We still don't have a PETITION approved, hopefully it will be done in the coming week; will PM you. In case you want to volunteer, please do let us know.

Where do we sign this petition?

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One more recall committee to go,who wants to be part of the recall committee for Ward D.

IF any bikers interested in forming a group to volunteer and help us to navigate thru Jersey City with RECALL T-shirts, say, few times a week in busy areas, please contact us jcrecall (at) yahoo (dot) com !!!

We are looking for 10-15 bikers to go around the city ...

David Cruz Radio Interview with Lynch, Fulop & Mayor Healy is here:

http://www.wbgo.org/dynamic/searchBGO.php?searchStr=recall

If you cant find it:

go to: http://www.wbgo.org/

Enter: recall --- in search box
Look under Journal Tab, You will see the media file, You need REALPLAYER to listen.

RECALL GROUP CONTACT DETAILS:

Phone: (201) 535-3911
eMail: jcrecall@yahoo.com
Yahoo Group: RecallJerseyCityMayorHealy

Getting ready to hit the road !!!
Soon the count will start, may be from next week

Interested to volunteer, please email at jcrecall (at) yahoo (dot) com

you can send a PM also..

August 18, 2010
A Town Touched by Scandal Withholds Judgment
By RICHARD P?REZ-PE?A - The New York Times

RIDGEFIELD, N.J. ? Much of the nation seems to have a ?throw the bums out? approach to politics these days, even when the bums in question have done little harm. But in this corner of this ethically challenged state, where the mayor refused to leave City Hall even after getting indicted, the prevailing view seems to be more like ?not so fast.?

Ridgefield voters narrowly rejected a recall of Mayor Anthony R. Suarez on Tuesday, more than a year after federal prosecutors charged him with taking a $10,000 bribe from a government informant posing as a corrupt real estate developer. It was part of a wide-ranging sting operation that snared some four dozen politicians, rabbis and others, drawing national news coverage and reinforcing New Jersey?s reputation as a leader in official sleaze.

Most of the prominent officials stepped down after they were indicted ? the mayors of Hoboken and Secaucus, a deputy mayor and a City Council member in Jersey City, a couple of State Assembly members ? and several have since been convicted.

But Mr. Suarez, 43, defied the trend, staying put as he insisted that he was innocent and prepared for a trial, which is pending.

No state has a monopoly, of course, but in New Jersey, charges of public corruption are like ugly wallpaper ? jarring at first, yet so ubiquitous that, after a while, people stop noticing. On Wednesday, several Ridgefield residents who voted against the recall ? to, in effect, keep their bum right where he is ? said they did not necessarily put much stock in a federal indictment. Others argued that things were really no worse here than in other parts of the country.

?I think New Jersey?s reputation is undeserved,? said Lola Gindin, a lighting sales representative. ?Just look at New York.?

Dan Cassino, an assistant professor of political science at Fairleigh Dickinson University, who followed the recall campaign, said, ?New Jersey voters generally see corruption, or allegations of corruption, as par for the course, that it?s the same no matter who is in office.?

Compounding that was the fact that, indictment or no indictment, nothing much seemed to change here as day by day and month by month, Mr. Suarez, a Democrat, who declined to be interviewed on Wednesday, kept serving out his second term.

His survival of the recall effort also reveals a lot about this particular middle-class suburb of fewer than 11,000 people perched on a ridge barely a mile west of the Hudson River.

There are large numbers of Korean and Latin American immigrants living in Ridgefield, but local politics remain mostly a contest between long-established factions within the white majority. The political parties are evenly matched here ? for years, the town has had a Democratic mayor and a Republican majority on the borough council.

The result is a place where politics are intimate but intense, where the concept that a person under indictment is innocent until proved guilty takes on a personal meaning.

?I?ve known Anthony since he was in first grade, and I?m willing to stand by him and believe him,? said Gerome Ranieri, a retired teacher who opposed the recall. ?I taught political science, and it would be the height of hypocrisy for me to say an indictment means guilt.?

Ms. Gindin, the lighting saleswoman, said of the mayor, ?We?ve had him over to the house.?

Despite the recall being a special election in mid-August, turnout was about 35 percent, better than many regularly scheduled local contests. By the city clerk?s unofficial count, Mr. Suarez survived by 38 votes out of more than 2,000 cast. Perhaps that small margin is why so many people who gave their opinions on Wednesday refused to be photographed or give their names, citing potential conflicts with neighbors.

Recall opponents saw the campaign in partisan terms, noting that the leader of the recall campaign, Robert Avery, had been the Republican that Mr. Suarez defeated in the last election. The election itself was complex. Voters were asked to vote yes or no on whether to remove Mr. Suarez. Separately, on the same ballot, they were asked to choose one of three candidates to replace him, in case the recall succeeded.

Lawn signs betrayed the partisan tone: pro-recall signs urged a simultaneous vote for a Republican candidate, while most anti-recall signs supported a Democratic candidate. (A Republican got the most votes, though almost 300 voters did not bother to select a candidate.)

?It started to smell like the Republicans just looking for advantage,? said Alan Nunez, an arts educator who opposed the recall, though he said he took the corruption charges seriously.

For people less immersed in local politics, the calculus was sometimes simpler ? and less forgiving.

?He is indicted, so I think he should go,? said John Choi, an engineer who said he had lived here for four years.

Michele Carcich said she had followed the campaign ?a little bit,? and voted for recall.

?I don?t understand why he hasn?t just stepped down, other than maybe he thinks it would make him look guilty,? she said. ?Bottom line, I don?t know what to believe.?

Voters may have another look at Mr. Suarez next year, when his term expires, if he decides to run for re-election. By then, the criminal case against him may also be resolved.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/19/nyregion/19ridgefield.html

One more recall committees to go,who wants to be part of the recall committee for Ward D.

A great video posted in nj.com...


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kuvn_Rg-4cg&feature=player_embedded

INTERESTING COMMENT ON CRIME in Jersey Journal:

http://www.nj.com/hudson/voices/index ... arly/5664/comments-2.html

whynotask August 07, 2010 at 10:25AM
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...What the real numbers are? OR, better yet, look for yourself. After all you do have a computer and internet access. Try this: http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/prelimsem2009/table_4mt-oh.html which will show you the FBI stats for 2009 vs 2008 for Jersey City. BOTH sides are correct in their statements! NEITHER is looking at the problem! MURDER is UP 12% during that period and FORCIBLE RAPE has remained the SAME. That's not a 30 percent decline. But property crimes are down significantly. Maybe there's less to steal? Anyway, the decrease in property crimes is important, but it's not the whole story. The fact that murder and rape are NOT decreasing is important and it's what the JJ is reporting (The JJ likes blood and gore it seems: "If it bleeds, it leads" is the old tabloid newspaper slogan).
WHEN JC is forced to lay off 50+/- patrol officers because it can't get its fiscal house in order and has ignored that now $80 million problem for years, the property crime stats may not change. There will be more property crime, but the cops will be over committed responding to the street violence and not able to take the robbery, auto theft or burgulary report, thereby underreporting property crimes as one poster has suggested is already the case.
HOW does any of this back and forth blame game help anyone? Can't the frekin newspaper go online and read the reports? Can't the administration deal with the murder and rape? Everyone here really needs to think about what's important and HOW THEY, yes all of them/us, are going to DO SOMETHING ABOUT THIS.

** JJ COMMENT OF THE DAY **

http://www.nj.com/hudson/voices/index ... _the_day_if_the_curr.html

Chaucer August 06, 2010 at 9:58AM

Lets be real, the Mayor, the Chief of Police need to seriously address the growing criminal element within JC, it is and will be out of control unless more serious efforts and planning begin immediately. The prospect of the city going bankrupt with over 500 million in unsecured debt will only make problems worse. This reality alone should turn our JC taxpaying citizens into an aggressive uproar instead of bashing a newspaper.
The call to action is now, and intelligent citizens and educated people know, if the current administration is left to its own demise, we won't have an affordable, safe and non-violent city much longer!

http://hudsonreporter.com/view/full_s ... ce=lead_story_left_column


Residents narrow recall effort
Focus on mayor for now, possibly council later
by Ricardo Kaulessar
Reporter Staff Writer
07.31.10 - 11:06 pm

Jersey City residents who formed a committee this year to try to recall several city officials have become aware of legal restrictions on how many officeholders they can target. Thus, they said last week that they have decided to focus for now on unseating Mayor Jerramiah Healy, who is up for re-election in 2013.

But they say new committees have formed to try to recall several members of the City Council.

Three residents ? John Lynch, Martha Larkins, and Riaz Wahid ? were informed by City Clerk Robert Byrne in a June 15 letter that state law requires that ?no recall committee shall sponsor the recall of more than one officeholder.?

The trio had begun spreading the word last month that they want to recall Healy and City Councilmembers-at-Large Peter Brennan and Mariano Vega. They describe their campaign as a protest against the council?s approval of the recent municipal budget, which led to a rise in taxes, and to express dissatisfaction with the way the city is governed.
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?It just took a life of its own.? ? John Lynch
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They submitted a Notice of Intention to the city clerk?s office on June 4 asking City Clerk Robert Byrne to inform each of the officials targeted for the recall, the first legal step in the process.

After the June 15 letter from Byrne notifying them that only one official can be recalled by their committee, they pulled back and re-submitted a notice of intention to recall Mayor Healy early last month.

Byrne wrote back on July 16 informing the committee that the notice to recall Mayor Healy was reviewed and approved. That notice was published in the local daily newspaper last week.

Healy acknowledged to the city clerk?s office that he had received the notice, and on July 22 ? the next step in the recall process ? the mayor returned the July 16 letter to the clerk addressed to the committee, bearing his signature.

What?s next?

Lynch, a Jersey City Heights resident, said last week that the committee sent Byrne the paperwork they want to use to collect residents? signatures on a recall petition.

Lynch also said that Notices of Intention to recall council members are being worked on by new committees that don?t include Lynch, Larkins or Wahid as members.

Now, the council members targeted include at-large representatives Peter Brennan and Mariano Vega, as well council members Michael Sottolano in Ward A and Nidia Lopez in Ward C.

Lynch said the members of the new committees preferred not to comment publicly until their recall effort is formally underway.

Lynch says he is impressed with the progress of the recall effort so far, which includes over 20 people from across the city organizing various committees.

?None of us knew each other really before this,? Lynch said. ?It?s not like we got together and got this crazy idea to do this recall. It just took a life of its own.?

Besides the city?s financial problems in the past few years, more than a dozen city officials were arrested last year as part of a statewide FBI sting operation to nab candidates taking bribes while running for re-election.

Enormous undertaking

A recall enables voters to remove an elected official from office through a petition drive which, if successful, forces a new election. For each public official targeted, a separate petition must be signed by 25 percent of voters who registered in the last general election, which was November 2009.

It is not an easy or quick process. In Jersey City, it means a minimum of 30,000 signatures would have to be validated by the clerk to force the recall election of Healy and the councilpersons-at-large mentioned. Those 30,000 signatures would have to be collected citywide within 160 days of the date of the approval of the notice of intention.

For the wards, it would require a minimum of the signatures equaling 25 percent of voters from that ward who registered to vote in the November 2009 general election.

By law, the petition drive cannot begin until one year after the elected official?s term commenced. Healy, Vega, Brennan, and Flood were all re-elected in May 2009 and began their present terms on July 1, 2009.

Shortly afterward, residents began posting comments on the local website JCList proposing a recall of the mayor and several council members.

If the recall of any Jersey City official is successful, it would be the first in the city?s history, according to City Clerk Byrne.

Various political observers have noted that a recall effort could easily fail due to apathy. In the May 2009 municipal election, a little more than 30,000 out of a potential 120,000 registered voters actually voted. Healy amassed more than half of those 30,000 votes.

Ricardo Kaulessar can be reached at rkaulessar@hudsonreporter.com.

Papers are still in the process of being filed. After which, the current office holders have to respond in writing.

Then signatures can be collected.

While I don't think this will work, much less think it should be done this way, I'm interested in the progress. How many signatures were gathered already? The organizers should have a goal bar somewhere.

So where is the effort now? Are we in signature-collection phase? Is there an online version of the petition, or does it have to be collected on paper?

I've got my pen out, ready to sign, and so do some of my friends, but neither I nor they are members of any church, senior center, etc. so I'm afraid we'll miss it.

Jersey City group targeting Mayor Jerramiah Healy for recall will also circulate petitions against 3 on council who ran with him

Tuesday, August 03, 2010
By MELISSA HAYES
JOURNAL STAFF WRITER

A recall effort against Jersey City Mayor Jerramiah T. Healy has been expanded to include council members who ran on his slate.

The City Clerk's Office has accepted letters of intent to recall Council President Peter Brennan, Councilman at large Mariano Vega and Ward C Councilwoman Nidia Lopez.

"If the people of Jersey City feel I'm not doing my job, then it's their decision to make," Brennan said in response to the recall effort.

But Brennan was also critical of those leading the effort and said committee members have not offered solutions to some of the city's daunting problems.

"It is going to be a very, very tough year," Brennan said, noting the city is facing a large budget deficit and possible layoffs. "I think the recall is bad timing."

Lopez shared a similar view and said the committee should be working to improve the city.

"They're not looking for solutions, they are looking for distractions," Lopez said.

Vega, who has been indicted for allegedly accepting $30,000 in bribes from an FBI informant who posed as a developer, did not attend yesterday's caucus meeting and could not be reached for comment.

The group needs about 30,000 signatures of registered voters on separate recall petitions to recall Healy, Brennan and Vega, and about 4,200 valid petition signatures to recall Lopez.

John Lynch, a recall committee member, said 20 residents from across the city have formed committees and over 100 volunteers have offered to circulate the petitions.

He said more committees are being formed to recall others on Healy's 2009 slate.

"It's all about uniting Jersey City again over what we've been dealing with, higher taxes and everything else," Lynch said.

He said the slate is embroiled in last year's federal corruption and money laundering sting that brought charges against 46 people, including former councilman Philip Kenny and Healy fund-raiser and former deputy mayor Leona Beldini, who was found guilty by a jury on two counts of bribery. She has filed an appeal.

Kenny admitted taking bribes and has been sentenced to one year and a day in prison.

Healy, Brennan and Lopez were not charged with any crimes.

"That money ended up in Team Healy's campaign war chest," Lynch said. "They all benefited from it."

JERSEY JOURNAL RECALL POLL:

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

Go to youtube and type in Healys legecy.There is your recall vidio.

JERSEY JOURNAL CALLS ON MAYOR HEALY AGAIN...

http://www.nj.com/hudson/voices/index ... t_re-elected_but_hes.html

Yes, he got re-elected, but he's not serving: editorial


In March 2009, an election year in Jersey City, about 300 residents gathered at Christ the King Catholic Church on Ocean Avenue to listen to mayoral candidates explain what they would do about the violence in the streets.


Because for some it was more about elections than public safety, the audience was sprinkled with municipal government employees programmed to cheer for the incumbent and boo the challengers.
Yet the issue was an emotional one. Too many residents are afraid to leave their homes at night.
The crowd was there to hear the man responsible for their safety, Mayor Jerramiah Healy.


What irked many who attended were claims by the mayor and Police Chief Thomas Comey that statistics proved how the crime rate was dropping in Jersey City. Residents were hardly convinced that this was true.
At one point, Healy said the Police Department had never fully implemented the latest initiative against crime called "Operation Ceasefire." It is an anti-gun violence program they said has been proven successful in other New Jersey cities.
Asked when it would be "fully" integrated into the city's crime fighting effort, the mayor responded "ASAP." Healy also promised to increase police manpower by 15 percent.
He was re-elected. No one knows how "fully" the crime-fighting initiative was implemented or how many more police are on the streets. It doesn't matter, because the public barometer has concluded that any exercise has failed.
The May election was followed by a bloody summer of shootings that included a gun battle between police and two suspects that led to the death of Detective Marc DiNardo.
This year, there have been many stabbings and shootings. Among the victims is 5-year-old Hasmera Clayton, who was shot in the neck at the Montgomery Gardens public housing complex July 16, allegedly by an 18-year-old man whom police say was shooting at another man.
Earlier in April, there was the tragic killing of Michael Muchioki and his fiancee Nia Haqq, 25. The couple had just come back from their own engagement party when they were shot and killed during a botched carjacking.
And with the violence, Healy has been invisible and quiet. He has been available for comments on news items concerning gun laws and is seen at the occasional ribbon cutting. He appeared at an anti-violence rally at Montgomery Gardens following the wounding of the 5-year-old.
How often has there been a public outcry from the mayor? There have been few sightings of him comforting a family destroyed by the violence.
The mayor did visit Hasmera Clayton in a Newark hospital after a bullet was removed from her neck -- nearly a week after her shooting made national news.
It is not enough from a mayor who seems disengaged from his City Hall office.
On Thursday, a trio of residents published a legal notice, a statement of their intent to seek the recall of the mayor.
Healy responded with reasons why people should not sign a recall petition. He asks that he be allowed to finish the job "to which I was elected ..."
He lists the reasons as initiating "furloughs, a hiring freeze and the layoff of hundreds of city workers to offset property tax increases" in difficult economic times, attracting development, ordering corporate polluters to clean up toxic sites, and initiating "the largest street resurfacing project in city history."
The mayor also touts his plan to improve a park per ward each year for the next 10 years, and to add hundreds of acres of new city parks.
Because he has not learned his lesson, he takes credit for using grants to "put more cops on the street, and institute crime fighting tools such as CompStat to bring crime to 30-year low."
This is a man who cannot console citizen victims of crime or their families. He is no New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg, who last month immediately met with the families of two teen drowning victims in the Bronx.
This mayor is incapable of hearing the frightened beating of Jersey City's heart. Residents need someone who is not only capable in office but who cares about all people. This newspaper, again, would like Healy to step down as mayor. It would be a public service.

Actually if you listen close as Dwek lowers his voice at 1:30 sec into the video, he says "I gave Jack the $10,000 before and ill do another $10,000 now and after the election ill do another $10,000" so thats $30,000 dollars Mayor Healy is accepting right there.

Ok here is the video where Healy accepts $10,000 now and $10,000 later from Dwek. How is it that he is not guilty of anything?

NJ corruption trial hidden camera video shows Jack Shaw getting money and discussions about favors for Dwek in discussions with Healy and Beldini

JRL do you have a link to this video,I saw it once on JC list but now i cant find it. I would like to see again the part where Healy shakes hands with Dwek, and Dwek says \"I got 10 thousand for you now and 10 thousand later\" And Healy says Thank you, Its good for us and good for the city. To me this says it all. How is it that Healy is not at least as guilty as Leona for accepting money for favors?

As stated before on this site Healy is still free because there is no video showing him take the cash. Was there a video showing leona take the cash?

Has Healy ever given an explanation to the public about what is going on in this video?

As part of the recall effort I think this video should be made more public so his supporters can see what goes on behind closed doors.

If Healy feels he owes no explanation to those that are against him, what is his excuse to those who support him?

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It is part of the process. Stay tuned more to come.

COMMENT OF THE DAY..

http://www.nj.com/hudson/voices/index ... _the_day_he_is_tryin.html



This has to be the comment of the day.
It has nothing to do with whether the facts are true or not. Instead it has to do with blind faith or unbending loyalty.
In response to an article that a committee attempting to recall Jersey City Mayor Jerramiah T. Healy is putting together a petition that will include a note from the mayor asking people not to sign. Healy lists reasons why he should stay in office. Hudson County Now user "dolong800" extols the virtues, as he often does, of the mayor.
Below is his post:
dolong800 July 30, 2010 at 8:34P
Mayor Healy may have flaws, like all of us, but he is a decent man who has made significant changes in Jersey City. I see development, new businesses and growth. It has a vibrant downtown, a plan for Journal Square and many other initiatives. I also see the need for a reduction in crime and quality of living offenses. The budget is tight and Mayor Healy has reigned in spending. He is trying in very difficult conditions for any city.

This is part of the process; the petition to sign is yet to be approved by the City Cerk's office