Unless I'm mistaken about the rules Epps hasn't won anything except the chance to run again. He has a pretty good shot of still winning in the run off but with just two choice things could change.

I don't believe so. Think it only applies to Mayor and Ward Council races.

Based off of Ward F's council fight I'm guessing that the vote for Healy vs. Fulop was pretty damn split 50/50 here. Coleman who is on Fulop's team has a very slight lead over Robinson (Healy team) that she has been maintaining but it looks like there will be a runoff. Most people tend to vote down party lines unless they have a clear favorite that makes them break in a particular race. My mother only decided this week to vote for Coleman, mostly because she didn't think she has been there long enough and should be given a chance. Chantel Snow, who was on the Walker team, is a very distant 4th. Independent Kenny Reyes is beating her.

That 100 feet away rule is non existent in Ward F, Healys volunteers are more like 10 yards away, at my polling place and the one I rolled by. They aren't standing right outside the door or anything, just on whatever is the nearest corner. They aren't intimidating people or really speaking to anyone that I saw, just holding signs, some looked like city workers not volunteers. Anyway.. I saw Fulop signs right outside the other polling place, big ones tacked to the gate. As you walk in you can't help but see it so no ones campaign is a saint today.

Turn out looks good though. I hit up my place at 6:30am to get it over with.

I live in Ward F and though I don't personally know anyone who is voting for Healy it wouldn't surprise me if a large number of people in F are going to vote for him and I'm sure their reasons are varied (voting for who they know/familiar with, voting for who they like, believing their choice is between Healy and Jerry Walker and they don't think much of 'that other guy'.) ....plenty of reasons I'm sure. I'm not sure of the logic that if there is a large turnout here that automatically means that Healy will win the majority but I don't know if it that thought process is totally wrong, they might have numbers and polls to back that up..maybe phone call and walking the street data?

Today I was able to see different aspects of each campaign from one avenue or another in Ward F and this may be a reflection of why the numbers may scew the way they might on Tuesday.

Fulop: I didn't see any of his volunteers..they are like ninjas...never seen or heard but they leave a nice mess behind. Came outside my house in the morning to find two Fulop campaign placards thrown on my stoop. Come on volunteers..don't be lazy and add to the trash on the streets..walk them up to the mailbox like I did where I placed one in my mailbox (to come back for later) and one in my tenants box. They must have come back my way again and thought they missed me because I found two more of these things thrown in my yard later in the day lol ...this time they were wet from the rain.

Walker: I was driving up MLK with my sister in the afternoon and there was this loud precession coming in the opposite direction. Sounded like a damn parade...it was Jerry Walker doing a 20 car or so party line through the neighborhood, sitting in a covertable waiving like a Miss America pageant or Homecoming King. Interesting...they certainly got people's attention as they stopped to watch the cars go by. My one thought and comment to my sister was..is Jerry Walker Dominican? Why were there so many Dominican flags flying from those cars? lol

Healy: I was sitting in my car later in the afternoon waiting for my grandmother near Pacific Ave. when I saw some really young Healy volunteers. They looked like they were in their late teens wearing their blue Healy shirts walking from door to door. I watched them for awhile as I waited and they walked up to doors and put pamphlets or whatever they had in the mailboxes, talked to some residents on their steps and I thought I even saw them ring a doorbell before I had to leave. Last but not least when I got home and got my mail out of the mailbox, I got my Fulop placard from that morning out and had a little surprise from Healy waiting for me in there too..this card lumped Fulop with Mitt Romney and the Republicans and Wall Street, it told me to vote Democrat on Tuesday!

This is just one day out of the months of all of their campaigns from one persons perspective..but it was interesting to see different things at each point in my day from each candidate in Ward F.

This thread has been so hilarious that I just had to comment. I usually don't have too many problems with these people in Newport...just walk straight ahead and give a slight shake of the head will get most of them to leave you alone. Some of them can be very annoying and not take no for an answer and continue to badger you and those ones are the ones that get on my last nerve and I try to avoid.

I had one really crazy experience not too long ago, maybe 2-3 weeks ago, I went over to the entrance on the second floor that has all of the phone providers and food opposite the escalators to the food court. I was going to get a pretzel from Auntie Anne's or whatever that place is called and after I got my pretzel this Indian women (I've seen her before but she had never bothered me) at her stand next to these establishments walks out in front of me and asks if I would take a look at her stuff (she has like little jewelry pieces) and I just shook my head no...but what she did next was a whole new experience...she actually put her arm around my waste and started to pull me in the direction of her kiosk! ... I couldn't believe that this was happening...I was being kidnapped in the middle of the mall!... it was a very awkward situation because I try to be extra nice to people I don't know but this was a little over board.

I was able to extract myself from the situation by kind of spinning out of her hold and telling her i was in a hurry and had to go but sorry! I hate that I feel bad about being harassed. lol.

Anyway...that experience kind of stayed with me for awhile and had me shaking my head. People don't tend to bother me much cause I've been told I look kind of mean lol...but I'm totally not(my conscience kicks the shit out of me for days if I do anything mean to someone who didn't deserve it)...I'm just usually lost in my own thoughts and am not paying attention to anything going on around me so I kind of just have this blank expression... and I can't stand most people but I'm usually very nice! lol

Thanks for the info heights about IBM/Lenevo. I didn't know that IBM had nothing to do with the line anymore.

I guess I'll go by this place again and see what info I can gleam.

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Kids in Jersey City get to see more of Liberty Science Center then they can stand. Any kid in the Public School system has been to LSC at least 5-7 times by the time they reach high school because each year for science class you get your yearly school trip there for free. (I always thought that the Public Schools had some kind of contract or whatever with LSC). I don't know if this is still done but I'm sure it is.

JC kids are not being deprived of anything that suburban kids are getting except maybe going there with their own parents and siblings...but I doubt they are interested cause they are sick of that place.

I'm born and raised in JC and I've been to LSC at least 4 times but never with family. 3 times in grammar school that I can remember and once as a freshman in High School. I don't plan on ever going back there of my own free will.

I hope this hasn't been talked about already, I did a search but didn't see anything. I was driving to Bed Bath and Beyond and I drove down Greene Street (the street right across from the lightrail stop Harborside Financial Center) and I saw these big bright Apple Company Logos signs in the window of this building.

Does anyone know what that is? It looked like it was selling or displaying some stuff in there but not much... It also had a big Lenevo sign which is the laptops by IBM....I was thinking it might be an outlet of some sort...

I''m sure it's been discussed before but I just can't find it. This is the first time I've seen this and I drive down this street a lot.

Thanks for any info.

eta: Maybe it is a Apple/Lenovo repair place like the places they have in Manhattan...they are a 'certified' or 'authorized' repair shop....very curious about what it is and can't find info...