Mayor Healy's red light cameras have brought in so much munny, there's big raises for his donors!

We understand attrition and taking on more responsibilities at work and not getting a dime more in your pocket. It happens far too often in these United States. People around you leave and hiring people is bad for the bottom line so you now get to do their jobs too. If you complain someone will be adding your workload tomorrow.

That being said we're not against all these raises. We're questioning the ones that were given to donors. Jersey City raised the pay of 81 city workers. Some work hard, some don't. Any of you want to pile in here and say you all do Johnny will release some pictures of city workers sleeping and screwing around. Better hope you're not one. A lot of these people were deserving because their supervisors said so. They were then reviewed higher up the line. That's good enough for us.

Now, to the donors and the very large % of the raises. What do YOU get dear reader? 2%, 3% in a good year maybe 5% if you're a rockstar. Terrence T. McDonald tell us more:

CFO Donna Mauer, whose 6 percent increase boosts her salary to $100,299; Personnel Director Darlene Pharmes, who now makes $100,499 after a 10 percent hike; Risk Manager Peter Soriero, who received a 5 percent hike that gives him a $96,609 salary; and Cultural Affairs Director Maryanne Kelleher, who now makes $87,488 thanks to a 7 percent raise.

Got that? Ok.

Of the four above officials, three donated to Healy’s re-election campaign, according to documents filed with state election officials. On Dec. 6 – the date of a major Healy fundraiser at Casino in the Park that the mayor’s allies claim brought in more than $100,000 – Kelleher and Pharnes each donated $150 and Soriero donated $500.

Now, you the voter make up your own mind but do it quickly because here come Itchy and Scratchy to tell their sides:


“Mayor Healy is attempting to buy this election, compliments of middle-class Jersey City taxpayers,” -- Steve Fulop

“Allegations by Councilman Fulop that these raises were for any reason other than job performance denigrates each of these hardworking public employees.” -- Mayor Healy

“At the end of the day a mayor has to be responsible, and buying an election that will be paid for by property tax payers is wrong" -- Steve Fulop