He's one of the worst elected officials in the state. He opposes building new housing, is close friends with Ward F slumlords, and so prioritizes cars over people that he tried to incite a riot where his supporters made death threats to city employees. hudsoncountyview.com/gilmore-roll...
Rachel Weiner of the Post confirms that the DC Streetcar will shutter in 5 months, in March, about a year earlier than expected because DC budget cuts + early termination of contract costs.
Operational for a decade, tracks were laid back in 2007.
For some liberal but not socialist Mamdani supporters, him being constrained on stuff is probably a feature, but it's not a formula for healthy governance if he wins with a small minority or plurality.
PA has good and bad aspects, but we keep talking about it in NJ like it's Valhalla when its economy is a basket case, it's losing population, and they are months late on a budget because Ra refuse to sign a deal that doesn't destroy cities. It's a state in crisis.
StreetsPAC NJ endorsed a JC mayoral candidate who's been personally good on the subject in the council, but is allied with, and gave a passionate, gaslighting defense of a council member who tried to whip up a riot against city staff testifying about a bus lane proposal.
The housing debate in Jersey City feels like a relic of where the national debate was five years ago. I can't underscore enough that if any administration takes steps to limit housing production, they will get pilloried in the national media and by national progressives.
How should it look? Part of that is to limit Rs from having a district, part is to not have a compact 90% Black district bc that actually dilutes Black voting power.
It's electorally good for the Democrats (while of course morally evil) that they've priced out the white working class and Hispanics in Mercer suburbs.
For those who don't know the history, it used to be enforced by a toothless group called COAH. In 2013, it was dissolved by Chris Christie, and the courts took over enforcement. Magically, housing construction skyrocketed. www.nytimes.com/2024/07/13/h...
