Walker is a non entity. There is chatter, however, that Walker will sway a good chunk of the African American vote that would have likely gone to Healy.

Tuesday is a big day for Jersey City residents to stand up against cronyism, corruption and big machine politics.

Vote Fulop!

Can someone spell PAYOLA

I excluded it because it is a state park and fairly inaccessible to most Jersey City residents as opposed to community parks like the proposal for 6th street would be.

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Bad move if he expects any role under a potential Fulop led government, as he very well may be.

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'But why would you exclude Liberty State Park? That certainly counts, no?

Didn't this guy get an a campaign endorsement from Hyman?

Edit: Durf, it says it right in the article.

This guy definitely isn't getting any votes. He just showed that he is willing to side with anyone who pays him off

This is disgusting. I dont know how a guy who claims he wants to help the kids of Jersey City would court the quid pro quo funds of a guy who wants to prevent the creation of parks. I'm pretty sure that if you exclude Liberty State Park that Jersey City has the fewest acres of park space adjusted for population density in the entire country. Talk about Politics before Children

Walker reports raising $48K in Jersey City mayor's race; $6K from developers the Hymans


May 08, 2013

Developers Steve and Victoria Hyman may be adversaries of the city of Jersey City for their plans to develop the disputed 6th Street Embankment, but mayoral hopeful Jerry Walker can count the two as supporters.

Walker received $5,500 from the Hymans in support of his bid to unseat Mayor Jerramiah Healy on Tuesday, May 14, according to campaign finance documents made public today.

Walker's campaign was more than three weeks late submitting the documents to the state Election Law Enforcement Commission. The records cover January through March, the first three months of Walker's campaign to win the city's top job.

The Hymans have been at the center of a protracted legal battle with the city for eight years over the embankment, a half-mile stone structure that formerly carried seven rail lines. The Hymans purchased the property from Conrail in 2003 for $3 million and seek to develop it, but city officials, who want to create a park on some of the property, contend Conrail should have given them first crack at buying the lot.

The Walker campaign's financial records show it raising $47,615 and spending $29,122 in the three-month period starting in January, when Walker announced his bid for mayor.

$4,350 of that is from Walker himself, his two at-large City Council candidates, and an individual with the same last name as his Ward D candidate, Grace Giron.

The campaign names 22 donors -- it is not required to name donors unless they give over $300 -- with over half listing addresses outside Jersey City, one as far Jupiter, Fla. At least $14,200 came from these donors, though $13,000 in donations came from donors with no documented home address.

Walker's campaign slogan is "People Before Politics," and he's pitching himself to voters as the only mayoral candidate in the race, which includes Councilman Steve Fulop and Abdul Malik, who cares about the future of the city.

Walker's campaign is sitting on an $18,493 war chest. By comparison, Healy and Fulop have raised over $2 million total, while Fulop has $285,752 at his disposal and Healy has a $140,876 campaign kitty.

Documents showing the campaigns' fundraising and spending efforts since April 15 were due to ELEC last week and are set to be made public tomorrow.

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