Fulop raises $1.4 million for super PAC on Tuesday, signaling possible gubernatorial run

Super PAC allied with Jersey City mayor now has more than $5 million banked

By David Wildstein, February 09 2022 10:25 am

In what might be the strongest indicator yet that Jersey City Mayor Steven Fulop is laying the groundwork for a gubernatorial run in 2025, a super PAC allied with him raised $1.4 million on Tuesday evening.

The Coalition for Progress Super PAC now has over $5 million cash-on-hand with plans to help Democratic candidates across the state this year.

Fulop was the headliner at the event and spoke of his views on economic development and expanding the middle class.

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Fulop out-of-town party plans have critics grumbling

By Terrence T. McDonald | The Jersey Journal
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on September 06, 2016 at 3:47 PM, updated September 06, 2016 at 4:54 PM

JERSEY CITY — Mayor Steve Fulop's critics are taking aim at the mayor's plans to commemorate the end of summer with barbecues in Paramus and Freehold.

The mayor's camp says the shindigs — an end-of-summer party in Paramus on Sept. 17 and a fall kick-off in Freehold on Sept. 24 — are aimed at former Jersey City residents.

The locations of the parties have Fulop's local critics reiterating their claims that the mayor, who is expected to seek the Democratic nomination for governor next year, is not focused on the city he governs.

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Building Toward 2017, Fulop Taps Veteran Political Operative Soliman

OBSERVER - By Max Pizarro • 08/16/16 11:40am

Preparing for a 2017 guv run, Jersey City Mayor Steven Fulop announced today that longtime statewide political operative Michael Soliman has formally signed on with the Fulop Team as a senior advisor, running political coordination and outreach for Mayor Steven Fulop.

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Paterson assemblywoman all but announces run for N.J. governor

By Jonathan Lin | The Jersey Journal
on May 21, 2016 at 7:09 PM, updated May 21, 2016 at 9:11 PM

JERSEY CITY -- Certainty about whether Assemblywoman Shavonda Sumter, D-Passaic, will be running for governor dramatically grew today -- though not exactly as she planned it.

At an event in Jersey City this morning where Sumter was scheduled to speak, state Sen. Sandra B. Cunningham, D-Jersey City, mistakenly introduced the assemblywoman as having already thrown her hat in the ring.

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Fulop campaign strategies will need tweaking as gov primary nears| Political Insider

By Agustin C. Torres | The Jersey Journal
  February 27, 2016 at 7:38 AM

The gubernatorial primaries are about 14 months away. As always, our interest lies with the Democratic Party side of things in which Jersey City Mayor Steve Fulop is expected to run.

And everyone does believe there's an unannounced "Fulop for governor" campaign on the horizon. Otherwise, why get all worked up about a super PAC unless critics are concerned that someone -- for example, a local big developer -- is trying to get around election donation laws? Or why have feathers been so ruffled about the mayor trying to change the season of city elections from spring to fall?

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Fulop on 2017 elections: ‘I am not today actively running for governor’

Jersey City Mayor Steven Fulop told a room full of about 100 people at his latest town hall event that “I am not today actively running for governor,” explaining that is not a decision he plans on making until December of this year.

Read more:  http://hudsoncountyview.com/fulop-on- ... ely-running-for-governor/

Scarinci: Fulop will have the money and political support to be the next governor

In a light of the fact that a new super PAC has raised $3.2 million and will likely support Jersey City Mayor Steven Fulop in his pursuit of the governor’s seat in 2017, Donald Scarinci says Fulop will have the money and political support to prevail in the race.

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Weinberg: ’66 2/3 percent’ chance Fulop or Sweeney is the next governor

State Senate Majority Leader Loretta Weinberg (D-37) quipped that there was a “66 2/3 percent” chance the next governor of New Jersey was at a Liberty State Park preservation press conference yesterday that featured Jersey City Mayor Steven Fulop and state Senate President Steve Sweeney (D-3).

Read more: http://hudsoncountyview.com/weinberg- ... ney-is-the-next-governor/

Fulop's gubernatorial ambitions are now clear | Morgan

By Earl Morgan | For The Jersey Journal The Star-Ledger 
October 06, 2015 at  8:16 AM

A few things were cleared up by Jersey City Mayor Steve Fulop's assertion that District 3 Freeholder Gerry Balmir has demonstrated his disloyalty by allowing his wife to take a job in the office of state Senate President Stephen Sweeney.

It establishes with certainty Fulop's gubernatorial ambitions. We know this because Sweeney is also planning to run for governor. Fulop is outraged that Balmir, to whom he all but delivered the freeholder's seat, allowed his spouse to consort with the enemy.

It exposes the lack of comity existing between Hudson County African-American elected officials. Balmir is seen by many in the Hudson County Democratic organization as a disloyal ingrate unwilling to take his place in the political pecking order.

Read more:  http://www.nj.com/opinion/index.ssf/2 ... _becoming_clearer_mo.html