Mayor Fulop's bill to Jersey City taxpayers for his reval cancelation lands at $3.8 million

Fulop's petulant attempt to protect downtown taxpayers from the state ordered reval has a final total, $3.8 million pulled from taxpayer pockets and guess what, his new city spokeswoman hit the ground telling fables like the old one did.

Now first off, spokeswoman Hannah Peterson who just because she's new still can't be absolved for getting basic facts wrong in her statement trying to still spin Fulop's attempt to protect his base. Let's go through her statement and show her how we do in Jersey City:

"For the last four years we have kept taxes stable (not really, we've just played games with the numbers while developers get everything they want from Fulop), while expanding the police department (Who you cut off at the knees by not negotiating their contract fairly and let's face it, the JCPD despise Steve Fulop and on his watch the police force is a disgrace anymore), building new parks (ORLY? Now we know you're a noob) and stabilizing the city's finances (No, again, your new boss has done nothing but play budgetary games with a willing council to kick the problems down the road)," city spokeswoman Hannah Peterson said. "The route it was on in 2013 was extremely dangerous for the city and its residents (Just saying it was somehow dangerous, DANGEROUS LOL, doesn't make your word salad so Ms. Peterson), and we now feel that this process is being done properly. We made the right decision. (You cost city taxpayers 3.8 million dollars for Fulop's tantrum)"

There you go Ms. Peterson, fixed all that for you and please don't insult our intelligence with such nonsense in the future.

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The fabled Ryman Auditorium, Nashville Tennessee.
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Merry Christmas; PATH looks to add new cars, repair others and make more improvements

PATH now has $300 million in their stocking and are looking to possibly buy new train cars, rehab other ones and run more trains during rush hours. PATH says when this plan is finished, along with a new flood-proof power station in Harrison they hope to be able to run 19% more trains during the busiest times. The devil is in the details which you can find here along with your mistrust the Port Authority can get anything right which you brought with you when you showed up here.

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If people didn't vote late or there are few people at the runoff victory parties here's why, Gary Numan at White Eagle Hall in Jersey City tonight. You can't pass that up. We sure can't.

Come on, he had one song, do you need us to tell you it was 'Cars'?

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Runoff night in Jersey City with a shock in Ward E

Four wards in Jersey City had runoff elections today with three favorites winning in Wards A, B & C.

Denise Ridley is far ahead of Joe Conte in Ward A. Far ahead. She will take over for Frank Gajewski.

The boss shivved Chris Gadsden in Ward B, turning loose (and Gadsden put out the video to prove it) dirty politickers with former council member Phil Kenny and even council President Rolando Lavarro on scene where campaign materials were being 'fiddled' with. Mira Prinz-Arey sidled up to the Fulop machine and handily beat Gadsden today. Ward B loses a fine young talent on council in our opinion.

Ward C sees the return of Rich Boggiano who ran independently of Fulop but still won the runoff vs John Hanussak. Boggiano gonna Boggiano.

Which brings us to Ward E which will, for the next four years be "Unbought and Unbossed" as James Solomon pulls the upset over media and endorsement favorite Rebecca Symes. Symes had all the momentum, all the television ads, all the local endorsements from government groups, local businesses, style bloggers and even outgoing Councilwoman Candice Osborne. In the end the question Johnny asked on the first election night, would the Hudnut and Grillo vote move to Solomon and apparently at least some of it did. Johnny also heard from more than one person the whole ChicPea incident however well intentioned, didn't help. This was not Johnny picking that scab, this was people discussing it around him. There were also claims of a nasty push campaign in Ward E. We'll have time to go over all these races but tonight is, as an old boss of Johnny's used to call it, 'The quick and dirty" analysis.

OK, maybe the JCPD isn't a D+ force...

Maybe they're just a D. As Johnny is fond of saying, Jersey City is a B+ City with a D+ police force and that grade just got dropped over this nonsense. You honestly do wonder who is out driving around in JCPD cars and representing the citizens of Jersey City. Here are the sad facts in the next case of JCPD gone wild.

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Until you get up around 4 am for a really long time, not just the once or twice for an early flight or trip, you'll never know how truly soul crushing it can be.

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Giants football gameday -- The Geno Smith era dawns

Yeeeeaaaah. Johnny remembers when Bill Belichick took over the Browns back in the 90's and ran the very popular Bernie Kosar out of town so he does know how Giants fans are feeling shocked and betrayed over Eli Manning. Of course Kosar was traded to Dallas, took over for a half season when Troy Aikman was hurt and won his Super Bowl ring.

Then the Browns moved so the comparison ends there.

What.A.Mess. Head coach Ben McAdoo is rumored to be broomed as early as tomorrow morning but then again didn't we all hear that last week? Let's see but onto the Raiders.

The Giants need to---Oh screw all that. Nobody cares. They want McAdoo to lose (as if the Giants somehow can't) 40-0.

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Cleveland 0-11 (At the Chargers today, 25% chance to win)
NY Giants 2-10 (That loss to SF pays big dividends)
San Francisco 2-10 (JUST defeated the Bears 15-14)
Denver 3-9 (Getting whipped by the Dolphins now)
Indianapolis 3-9 (Taking the ziggy vs the Jags today)

When it comes to the draft thing, keep Eli on the bench. When it comes to what's right, fire McAdoo and put Eli back in.

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Oakland Raiders 28
NJ Giants 17

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The last *sniff* Scoreboard Show of the season.

Oklahoma 41
TCU 17
If you ask Johnny, Oklahoma stands the best chance of unseating Clemson. Speaking of which...

Clemson 38
Miami (FL) 3
That turnover chain kinda sorta turned into the one ring around Frodo's neck by the time he got to Mordor the last couple weeks

Toledo 45
Akron 28
The Rockets take the MAC title and Bancroft Street erupts with Papa Johns and Pabst

Wofford 28
Furman 10
Johnny didn't wear either his Wofford or Furman shirts today so as not to favor one over the other

Grambling 40
Alcorn State 32
Grambling scored a cool 2 points in the 4th quarter and they didn't even need them

Georgia 28
Auburn 7
Georgia more than likely played their way into the playoffs on the back of super freshman Herschel Walker

USC 31
Stanford 28
Trojans topple Trees in Hippie Bowl 2017

Ohio State 27
Wisconsin 21
Was this win enough to cover for two blowout losses and hop a 2-loss Buckeye team over 1 loss Alabama? The committee tomorrow is going to never hear the end of it either way

South Dakota State 37
Northern Iowa 22
One of the really underrated college logos, SDSU

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Central Florida 62
Memphis 55 2OT
UCF completes their undefeated season and can now be completely overlooked because they're not Alabama or Ohio State. UCF wideouts Tre'Quan Smith and Dredrick Snelson were devastating today and are the ones who will be allowed to loot and pillage whatever bowl game city UCF goes to

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One for the drinkers before bed. Equal time and so forth. This never gets old and it's always funny. Timing people, timing.