ordinance on the agenda.

Posted on: 2013/9/11 13:55

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john1952

bonding

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This article and the writer misrepresents the bonding and its purpose. They are re-appropriating $1 million in unspent bond monies not needed for its original purpose instead of paying down the bonds.

Jersey City is up to it eye balls in debt and this money should be returned to pay it down and not treated like free money. Paying down debt will provide tax relief for us suckers not in tax abated buildings.

Do traffic stripping and bike lanes cost a $1 million? No way no how. You are being snowed again.

The bond money is a back door way to pay for Councilwoman Osborne's speed bumps instead of paying back the debt. It says so in the ordinance.

Its all here - http://cityofjerseycity.com/uploadedF ... Reading/Agenda%20Document(13).pdf

This is a fact and an ordinance on the agenda.

Posted on: 2013/9/11 13:44

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john1952

Re: Team Fulop do as I say not as I do

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You and your dog rants and anti Cory Booker stuff. I don't see the difference between Booker and Fulop.

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nyrgravey9 wrote:
Yeah this guy is the worst kind of troll. Nothing but negativity, offering nothing by way of solutions or ideas. Any ideas thrown out there are so buried in bullshit it gets lost.

Posted on: 2013/9/11 2:33

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john1952

Re: Can I go out and clean the graffiti off the park?

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Its a new day in Jersey City, not.

Contact the JCIA they usually take care of this stuff quickly - 201-432-4645 ext 634.

http://jciaonline.org/graffiti.php

They will even take it off of your property. Not everything in Jersey City is broken, just the Fulop people think so.

Posted on: 2013/9/11 2:31

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john1952

Re: Team Fulop do as I say not as I do

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I think you are now working for the city too.

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Bogart wrote:

Do you think we are stupid? You do not sound like a suddenly-empowered lurker. The election is over. Let's get to work and save the campaign-style rhetoric for the next election.

If you want to criticize the mayor, please provide FACTS, not empty accusations.

Posted on: 2013/9/10 23:41

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john1952

Re: Council person Osborne presents Pedestrian plan

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You all really believe Candice Osborne can do this? Steve Fulop did not even talk about this stuff in 8 years and now she will do it with a sweep of her wand? Remember FixMyPath.com, I am still waiting for it to happen. Again, how are we going to pay for all this?

The city already has an award winning circulation study that has been paid for and needs to be done. Start working on this now. Don't scrap it and start over with crowd sourcing a study.

If you want to know what pre--Sandy Candice Osbourne was like, watch this video only two years before she was put on Fulop's ticket. I can't believe it, can you. So now in another thread she is the Mayor's heir apparent. First start rejecting tax and spending increases then look to the next chair.

Waiting for the video on the next Fulop elected councilperson. Maybe it will be the guy who lied about his high school degree.

Posted on: 2013/9/10 17:07

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john1952

Re: Council person Osborne presents Pedestrian plan

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It was not a g-d sample. It was 800 responses from Fulop campaign supporters.

Posted on: 2013/9/10 16:57

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john1952

Re: Jersey City envisions aggregating massive amount of data from city department to improve services

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Open data makes sense and have people develop apps for free.

Why store the data on a spreadsheet by department? Someone needs to them explain what this is supposed to be.

Posted on: 2013/9/10 12:43

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john1952

Re: Fulop backs statewide referendum to raise minimum wage

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Something that makes sense and does not put our city at a disadvantage. Yes by all means increase the minimum wage at the state level. Thank God he is not trying to have a minimum wage at the city level like with the paid sick day thing.

Yes, show his support than move on to the city problems. Hope it last longer than a press release or press conference.

Posted on: 2013/9/10 12:35

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john1952

Re: Team Fulop do as I say not as I do

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YOU!

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SOS wrote:

Hiring like crazy? I challenge you to name the names of these new hires.

Posted on: 2013/9/10 12:32

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john1952

Re: Team Fulop do as I say not as I do

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Yes, shoot the messenger, why don't you. this board is not nice by a long shot and you are one of the reasons. it trashed everybody not with Fulop last spring, it attacks businesses and everything turns into dogs vs. people.

I voted for the best choice I had, I guess there was no choice.

It is simple, I can give him more than a couple of months to cut spending and root out corruption, but I cannot accept new taxes and spending beforehand.

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EthanCrane wrote:
Please, mister fake account, please get off our little neighborhood message forum.

Posted on: 2013/9/9 23:34

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john1952

Re: Team Fulop do as I say not as I do

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This is like the same passive aggressive responses I got from the campaign, at least you aren't one of their hacks who got a job, because they only post at night.

I have been lurking for years, but this pushed my button, the mass hirings. Even Healy laid off workers. Why does the truth only come from posters who the time on their hands to post all day? Its all been written elsewhere.

I held my nose and voted for Steve, praying he was truly different but swap his youthful appearance with Healy's bloated red face and its like the same person. Just with more spin.

He could have made a good gesture by cutting something. He certainly was full of ideas when he was on council. But he raised taxes more than Healy's unrealized revenue and also had ways to cushion the blows from that. Why do we need more people in the Law Department and why do we need more people in constituent services. Couldn't they have just done better job? I read through the Transition Report over and over and could not find this stuff.

We have gotten a snow job.

Posted on: 2013/9/9 17:16

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john1952

Re: NYT: Jersey City May Require Paid Sick Leave

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+1

I voted for him to cut Healy's out of control spending, patronage and corruption.

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Dahood wrote:
This is a political move. There are gazillion things to fix in JC and Fulop wants to do this? Ridiculous..

Employers groups blast Fulop bill

Posted on: 2013/9/9 15:55

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