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Re: New York Times: Ex-Jersey City Mayor Eyes Return to City Hall

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dontstealmyrocks wrote:
Oh no! Let me see I can just see it now, Schundler back in City Hall, along with Greg Corrado with a cushy job raking in the dough...our dough. And MORE tax abatements to MORE developers...great!!!

Corrado already has a cushy job. ACK !!!

Posted on: 2008/3/23 1:35

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Chad_Vader

Re: New York Times: Ex-Jersey City Mayor Eyes Return to City Hall

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Oturan wrote:
I had a chance to interview him and he definitely is a geniune person. Whether all his plans and ideas panned out is debatable.

But he managed the city pretty well. Crime was down. Tax collection was up. And i agree that giving tax abatements to corporations was a short term solution that should have been used sparingly but those who came into office after him have done a much worse job on that front.

Also, whether you hated him or liked him most agreed he was an honest fellow. I mean there had to have been a reason why the people would have voted in a Republican in the heart of democractic bastion. Also, he does alot of good work on the grassroots level.

Again, i think Jersey lost out by not having him as Governor.

Not so fast my friend.

Saint Bret was very good at selling off City assets and one time budget gimmicks to keep from raising taxes. But all the while he was cutting the City work force and diminishing City services. Don't believe the spin of the Bret Kool Aid Brigade that he made the City more efficient, it simply isn't true.

And Bret ran the City like any other Hudson County pol. He doled out patronage to incompetents like Nancy Harrigan, Austin Harrold and the Alzheimers-By-The-Sea Gaynor Gang in order to win votes.

He was fortunate that his only real competition during those years was Louie the Loser Manzo.

Posted on: 2008/3/23 1:33

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Chad_Vader

Re: Barack Obama for President

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Obama in Plainfield, IN: 'We have to come together'

This is so much bull. This is a capitalistic society. There will always be inequities. Corporations and lobbyists rule this country. Obama's claims that it will be different under him are disingenuous.

Posted on: 2008/3/17 0:08

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