Mayor Fulop, Jennifer Morrill and the Administration just can't be believed anymore

Sure it's a comparatively small thing but it will go a long way to showing indeed everything being done, every personnel decision being made is done with an eye on the governor's race.

Case in point:

Mayor Steve Fulop is appointing a Ewing woman, Lizette Delgado-Polanco, who is vice chair of the New Jersey State Democratic Committee and executive director of the SEIU New Jersey State Council to the Jersey City Employment & Training Program.

Wait for it, what will she be doing with credentials like that?

city spokeswoman Jennifer Morrill said Delgado-Polanco will be helpful as JCETP focuses on "moving women from welfare to work."

Except she'll be making ZERO money and lives near Trenton. Suuuuure she'll be spending a lot of time in Jersey City helping those women transition. Bullshit. Why was she added? Easy, let's check:

* vice chair of the New Jersey State Democratic Committee
* executive director of the SEIU

She's heavily connected to the powerful SEIU union which Fulop will be courting as a candidate for governor. Vice chair of the Democratic Committee? Oh come on! This has very very little to do with improving the lives of anyone other than Steve Fulop and sadly that's how Jersey City is run anymore. Everything is a political decision made to improve Fulop's own chances, the mystery people walking around city hall you can't find on any official record of being employees are doing nothing but laying the groundwork for Fulop to run for governor.

Neither Fulop not Morrill or anyone carrying water for the administration can have anything taken at face value. They have so abused the trust of Jersey City residents and taxpayers.

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A good time was had by all as it pertains to out of town company for those scoring along at home.

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"Go," is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.

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Friday night MULTIMEDIA EXTRAVAGANZA with BECK!

Always great when Beck can drop by our Jersey City Desk studios and perform...or something. Beck and 'Tropicalia' to get your bad self moving like you have a smart cocktail in a coconut in one hand and a parrot in the other. If you can pull that off BTW please send pictures.

Friday night MULTIMEDIA EXTRAVAGANZA with THE LIONS!

Johnny loves this band and thus this is not their first time on the Music Series. We're not making Detroit Lions jokes this time. A tip top reggae with a touch of world music sounding band helping you get your sway on. Some 'em if you got 'em mon. The Lions and 'Ethio-Steppers'

Friday night MULTIMEDIA EXTRAVAGANZA with THE CARS!

How about we send you on your way with this very rare version, one of those unreleased until a B-side greatest hits catalog comes out, of 'Nightspots' from the Candy-O album. Can't mistake that album cover. Johnny got it one year for Christmas, from his grandparents. He asked him mom and dad to get it for him. Thanks for the album grandma!

Johnny has company in town this weekend so...

...limited exciting reports from the front lines of Jersey City.

Of course we'll still have the Music Series tonight, what kind of question is that?

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OK Canada, time for bed. You all had a busy day collecting maple syrup from the premature maple trees and this weekend is filled with excitement with all the hockey matches. Scoot!

UPDATE: OK, in watching this and knowing the sun sets in the west and knowing Canada so well even in the imagery, Johnny asks why go from Western Canada eastward to where the sun came up? C'mon CBC...

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Kennedy vs Nixon this is not...

Jersey City Mayor Steve Fulop has decided to elevate his office and place it squarely into the realm of Trenton. Fulop who is bursting at the seams to bring a giant mostly unwanted casino that'll bring the usual bad actors to the contracting game tables and of course more traffic and more crime while well-connected individuals that might donate to a Fulop run for Governor run get all the concessions and the city gets shit but for the infrastructure bill, has decided he's challenging state senate leader Steve Sweeney to a debate over the future of casinos in North Jersey.

While the proper idea of a debate might be two STATEWIDE assembly figures and not a mayor interjecting himself into the process, Fulop's BFF Assembly Speaker Vincent Prieto would be the logical choice here, Fulop challenged Sweeney to a debate on NJTV’s On the Record with Michael Aron anyway. That's just sad. His petulance is showing again:

“In recent media reports, Senate President Sweeney inserted my name into the discussion regarding supposed obstacles that he alleges that I inserted for political reasons,” Fulop said in a statement.

Ooooh, a statement. You didn't say that to On The Record? Oh, and by the way, Sweeney's not wrong. EVERYTHING you do now has a political angle to it. Apparently former ironworkers don't take to mayors meddling in state business:

In response, Sweeney spokesman Richard McGrath said, “The Senate President doesn’t have the time to engage in manufactured theatrics with Mr. Fulop, who once again is attempting to insert himself into the legislative process.”

More meddling than a Scooby Doo episode friends. Johnny used to call Councilman Fulop and Mayor Healy the Jersey City version of Itchy and Scratchy but this Sweeney vs. Fulop preening might get even funnier.

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