SOS wrote:
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Br6dR wrote:
Believe it or not, I've never seen the naked photo.

You have now...***Warning NSFW***

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?For the past four years, Fulop and Lopez have ignored the Latino community,? the statement continues. ?Now that we?re in the final days of an election they?re trying to fabricate an issue and pretending to care about our community.?

http://www.nj.com/hudson/index.ssf/20 ... snt_thinking_that_we.html

Br6dR wrote:
Believe it or not, I've never seen the naked photo.

TheBigGuy wrote:
I am starting to get suspicious about this whole photo flap... Why would Healy dredge this story back up 2 weeks before the election? It is not one of his better moments as Mayor or in his personal life. The pro / anti incumbent vote is a lock... so that leaves undecided? Do not know what the % is but he must have some research that says corruption thing will hurt and this naked story will knock that story off the news... The % vote will look at this story as another "old fashion sex scandal"??? and write it off?

TheBigGuy wrote:
I am starting to get suspicious about this whole photo flap... Why would Healy dredge this story back up 2 weeks before the election? It is not one of his better moments as Mayor or in his personal life. The pro / anti incumbent vote is a lock... so that leaves undecided? Do not know what the % is but he must have some research that says corruption thing will hurt and this naked story will knock that story off the news... The % vote will look at this story as another "old fashion sex scandal"??? and write it off?

Stringer wrote:
Jersey City mayor: I 'wasn't thinking that well' when asked about nude photo

By Terrence T. McDonald/The Jersey Journal
May 06, 2013 at 8:07 PM

Jersey City Mayor Jerramiah Healy, under fire for comments he made to The Star-Ledger regarding an infamous nude photo of him taken nearly 10 years ago, said today he ?wasn?t thinking that well? when he answered questions about the snapshot.

?The question came out of the blue,? Healy told The Jersey Journal today from his office in City Hall. ?Foolishly I commented on it.?

Healy?s statements this afternoon immediately followed a press conference held by supporters of Healy rival City Councilman Steve Fulop, who is mounting an aggressive challenge to Healy?s re-election campaign.

Fulop?s allies used the press conference to criticize Healy for telling The Star-Ledger, in a Tom Moran column published yesterday, that ?three Hispanic girls? were partly responsible for the infamous photo showing Healy slumped over naked in front of his Ferry Street home.

The girls had woken Healy up that night so he went outside in a towel, which the girls ripped off him just in time for a political opponent to snap the embarrassing photo of him, the mayor told Moran. Healy's new story differs from his previous statements about the photo.

FLASHBACK: Political Insider: Photo worth 1,000 nasty words by rival Jersey City campaigns

Fulop?s allies today said Healy should apologize to the Latino community for blaming the photo incident on ?three Hispanic girls.? But Healy said he?s not discussing the photo any more, and he blasted Fulop?s allies for ?capitalizing? on the controversy.

?I?m done talking about something that happened nine years ago,? he said. ?I?m focusing on the issues facing the city.?

Healy also touted his commitment to the Latino community, noting that he appointed the first Latina municipal judge and tapped a Latino to head the city Department of Health and Human Services.

Healy added that his campaign has received the endorsement of President Obama, who Healy noted received near-record support from the Latino community in his 2012 bid for re-election.

Healy?s campaign, meanwhile, issued a statement from Healy?s three Latino council candidates criticizing the Fulop campaign for continuing to discuss Healy?s comments to The Star-Ledger.

?This latest Fulop distraction from the real issues highlights the fact that their message and record are not resonating with the voters in the final week of the campaign,? reads the statement from at-large candidate Omar Perez, Ward C candidate Janet Chevres and Ward D candidate the Rev. Mario Gonzalez.

?For the past four years, Fulop and Lopez have ignored the Latino community,? the statement continues. ?Now that we?re in the final days of an election they?re trying to fabricate an issue and pretending to care about our community.?

http://www.nj.com/hudson/index.ssf/20 ... snt_thinking_that_we.html

mwa7368 wrote:
I love that all these news sites are picking this up! Too funny, Healy is guilty of putting his foot in his mouth once again. This time it's extra weird and bizarre. Perfect timing! If there was any doubt Fulop would win the election this has got to put that to rest. Even the apathetic voters will get wind of this and reconsider same old, same old!
Fulop has got to be ROTFL over this one.

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Annod wrote:
Gothamist:

http://gothamist.com/2013/05/06/nj_ma ... enly_blames_his_naked.php


WPIX:

http://pix11.com/2013/05/06/nj-mayor- ... xplanation/#axzz2SZS1QkWX

Annod wrote:
Gothamist:

http://gothamist.com/2013/05/06/nj_ma ... enly_blames_his_naked.php


WPIX:

http://pix11.com/2013/05/06/nj-mayor- ... xplanation/#axzz2SZS1QkWX

o73o2 wrote:
I think we are underestimating Healy.

1. All publicity is good publicity.

2. If a pudgy half-naked 60-something attracts 3 younger ladies (I make some assumptions here - I just don't know how this would have played out if the ladies were improperly equipped), clearly he has a certain bravado, machismo, "je ne said pas de quoi", animal magnetism, alpha wolf-ability that most of us just don't have or normally cannot have.

3. And, if he has that bravado, he could demonstrate the leadership that this city so surely needs; and not only this city, but the state and the nation, if not the world.

I was supporting Fulop, but during the weekend, these evolving events made me think.

Obviously, a vote for Healy gives hope for all 60-somethings; you can still attract 3 younger women.

kdodh wrote:
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mrasg1 wrote:
Didn't he dive naked and drunk into
a ping pong table once?

mrasg1 wrote:
This can't be helpful to Healy with the Hispanic vote.
What a jerk. Was there a police report filed?

JerseyCityFrankie wrote:
I have always found the story of the photo interesting, but nobody I know has ever seen the photo, for all that it is endlessly discussed. Speaking of invisible, what prompted me to write in here isn't Healy, its citycouncilperson Lopez. She's up for election too but has been completely invisible until I read her name in the recent Jersey Journal article, where she is identified as the "outraged Hispanic Councilwoman". I find it really odd that the ward C City Council Seat is being contested by several contenders but Lopez has no visible campaign that I can see here in ward C. I have not seen a single poster nor seen her name in print ANYWHERE. Which is odd isn't it?

o73o2 wrote:
I think we are underestimating Healy.

1. All publicity is good publicity.

2. If a pudgy half-naked 60-something attracts 3 younger ladies (I make some assumptions here - I just don't know how this would have played out if the ladies were improperly equipped), clearly he has a certain bravado, machismo, "je ne said pas de quoi", animal magnetism, alpha wolf-ability that most of us just don't have or normally cannot have.

3. And, if he has that bravado, he could demonstrate the leadership that this city so surely needs; and not only this city, but the state and the nation, if not the world.

I was supporting Fulop, but during the weekend, these evolving events made me think.

Obviously, a vote for Healy gives hope for all 60-somethings; you can still attract 3 younger women.