Jeremiah Healy has been absent on issues that effect the general public; like job creation, [local] public safety [as he would say crime is down; while JCPD does a solid job on what their told to do], plus governance with local government.
On Job Creation [local jobs] Mayor Healy has been on the wrong side of business growth. His administration's long standing battle with Spectra Energy, has damaged Jersey City's perception on out of state companies -- creating a valuable service for the city abroad. He cried [technically speaking] out on corruption within his rant on out sourcing local jobs; and revenue sharing. Jersey City would be getting from Spectra Energy in terms of business profit sharing; 3000 direct jobs, with 2000 more indirect jobs and $2 million in tax revenue from the company's local profit sharing. The mayor cried $2 million in profit sharing, and 3000 jobs wasn't good enough -- he wanted Spectra Energy to produce more. So Spectra made a promise that majority of the jobs will be probated to the locals. The mayor's response then turned to this project is unsafe. As it would create a ring of fire around Jersey City; with the subjective views that scared the public; with vague
ideas that have no particular merit.
Mayor Healy, lost those battles as FERC the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission concluded that Spectra Energy agreed to the stricter government oversight -- plus the hardest regulations on an industry in terms of public safety; consumer safety, workers safety, hazard control and many issues that require government control.
Mayor Healy wanted to out source the roles of government to anyone else but his administration -- on the premises of lack of transparency, when it was his own administration's incompetent education on governmental roles.
Its the local municipality's job to ensure that there's a monitoring board of locals -- who can insure or make insurances that these businesses are up to par on the local regulations stricken down. Like having paid staffers that are coordinating with OSHA on workers safety, and compensation. Or, having paid staffers from a local energy commission to monitor.
His response to how his administration handled Hurricane Sandy, he spins it as a wonderfull job done. Yet, in reports -- he has been gone from the aftermath. Jersey City intersection with no police
Journal Square in the dark for Days We already know that this is Mayor Healy’s spin team, as to where they are making it seem as if Mayor Healy has a remote chance in 2013. And by saying that he will be re-elected actually means something. Look, in the last three election cycles anyone that has been endorsed by Team Healy has lost, and the only time Healy’s endorsement worked is when the field of candidates where at ten. Which is what was the case with David Donnelly, who only won because the other candidates split the anti-Healy vote. And in cases where the number of candidates didn’t overwhelmed voters, you had Healy resulting in a lost.
Healy backed BOE candidates for the last three years have all lost their elections. Healy’s hand picked council representatives in Kami Amhad and Ray Velasquez were all bust, and lost their elections. Healy has been on the roll call for everything. Like telling people to leave low areas of Jersey City at 7am during the surge of the storm, was a great idea. Yes, I applaud Mayor Healy for doing such, a great leader. And then when he heard the dangers happened in Jersey City, he shows up to the OEM office at 2pm the day after the storm – clueless on what to do next. And instead of making critical orders and choices, he issues a press release, and waits for a phone call from President Barack Obama. And in that press release, he says: “Crime is down, we only had 4 arrest,” yet no officer was in plain sight until days after the storm, because they were occupied with protecting Jersey City Heights, while many of the police officers were stuck in their own homes, because the process to organize them wasn’t there since Mayor Healy was out of town and when he got back in town – he was at Healy’s Tavern.
There’s still no explanation on the three buildings that fell down, or any mention of what will happen to the businesses that were damaged by looting and robbery during the first couple of days of the black out in the aftermath. Also, there’s no explanation to why 80% of the senior citizen building were properly managed during the aftermath. Meaning emergency generators should have been put in place for these buildings.
Which brings it back to my questions? What happen to the $2.9 million dollars in SBIR funds granted to Jersey City, New Jersey for the Department of Energy? Like where did that moneys in which was rewarded to Jersey City Redevelopment Agency on behalf of small business like Jersey City Incinerator Authority – to provide a service of back up generators? Here’s what happen to that plan, Mayor Healy copy-pasted the idea, marked it off as his own, used the funds to buy 100 solar generators (use them as trash cans) and placed them around the city as SHOW AND TELL. And an audit review shows that those solar trash cans were worth $1 million, so were did the other $1.9 million go. (Waste abuse and complete (showman ship of government fraud)
Why weren’t PSE&G and the other utility companies fully read for Jersey City’s challenges; when everyone was disbursing people to Jersey City as the safe zone? It’s bad when the safe zone is worse than the areas that were predicted to have problems. And what makes it even worse is the notion that the safe zone was bad because of management. You can’t take created for a job well done, when you managed the safe zone to be worse than the zones in which the storm was suppose to effect.
