Tuesday, February 2, 2016

Mayor Steve Fulop, do your donors like when you're all thin-skinned?

It's rare for Johnny to walk out of anything. He figured in the case of a bad movie or play, well he put money down and unless it's god-awful, he'll see it through. The other night at Grace Van Vorst Church when Mayor Fulop was speaking to the downtown cabal of neighborhood groups he complained, ne whined, that people wanted a reval "because they hate me."

Johnny got up and left. Yes mayor, that was Johnny. The minute your thin-skinned whining began and Johnny had to pay nothing to get in, he left. Walked out on your whining. People don't want a reval because they hate you any more than you canceled the 95% completed reval because you hated the company doing it. It's politics and Mr. Mayor, you need to cowboy up when it comes to city politics. You want to run and play with the big boys then you'd better learn in New Jersey politics the nancy-boys get eaten alive. You complain and snivel anytime someone comes at you with fair criticisms like a petulant child. Statements from your dwindling supply of spokesmodels only help reinforce this.

Which brings us to another and more serious issue Mr. Mayor, your acceptance of thousands of dollars (soon to be millions) from developers whom your supported in their bids for city contacts and services and abatements. Where is the open-style government you ran on? Why did you recently try skirting the no pay-to-play law you passed as a councilman?

Just how bad and shady do these deals with Fulop's business pals smell?

"This a list of a regular cast of characters," the source said. "This is everyone ... a who's who."

Of the 58 donations that top $10,000, at least 27 — for a total of $1.46 million — are contributions from businesses with contracts with Jersey City or its autonomous agencies, developers who have received long-term tax breaks from the city, firms with lawyers who appear regularly before city boards and agencies and more.

The top donation is an eye-popping $1 million, from a Delaware holding company, DE First Holdings, about which little is widely known. Politico reports today that the company was established the day before it donated the $1 million, and public filings do not indicate who is behind it.

Yeah, Mr. Clean City Government with everything being done above board and in a open environment, where did you go? Jersey City and New Jersey residents you simply MUST read this article by Terrence T. McDonald, he carefully shows where all the money is going and the tax breaks and other deals these people supposedly are getting from cozying up to Fulop financially.

Councilman Fulop would have punched Mayor Fulop full on in the mouth. Jersey City read about these questionable deals and then let Johnny ask you, do YOU think they're on the up and up or was this more quid pro quo in Jersey City and New Jersey politics?

It's OK, everyone knows the answer, you can say it too. Steve Fulop is nothing but a typical Hudson County Democratic politician.

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