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I'm shocked, shocked to discover anonymous shenanigans on an online bulletin board!

I call crock on Bayside, PlainSlice, DarthL, Kit, HCDeadO, and especially on myself.

However, anyone who chooses to review all those posts won't find a single false claim.

And what I have called a crock, still is a crock.

My shrink is telling me I should take a vacation. Maybe I'll go to my beach house and read the collected works of Dr. Seuss.

Complain all you want, anonymous Dan-fan jcmiles, but neither you nor Dan Levin speaks to the real concerns raised.

Dan has consistently refused to answer these questions, even with a lifeline to his political guru, Dr Seuss. If you and Danny Boy think he's going to skate by on this by the sheer force of his personality, you're out of touch with downtown voters. The same voters he should have talked to before leaping into Healy's embrace.

Refusing to address this problem is a crock. And the alliance with Healy is the real crock.

"It's a crock," "is a crock," and "the real crock" copyright ? 2012 by crockofsomething, proudly serving Jersey City's crock-identifying needs since 2011. Unauthorized crocks prohibited.

When asked to provide a justification for hopping into bed with Jerramiah Healy, Dan Levin has refused to answer, except to quote Dr. Seuss.

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No wonder they call him "the Great Communicator." In attempt to understand what Dan could have been thinking, I turned to the Great Oracle, the Dr. Seuss book Dan cites as his spiritual authority on this matter.

Dan quotes Seuss to make it appear that his great skill will enable him to take the Healy-HCDO money, and dance between their cowpies without stepping in any of them. But Dan apparently forgot the rest of the book.

    You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes.
    You can steer yourself any direction you choose.

    You'll look up and down streets. Look 'em over with care.
    About some you will say, "I don't choose to go there."

    With your head full of brains and your shoes full of feet,
    you're too smart to go down any not-so-good street.

Enjoy your flight of fancy Dan. Sooner or later, you'll find out you've hitched your gondola to a leaky balloon. Better get busy producing more hot air.

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People ask him to explain how he made the jump from "Healy's got to go" to "The Mayor's doing a great job and we can work together." No answer.

People ask him to explain how he expects to keep his integrity while "dealing with the devil." No answer.

People accuse him of being a political opportunist. No answer.

People make funny pictures of him, suggest he has some ego-issues. No answer.

But as soon as someone suggests he's not as great as his press release claims - Look out! He's back! And claiming that he's being edited out of the picture, when the picture is drawn more accurately than his spin-art version.

OK, show of hands... Who thinks it was Dan's campaign managing that put Carol Lester on the school board in 2010?

Same for Vidya Gangadin. As an standalone candidate managed by Dan, in 2011 she pulled 1485 votes, less than 1/3 the votes needed for election. As a Parents for Progress candidate in 2012, she received 4220 votes. Wherever did those extra votes come from?

In fact, Vidya running citywide in the 2012 school board election on the P4P ticket gained 2000 votes more than Dan did running citywide in the 2012 general election, even though twice as many people voted in the election Dan lost.

Over the years Dan Levin helped change get off the ground. But he hasn?t been able to carry it through. To think that an allegiance with Jerry "Official #4" Healy will somehow catapult Dan to a new level of influence and ability is... wait for it... a crock.

Dan has been successful in the past by identifying issues and working in the same direction as others with a reform agenda. What's Jerry Healy's "reform agenda," Dan? I think I know.

It's a crock.

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Disgraceful? What do you find disgraceful? Agreeing that Dan has inflated his resume? Insinuating that his embrace of Healy has more to do with his ego than the best interests of downtown? Yet you don't find it disgraceful that Dan would do a 180 on Healy, the poster boy for government incompetence and corruption?

JTaylor, you joined this forum 8/22 and have made 6 posts, all in this thread, all pro-Dan. You're a Dan-fan and like what he's doing. Good for you. I have also made 6 posts in this thread, all anti-Dan. I don't like what he's doing, because he's giving aid and comfort to the enemy of good government.

I'm not here to fluff for Dan, or Candace, or Steve and CERTAINLY NOT Jerry. I'm going to call "crock" when I see it.

Dan's advertising that he wanted the mayor to court him was a crock.

Dan's date on the park bench with Jerramiah Healy is a crock.

Dan's spin on the whole thing is a crock.

And, while you and most of his fans are unlikely to admit it, I think you know it.

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Dan Levin must be a political genius! He turns around the school board, and Steve Fulop takes all the heat.

Sometimes you see a resume like this. You get the sense that they're somehow connected to the thing they cite, but the claim of accomplishment is inflated beyond the realm of reality.

"Key member of mission-critical team which generated over $100m in revenue." Eventually you figure out they were an accounts receivable clerk.

Dan, your over-inflated ego is showing.

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So does last call. Healy and Levin are desperate.

Forget what Dan is or isn't. I'm still waiting for him or one of his partisans to explain how he made the journey from:

"Healy must resign" to "He's doing a great job."

Opportunism is one thing that's been suggested. Let's hear Dan explain it in words we ordinary taxpayers can understand. How did he make that leap?

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We're agreed that Dan is a political loser.

He used to be a loser with principles.

Take away the principles, and what's left?

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Call me a troll, call me clueless, but I've lived in JC for 20 years and I know what stinks.

And I thought I knew Dan. I knew a guy who called for Healy to resign because his administration was full of cronies and crooks. I thought I knew a guy who knew better than to think you could reform this bunch from the inside. I thought I knew a guy who cared more about the issue than his ambition.

But you know the sad truth of the matter? Dan tells it himself.

Dan Levin: ?[Fulop] chose to pass on the opportunity to bring my knowledge, skills, experience and values into his efforts."

Talk about an inflated sense of ego. Real world translation: "It's last call, and the guy I wanted didn't pick me, so I'm getting into bed with anyone who'll buy me a drink."

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Dan joining a ticket isn't the problem. It's Healy's ticket.

Maybe Dan thinks he can dive into a cesspool and come up without any stink. Too late for that.

His self-serving comments about what Healy's done for the city mean that the Danny Boy we once knew is dead and gone.

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'Nuff said from noted political wannabe and Ward F expert DanL.

If you spent any time in Ward F, Dan, you would not have to google. You'd know Diane Coleman.

On MLK, you're much more likely to know Diane than Michelle Massey. Until her anointing by King Healy, Massey was seldom seen south of Communipaw. Since her elevation to the Council dais, she's been running to every meeting at the Bethune Center to try and show she's "real" Ward F.

You can tell how great she'll be for Ward F by how close she's clung to Healy, Ward F's biggest friend. (Please excuse the dripping sarcasm.)