Jersey City Councilman Steve Fulop giving interviews at today's council meeting
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By Matt Friedman | July 29th, 2009 - 1:08pmJERSEY CITY -- Councilman Steven Fulop today distanced himself from other anti-political establishment activists who have called for Mayor Jerramiah Healy to resign.
Although Fulop, a constant thorn in the side of Healy and his allies, has called on arrested City council President Mariano to resign and will introduce a resolution of no confidence in him within minutes, he stressed that he has not called on Healy to resign.
“I sincerely feel it’s not fair, it’s not reasonable, it’s not just,” said Fulop during today's council meeting. ‘The fair thing is to respect the authorities who have more information than we have and have chosen not to arrest him.”
Fulop said that nobody had more to gain than him politically for calling on Healy to resign, but concluded his remarks by saying “we shouldn’t’ be painting people with an entirely painted brush about what happens next week.”
Vega, he said, is presumed innocent, but “the reality though is that while the assumption of innocence is the standard in our personal lives, the same standard does not apply to a role that is in the public trust.”
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fulop levin split
fulop: trying to look the statesman. the seasoned candidate. ready for the big chair.
levin: take no prisoners in pursuit of purification. the populist choice.
there can be only one. who will blink?
Fulop #1
I met Levin and his ONE JC crew and I thought they were a bunch of people that had nothing to do, so decided to do politics. Levin was alright; he's sincere. But his crew seemed inadequate to handle the job. I asked one of them in detail how JC government was structured and they said, "I dunno".
Fulop is the man.