After this bit of nose holding Healy business, Steve Fulop's chances are looking fine as a frog's hair split up the middle and tied at both ends

One of Johnny's best friends growing up was from Alabama if you were wondering.

Boy, one needn't be a bloodhound to smell the possible election changing stench from the fact the Jersey Journal has voicemails from Mayor Healy calling city workers and employees of city agencies asking of they can't you know, chip in a little for the mayor's re-election. The Jersey Journal's Terrence T. McDonald has more on the smelly goings on:

In another voicemail played for a Jersey Journal reporter, Healy urged a city agency worker to give $500 to his re-election bid. In the message, Healy referred to a Dec. 6 campaign fundraiser at Casino in the Park that his campaign has said brought in over $100,000. "We were hoping you'd write a check for $500," the mayor says in the voicemail.

OK, is someone keeping track of who gives and who doesn't? We can't say for suuuuuure but have our suspicions. Using the doctrine of "How the World Works" you can draw your own conclusion. This slope is slicker than a greased baby's ass (Roll Tide).

The Healy campaign doesn't seem at all concerned about the iceberg they have just scraped:

Healy's campaign shrugged when asked about the phone calls. Healy is reaching out to people throughout Jersey City, according to a campaign spokesman, though one Healy ally acknowledged that the mayor in past campaigns didn't make fundraising phone calls himself.

We can't say for sure if it's a "shakedown" as Mayoral hopeful Steve Fulop says but we most certainly agree with him when he says it's "not right." It's not right. It's effervescent as hell. It is not going to take the average Jersey City voter too entirely long to agree with Councilman Fulop and think of this as a shakedown. After hearing the names Mariano Vega, Leona Beldini and Maher Khalil over the last few years Johnny has a hunch that this might just be a tipping point. For Jersey City voters this might just tie a bow of that frog's hair around a cereal box in the Brownstone Diner labeled 'Crispy Critters'.