Mary Spinello

January 10, 2009 - 2:16pm

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Lipski won't get a slot on Healy ticket; Kenny to replace Spinello in Ward B

By Wally Edge

Urinator Steve Lipski won't get a slot on Mayor Jerramiah Healy's ticket if he seeks re-election to the Jersey City Council this spring.

Jersey City Councilman Steve Lipski, who faces charges of urinating on a crowd of people during a concert in Washington, D.C. in November, will not get a slot of Mayor Jerramiah Healy's ticket in the May municipal election. Sources say that businesswoman Nydia Rivera, the wife of former Jersey City Councilman Ben Lopez, will run on the Healy slate and challenge Lipski for the Ward C Council seat. Ward C has one of the largest Hispanic populations in Jersey City.

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July 10, 2008 - 2:14pm

Fulop gets signatures for Jersey City ethics referendum

By Matt Friedman, PolitickerNJ.com Reporter

Jersey City Councilman Steve Fulop turned in enough signatures yesterday to put a pair of ethics reform referendums on the ballot in November, a move that may be seen as the opening salvo in his potential 2009 mayoral campaign.

If the signatures are confirmed by the City Clerk and the initiatives are passed by the voters, Jersey City - which for over a century has been infamous for political corruption, backroom deals and cronyism-- would have some of the strictest ethics measures in the state.

Seriously.

One of the initiatives would ban City Council members from accepting more than one public salary or pension. The other would bar officials from giving out no-bid contracts to vendors who made campaign contributions within a year of the contract's start date.

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