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.”
“I grew up in an era where people were trying to make my choices for my life. And so now I fight to be a voice for everyone, to make a choice for their life,” the council president said.
“I can bring the fact that I’ve lived here all my life and [my] wisdom comes from experience. I’ve had triumph, I’ve had tragedy,” Bill O’Dea said. “… We used to say the time is now, [but] now we say it’s now or never.”
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