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Let's go over this point by point:

1. Streets safer: FAIL.

2. Hold the line on taxes: OPEN UP THE WINDOW AND LET SOME OF THE 'FAIL' OUT.

3. Bring investment, development and jobs: YES, EVEN IF FROM SOLOMON DWEK.

4. Work with the B of E to improve quality.... : SOME SET OF BALLS TO SAY THIS WHILE GRANTING TAX ABATEMENTS THAT SHORTCHANGE THE B of E.

Unreal.

I noticed that Jerry had an omission in the list of things that he wants to accomplish. Not one word about fighting corruption within city hall. I have never been politically active b4 in my life, but any honest and independent candidate that will go up against this democratic political machine will get my support and vote.

"One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors." Plato.

there was a term limiting opportunity just missed, 5 months ago.

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Are there term limits for the Jersey City's Mayor office?

clearly all those huge demonstrations and the sustained corruption outrage have Healy shaking in his boots...

Healy files with ELEC for 2013
By Matt Friedman, PolitickerNJ.com Reporter

Jersey City Jerramiah Healy is keeping his options open.

Healy, who just won a second four year term in May, has filed paperwork for ?Healy for Mayor 2013? with the Election Law Enforcement Commission (ELEC) on the advice of an accountant ? not because he?s actually made up his mind about running for a third term.

?I am not making any announcement. Any announcement would not be made for a couple of years. Right now I am focused on doing the job the citizens of Jersey City elected me to do -- which is to keep making the streets safer, to hold the line on taxes, to bring investment, development and jobs to our city and to work with the Board of Education to improve the quality of education for our children. The only election we are focused on at this time is the re-election of Jon Corzine as Governor on November 3, 2009."

It is typical for winning candidates to file their paperwork with ELEC four years in advance of their next race. Healy, for instance, filed for his 2009 campaign ? for which he ultimately raised over $3 million ? in 2005, just after winning his first full term as mayor.

If anything is unusual, it is that most gossip in Jersey City has not been about whether Healy will run again four years from now, but whether he will make it through his current term in the wake of the July federal corruption string. Healy?s campaign contributions from last time around got special post-election scrutiny after several Jersey City officials, including Healy 2009 treasurer Leona Beldini, were arrested for allegedly funneling bribe money into his campaign coffers, among other things. Healy has not been accused of any wrongdoing.

There is one key difference between this filing and the last one: Beldini has been replaced as treasurer by Patricia Connors, who, like Beldini, is a Jersey City realtor.

Matt Friedman is a PolitickerNJ.com Reporter and can be reached via email at matt@politicsnj.com.