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<\/a><\/p>\nBy Dan Israel\/Hudson County View<\/p>\n
Dubbing themselves \u201cWard E Neighbors,\u201d a group of protesters gathered on the corner of Grove and Grand Streets with a video truck noting Little supported the 20 percent tax hike<\/a> for Q3 Solomon initially proposed last week<\/a> before he pulled it<\/a> due to a lack of support.<\/p>\n The video truck featured multiple languages and called for Little to change her mind on supporting the increases, alongside a black-and-white attack ad-style image of her handing out campaign literature.<\/p>\n \u201cWe were motivated to do this because we were so outraged and incensed, not by the fact that we would have to pay more taxes \u2013 we are happy to pay more taxes \u2013 but by the fact that our council member Eleana Little was happy to shove this increase down our throat without even consulting this community or questioning the needs of this community,\u201d organizer Alexander Gleason told HCV.<\/p>\n \u201cWe find that to be incredibly\u00a0disrespectful.\u201d<\/p>\n According to Gleason, he has put together a community petition and gathered over 232 signatures as of Tuesday afternoon, which he has already presented to Little to show they aren\u2019t playing games.<\/p>\n In response Solomon announcing a newly proposed 15 percent rate hike for the Q3 tax bills just before Little\u2019s town hall began, as HCV first reported<\/a>, Gleason said if Little agrees to that then their protest is already working.<\/p>\n Gleason noted that at a time when Democratic Socialists of America are growing across the country, \u201cnothing is more harmful to the cause\u201d then elected officials who call themselves socialists but support \u201cmassive taxes on working families in Jersey City.\u201d<\/p>\n He also gleefully led protestors in chants of \u201cHey, hey, ho, ho, this tax hike has got to go,\u201d and \u201cHey, hey, ho, ho, Eleana Little just say no!\u201d although at one point he mistakenly called her \u201cEleanor.\u201d<\/p>\n At the meeting, Little began by apologizing for releasing a statement supporting the initial 20 percent rate hike for Q3 before holding a community meeting first.<\/p>\n \u201cI think that was probably a little premature, although when we released a statement on the 22nd, we thought we were going to be voting on the 24th. So it did not leave us a lot of leeway,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n \u201cBut I\u2019m very glad that the vote was able to get pushed back, and that we are able to hold this community meeting.\u201d<\/p>\n