Go Christie Go...Hopefully he will step up the pressure for Vega and Healy to resign for starters. Then connect the rest of Team Healy to how they benefited from the campaign war chest lined with bribe money.

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Other Republicans, such as Ward E council candidate Guy Catrillo, were also swept up in the sting.

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Wasn't one of the mayors arrested this summer a republican?

Ethics panel criticizes Jersey City Mayor Healy for Bradley Beach incident
By Michaelangelo Conte/The Jersey Journal
November 18, 2009, 1:45PM

Jersey City Mayor Jerramiah Healy's law license may be suspended after an attorneys' ethics panel recommended action against him based on his 2006 disorderly persons convictions in Bradley Beach.Part of the reason Jersey City Mayor Jerramiah Healy should face discipline as a lawyer is that he never accepted responsibility for his actions during a 2006 scuffle with Bradley Beach police and tried to throw his political weight around, a state attorney ethics panel says in a brief.

"There is nothing in the record to suggest that (Healy) has admitted any wrongdoing or accepted responsibility for his actions,'' the 11-page brief sent by the Office of Attorney Ethics to the state Disciplinary Review Board states. "Moreover, at the time of the incident, he was serving as the mayor of Jersey City, a fact he made known to the arresting officers."

The board's recommendation that Healy's law license be suspended for three months or that he be censured was first reported Friday, but the full brief was just secured by The Jersey Journal today.

Healy, meanwhile, remains adamant that he is blameless.

"At that time, I pleaded not guilty and disputed those charges, as I did nothing wrong and was acting as a Good Samaritan in an attempt to break up a fight," the mayor said yesterday.

"Those involved in the fight were related to Bradley Beach authorities, and the result was a gross miscarriage of justice and an abuse of power," he said. "However, even if you were to assume I did what the authorities in Bradley Beach charged, this has nothing to do with my law license or my practice of law."

According to the ethics panel, Healy's 2007 convictions on disorderly persons charges relating to the scuffle "clearly and convincingly'' demonstrate he has committed an act that "reflects adversely on (his) honesty, trustworthiness or fitness as a lawyer.''

It continued: "The only issue that remains is the extent of the discipline to be imposed.''

In the early morning hours of June 17, 2006, Healy intervened in a dispute between a couple outside a Bradley Beach bar owned at the time by his sister and brother-in-law. The responding officers testified at trial that Healy ignored their requests to step aside so they could interview the young woman and at one point he assumed a "boxing stance" as though to fight one of the officers.

Both officers said Healy -- who acknowledged drinking five to seven 10-ounce beers that evening -- as "clearly intoxicated." They testified they had to wrestle him to the ground and pepper-spray him in both eyes to arrest him.

Healy was later convicted on the disorderly persons charges of resisting arrest and obstruction of the administration of law.

Office of Attorney Ethics Director Charles Centinaro said today that his office recommended Healy's censure or suspension automatically based on Healy's convictions and the reaffirmation of the convictions on appeal.

In the next few months there will be a public hearing on the matter in the Supreme Court chambers in Trenton where Healy will have an opportunity to defend himself, Centinaro said.

The Disciplinary Review Board will then deliberate on the matter and make its recommendation to the Supreme Court which will decide if sanctions against Healy will be imposed, he said.

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Christie can be counted on to work tirelessly to root out all DEMOCRATIC corruption.
Corrupt Republicans are immune from scrutiny for the next 4 years.

Ya think?

(I particularly enjoyed the second to last paragraph. I could hear Paulie Walnuts saying the very same thing...)

Anti-corruption crusade will continue under Marra
Hudson Reporter, November 14, 2009
Al Sullivan

U.S. Attorney Ralph Marra got his just reward for helping Christopher Christie get elected governor. In a story the Hudson Reporter broke on-line last week (www.hudsonreporter.com) and confirmed this week by the governor?s office, Marra will shift his position from U.S. attorney to that of state attorney general.

Marra?s timely conclusion of a massive sting operation last summer is seen as a key factor in solidifying Christie?s anti-corruption platform. The sting may have especially helped get out the vote in predominantly Republican areas and helped to suppress the vote for Incumbent Gov. Jon Corzine in predominantly Democratic areas.

The general reaction to Marra?s appointment among local Democrats is largely panic. The move signals to Democrats statewide that Christie isn?t yet through with them, and will apparently continue to dismantle the Democratic political machine over the next four years, using Marra as his chief tool.

Marra will begin this crusade on Jan. 19 after Christie is sworn in as the next governor. This keeps Marra from becoming one of the state?s unemployed, since it is unlikely that he would retain his position under Democratic President Barack Obama. While Christie claims current Attorney General Anne Milgram said she was not interested in remaining in the post, a spokesperson for Milgram said she has not spoken to the Christie transition team.

?Christie will bring his best people from justice to the state attorney general?s office and continue to clean house,? said one prominent Hudson County Democrat. ?He has already dismantled the machine in Bergen and scattered the operatives in Hudson and Essex.?

Another prominent Hudson/Bergen Democratic operative compared Marra?s appointment to ?Pompey, the executioner for the Roman dictator, Sulla.?

He added, ?Personally, I think it sucks. When Sulla invaded Rome with his legions, he posted the death lists all over the city with names of prominent Roman Republicans who were to be executed. Christie will do the same thing except that they won?t be executed; they will be criminally prosecuted by his attorney general. So it is good that I am no longer active in politics. When they are done, expect that half of the Democratic leaders that survived U.S. Attorney Christie will be gone.?

Another West Hudson official said this will be like a chess match, and that Christie is a formidable opponent.

I wonder if Christie has "get rid of Healy and his corrupt bunch of goons" on his to do list?

Not if there are bars at crawl level.

but this is a bar where you can crawl back after a while ....

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NICE!!!!!

It won't be the first bar he's been thrown out of.

"Healy was not immediately available for comment."

When will the Jersey Journal learn: you need to entice him with beer if you want him to come out of hiding.