Quote of the Day: "I'm totally going to sue him"

by: Jason Springer

Thu Feb 04, 2010 at 04:15:00 PM EST

It's always something in Jersey City. The latest dust up is over a selection by the Mayor to serve on a City Authority. Councilman Steve Fulop criticized the pick made by Mayor Jeremiah Healy to put ex Mayor Gerald McCann to a position at the Incinerator Authority:

"The idea that the City would hire a convicted felon to its payroll during the same time period that key members of the administration are being tried in Federal court is incomprehensible," said Fulop. McCann was Mayor from 1981 to 1985 and again from 1989 to 1992, when he was terminated from office following his criminal conviction.

Fulop wants to withhold funding from the authority until Healy removes McCann from the position and that prompted this response:

"I'm totally going to sue him. I'm going to make sure that every single nickel that he gets to run a campaign against anybody will be my nickel," said McCann. "...I'll have him in court for years. And since he's doing it as a political candidate, I will sue his campaign fund."

McCann says some of Fulop's charges amount to defamation. Fulop didn't seem very concerned by the threat because he sent the article out as a tweet himself.

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Quote of the Day: Hudson County

by: Thurman Hart

Tue Aug 07, 2007 at 02:27:12 PM EDT

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The Jersey Journal's "Political Insider" gets the quote of the day today. This time, he's talking about Gerald McCann heading the "investigation" into the Hoboken 4th ward runoff election for city council. Why is this a juicy topic? Because it's going to court, of course!

It will be up to Assignment Judge Maurice Gallipoli how the trial progresses. The more witnesses and evidence he allows, the better the autopsy of an emotional and heated campaign. The municipal election was seen as a surrogate battle between the HCDO and the rival Democrats for Hudson County of Union City Mayor Brian P. Stack, Sires, Weehawken Mayor Richard Turner and a majority of Hoboken City Council members.

Ah, that's not quote of the day material. This last bit is

Putting McCann in among Zimmer's reformer friends is a bit like dropping a boa constrictor in a warren of bunnies.

God, I love Hudson County!

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The Source of Dirty Tricks in Jersey City

by: Hudson Observer

Sun Jun 10, 2007 at 06:19:58 PM EDT

Like most Blue Jerseyans, I think, I was appalled to find out that charges of dirty tricks in the recent primary elections in Jersey City had extended to this blog. Well, nothing is sacred in Jersey City, so I can't say I was surprised. But I think we might be close to finding the source of the lies - and he sits on the right hand of Jersey City's supposedly Democratic mayor Jerry Healy.

More after the click.

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Non-partisan school board election, Jersey style

by: Hopeful

Fri Apr 20, 2007 at 11:07:54 PM EDT

Someday I won't be amazed by the bizarre, nasty events in New Jersey politics. Here's a great story from nj.com:

Former mayor Gerald McCann won an election to the Jersey City school board, thanks to absentee ballots that he got nursing home residents to fill out. One of them was the father of a "political enemy." And so:

"My father has mental issues," Czaplicki Jr. said. "Gerry couldn't be certain that people with their full faculties would vote for him, so this must be his new strategy."
McCann, who denied that Czaplicki Jr. told him to stay away, shot back that Czaplicki Jr. is a "selfish son" who never visits his father.
"On July 11 last year, you ask Carl Czaplicki (Jr.) where he was," McCann fumed. "I was at the nursing home wishing his father a happy birthday. He should love his father, not take advantage of his father for his own political gain."

And this is just a school board election!

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