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The most enjoyable part of the post-gubernatorial phase of the Christie saga will be watching his (continued) freefall to ignominy. You don't treat people the way he did/does without having to endure consequences; the beach photo from last summer captures the essence of Christie in a way no 500 page book could.
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So, I'll ask again - anyone signing up? I did.
Heed no mind to the Hannity fanboys. Seriously - why not organize your own Whatabout protest?
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Anyone aware of this? Signed up?
https://act.moveon.org/event/mueller-f ... d-response-events/search/
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Torres is a hack. If you know how to stroke him, he'll essentially let you write his column for him.
Did anyone else find this line in his column disturbing? "Ridley is well-spoken and an African-American woman." I don't think I've ever heard "well-spoken" used to describe a white person - as though it's surprising to the person using the term that black people can be articulate. Quote:
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Josh - you are unhinged. I didn?t lie about anything. If you feel I lied about you, please let me know (either here or in person). It certainly wasn?t my intent. I wasn?t going to get into who told me what about the campaign on here - also happy to discuss in person. The ?mommy mafia? comment, while perhaps in poor taste, was a nod to your incessant use of it. The comment about me being resentful and ?others having done better than me? is beyond baffling. I really have no clue what you are talking about or alluding to.
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Josh - there was no ELEC expenditure for Bertoli on Fulop's ELECs (nor was there one for me, for that matter.) Are you going to tell me he wasn't involved in that campaign either?
If past experience is an indicator, you are probably not at the majority of the activities nor among the inner circle of the Symes campaign. A lot of things go on in a campaign that aren't visible to the dilettante. You can definitively say who exactly is involved and what their precise contributions have been? I strongly doubt that. I'm quite confident the information I'm hearing is accurate and have no reason to doubt it. To be honest, I don't care that much who wins. I'll vote for Solomon because I think he is a better check on the administration's lesser impulses, but both Solomon and Symes give me the impression that whomever wins will be running for mayor come Wednesday.
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As you pointed out earlier - you've been sleeping. I would interpret Augie's comment differently: it's widespread enough that even HE has noticed. It's well known within both camps that Bertoli is involved.
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Phil - in '13, I hardly think the municipal workforce or local political apparatuses were behind us. Or do you have me confused with someone else? That's the last election I was involved in.
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Are you counting municipal employees who are being "encouraged" to help ("unpaid") and the considerable resources of the local political apparatuses? Hard to put a price on those... Sadly - we won't really know how much money was dumped into the race on her behalf until after the election. I'm curious to see where the funding for her election day GOTV comes from and how many people are put on the street on her behalf from the unions.
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Rebecca herself, unescorted, was knocking on doors in Gull's Cove two weekends ago. Non-residents are not permitted in the building and are uniformly stopped by the person working the front desk. Did the developer let her in? You?
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100,000 is not too high - if memory serves (and there hasn't been a voter roll cleanup in the past couple of years) the number of registered voters is around 130,000. I completely agree that turnout is pathetic.
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Actually, Yvonne - you weren't wrong. You're forgetting the close to 4,000 Walker votes and 500 for the other guy who's name escapes me. Turnout was better in 2013 and I was really surprised by that - got to wondering why. Early turnout yesterday was very strong. Anecdotally, it was as strong or stronger downtown through the morning as it was in 2013. Weather could have been a factor - it was in the low 70s and sunny on the 2013 election day. Yesterday turned really crappy in the afternoon (and cold.) Also - sunset was 8:04 in 2013, compared to 4:45 yesterday. An uncompetitive governor's race and mayor's race probably also contributed - both sides drove high turnout in the mayor's race in 2013. In wards that had hotly contested council races, I think turnout will end up being comparable but I'll have to check.
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Symes and Solomon are headed to a runoff.
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At the Fulop party, they have numbers up - people report totals when the polls close and "runners" bring them into the campaigns. I don't know what percent has reported, but Fulop is up 14,575 to 4,231
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That?s about what I expected. The union?s negotiating tactics had a lot to do with the protracted nature of that process. And ?they advocated for vouchers and charter expansion to the detriment of the public school system? is the overblown boogeyman argument, not to mention open to debate as for efficacy.
And although you didn?t address them - I wouldn?t think you?d believe Valentin and Richardson to be suitable school board members.
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I didn't suggest that it was Dr. Lyles alone. Let's be honest though - the union has brought us retrograde candidates such as Angel Valentin and Lorenzo Richardson, the latter of whom should have been locked up for the terroristic stunts he pulled at board meetings prior to his election. And you love to say "hedge funders" over and over and paint B4K as the boogeyman - but what is it that they did in Jersey City that hurt students or made education worse? Answer that as a parent of two children in the JC public schools and not a labor union attorney...
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You probably lack the history to understand that the things Matt points out understate the danger posed by JCEA?s control of the board. There was a brief window at the beginning of the decade when activists like Matt helped get people like Ellen Simon and Sangeeta Ranade elected to the board. They were parents who were faced with a failing public school system, long ago taken over by the state and viewed by the local political establishment as a jobs bank for supporters and a piggy bank from which to offer fat contracts to their coroporate donors. They loved their community and didn?t want to have to leave Jersey City order for their kids to get a decent education - as many had before them. Real progress was made in a short period of time - a new superintendent was brought in to implement needed improvements, test scores and graduation rates begin to rise, accompanied by optimism that the school district had turned the corner. However, progress came at a steep price. The old guard fought reform every step of the way - board meetings would escalate to near riots on a fairly regular basis. Unfortunately, that promising chapter ended a couple years ago when a reinvigorated JCEA, flush with cash from the NJEA and heavy local political support, tipped the scales back to the prior status quo. No one with any interest in Jersey City should want to see our schools continue to retreat. Matt Schapiro has worked tirelessly for many years to help get dedicated, intelligent, progressive candidates elected to the board and has more knowledge of what goes on at the board than any two other candidates. I am proud to call Matt a friend and will eagerly vote for him, David and Yousef on Tuesday.
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That's cute, Aaron - very Fox News of you (Next they'll be asking for an investigation of Healy.) Maybe you can throw in a war on Christmas while you are at it. Look - you wanted the tape released, it was released. Muhammed and Sully look bad. No question. Fulop isn't mentioned and he isn't on the tape. Could this have been handled better? Maybe? Probably? But what is it you expect to happen now, six days before the election? I look at the cynical move Matsikoudis is attempting, hamfistedly playing this out as his big October surprise Gotcha! move, similar to the equally cynical move he tried in April 2013 with the Star Ledger. It makes me ask where was the outrage over the past three years? There is no way on God's green earth that Matsikoudis hasn't known about this tape since the day it got into Pandalfo's hands, which was a very long time ago. Matsikoudis is a lawyer - if he thinks there was a crime committed and he has knowledge of it, wasn't he obligated to report it when he became aware rather than pocket it until it had its greatest perceived value? As I said previously, I think your dislike of Fulop has blinded you to the nature of who you jumped in with. You know who I am. You know I left the administration and that the mayor and I didn't agree on everything. I think I have a realistic view of his strengths and weaknesses and between him and Matsikoudis and I'll take Fulop every day of the week and twice on Sundays.
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Why would anyone care about Ellen for anything other than entertainment? And what the hell does she have to do with this? I'll save you the bother of having to answer - nothing.
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The whole Bubba angle doesn't make any sense - this isn't the kind of thing you'd call JCPD for... then again, Bubba doesn't make a lot of sense a lot of the time.
I guess Bubba did two things here - kept the story alive for another day and got his name in the paper as the only person connected to law enforcement who answered the phone.
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Poorly written paragraph - the "why bother" sentence was meant to be a generic second-person (non-specific) "you". I don't know that you released it, but I know you are among a group of people who have been very clear and excited about wanting it released.
I don't think anyone cares who released it - there are about a dozen people who are the likely candidates - the overtly political way in which this was handled undermines whatever intended point was meant to be made. I am curious about something, though. I am not an attorney and you are. What is the standard for libel? Say I was intentionally claiming you released the tape (which, again, I'm not.) Releasing the tape isn't a crime, is it? You advocated for it's release, no? Would my saying that actually amount to libel, as though I've defamed you or assassinated your character? Or is that some sort of lawyerly thing to throw around to intimidate me? Quote:
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I'm sorry, but your outrage gets hugely discounted when it comes attached to such a cheap "gotcha" stunt like this. And for the record, the mayor has forfeited the right to nothing. Voters will decide - or are we getting rid of elections?
Do you know Sully? Clearly not, if you are calling him one of "the mayor's two top advisors." He is a wannabe and that shows through in his comments on the tape. Muhammed is aggressive and certainly doesn't look good here - although he does point out that there is a line he doesn't want to cross (the comment about that can get you sent to jail.) But where is Fulop on the tape? Is he speaking? Is he mentioned? No and no. I haven't agreed with every single decision the mayor has made; I can probably say the same about every other politician. I think the fact that you use this to dredge up every other complaint you have about him kind of tips your hand to the hail mary nature of this silly tape. You can't possibly expect people to believe that a tape that a) doesn't mention the mayor, b) is more than three years old, and c) is released the week before the election - should be taken seriously, can you? And... you prize ethical behavior in government and have hitched your wagon to Matsikoudis???
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Aaron - you are a very smart man. Don't you think the dubious timing of all this raises a lot of questions? Why go through the charade of seeking the release of the tape (other than the political hay that can be made by keeping mention of "the tape" in the news) if you are going to "leak" it out a week before the election anyhow?? I think your dislike of the mayor has blinded you to the nature of whom you've allied yourself.
Sully is a clown. Muhammed certainly doesn't look good here - but is Fulop on the tape? Is he mentioned on the tape?
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I'm about to wet myself I'm laughing so hard. On October 13, I wrote this in the "Top Fulop allies on tape trying to steer city bid, court depositions say" thread:
"As a sentient being, I ask myself - why is this happening now? I think: Dominick Pandolfo is involved - close friend of Bill Matsikoudis, Healy's one-time chief of staff. Huh. Pandolofo has the tape, which means Matsikoudis has the tape, which means that some good number of the people pounding the table for "transparency" have also heard the tape. This is the same group that went running around last election trying to peddle the Bob Lehrer story to anyone who would listen - ultimately, they couldn't get traction because there just wasn't much to the story. So - here's what I'll bet you, HeightsNative: you've heard the tape. Matsikoudis has heard the tape. CivicJC has heard the tape. The reason you are pounding the table for "transparency" is because, a) you know Fulop won't release it because - why negotiate with terrorists?, and b) there's nothing of substance that is damning on the tape. You'll try to make political hay out of this for another couple of weeks, the story will fade and then - somewhere in the week before the election, the tape will "get out" - probably heavily edited in a way that leaves a question as to what may or may not have been said. My two cents." And.... here we are! The week before the election and, as predicted, the three and a half year old tape is released!! Just like the four year-old story Matsikoudis tried pedaling right before the election to the Star Ledger last time around (but couldn't get them to bite.) Sad!!
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