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Hudson County Politics Message Board |
Posted by UBERHIPPY on March 21, 2004 at 05:46:13:
Always wanted to be a star? Here's your BIG chance! Tryouts are starting for that once-every-four-year event, Jersey City's own reality show -- CONNIVER. Here we've got the two Offices, Mayor and Council. One team wants to remain king of the hill; the other wants to climb to the top.
What swirling kaleidoscope visions of circles, cliques and cabals are emerging, merging, and reemerging within each group? And, who -- after weighing the odds and angling for a better deal -- is slipping over to the other side? For everybody, there are those two (polished to a high gloss by time) techniques for keeping your fingernails dug firmly into a paycheck: going-through-the-motions and blending-in-with-the-woodwork. For those with the internal fortitude to withstand the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune (not to mention slashed tires), hold-out-till-you're-bought-out can be very rewarding. Who's going to be on the Mayor's Council ticket? Is Glenn really going to latch onto a ship anchor Ward D Council candidate proposing to blight the Heights and put a combination of luxury hi-rise and low income housing projects on Palisade Avenue?
Will the Council actually push for Mayor a guy whose personal map of Jersey City has for everything south of Journal Square just a big, empty space with the words HERE BE DRAGONS? Or, are they going to try again (as phrased in so sensitive a manner by one HCDOite during the 31st Senate campaign) "to fight fire with fire?" Are the CHESS FOR MAYOR signs at the printer right now?
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