Wanted to vote for Dan Levin but I'm in ward F. Voted for Steve Fulop, (and Sean Connelly, for his past experience as Corporation Counsel for JC. He'll go after the developers who are swindling JC tax-payers)

REFORMERS WIN!!

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Actually, this is complete BS. Past history has shown Dan has worked with administrations before Healy. Dan worked with Fulop on Pay to Play, and Dan worked with Healy on bicycle lanes.

I suspect Dan will still be here working to make downtown JC better long after Fulop has moved on to other political ambitions too. And this is coming from someone who is voting for Fulop.

I thought OneOBalls comments about getting someone elected is only the first step and you have to keep working for reform showed a lot of wisdom. Which part of his thoughts were "silly" Althea? Or do you actually believe that anyone who suggests S. Fulop doesn't walk on water "hasn't been paying attention."

I also don't remember Dan leading any voter recall movement against Healy. That was a signature drive lead by Raiz Wahid among others. Levin did demand Healy and another Councilman step down voluntarily. But I believe he thought the whole voter recall movement would not get enough signatures and people's time could be better utilized towards more productive reform work.

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Dan Levin is and always has been an independent. What about you OneSkirt? Are you able to think independently and choose your candidates on their record, or does Fulop say vote for X and you ask "how many times sir?"

Voting for Dan ≠ Voting for Healy.

I think many of us envision getting both reformers into office, Levin and Fulop.

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Reality is that CivicJC did all of the REAL work in seeing the need for the reform, setting up meetings with other groups to learn how to write the reform so it would stand up in courts, and then finding a Council person to introduce it. Then Fulop worked with CivicJC on the last mile to get it introduced. Nothing Fulop did got the other Council members to vote on it. It passed because of the fallout from the Dwek sting, and because if the Council didn't address it, CivicJC would next work to make it a ballot issue that the voters of JC would vote on in the coming election.

Fulop could have really promoted the unglamorous work that the volunteers of CivicJC did to write the reform, as a way to encourage other citizens of JC to also become more politically active because here was a shining example that all of your work can actually cause change, but instead he used CivicJC's reform effort solely to promote himself and get some publicity.

I'm glad the reform did pass, but it was an opportunity lost on Fulops part to encourage people to participate in reforming their government.

Not endorsing Dan Levin for Ward E is another lost opportunity for Fulop. It clearly shows Fulop's emotions and ego cripple his thinking. Look at it this way. If Fulop was a manager at a private sector company and he chose someone for a position just because they were the only one that asked him nicely for it, he would have been fired immediately.
The position should have been filled by the person with the best track record of accomplishment, and most experience. If that person is not afraid to tell you they disagree with you at times then all the better.

I hope Fulop can learn from this.

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A few single event closings then weekend closings, and then close it permanently to cars.

April 16th, 2013
Contact: Michael Yun for Jersey City Council
Phone: (201) 222-3537

Jersey City, NJ Council – Independent Ward D council candidate Michael Yun has announced his support for At-Large City Council candidates Councilman Rolando R. Lavarro and Sean M. Connelly in this year's election. After reviewing the platforms and public service records of both candidates, Mr. Yun feels confident that both Councilman Lavarro and Mr. Connelly will be able to solve Jersey City's immediate and long-term problems while standing strong against political pressure.

"I am supporting Councilman Lavarro and Mr. Connelly as both a council candidates and a taxpayer," said Michael Yun. " The three of us will be able to work together to take swift action and create intelligent solutions to help struggling residents' throughout the city. No matter who becomes Jersey City's mayor, I know that Councilman Lavarro, Mr. Connelly, and I will be able to improve public safety and mass transportation while putting an end to wasteful and inefficient government spending."

Over the years both Councilman Lavarro and Mr. Connelly have demonstrated public service in professional life and through community engagement. Councilman Rolando Lavarro has served on the Jersey City Council since winning a special election in 2011, has worked to grow New Jersey City University as the Assistant Director for the Office of Grants and Sponsored Programs, and has worked with community groups such as the Rotary Club of Jersey City, the Jersey City Chapter of the NAACP, and the West Side Community Alliance. Sean Connelly received his law degree from Seton Hall University and served as Jersey City's Corporation Counsel for eight years, is a five-year member and former president of the Lincoln Society, and is active in the Jersey City Civic Association.

Michael Yun has worked in Jersey City as a community advocate and business owner, serving as the President of the Central Avenue Special Improvement District (CASID) and the head proprietor of Garden State News. Through his role as a community advocate, he has helped business owners around Central Avenue receive the services they need from Jersey City government and addressed citizen concerns from around Jersey City. He is active with several community groups in Jersey City Heights as well, such as the Heights Hope Neighborhood Association, the Nelson Avenue Block Association, and the Jersey City's AARP Chapter #5102. Additionally, Michael served as the Co-Chairman of "Save Christ Hospital" and helped keep the Jersey City Heights sole acute care facility open, saving hundreds of local jobs.

http://www.connelly2013.com/news/michael_yun_endorsement

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I would follow On_The_3rd's route. I tried it on bike and from the fence opening to the end of path at the cul-de-sac road, takes only 2 minutes. I've been using various routes through the area daily since the bridge got swept away and, while you should definitely be in "aware" mode, it seems safe enough.
There's no place to hide for an attacker so if you stay alert you can turn around and go back if you see someone who doesn't look friendly to you.
All I've ever seen are other joggers/bikers and friendly skate boarders hard at work honing their skills.

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Turn right onto that dirt road right after crossing the light rail tracks. Go to the end and fork to the left and go through an opening in the fence and head towards the turnpike extension. Turn left before the turnpike and follow dirt road. To cross the huge puddle, go to the left, onto the concrete foundation left from some bldg. follow path along fence to Johnston Rd. Turn left onto Johnston and head to LSP!

I live near LSC and I need that bridge to get to and from downtown JC every day on my bicycle. Please don't pretend its only there so downtown JC people can get to LSP easily. Its not.

And BTW, the shortcut is still useable even with part of the area fenced off for the pipeline project. I use it most days after work, but there is a part of it where I have to carry the bike and walk, but you can definitely get through.

Official Site:
http://www.connelly2013.com/

FB page:
https://www.facebook.com/Connelly2013

JCI articles mentioning Sean, including one on Council Candidate Debate:
http://www.jerseycityindependent.com/tag/sean-connelly/

Statement from Sean:

Dear Friends,
Not long ago the people of Jersey City were losing their homes to staggering taxes. Businesses fled and development ground to a halt. City Hall failed to address the bleeding and the city faced a financial, societal and political crisis. When Bret Schundler offered new ideas and leadership, I devoted my time, effort and finances to his successful campaign. We won and for the next eight years, while serving as the City’s Corporation Counsel, taxes were cut in half (including a six month tax free holiday). Businesses returned, development and redevelopment boomed and the city witnessed historic prosperity, stability and urban rebirth.
I left City Hall in 2001, but never left our city nor my passion for improving our lives here. Today however, we face tax bills which have skyrocketed by 83% over the last eight years. The city budget has more than doubled over the last eight years despite an inflation rate of only one or two percent and once again there is the prospect of our people losing their homes. Despite a gleaming waterfront, the much neglected inner city seems all but forgotten.
Whereas big corporate developers and their tenants are offered tax abatements, the local “Mom and Pop” corner stores (along with the rest of us) are only offered higher tax bills. This leaves us all little to spend at our local stores which simply cannot compete with the big corporate tax abated businesses. As a result our local small businesses cannot hire our citizens, downsize or are forced to close. Who speaks for them?
Our once proud children’s and youth programs have all but vanished, at a time when they are in such desperate need. Then who speaks for them?
Jersey City residents remain among the unemployed despite the heralded thousands of jobs on the waterfront, who speaks for them?
Sadly, what was once a city of promise has become a city of mismanagement, fear and hopelessness with a city government disconnected from the people it has sworn to serve.
I am running for Council at Large in Jersey City because I cannot and will not sit idly by as our City regresses to a situation that I hoped was in the past. I demand that government lives within its means, control spending, lower taxes, and encourage business and job growth while maintaining vital services. Many say it cannot be done, yet we know better. We did it before and will do it again. It can and must be done and I am eager, excited and ready to do the job.
Please vote for me as Councilman at Large so that I may serve you and lead all of us to a better place.
As your Councilman at Large, I will be your voice and advocate in fighting to make government serve all of you and improve our lives here in the city we call home.

Sincerely

Sean M. Connelly

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Lenovo = pompous ignoramus

Queue the Bergen/Lafayette bashing in 3 . . . 2 . . .

With two cars I would look at opportunities to rent or buy in Bergen/Lafayette. You can find quite a few properties with their own driveways, or at least easy, free street parking right in front of your dwelling.

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Yes you are. But Dan has gotten a lot more accomplished than you. But because you have a political agenda to follow, you ignore all of that and just keep bashing him for the fact that he is on Healy's ticket.

What about P2P reform, which Dan and CivicJC accomplished? Do you know how many years that took?
What about the bicycle lanes which Dan and Bike JC just recently accomplished?
What about his work with the Harsimus Cove Association?
How about One Jersey City?
The JC Landmarks Conservancy?
And he did all of this volunteer community activism while struggling to raise two kids and run a framing shop in Hoboken for which he was sole-proprietor.

All forgotten in your mad dash to assassinate his character.

Folks, keep this in mind when reading posts by plainslice. There are at least six usernames he/she posts under:

Bayside
crockofsomething
PlainSlice
DarthL
Kit
HCDeadO

Posted with the same IP address: 108.35.67.168

-past posting by webmaster

From what I have read, most of his/her postings are only there to bash Dan Levin and boost the Fulop ticket. Why? Political gamesmanship.

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Honest mistake. I meant no personal offense to you when I talked about not visiting here any more. Its mainly the agenda-driven posts by Fulop operative plainslice (and all of his other fake usernames) and Fulop BFF Althea (joking!) that grow really tiresome day after day.

I'm probably voting for Fulop too. But this Dan bashing is so contrived and orchestrated its making Fulop look petty.

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Very eloquent as always Althea.

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Since when does Dan or anyone work for you? He's a private citizen who gives his free time to work on a lot of issues to help this city. On the other hand, I remember that Dan turned onejerseycity.org into a valuable information resource with multiple postings daily for weeks after Sandy for victims of the flooding like me, and others throughout the city.
In fact, I think moobycows honest mistake in thinking Dan had some role in the city government SPEAKS VOLUMES about how involved Dan has been for decades.

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Maybe you could use a drink? You seem so negative. Maybe, (and I'm just guessing here) that is why Fulop let you go? Or do you still work, volunteer, character-bash for him?

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As he has in the past, I see Dan working on excellent initiatives with the other Council members and Mayor Fulop.
On the other hand, if Fulop can't get past his ego to work with a veteran community activist like Dan Levin, then Fulop needs to put JC first and not himself. I think they will both work together and the products of their collaboration will be strong, well-thought-out legislation.

You won't get good policies from Fulop at Mayor and a bunch of "yes-men" on the Council.

And plainslice, are you or are you not a paid member of Fulop's campaign team? Not that a fact like that should stop you from posting but at least put the fact in your signature.

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“Obviously, you can’t lift a 130 year old brownstone up out of the flood hazard area. We fear these new rules are anti-urban,” he writes in an email to JCI. That’s true of new buildings ready to break ground, stalling development and halting jobs while the city planners work to accommodate the new requirements which will see the first floor raised at least five feet above the sidewalk level. This will be “devastating to the street life of the city,” he says, noting how it could hurt street-level businesses.

Are new developments really going to do this??

That quote is an obscene amount of money, for a "temporary" bridge which has no suspension engineering at all. The road is coming in maybe 2 years tops.

Why not just fill in a pathway using rocks/dirt from nearby excavation projects?? create an earthen path, then just add an asphalt or rock path on top of it with fencing??

The canal is used for nothing in that section and will most likely be filled in anyway.

This is also this song, also by a JC resident:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMaSqUz65Ow

follow the money to see who is pushing fluoride . . .

http://tv.naturalnews.com/v.asp?v=42652E035A1B1BAAAE1F340B54694975

Jcdweller and Jsleeze, are you suggesting that if Dan Levin got a seat on the Council he would not promote good reform but would just rubber stamp everything the Mayor wants, whether the Mayor is Healy or Fulop?
If you are, then that would be the only "sadly, hysterical" premise on this forum discussion.
I think Fulop didn't add Dan to his slate simply because he knew Dan would not be a "rubber stamp" for everything Fulop, or any other Mayor proposes, and Fulop can't handle that, which is also "sadly, hysterical" on Fulops part.
If there's any other reason Dan is not on Fulops slate, I'd like to hear it from Fulop. And the "they don't get along" argument is BS, since Dan is can work with anyone on efforts that would improve JC, including Healy. That has been proven over the last decade.

We need a new bridge to get there, or the old one fixed. This bridge is important for people in Lafayette to get to downtown JC and back. Its not just a cute bridge for people to get to the park. I use it for commuting to work every day.
At least open up some pathway along the turnpike from Jersey or Grand to Johnston.
Put a temporary pontoon bridge there at least for now.

not sure if this fits, but have you taken a look at 384 Communipaw Ave?

https://maps.google.com/maps?q=362+communipaw+ave.,+jersey+city&ie=UTF-8&hq=&hnear=0x89c250c37b5dd601:0x389ddbc6ce9df242,362+Communipaw+Ave,+Jersey+City,+NJ+07304&gl=us&ei=eFKqUKWiPMTx0gHp8oBY&ved=0CDIQ8gEwAA

I've been getting really good information here for days:

http://onejerseycity.org/

Wait . . . T-Bird is Team Fulops campaign manager? And he felt OK not to let us know? And he wants us to think there is no agenda behind his comments? Yes? Well Bullshit T-Bird. Try full disclosure next time. Talk about a crock. Your strategy was obvious from the incredulity of your accusations anyway. Now its just ridiculously obvious.

Just hearing rumors. Nothing substantial. Last rumor I heard was that one of the partners, the chef, bolted. Wish this place was open during the Art Studio Tour. I miss it.