InsideStraight wrote:
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Tyler wrote:
Yes! I hear Fulop needs like 6,000 more voters from downtown to show up to the polls to pull this off. Greenville is on fire with Healy fever.

You can tell just how on fire "Greenville" is by what?

The number of people who turned down the once-in-a-lifetime chance to run on Healy's ticket?

The number of people willing to put up a Healy sign?

The number of people willing to put their names on a piece of Healy lit so that they can be reminded of it for the next 4+ years?

The number of white union members that will blow into town the next few weeks to scatter Team Healy lit to the winds?

Sounds like the voice of someone who hasn't spent much time in "Greenville."

Tyler wrote:
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H-Parker wrote:
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I wish it were true that Fulop is winning hands down, but you underestimate the strength of the machine, the cost of apathy and the risks of overconfidence. The race is very tight and can still go either way.

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Yes! I hear Fulop needs like 6,000 more voters from downtown to show up to the polls to pull this off. Greenville is on fire with Healy fever.

JCCheerleader wrote:
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Stringer wrote:
Jersey City candidate Fulop says threat of lawsuit won't stop use of Healy-Dwek-Beldini video

By Terrence T. McDonald/The Jersey Journal
April 23, 2013 at 10:59 AM

The re-election campaign of Jersey City Mayor Jerramiah Healy has sent a ?cease and desist? letter to the campaign of his leading rival over campaign ads featuring video and photographs of Healy meeting in 2009 with disgraced developer Solomon Dwek.

The ads, produced by the mayoral campaign of Ward E City Councilman Steve Fulop, should be pulled immediately or else Healy may pursue legal action, reads the April 19 letter from Healy attorney William W. Northgrave.

The campaign material is ?defamatory,? Northgrave?s letter reads.

A statement from the Fulop campaign said the councilman has no intention of pulling the ads and ends with a link to watch the commercial.

The ad shows Healy thanking Dwek for providing cash for the mayor?s 2009 campaign, and it ends with the words ?Mayor Healy got away with it? on the screen.

?Our ad speaks for itself,? said Fulop campaign spokesman Bruno Tedeschi. ?Healy is at the center of the biggest political corruption scandal in New Jersey?s history. From the selling of body parts of the dead in morgues to payoffs to politicians, it became a source of national embarrassment.?

The surveillance video featured in both the television ad and several campaign fliers shows Healy meeting with Dwek, former Healy campaign treasurer Leona Beldini and others at a diner.

Dwek was acting as a confidential informant for the FBI, posing as a corrupt developer offering envelopes of cash in exchange for assurances that officials would help his project.

Beldini, at the time a deputy mayor, was found guilty of accepting $20,000 in cash and funneling it to Healy?s campaign. She is serving a three-year federal prison sentence.

Healy campaign spokesman Joshua Henne said Fulop?s campaign ads are ?outright lies.?

Healy was never charged in the corruption sweep.

http://www.nj.com/jjournal-news/index ... y_candidate_fulop_sa.html

I guess Healy should sue the FBI because they released the tapes. While he's at it he should sue Dwek for forcing him to take the campaign money.

Tyler wrote:
Yes! I hear Fulop needs like 6,000 more voters from downtown to show up to the polls to pull this off. Greenville is on fire with Healy fever.

H-Parker wrote:
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JCCheerleader wrote:

I must have my head in the sand...what is the lawsuit that Healy used teachers union money for?

Not Teacher's Union money, Board of Education money. The BOE is paying Healy's legal bills for the latest e-mail fishing expedition.

Stringer wrote:
Jersey City candidate Fulop says threat of lawsuit won't stop use of Healy-Dwek-Beldini video

By Terrence T. McDonald/The Jersey Journal
April 23, 2013 at 10:59 AM

The re-election campaign of Jersey City Mayor Jerramiah Healy has sent a ?cease and desist? letter to the campaign of his leading rival over campaign ads featuring video and photographs of Healy meeting in 2009 with disgraced developer Solomon Dwek.

The ads, produced by the mayoral campaign of Ward E City Councilman Steve Fulop, should be pulled immediately or else Healy may pursue legal action, reads the April 19 letter from Healy attorney William W. Northgrave.

The campaign material is ?defamatory,? Northgrave?s letter reads.

A statement from the Fulop campaign said the councilman has no intention of pulling the ads and ends with a link to watch the commercial.

The ad shows Healy thanking Dwek for providing cash for the mayor?s 2009 campaign, and it ends with the words ?Mayor Healy got away with it? on the screen.

?Our ad speaks for itself,? said Fulop campaign spokesman Bruno Tedeschi. ?Healy is at the center of the biggest political corruption scandal in New Jersey?s history. From the selling of body parts of the dead in morgues to payoffs to politicians, it became a source of national embarrassment.?

The surveillance video featured in both the television ad and several campaign fliers shows Healy meeting with Dwek, former Healy campaign treasurer Leona Beldini and others at a diner.

Dwek was acting as a confidential informant for the FBI, posing as a corrupt developer offering envelopes of cash in exchange for assurances that officials would help his project.

Beldini, at the time a deputy mayor, was found guilty of accepting $20,000 in cash and funneling it to Healy?s campaign. She is serving a three-year federal prison sentence.

Healy campaign spokesman Joshua Henne said Fulop?s campaign ads are ?outright lies.?

Healy was never charged in the corruption sweep.

http://www.nj.com/jjournal-news/index ... y_candidate_fulop_sa.html

JCCheerleader wrote:

I must have my head in the sand...what is the lawsuit that Healy used teachers union money for?

H-Parker wrote:
The Mayor's campaign has insisted that the Jersey City Board of Education pay his campaign's legal fees for his fruitless fishing expedition. So our children have to foot the bill for Healy's campaign trick.

The taxpayers of Jersey City footed the bill for the Healy campaign?s frivolous lawsuit over whether Chico can use the name he as used for his entire life on the ballot.

I wonder who will pay for this lawsuit?

Tyler wrote:
Greenville is on fire with Healy fever.

H-Parker wrote:
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I wish it were true that Fulop is winning hands down, but you underestimate the strength of the machine, the cost of apathy and the risks of overconfidence. The race is very tight and can still go either way.

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JCCheerleader wrote:
I think it's a mistake on Fulop's part to take this tactic. He was winning hands down until he decided to focus on an event the FBI decided not to pursue.

dtjcview wrote:
Healy: ?I should have gotten a gold medal for effective, honest, open government" after video of the meeting surfaced, Healy said at the debate.

So which is it? Do we watch it, or do we cease and desist?

user1111 wrote:
Terrence T. McDonald/The Jersey Journal
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At the debate, Healy responded by urging voters to watch the entire video of his meeting with Dwek.

?I should have gotten a gold medal for effective, honest, open government" after video of the meeting surfaced, Healy said at the debate.

OneSkirt wrote:
Just like his temper tantrum over "Chico" getting on the ballot, this fuss is doing nothing to help him and everything to help Team Fulop. The footage speaks for itself. Healy accepted a bribe in camera. How he was never indicted is totally beyond me.

Thanks again for the assist, Jerry!

ripple wrote:
I will be voting for Fulop, but I'd be interested to hear from any lawyerly types on here as to whether there's any substance to Healy's defamation claims -- my guess is that the ad runs pretty close to the line of what's legal and what's not.