Jersey City, we need to talk...

Today our Mayor Steve Fulop wrote an editorial to the Jersey Journal where he espoused a very scary ideology, one we as city residents need to reign back in.

Fulop, and we do not want to misquote him, said "With hindsight, if I could do it over, I would have shared with media the reprehensible action but asked journalists not to report the name of the killer."

Um, the reprehensible action is ALL our business Mayor. Remember us? Yeah we live here too. Ask journalists NOT to report his name? In what world of American press freedoms does THAT happen? In what concentric circle of hell does that take place? This mayor really has a messed up idea of what he's able to do under our constitution. He consistently quotes the Marines as if Jersey City should be run like an offshoot of the Marines:

"As we said in the Marine Corps, we can’t leave anyone behind, and in this case we are missing some people at some level."

No, the city government cannot run like, or be modeled after the Marines. In the same way every four years some candidate with puffed up credentials says they will run Washington D.C. like a business and bring America back, it's not a business. Sorry, American government cannot be run like a business. It's not set up to run like a business. The idea of government is not to make a profit and provide returns to shareholders. No more than a city or large scale government operation can't be a business it also cannot be run like a branch of the armed services. It just doesn't work that way.

As for the comments that he'd tell the media not to give a killer his or her 'due" Johnny thinks that 99% of the people here know the killer is getting no "due" at all but shame upon he and his family. Try having a little faith on our city mayor, it's one thing you have done an awful job of. We don't need nanny-mayor, we're big people. Deal with it.

On a side note your little dig in your editorial towards demoted Police Chief Cowan (to damaged morale in the police department,) was petty. You've said this time and again. Not the kind of thing that belongs in a "let's go forward as a city" letter.

We simply do not want or cannot have Steve Fulop thinking he can decide (or have any part in) which names get released. It's not his job, it will never BE his job. We have an independent press for a reason and we're quite shocked our current mayor doesn't seem to recognize it.