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Agree! Probably hasn't for the past ten years.

Interlopers Rock!!!!!!!

I've eaten in Mantra a couple times - very good. Ordered takeout a couple weeks ago (a Wed. night around 8, nothing going on). Never again. They seemed opposed to delivering, told me it would be an hour (it was 20 minutes and yet the food was cold and indelible.) I like the restaurant and will continue to go but will never order delivery from them again.

Healy says the council "deprived the community of two tremendous public servants.... The people have spoken twice on Velazquez and the answer has been "thanks but no thanks." He offers nothing and people see through that. Is the HCDO Hispanic bench that thin that trotting Ray out for every opening is all they have to offer?

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From the king.....

So if calling Healy a pedophile were done under the guise of "campaign strategy" that would make it "valid to explore"? Yes - the Connors comment was the innuendo to which I referred.

They get Bonnie Watson to double down on their mischaracterization. They completely fabricate the red-light camera thing into a Republican/Fulop Trojan horse - and then on top of it you give the spokesman another bite at the apple. If you were concerned with accuracy, you would say "Healy basing campaign on lying" and explore that. You could probably get a Rutgers professor to talk about the history of using lies as a campaign strategy. Maybe cite a few examples.

User 1111 - I know it's a lot to ask for you to understand, but not everything is meant literally.

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I wouldn't dignify your comment by increasing the traffic on your site, Terrence. That is a bush league story. You write an article about a name that someone is called, build the foundation by repeating innuendo, factual inaccuracies and outright lies - giving voice to them all over again - all for the point of what, exactly? To muse about a "gambit" that may or may not work? You've always struck me as more professional than that.

Put another way - if enough people from the Fulop camp were to start calling Healy a pedophile and came up with a lot of pictures of Healy with kids around him - you'd go with that, right?

Don't hold your breath on a completion by Memorial Day, or "as soon as possible" after. The current administration tasked with this effort will be gone before then.

Seems weird Viola would run with Healy. I had heard she was furious he wouldn't back her when she ran for at-large in the special election. Wonder what it took to get that done?

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Agree completely.

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How so? I don't think Anthony Weiner, Elliot Spitzer, Charlie Rangel or Bill Clinton would agree.

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And these questions asked by Fulop supporters are not legitimate simply because you say so? Sorry - that's ridiculous. There have been many valid and unanswered questions. And Dan comes on here to post press releases from four months ago with no new information for what, exactly?

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Which part of West Orange do you live in?

Who is Janet Chevers? Anyone ever hear of her?

Who is Bonnie Watson Coleman and why does she care about the Jersey City mayor's race?

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I meant before the campaign season.

Just curious - I live in the "new F" on York street. Has anyone in the "old E" seen Michelle Massey? I haven't and I am involved in various groups but maybe I just haven't run into her. Has she done anything?

Great article, Mouse. Thanks for posting it!

I don't know - Sterling has accomplished a lot over the past couple years. A post he put up on one of the parent Yahoo groups:

After initially deciding that I would not respond to your email, I too felt compelled to do so.
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> And I too am disappointed. Disappointed that you can sit in the comfort of your home, attend a board meeting or two a year and now become a foremost expert on what makes a good and sound board member. Oh, and all the while casting aspersions and passing? judgements.
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> For the record, you misstated my reasons for voting against the contract, though, it's neither here nor there at this time.
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> Allow me to state some of what you missed by not attending the majority of board and committee meetings and obviously, not talking to parents:
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> 1. It was? I who demanded that Librarians be rehired after a couple of years of children in all schools not enjoying basic library instruction
> 2. It was? I who Felicia Noth called and ultimately received, over a year ago, for an additional PreK classroom in # 5 school as well as help make general repairs in specific areas.
> 3. It was I who helped # 16 schools get air conditioners for above temp classrooms
> 4. It was I who helped #12? (one of our struggling schools) get additional help in the form of an assistant principal
> 5. It was I who helped #15 (another struggling school) fix their auditorium, make? specific facility repairs? and get better lunchroom equipment
> 6. It was I who was on the committee and ultimately as a board member get new recess (though still not enough) for our schools
> 7. It was I who pushed for and got an Alternative School, after years of none along with Vocational Technical instruction.
> 8. It was I who took over Athletics, increased the budget by 400k and is in the process of bringing our district into the 21sr century (with the help of parents) while getting youngers in lower grades involved.
> 9. It was I? who took up an interest in the Jersey City Arts Program, brought their plight to the attention of Cathy Coyle and others? and ultimately increased their budget by an additional 200k.
> 10. It was I who asked to increase the number of security guards in our schools by reducing amount of money we pay into shared services with the City.
> 11. It is I that insisted that we bring back the football program at our largest HS (Dickenson)
> 12. It is I that took an interest in two of our most ill reported high schools (Snyder and Lincoln) and have worked with everyone to help turn them around. (And they have made significant progress)
> 13.It was I who brought this district its first ever public budget meetings as well as help curtail spending as the former chair of Finance.
> 14. It was I who was called by the parent council leader of Liberty to get the school repainted and have general repairs done.
> 15. It was I who have fielded hundreds of phone calls from parents with varying issues and concerns
> 16. It is I? who? is recognized in the mall and streets? by childen as I have visited every school, multiple times, and not just for a function.
> 17. It was I who got this district back the ability to vote on Personnel items
> 18. It was I who trumpeted the successful Achieve 3000 program, for other schools after spending hours with the vendor and schools that had it first.
> 19 It was I who help create the new "lead teacher" program with my constant complaining of subsitute teachers in my son's school and many others I have visited.
> 20. It was I who lobbied for good teachers to remain in specific schools? as well as certain programs
> 21. It was I who met with the former superintendent and the entire curriculum dept for them to explain just how common core the 2nd to 5th? Gr? curriculum they were bringing in would be and how it would coincide with future versions.
> 22. It is I who meets and works with all parent council leaders for the betterment of their own schools
> 23. It was I who exposed the civil service issues we had in the district
> 24. And it was I who initiated the Audit
> 25. It is I who spends countless hours of my own time learning and doing the deeds of a board member, not relying on someone else's interpretation.
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> I could go on and on. My point is this.
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> I was doing my due diligence as a board member (but mostly as a parent)? regardless of who is in the top seat and I most certainly will continue.
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> I understand that it's easy for some to forget the whole picture which is why some need reminding. There should never be one issue that someone is judged.
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> I stated something for the record above. Further for the record, I will certainly work with Dr Lyles to make her transition and then her reign successful.
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> I won't, however, bend over for anyone. I will continue to hold everyone accountable, even myself.
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> Sterling

Hope the board gives Sterling strong consideration for the VP spot. It would be great to see everyone put the past few months behind them and work together again. A vote for Sterling would be a good start.

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+1. Best traditional Italian sub I've had in Jersey City was at second street bakery. Huge, too.

What a loss this would be. Hope there's a way they can still make it work if they aren't just moving to another location.

Back to the topic at hand - the two things that strike me as most disturbing should Dan run with healy: campaign finance and taxes.

Dan: you sold your house and I assume you are renting. Healy conveniently punted the outcome of the revaluation until after the election. The revaluation is going to in all likelihood crush major portions of Ward E. Dan, how can you join that team when the outcome has been so politically engineered and in an extremely cynical manner, particularly when you have put yourself on the sidelines for the reval?

The other head-scratcher is your stance on campaign finance - you have spoken loudly and frequently about the need to reform the election process and work to get big money out of the system. I've agreed with you and admired your previous runs in which you put your heart and soul into the effort and did so without prostituting yourself in the process. Healy raised collectively $4 million last time, taking money from anyone who offered. How do you reconcile the fact that you will be heavily funded by entities with whom you (at least in the past) have been philosophically at odds with?

I've seen Candice at council meetings - just as I've seen Dan at meetings. They both tend to come when there is an issue of concern to them, which seems to fall into the occasional category. For my money, who really cares if someone running for council is a frequent attendee? Do people running for the house or senate go sit in Washington for years before they run? God help us all if the council consisted of the people who came to all of the meetings....

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Right, because that area is so postcard-picture perfect right now.

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The Hugo Neu Corp. contributed $25,000 to Healy et al in the last election cycle. The founder is a major (scroll down to number 20) state and national political contributor. I suspect the Hugo Neu Corp. has bought the right to burn and release whatever they wish.

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Bingo. And also - the fact that Jersey City is an Abbot district is all the more reason why outsiders SHOULD have access, if they want it. Jersey City pays less than 20% of the school district's budget each year - the state pays close to 3/4. If I lived somewhere else and sustained a head injury that left me with a desire to send my children to an underperforming Jersey City public school - I'd feel entitled as a tax payer of the state of NJ.

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Way to make it about you. Everyone on here knows where the spot is - the pictures didn't divulge anything new, nor did what she said. Lame.

I understand that Healy's 2009 council candidates (including Gaughan and Brennan) took tens of thousands of dollars from this guy and that Healy, the HCDO and the JCDO took many thousands as well. Anyone know more about any of this?

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When I make a major, life-altering decision, I usually rely on research and ideas that are a little more current than the 18th century. I also try to base my decision on something more than jingoistic propaganda (I'd argue that Australia is more truly capitalist than the U.S. - it's like a big Texas just with an even stranger accent), but to each his own, I guess.

Why would I leave? More to the point, why would you suggest I move to a socialist country? You are not one of them (sic) people who just reflexively attack (an) other's positions without knowing what they are, no?

I have neither argued against nor for your views, just made the observation that you are clearly a frustrated, unhappy person. That much is clear from the amount of time you spend bitching on here about things you are unlikely to change. Being that upset on a permanent basis is unhealthy - it's not too late to go somewhere else and take up residence on CalgaryList or WiredMelbourne.

Stay classy, Mr. Poppins.