Fulop on Christie?s State of the State speech: What about Jersey City?

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By Mark Bonamo | 01/13/15 9:05pm

TRENTON ? Moments after New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie mentioned the state?s second-largest city only glancingly in his State of the State address on Tuesday, Jersey City Mayor Steve Fulop wondered aloud why the Jersey City roots of a soon-to-be statewide non-profit services program was not specifically referenced.

?I love the fact that he referenced for five minutes the Jersey City re-entry program and what we?re doing with addiction treatment as a model,? Fulop told PolitickerNJ. ?It?s too bad he couldn?t say the words ?Jersey City.'?

The initiative mentioned by Christie during his approximately 40-minute address emerged from a state-created task force co-chaired by Jim McGreevey, the former Democratic governor, and Pastor Joe Carter of Newark?s New Hope Baptist Church. The program, which will be run by a non-profit led by McGreevey, is designed to set up one-stop services centers for ex-offenders battling addiction as they leave incarceration or drug court and re-enter society.

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