“Voting is one of the most sacred rights we have as citizens. To not do so is to allow others to make decisions that could adversely impact our daily lives.”
“So instead of just reporting on what I was seeing with dismay, I decided to flip the script and be the force in local government that I wished to write about.”
“I’m here to continue to be a bridge in this great city. Together, we can build a Jersey City that works for all of us.”
“I wanna fix the issues that we’re having here within Jersey City and become one big community.”
“It would be an honor of a lifetime to be able to serve the people of Ward D at City Hall and [make] sure that your interests are being represented.”
For a deeper dive into the Jersey City candidates’ candid answers, you can go through the full transcript here.
To envision what each candidates’ “better Jersey City” looks like, here’s a snapshot of their answers. For a full transcript of the forum, you can…
“If it continues on the track that it’s going… we might lose all the things that make Jersey City a special place.”
“I will work my heart [and] my head for Jersey City. I will give the full measure of my being to make sure it’s a city that works,” McGreevey said.
“You can be the people who graduate and serve our people. You don’t have to be someone who’s from out of town to come here and leave. You can be growing up in this community, in our system and come back full circle to be the person in leadership.”
