Today’s episode brought to you by Jersey City, NJ:

Instead the magnifying glass has focused on Mr. Healy after a widely publicized clash with the police early Saturday outside his sister’s bar in Bradley Beach, a Shore town where Mr. Healy owns a home.

After the arrest, a spokeswoman for the mayor said that Mr. Healy had had “a couple of beers,” at the bar, but she later retracted that statement.

It would seem strange that voters are shrugging this incident off as no big deal, but then again these are the same voters that…

Mr. Healy garnered unwanted attention in October 2004, less than a month before a special mayoral election, which he won. Grainy photographs taken with a cellphone camera and distributed around the city showed him slumped naked on his porch after a night of drinking.

When asked about the photos, he acknowledged that he was the person in them, and said that he had consumed “six to eight beers” over the course of three hours at a nearby tavern… Despite the photos, Mr. Healy, a Democrat, went on to win the election against 10 candidates. Six months later, he won a full four-year term in a landslide, with 75 percent of the vote.

Welcome to Jersey.

1. I guess the majority of Jersey City voters drink a lot of beer and morals and ethics are no big deal to them… The elected mayor is a reflection of the majority, right?

   (Now you know why this old Yankee resides in the South.)

   Comment by Old Soldier — 7:57 am
   

2. You don’t have to live in the South to be moral and have ethics, we have an abundant supply here in the Midwest.

   Comment by judith — 10:29 pm
   

3. Funny, this old airman moved to the south, too.

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   Comment by The Machine — 10:47 pm
   

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