Jersey City delegates barely know Schundler
By Matt Friedman, PolitickerNJ.com ReporterBLOOMINGTON, Minn. -- Jersey City’s two delegates at the Republican National Convention are not sold on Bret Schundler for mayor.
Schundler, who was mayor between 1992 and 2001, ran for Governor twice as a Republican. But the May, 2009 municipal elections in Jersey City are non-partisan, and ideology doesn’t necessarily mean much there.
“At this juncture I haven’t made up my mind yet. As funny as it sounds, it is non-partisan, and I don’t think the whole field has been flushed out,” said delegate Joseph Turula after the delegation breakfast. “Certainly he’s a fine, smart and honest man, but I haven’t made the decision, and our county chairman said recently that he has to evaluate it.”
Turula is running a long-shot congressional campaign against U.S. Rep. Albio Sires (D-West New York) in the 13th District. He moved to Jersey City in 2004 – three years after Schundler left office, and lives downtown, where Schundler splits a base with civic activist Dan Levin, who’s already declared his candidacy, and Councilman Steve Fulop, who may run.
Irene Kim Asbury, the other delegate from Jersey City, also moved to town after Schundler left office.
“I remember that he ran twice for Governor, but I wasn’t in Jersey City when he was mayor,” she said. “So I don’t know anything about his administration.”
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