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Team Fulop opens campaign office for May 14 Jersey City election

By Rafal Rogoza / The Jersey Journal

Jersey City mayoral candidate Steven Fulop and his running mates for May 14?s city election celebrated the official opening of their campaign headquarters with hundreds of supporters Saturday morning.

?We?re here today to kick off a very exciting campaign to move Jersey City forward,? said Hudson County Freeholder Bill O?Dea during the opening remarks at the new headquarters at 2175 Kennedy Blvd., on the corner of Morton Place.

Fulop, a councilman representing Ward E, is competing for the city?s top job against Mayor Jerramiah Healy, who is running for his third full term in office.

The hour-long event began at 11 a.m. with roughly 200 supporters crowding the inside of the single-story building that was staffed by volunteers collecting the required signatures ??needed by ?Team Fulop? candidates to be eligible to run in the citywide election.

Following O?Dea?s opening, Fulop took the stage and rallied his supporters before introducing the other candidates running on his ticket.

?Our goal is not to be better than this administration but to be the best administration in the city?s history,? he said.

Fulop?s remarks were followed by brief remarks from each of his eight running mates seeking council seats: Rolando Lavarro, Daniel Rivera and Joyce Watterman, for at-large; Frank Gajewski, for Ward A; Khemraj Ramchal, for Ward B; Sean Connors, for Ward D; Candice Osborne, for Ward E; and Diane Coleman, for Ward F.