Do you mean the Jersey City Democrats finally woke up ?
Jersey City Mayor Jerramiah T. Healy just called the election for challenger Steven Fulop. “If there is anything I can do to help him out after the transition, I stand ready, willing, and able to do it,” Healy said. It drew cheers from a tearful crowd at his Oakland Avenue headquarters. The crowd chanted back “We love you, mayor.” “Thank you all and God bless you all, by the way, I am still going to Casino in the Park,” the mayor said. When he called the race the screen in the front of the room said, “Fulop 52.1 percent of the vote (14,675 votes), while Healy tallied 38.6 percent (10,860 votes.)
http://www.nj.com/hudson/index.ssf/2013/05/jersey_city_mayor_healy_conced.html#incart_river
Hah. The low info voters saw two candidates named “Jeremiah” and “Jerramiah”, and couldn’t remember which one 0bambi endorsed (the latter). But Fulop would have won anyway.
Thank Heaven its “fulop” and not “fulof”. We got too many politicians already with “unfortunate” all-too-candid names (Wee 1illy Wiener of NY, Congressman Boner, bHorney Frank, nancy Peelousy, etc.). Good luck to fulop.
Is Healy the guy that was whining about a trio of Hispanic girls that set him up?
Healy’s campaign was essentially to brag that 0bama endorsed him and that he had a gun buyback program that reduced crime. Good riddance.
To put it another way, the Democrat who endorsed Obama in 2008 (Healy) lost to the Democrat who endorsed Hillary in 2008 (Fulop).
This is a county where Obama beat Romney by better than three to one. The nonpartisan election was always quite likely to produce a mayor who came out of one wing or another of the Democratic Party.