This just in, Bret Schundler will NOT be running for Mayor of Jersey City

Claiming the nation's economic downturn has hurt his portfolio and would not allow him to campaign full time, former mayor Bret Schundler has decided not to run. Schundler told NJ.com:

"This will make it impossible for me to run," Schundler wrote in his e-mail. "I had planned to campaign full-time this Spring and to pay my family's mortgage and my children's tuition bills out of investment savings. Instead, I will need to work full-time at an income-earning job to pay those mortgages and tuition bills."

This leaves ONLY This leaves Mayor Jerramiah Healy, former Assemblyman Louis Manzo, ex-City Council President L. Harvey Smith, and Downtown activist Daniel Levin as candidates.

Maybe Johnny should run, he has a vision. He has lots of visions, mostly on Friday and Saturday nights after he takes his medicine.

Sounds like it's time for the 'Baptist Ministers Conference of Hudson County' to start paying taxes for their churches

A local group calling itself 'Baptist Ministers Conference of Hudson County' is endorsing state assemblyman L. Harvey Smith for Jersey City Mayor in the election next year. We here at Jersey City Desk do not offer endorsements but think a CHURCH group or CHURCH RELATED group should keep their mouths shut on such topics unless they are ready to start filling the Jersey City coffers with their tax monies. There is a separation of church and state in this country. This group and the churches they represent are breaking this separation. The day the Monumental Baptist Church or any of the churches represented under the banner of the 'Baptist Ministers Conference of Hudson County' want to step up too the plate and pay their taxes to politick from the pulpit or their pulpit via the media, residents of Jersey City or anywhere else this kind of thing goes on should turn a deaf ear to this egregious behavior. Going forward, ignore them, this goes for any religious front group endorsing political candidates.