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: Now we know what's up with the beard...

: BEARDED 'BROTHERS' 
: HEALY'S WHISKERS PRO-CORZINE
: Monday, September 26, 2005
: By JASON FINK
: JOURNAL CITY EDITOR
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: Local Democratic politicians around the state are trying a variety of methods to help Sen. Jon Corzine get elected governor, from appearances on the stump to fund-raising to marshaling their campaign armies. 

: But Jersey City Mayor Jerramiah Healy is helping out in a more, well . hairy way. 

: Healy is showing solidarity with his fellow Democrat and Hudson County resident by sporting a beard. The beard will stay, Healy said, until Corzine is elected. And if it's Republican rival Doug Forrester who gets the nod? It will be a scruffy three more years at 280 Grove St. 

: Just as Corzine is the only senator and would be the only governor to wear a beard, Healy is virtually alone among Jersey City mayors of the last century and a quarter with his be-whiskered mug. 

: "I've had a beard, probably since I was 18, off and on," Healy said recently. "My wife doesn't like it." 

: Healy's immediate predecessor, L. Harvey Smith, sported a beard, though his term lasted only a few months after he took over when Glenn D. Cunningham died in office. 

: Before that, one has to go back to 1880 and Henry J. Hooper to find the last bearded mayor. 

: Healy uses the Arcade barber shop at Five Corners. 

: "He's been coming here since before he was mayor," said Vito Minervini, Arcade's owner, who added that Healy comes in weekly for a beard trim and about once a month to get his hair cut. 


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