‘I’m in it,’ says Jersey City Council President Lavarro

WHEN the incumbent Mayor Steve Fulop of Jersey City was elected into office in May 2013, together with Fil-Am Rolando Lavarro, Jr. as councilman-at-large, who was elected in a run-off elections the following month, the Filipinos who united behind them and voted for them were exuberant and hopeful.

Three years after, such exuberance and hopefulness, found fulfillment in the way Mayor Fulop and his colleagues at City Hall had been running the city government.

The city population were made aware, through social media, virtually on a weekly basis, what Mr. Fulop had been doing.

Three years after presiding over the legislative branch of the city government without any stains, together with his colleagues, Councilman Lavarro gathered his core and original group of supporters in the city’s Filipino community and announced his plans for the 2017 elections.

If circumstances permit, i.e., if Mayor Fulop won’t seek re-election as mayor, but runs for governor instead, he told his core supporters, including this writer, that he will be in the next mayoral race.

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