Jersey City Council -- FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT!!!

It's become like a schoolyard over at 280 Grove St. A couple City Council members, Nidia Lopez (formerly in Mayor Healy's back pocket when first elected now showing signs of independence) and Viola Richardson want to change how the President of the Jersey City Council is chosen and put Richardson in the catbird's seat. This has angered current President Peter Brennan (A useless crony of a city councilman if you ask us) who was elected for a four year stint in 2009, and Mayor Healy who has very few allies who will roll over for him anymore. No doubt Healy can see the writing on the wall with his comment directed towards Richardson and Lopez:

“premature . . . unjustified and illegal.” Healy then went into voting numbers from 2009 to state his case. Brennan took the high road in immediately trashing the Lopez idea and brought up her previous disturbing citizenship flap:

“Maybe she should go back to Florida, that’s a change maybe people might want” he said.

RAWR, the kitty claws are coming out aren't they? Should make for an interesting City Council meeting when this is brought up January 11th.

In our humble opinion ANYTHING That can take power away from Healy and Brennan, however ceremonial, should be undertaken immediately. This city needs smarter decisions than the ones being made because it would seem just about all the decisions made in Jersey City involve somebody's palm getting greased. Out with the old and in with the new.

No, Nidia, that's NOT what the court said...

Sometimes it's easy to see why Nidia Lopez/Boehringer is such a useful tool for Mayor Healy, she sees things like him, convoluted in fact and constantly vindicating themselves. Lopez as you know by now has an issue with living in Florida so as to avoid paying New Jersey taxes and she was called on this fact by the candidate she defeated in 2009, Norrice Raymaker. Raymaker attached herself to a lawsuit contesting Lopez's residency.

Two state Appellate Division judges dismissed the lawsuit yesterday on a technicality, namely that Raymaker enjoined the lawsuit too late in the process so the suit itself was tossed. Now the court never ruled on ANYTHING pertaining to Lopez's permanent residence. That is unless you ask anyone not named Nidia Lopez;

“I am glad that the courts reaffirmed the truth that I live in Jersey City, am a resident of the city..."

Um, Nidia, again, NO they didn't. YOU and you alone inserted that definition of the ruling.

The Jersey City Desk continues to believe that Lopez does not hold her Ward C seat legally but it appears on a technicality at least she can go back to her job as one of Mayor Healy's bestest lap dogs.

Group attempting recall of Mayor Healy ALSO now has gotten approval to take on 3 city council members

Should these brave Jersey City residents succeed in their recall efforts, not only would Mayor Healy lose his job but also Council President Peter Brennan, At-Large Councilman Mariano Vega and Ward C Councilwoman Nidia Lopez. The wording is now approved and the real work of getting petition signatures will begin before too long. 30,000 valid signatures would be necessary to recall Healy, Brennan and Vega and about 4,200 to recall Lopez.

No doubt those at city hall who hate the hassle of answering to voters are plotting their dirty tricks to void the petition gathering.

A fantastic editorial by the Jersey Journal over Judge Maurice Galipolli's hideous decision on Nidia Lopez

One of the finest editorials you'll ever read on Judge Maurice Galipolli's just plain baseless and mollycoddled decision to allow Nidia Lopez to continue to represent Journal Square. Nidia Lopez, who not only claims Florida as a residence so she can avoid taxes, who not only votes in Florida AND New Jersey and who, the day after voting for the rest of us to pay more in taxes spent the next day in her Florida home.

RECALL Nidia Lopez Ward C, you CAN do it.

Read the editorial here

Justice fails us all

A small potatoes judge, Maurice Gallipoli, has ruled that Nidia Lopez or Nidia Boehringer as she is also known as can keep her Jersey City council seat despite using her official Florida residence as a New Jersey tax dodge. Remember Jersey City, Nidia has no problems asking YOU to pay higher taxes to lives here and get services here while she claims a Florida residence as her own so she doesn't pay taxes in Jersey City herself.

We're working up a full and complete background on the judge in this case so come next election day THEY can beat cheeks down to Florida to live, maybe next to Nidia Boehringer.

Nidia Lopez's attorney tries the old "trust us" defense

"But your honor, you simply have to trust us, we'd never intentionally do anything wrong. Trust us, just throw this silly case out."

In one of THE worst defense claims ever that Nidia Lopez and or Nidia Boehringer is indeed a resident, Lopez's attorney William Northgrave used the old "but she had more votes than the other candidates combined". Oh, and the reason she stayed registered to vote in Florida? Well she simply thought if she registered in New Jersey that it would cancel out the Florida registration. If only the fact she hadn't paid New Jersey taxes in three years and that she used a home in Florida listed as her primary residence since 1997 to get big tax breaks weren't such a sticky issue.

Mrs Lopez/Boehringer, step down, we don't want you as a councilperson, you're obviously trying to get over on Jersey City and the state of New Jersey by not paying taxes, just go. Head back down to Florida where you seem to want to be anyway.

Hey, mayor, you can't get more supportive of Nidia Lopez than "we're confident she's a resident"

Mayor Jerramiah Healy really went to the wall for his candidate in Ward C, embattled (who isn't embattled on Healy's team at this point?) councilwoman and Florida resident Nidia Lopez. When asked about her residency Healy came out with this rock solid supportive comment:

"This matter is winding it's way through the courts and we'll await the resolution. Once again, we are confident that Nidia Lopez is a resident of Jersey City's Ward C."

Yep, nothing says I know for a FACT she's a resident and you stupid reporters get off my lawn like "This matter is winding it's way through the courts..." WHY is it winding it's way through the courts? How does that even happen? Did you not vet her? Did you not ask where she had paid taxes the last decade? Oy...

In more Jerramiah Healy news, Mr. Clean was visited by the FBI the day before all the busts happened. You can read about the tainted Mayor and the FBI here.

Yes Jersey City, Nidia Lopez is all about our fair city, unless you ever ask her to pay taxes here

Once again we find a twist in the Nidia Lopez story. As we all know by now in the soap opera named 'As the Third Ward Council Member Turns' there are real questions about just WHERE Lopez is a resident. She has a dual residence in Florida where she has been voting and using to escape paying taxes in Jersey City (Florida coincidentally has no income tax) and NOW we come to find out Nidia Lopez has an entirely second PERSONA, one of a Nidia Boehringer.

Isn't that precious Jersey City? So long as she can have a second persona in Florida and get away with paying no taxes she's all about supposedly representing jersey City as part of 'Team Healy' and voting YOU higher taxes she herself never intends to pay.

This is beyond disgraceful. Nidia Lopez or Nidia Boehringer or whomever she is this week needs to go, NOW, by hook or by crook. Just another example of Team Healy's 'Change we can see'. Yeah, we can see the change in in this case means voting for higher taxes as long as you doesn't ever have to pay them.

Go. Now.