Shame on you, Mr. Mayor. Shame on you!

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Shame on you, Mr. Mayor. Shame on you!

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Posted by REV. WARREN SIMS Jersey City on May 21, 2004 at 08:41:22:

Shame on you, Mr. Mayor. Shame on you!

As a concerned citizen, I pay close attention to politician's "campaign rhetoric" and I watch their actions after they take office.

During all of his campaigning, Mayor Cunningham spent a considerable amount of hard cash and a considerable amount of personal energy cashing in on his "badge" as a former U.S. marshal, touting his law enforcement experience. However, close examination of Mayor Cunningham's law enforcement actions since he became mayor clearly demonstrates that he has been woefully negligent in enforcing some of the laws of Jersey City.

For example, a law called "First Source" has been on the books of Jersey City for years. The First Source law requires government, businesses and private developers to hire locals first in Jersey City. Certainly, the mayor would be expected to hire locals on city jobs, especially a directorship that pays $150,000 a year, plus $5,000 in law school tuition and other lucrative increments. Considering how politics really work, Mr. Troy E. Washington could not have gotten, and would not have gotten, the directorship of the Jersey City Housing Authority without the expressed approval of Mayor Cunningham.

Mr. Washington is an outsider from Hoboken. To add insult to injury, Mr. Washington was allowed to transplant 13 of his cronies to Jersey City and pay them higher salaries. Furthermore, Mr. Washington was allowed to arbitrarily fire Ms. Sandra Robinson, who had faithfully served the agency for approximately 22 years, and she was only two years from retirement and her husband suffers from cancer. No one deserves that kind of ill-treatment, no one!

Within the first 35 days as director of JCHA, Mr. Washington squandered in excess of $1 million of JCHA funds on elaborate and unnecessary expenditures. Again, considering how politics really work, one would have to stretch the imagination to its outer limits to believe or assume that Mayor Cunningham was totally unaware of expenditures of this magnitude, by one person, over such a short period of time. "Shame on you, Mr. Law and Order."

According to published reports, when the City Council learned of Mr. Washington's colossal abuses, a memo was sent to Mayor Cunningham requesting an investigation and the removal of Mr. Washington. Mr. Stan Eason, Mayor Cunningham's spokesman, responded to the City Council's memo as follows: "We have no knowledge of any wrong-doing by Mr. Washington and Mr. Washington denies all allegations; but if we need a sheriff, we will call Mr. (L. Harvey) Smith." What does that have to do with the cost of tea in China? "Shame on you, Mr. Mayor, shame on you."

Mayor Cunningham either knew or should have known of abuses of this magnitude within his administration. If Mayor Cunningham did not know of Mr. Washington's colossal abuses, he certainly was not doing the job he was hired to do. He is not protecting the taxpayers of Jersey City against predators like Mr. Washington; and he did not follow the First Source Law, which called for his approval of an able local person for the directorship of the JCHA. Shame on you, Mr. Mayor.

I assume, since Mayor Cunningham is now a state senator, he will know even less about how public funds are spent in Jersey City, and he can be expected to do even less about abuses than he did in the case of Mr. Troy E. Washington. Shame on you, Mr. Mayor!

This concerned citizen will not be duped into voting for you again. Have you no shame? You have disappointed all of us who were with you from the beginning. REV. WARREN SIMS Jersey City

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: Shame on you, Mr. Mayor. Shame on you!

: As a concerned citizen, I pay close attention to politician's "campaign rhetoric" and I watch their actions after they take office.

: During all of his campaigning, Mayor Cunningham spent a considerable amount of hard cash and a considerable amount of personal energy cashing in on his "badge" as a former U.S. marshal, touting his law enforcement experience. However, close examination of Mayor Cunningham's law enforcement actions since he became mayor clearly demonstrates that he has been woefully negligent in enforcing some of the laws of Jersey City.

: For example, a law called "First Source" has been on the books of Jersey City for years. The First Source law requires government, businesses and private developers to hire locals first in Jersey City. Certainly, the mayor would be expected to hire locals on city jobs, especially a directorship that pays $150,000 a year, plus $5,000 in law school tuition and other lucrative increments. Considering how politics really work, Mr. Troy E. Washington could not have gotten, and would not have gotten, the directorship of the Jersey City Housing Authority without the expressed approval of Mayor Cunningham.

: Mr. Washington is an outsider from Hoboken. To add insult to injury, Mr. Washington was allowed to transplant 13 of his cronies to Jersey City and pay them higher salaries. Furthermore, Mr. Washington was allowed to arbitrarily fire Ms. Sandra Robinson, who had faithfully served the agency for approximately 22 years, and she was only two years from retirement and her husband suffers from cancer. No one deserves that kind of ill-treatment, no one!

: Within the first 35 days as director of JCHA, Mr. Washington squandered in excess of $1 million of JCHA funds on elaborate and unnecessary expenditures. Again, considering how politics really work, one would have to stretch the imagination to its outer limits to believe or assume that Mayor Cunningham was totally unaware of expenditures of this magnitude, by one person, over such a short period of time. "Shame on you, Mr. Law and Order."

: According to published reports, when the City Council learned of Mr. Washington's colossal abuses, a memo was sent to Mayor Cunningham requesting an investigation and the removal of Mr. Washington. Mr. Stan Eason, Mayor Cunningham's spokesman, responded to the City Council's memo as follows: "We have no knowledge of any wrong-doing by Mr. Washington and Mr. Washington denies all allegations; but if we need a sheriff, we will call Mr. (L. Harvey) Smith." What does that have to do with the cost of tea in China? "Shame on you, Mr. Mayor, shame on you."

: Mayor Cunningham either knew or should have known of abuses of this magnitude within his administration. If Mayor Cunningham did not know of Mr. Washington's colossal abuses, he certainly was not doing the job he was hired to do. He is not protecting the taxpayers of Jersey City against predators like Mr. Washington; and he did not follow the First Source Law, which called for his approval of an able local person for the directorship of the JCHA. Shame on you, Mr. Mayor.

: I assume, since Mayor Cunningham is now a state senator, he will know even less about how public funds are spent in Jersey City, and he can be expected to do even less about abuses than he did in the case of Mr. Troy E. Washington. Shame on you, Mr. Mayor!

: This concerned citizen will not be duped into voting for you again. Have you no shame? You have disappointed all of us who were with you from the beginning. REV. WARREN SIMS Jersey City

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