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Re: Election results
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The Jersey City Clerk has ruled that there will be a runoff for at-large, but this isn't over yet. Stay tuned.
this is disconcerting ... do you have the decision? do you have a release? their website is awful ... and a run-off effectively extends the election cycle by another 4 (expensive) weeks ...

Posted on: 2013/5/15 16:15
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Re: Election results
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Charles Epps won! Yay!

no he hasn't - he needs 50% of the vote + 1 ... so, he is in a run-off, which has to happen before June 30.

Posted on: 2013/5/15 1:52
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Re: Election results
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is the 50 percent plus 1 rule apply to the at large races?
nope - top 3 vote getters are in ...

Posted on: 2013/5/15 1:42
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Re: Election results
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it looks like that the biggest loser of the election is dan levin.

Posted on: 2013/5/15 1:40
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Re: Election results
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Osborne is the only council candidate who crossed the 50 percent threshold necessary to avoid a runoff, winning 64 percent of the vote tonight to Dan Levin's 23 percent. Fletcher Gensamer, the third candidate, won 8 percent.

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epps doesn't have 50% of the vote; to get elected the candidate has to have 50% + 1 vote ... hence run-off ...


I really hope that is the case, I can not imagine him as my councilman that would be a nightmare.

Posted on: 2013/5/15 1:32
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Re: Election results
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epps doesn't have 50% of the vote; to get elected the candidate has to have 50% + 1 vote ... hence run-off ...

Posted on: 2013/5/15 1:28
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Re: Election results
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Jersey City Mayor Jerramiah T. Healy just called the election for challenger Steven Fulop.

"If there is anything I can do to help him out after the transition, I stand ready, willing, and able to do it," Healy said.

His comments drew cheers from a tearful crowd at his Oakland Avenue headquarters. The crowd chanted back "We love you, mayor."

"Thank you all and God bless you all, by the way, I am still going to Casino in the Park," the mayor said, referring to the Jersey City catering house where a celebration was planned.

When he called the race the screen in the front of the room read, "Fulop 52.1 percent of the vote (14,675 votes), while Healy tallied 38.6 percent (10,860 votes.)

Posted on: 2013/5/15 1:08
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Re: Election results
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Posted on: 2013/5/15 1:02
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Re: Election results
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Vote Count Percent
NP - Peter M. BRENNAN 1B 4,921 12.70%
NP - Viola S. RICHARDSON 2B 5,331 13.75%
NP - Omar PEREZ 3B 4,669 12.05%
NP - 0 0.00%
NP - Ramon ''Ray'' REGALADO 5B 1,692 4.37%
NP - Sean M. CONNELLY 6B 1,968 5.08%
NP - 0 0.00%
NP - Joyce E. WATTERMAN 8B 6,820 17.59%
NP - Daniel RIVERA 9B 6,689 17.26%
NP - Rolando R. LAVARRO, Jr. 10B 6,637 17.12%
Personal Choice 35 0.09%
Total 38,762 100.00%

Posted on: 2013/5/15 0:58
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Re: Election results
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the link is working, the page however is dead ...
from nj.com

The mood is hushed and people are speaking in whispers at Mayor Jerramiah Healy?s packed campaign headquarter at Oakland Avenue and Fleet Street in Jersey City Height where people are inputting vote tallies and a screen at the front of the room shows candidate Steven Fulop with 48 percent of the vote and Healy with 42 percent at 8:30 p.m.

At 8:30 p.m., Healy was not yet at the headquarters where key campaign officials are in a back room. Bayonne Mayor Mark Smith made his way through the crowd and into the back room at about 8:15 p.m.

The crowd is spilling out the door onto Fleet Street.

The totals flashed on the screen showed Fulop with 4,670 votes, Healy with 4,070, Jerry Walker with 835, and Abdul Malik, the fourth mayoral candidate, with 109.

http://www.nj.com/hudson/index.ssf/20 ... q_tally.html#incart_river

Posted on: 2013/5/15 0:44
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Re: Healy signs and “workers” every where this morning…..
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frankly, as long as the healy squad is littering the city- and streetscape with signs, they won't have time to stuff the ballot box ... and in the great scheme of things, a stuffed ballot box is worse than a few annoyingly placed signs endorsing healy ...
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Looks like the Healy squad had a busy night.

Driving along Ocean and other areas near every polling place there are tons of Healy signs on poles.

They are on the all of the poles leading up to the polling places. There are also Healy ?workers? in yellow shirts with hand held wooden sticks with Healy signs on them.

Odd I thought Healy wanted a low turnout to w in. If you were driving along and saw and large Healy signs on the telephone poles I think it would remind you that today was election day.


If I see a sign on a pole near my polling place on election day I usually take a picture of it and them rip it down.

Posted on: 2013/5/14 21:56
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Re: Possible Gang War?
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they may just be celebrating healy's loss

Posted on: 2013/5/13 23:21
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Re: Can Anyone Recommend an Urban Landscaper?
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we need a major overhaul of our backyard. thanks
http://asmallgreenspace.com/home/ ... emma redid our backyard. we have been very happy with her work and our new backyard is awesome.

Posted on: 2013/5/13 22:25
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Re: Top Ten Reasons to Vote for Jerramiah Healy
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Blah, blah, blah

Tl; dr --> vote Healy May 15, 2013!
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Top ten reasons fulop will not win

10. He can't get all his id thief buddies from 05 to pull off such a massive fraud

9. He will have no money because his war chest is empty after paying himself back the loans from himself to bloat it in the first place

8. Jersey city is a family city, we do not need a mayor with a first cat instead of a first lady

7. Come election day, many of his core supporters will show up to vote with out of state licemses and be refused

6. Most of steves base will get lost going to the polls because all they know are path trains.

5. People are sick and tired of fulop negative campaigning by fulops team. He came out with a platform months ago and left it to go negative. Real jc people hate that, especially from outsiders.

4. B4k involvement shows fulops real intention with out schools. Parents and boe personnel come out in force against it.

3. Downtown people know fulop stole levins ideas on pay to play.

2. Osbourse not pulling her share and internal disputes with connors and chico causing a breakdown in the end.

1. Fulop is a fraud, a phony, a republican. Jc tried that woth bret swindler and it set us back.

Back to goldman for steve

Healy for mayor
zzzzz zzzzz zzzzzzz

Posted on: 2013/5/12 23:18
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Re: Jersey City election 2013: where the race stands
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that's it? blah blah?

answer me about his team

So I am a troll because I don't buy into your Fulop BS?

because I don't agree with what you do.

That is ignorance
tl;dr
Don't feed the trolls, and vote Healy on May 15th!

Posted on: 2013/5/12 7:33
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Re: Jersey City election 2013: where the race stands
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Don't feed the trolls ...Quote:

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I am voting for the mayor who has kept taxes stable, the mayor who has put the people in the right places so that crime is continuing on a downward trend. I am voting for the mayor who is a regular guy who is accessible to the public. I am voting for the mayor that has help develop this city into what it is today.

I am not voting for a 1 percenter who wants to turn our schools into financial windfalls for his buddy dave tepper and the other white collars at the expense of our children.

I am not voting for the guy who tried to silence absentee voters by changing the address on the ballot applications.

I am not voting for the guy who has been accused of voter fraud time and time again

I am not voting for the guy who wants to put part time police officers on the street.

I am not voting for the guy who wants to price the regular joe out of Jersey City.

I am not voting for the guy who is clearly trying to use our city as a stepping stone for a bigger job in Trenton.

I am not voting for a republican who says hes a democrat.

I am not voting for him for those reasons. I am voting for Healy. He was never accused, arrested or charged in that big rig thing. You can insinuate whatever you want, just as I can do the same on the fraud issue, but no one was charged.

And yes, many of you think you are smarter than JC people and want to force your ideals down our throat. Take it to manhattan.

You call the guy inept. How so? Didn't Moodys upgrade our rating? We have not laid off one cop or fireman when everyone else did. The city is still developing.....

tell me this.

Do you even have an idea of who is on Fulops team besides his council people. Who will run the departments? Do we know? We do not, why is he keeping it private?

Any idea?
blah blah blah

Posted on: 2013/5/12 6:24
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Re: Dan is still Dan
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Levin is no longer an "independent" - ever since he got in bed with Healy. He's cheating on you...


Dan Levin is and always has been an independent. What about you OneSkirt? Are you able to think independently and choose your candidates on their record, or does Fulop say vote for X and you ask "how many times sir?"
dan lost his independence (and integrity) once he hitched his future to the healy machine or train wreck. no doubt, dan is a good man. and even a good man can make bad choices.

Posted on: 2013/5/11 2:56
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Re: Dan is still Dan
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i loved dan. he was a man of integrity.

Posted on: 2013/5/10 18:59
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Re: Sunnyside Academy in Port Liberte video captures worker abusing 2 tots: cops
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Looks like there will be a nicely sized storefront available for rent in Port Liberte real soon...

http://www.nj.com/hudson/index.ssf/20 ... loyee_at_jersey_city.html

http://newjersey.news12.com/news/seco ... y-1.5232603?firstfree=yes

Somebody finally posted a comment on the Yelp page too.
The sad truth is that they typically pay the teachers a bit above minimum wage. And at $7.25/hr, you can hardly make a living. The childcare (or toddler warehousing business) is immensely profitable. You charge $1k/month per kiddo, have 40 kids and pay $15k/months in comp. And even if you spend another $15k on rent and other expenses, you have $10k over to pay the lease on your beemer .... sunnyside is not the only place in JC that is run under these premises ... so, parents beware ... ask what car the teachers drive ....

Posted on: 2013/5/10 18:57
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Re: Jersey Journal endorses Steven Fulop for mayor of Jersey City
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Another hit job by a partisan paper. The JJ has been so far into Fulop's pocket for years. They love their wittle Stevie. That's why they dredge up old stiuff about Mayor Healy that nobody cares about. Jersey City loves Jerry Healy and knows he's done a great job. That's why he'll get four more years and all of you wil go home crying, woindering what happened.
i agree, you are absolutely right. jersey city loves jerry healy, and really loves him to leave the city.

remember, if you vote for healy, you vote on wednesday, may 15th.

Posted on: 2013/5/10 18:51
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Re: Tailor - alterations
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having used both tailor's touch and decarlo's, my vote is with decarlo, with a few caveats.
1. if he says one week, that means at least 10 days.
2. during the summer, one week may actually be two weeks.
3. he overprices small alterations that he doesn't want to do (there is nothing wrong with that),

BUT
1. the quality of his work is outstanding.
2. i have bought in several cheap suits that were one size too big. in each case, he was able to cut the suit down to size and shape it quite elegantly.
3. he ropes the arms (and does it by hand).
4. he can recut suit arms to make the button holes operable, which is not a simple feat
5. he has recut pleated pants to nom-pleated.
6. the quality of his work is outstanding.

Small alterations are not his strengths, but they pay his bills ...

Posted on: 2013/5/10 18:49
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Re: Vote by Mail Ballot Screw Ups
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And, also remember, if you are voting for Healy, the last date to mail your ballot is June 1, 2013.

Posted on: 2013/5/10 18:42
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Re: Mayor Healy says voters don't care about naked photos
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I think we are underestimating Healy.

1. All publicity is good publicity.

2. If a pudgy half-naked 60-something attracts 3 younger ladies (I make some assumptions here - I just don't know how this would have played out if the ladies were improperly equipped), clearly he has a certain bravado, machismo, "je ne said pas de quoi", animal magnetism, alpha wolf-ability that most of us just don't have or normally cannot have.

3. And, if he has that bravado, he could demonstrate the leadership that this city so surely needs; and not only this city, but the state and the nation, if not the world.

I was supporting Fulop, but during the weekend, these evolving events made me think.

Obviously, a vote for Healy gives hope for all 60-somethings; you can still attract 3 younger women.

Posted on: 2013/5/7 1:10
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Re: Hamilton Park dogs
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Here are photos I took at 8:55 this morning. I have spoken to one of these dog owners several times. She ignores my pleas. There is a dog run. People should use the dog run and NOT the park.
you may want to call animal control and inform when they are normally in the park ... (201) 547-4888 ... alternatively, you could also call the jcpd non emergency number, (201) 547-5477

Posted on: 2013/5/6 17:35
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Re: Healy embraces gays?
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is he doing this literally or figuratively?

Posted on: 2013/5/2 4:47
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Re: Fulop signs being placed on houses without owner consent
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I hear that people are being med-evaced to other towns because of the sheer numbers. My neighbor waved to Fulop the other day and suffered extensive injuries. He walks with a limp now. I look forward to dislocating my shoulder when I vote FULOP.
yup - i saw that ... some guys from the healy campaign made sure that your neighbor changed his erroneous ways ...

Posted on: 2013/5/2 4:31
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Re: The Wall Street Journal on Jersey City's cupcake market
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the bookstore piece
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001 ... 04578396903062068488.html


NY CULTURE Updated April 7, 2013, 10:43 p.m. ET
A New Jersey 'Destination for Books'
By JENNIFER WEISS


A neighborhood that recently got its first independent general-interest bookstore in years is about to get a second. Word, the?popular Brooklyn bookstore, is planning to open a new ocation in downtown Jersey City this summer.

When mother and daughter Carol and Aleta Valleau opened Tachair Bookshoppe last summer, their slogan was "Jersey City needs a bookstore."

And it did. The area has lost several booksellers in recent years, including a Barnes & Noble in Hoboken and a B. Dalton and small independent bookstore/gift shop in Jersey City, leaving buyers of new books little choice but to travel or shop online. Tachair, Scottish Gaelic for "meet," became a rarity in New Jersey's Hudson County, selling new and used books and hosting events, author readings and classes.

Now, a second independent bookstore is coming to the neighborhood: Word, a popular Brooklyn shop also known for its community events, is planning to open a new location soon on downtown Jersey City's Newark Avenue, less than half a mile from Tachair. Word's New Jersey outpost will be a 2,200-square-foot bookstore-cafe big enough for the buzziest of authors, and best-selling music and culture writer Chuck Klosterman is scheduled to read from his new book at Word's grand opening on July 9.


Second Act for Some Independent Bookstores
The competing independent bookstores will present a test of Jersey City's rapidly gentrifying downtown neighborhood, which has drawn an upscale, artsy crowd of transplants priced out of Manhattan and Brooklyn in recent years. Jersey City may have needed a bookstore but can it support two?

The owners of both Word and Tachair said they believe the answer is yes.

"I hope that there's room for all of us, it seems like there's room for all of us," said Christine Onorati, who owns Word with her husband, Vincent. "I think it's just a positive thing."

"With two bookstores, sort of the bookends on Newark Avenue, we can draw a crowd between us," Tachair's Carol Valleau said. Jersey City, she added, could become "a destination for books."

Word would add to a growing number of independent shops dotting the downtown Jersey City landscape, including Tachair, fashion boutiques and dessert shops, along with well-known New York names such as Barcade, Two Boots pizza and the gift shop Mxyplyzyk. Restaurants such as Thirty Acres and Madame Claude Cafe have garnered foodie accolades.

Ms. Onorati said she and her husband chose to expand Word into Jersey City after seeing the success their relatives had with Roman Nose, an Italian restaurant next door to the vacant building where they plan to open. The location is a stone's throw from the Grove Street Path station and the foot traffic it generates.

Ms. Onorati said Word would be different from Tachair, selling a wide variety of new books at full retail price. The Roman Nose would provide food for Word's cafe. Tachair (pronounced tah-HAIR) offers used paperbacks for $3 and hardcovers for $5 along with a small, curated selection of new books. It serves coffee and pastries, and its collection is largely based on what the Valleaus learned about Jersey City preferences while selling used books at markets in the past. Like Word, it hosts events, including a recent poetry reading that drew 20 people.


Ms. Onorati said people who want a place to bring used books and buy books cheaper will still go to Tachair. She compared the situation to Word's in Greenpoint, where it coexists with several other book sellers in adjacent neighborhoods. She said she sees the competition as complementary.

In some ways, Word and Tachair will be similar. Both take pride in making recommendations to customers.

"It's not always just about getting exactly what you want," Aleta Valleau said. "It's about finding what you what."

Such niceties help fuel the unusual economics of independent book sellers. Even as large retailers such as Barnes & Noble retrench and the rise of digital publishing and online sales continues, independent bookstores are gaining a stronger foothold, particularly in New York, said Oren Teicher, CEO of the American Booksellers Association, an independent bookseller trade association that is gaining members.

"The picture for us is nowhere near as bleak as often gets expressed," he said, attributing it in part to the "really unique role that [independent bookstores] play in the communities in which they are found."

New bookstores have popped up in recent years in Fort Greene, Prospect Heights and most recently, Bushwick.

"There was a realistic fear that the neighborhood couldn't necessarily support two bookstores at this point," said Matthew Winn, who opened Molasses Books last June in Bushwick, banking on the fact that no other book shops were nearby. Then, another one, Human Relations, opened within a month.

But the stores are different enough, Mr. Winn said, that people go to each for different reasons. "I think we're both doing OK," Mr. Winn said.

Jersey City resident Nick Urban, 29 years old, said he found it encouraging that another bookstore was opening, particularly one with a cafe.

"I don't think it'll be a problem," he said as he browsed books at Tachair, where he sometimes brings his laptop and sits and works for hours. "Have you ever seen the Starbucks on Grove Street? You can't even sit down in there."

Write to Jennifer Weiss at jennifer.weiss@wsj.com

A version of this article appeared April 8, 2013, on page A21 in the U.S. edition of The Wall Street Journal, with the headline: A New Jersey 'Destination for Books'.

Posted on: 2013/4/23 20:53
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Re: Input about moving to JC
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if you stay downtown, you can take the PATH and the subway ... you save the driving (gas, toll, parking, depreciation, parking tickets) etc ... and you can raise your budget.


Posted on: 2013/4/17 3:56
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Re: Whole Foods in JC?
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Re: New French Bakery on Jersey Ave.-Choc O Pain
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But 3.90 for a pain au chocolate is more than half of the hourly minimum wage in new jersey ... just saying ... in light of all the closed storefronts between Columbus and Newark ...

Posted on: 2013/4/7 22:28
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