Common_Friendship_63
Common_Friendship_63 t1_ivlj4a3 wrote
Reply to comment by bodhipooh in Our roof is falling and our “landlord,” Dixon Leasing, is ghosting us. What next? by munch524
They also sold him 2.4 million dollar home at height of market without putting it on the market. https://jcitytimes.com/editorial-residents-deserve-answers-on-the-mayors-new-home-purchase/
Common_Friendship_63 t1_ivlitjs wrote
Reply to comment by [deleted] in Our roof is falling and our “landlord,” Dixon Leasing, is ghosting us. What next? by munch524
They also donated to mayor's SuperPAC and earned $500 on a 485k contract rehabbing the mayor's house on Ogden. Then they helped him build his beach house in Rhode Island and then sold him a 2.4 million dollar house on Ogden at height of market without putting it on the market. https://www.afr.com/companies/financial-services/dixon-ties-to-local-us-politicians-questioned-20190619-p51z7u
Common_Friendship_63 t1_iveo16w wrote
Reply to comment by rbastid in Vote for Board of Ed Candidates Who Will Put The Kids (not your taxes) First by DontBeEvil1
I think we should all be asking why the payroll tax is not making up for the SFRA aid money being taken from the state. Why didn't it work as sold to us by our lawmakers? Is it being implemented robustly or disproportionately against small businesses? Why is it being held in a way by the city, that makes it not transparent for board of education to make budget decisions? With a boom in business over last year in JC Why didn't collection increase dramatically?
Common_Friendship_63 t1_iuwr2w5 wrote
Reply to comment by lokaola in To Jersey City Parents With Kids In The Public School System…. by keepseeing444
Why not an audit of the city that took months to pass an increased backdoor budget in the 4th quarter? The city was tasked with collecting payroll tax and the board of education has said over and over the city is not transparent with amount collected. In addition, the city should be collecting more from abated properties and sharing that with district to make up for lost state funding under SFRA. SFRA was passed with payroll tax intended to prevent a massive tax hike and we should all know why it failed. Was it because Fulop did not vigorously enforce it to protect his superpac donors from having to pay more in taxes? The people going to jail should be the people who appointed Sundam Thomas as the head of JCETP to fire former governor Mcgreevy with vicious unprovable slander.
Common_Friendship_63 t1_iu9wzwv wrote
Reply to comment by FunCandy8149 in Why would we send another Menendez to DC? We deserve better and this is why Democrats will lose more ground. by oneofmanypeople7
Nope he would never shy away from a fight. Lil Bobby "Bootstrap" Menendez has a long record of fighting for us in Jersey City and we all know about his long track record of fighting without support from connections to his father, a senator from NJ. Look at all the signs on telephone poles for Lil Bobby "Bootstraps", and not another to be seen of a competitor. This shows what a brave fighter he will be in Washington for us and how scared the competition must be. No other way to explain his dominance in the illegally placed political sign competition. The guy is ready to rock Washington with a TKO to make us look proud, I am sure the other congressmen are going to cower when "Bootstrap" steps up to a lectern and pounds his fist demanding for our fair share of federal tax dollars in NJ. His father has such a good track record that his son doesn't need his coattails to make friends amongst the congressional delegation of Democrats or Republicans, his hard scrabble Lil Bobby "bootstrap" Menendez history will proceed him to DC.
Common_Friendship_63 t1_iu6eu04 wrote
Reply to Why would we send another Menendez to DC? We deserve better and this is why Democrats will lose more ground. by oneofmanypeople7
Menendez pretended to run for mayor for a hot second then got appointed to Port Authority and as part of deal to not run was annoited to be our selection for Congress as a fighter with zero track record of doing anything in the community. This is a deeper problem than just the Menendez family. My bet we break a new record for low voter turnout in a midterm, we might just win nationally for apathy. HCDO are just sad and the push Degise out crowd progressives are silent on a shifty budget hurting poor and working class families and tone deaf on affordable Housing Onerlay ordinance with a potential for no Affordable housing being built.
Common_Friendship_63 t1_j7fc6w0 wrote
Reply to Jersey City mayor, gov remain mum on hit-and-run councilwoman, even after guilty plea by HobokenJ
I wonder if Amy Degise self-reported her crime to her school district as required by law? She also needs to report the outcome of the case to the school district she works in. She is a public elected official, so obviously the district knows of this case, but it should still be reported through official channels to the district she works in.