Runoff fever, CATCH IT!

You can almost hear the rigor mortis settling in over the Jersey City runoff elections. Cries of "I give up," and "Don't vote for me," are echoing all over town, except the Downtown area where geese poop golden eggs. Some of the candidates on the Healy ticket would make Lou Brown in the movie Major League seem excited when offered the Indians managing job:


Yep, according to the Jersey Journal, Gerald Meyers, Omar Perez and quite possibly Peter Brennan have decided to simply walk away from their runoff races rather than campaign in an uphill battle and try and raise funds that could be hard to come by. Oddly, Meyers said he worried that if he were elected he'd miss out on family time. Well, why didn't you think of that before you ran?

Does anyone else think the way people get elected here kind of leads to the political machines that everyone complains about? One machine gets broken down and voted out and the new machine takes power. Lather, rinse, repeat.

Steve Fulop has been elected mayor of Jersey City!

And what an early call. Well, the call itself was from outgoing Mayor Healy to incoming Mayor Fulop conceding the race. Fulop's candidate in Ward E, Candice Osborne has also won her race defeating Dan Levin and Fletcher Gensamer. The other races may be headed to a runoff which would be well over the three number Johnny set earlier. More updates as they come in or you can just click here for the Hudson County tally.

As of 9:20pm:

COUNCIL AT-LARGE
(Top three vote-getters elected)

*Peter Brennan -- 5,392
*Viola S. Richardson -- 5,788
Omar Perez -- 5,158
Ramon "Ray" Regalado -- 1,840
Sean M. Connelly -- 2,151
Joyce E. Waterman -- 7,576
Daniel Rivera -- 7,464
*Rolando R. Lavarro Jr.-- 7,398

WARD A
Francis "Frank" Gajewski -- 290
Charles T. Epps Jr. -- 443
Ricky "Rick" Johnson -- 111
Jayson H. Burg -- 18
Lori Hennessey -- 61

WARD B
Chris L. Gadsen -- 377
Khemraj "Chico" Ramchal -- 1,244
Gerald Meyers -- 1,141
Esther Wintner -- 570

WARD C
Adela Rohena -- 210
Janet Chevres -- 678
Richard Boggiano -- 1,000
*Nidia R. Lopez -- 872

WARD D
Mario Gonzalez Jr. -- 708
Sean Connors -- 1,344
Michael Yun -- 1,783
Grace Giron -- 196

WARD E
Fletcher Gensamer -- 224
Daniel B. Levin -- 719
Candice Osborne -- 1,680

WARD F
Jermaine Robinson -- 1,113
Kenny Reyes -- 190
Chantel D. Snow -- 200
*Diane Coleman -- 1,229
Deborah King -- 71

* -- incumbent.