{"id":88558,"date":"2026-01-04T04:25:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T04:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/88558\/"},"modified":"2026-01-04T04:25:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T04:25:10","slug":"solomons-council-allies-say-they-wont-rubber-stamp-his-initiatives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/88558\/","title":{"rendered":"Solomon&#8217;s Council Allies Say They Won&#8217;t Rubber Stamp His Initiatives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">Under the Fulop administration, it was rare to see a mayoral ally on the City Council vote against one of the mayor\u2019s initiatives. A 2021 Jersey City Times analysis found that Steve Fulop\u2019s six council allies <a href=\"https:\/\/jcitytimes.com\/analysis-shows-team-fulop-having-voted-in-lock-step\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">voted as a block more than 99%<\/a> of the time in the first 40 weeks that year. <\/p>\n<p>The Jersey City Times wanted to know whether the councilmember-elects could be counted on to support a mayor Solomon as faithfully as their predecessors had supported Mayor Fulop.<\/p>\n<p>Get two free articles a month!<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Success! Your account was created and you\u2019re signed in.<\/p>\n<p>An account was already registered with this email. Please check your inbox for an authentication link.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/jcitytimes.com\/author\/andy-milone\/\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1767500710_757_f94522e67a2a9a3b8b474fad26b145d65ae7da9c8148868127c4a22281154e22.png\"  class=\"avatar avatar-80 photo\" height=\"80\" width=\"80\"\/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tAndy Milone is a staff reporter for the Jersey City Times who primarily covers local government. You can reach him at 201-406-7222 (call\/text) or amilone@jcitytimes.com. Follow him on X (Twitter) @ATMilone,&#8230;\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"author-link\" href=\"https:\/\/jcitytimes.com\/author\/andy-milone\/\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMore by Andy Milone\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Under the Fulop administration, it was rare to see a mayoral ally on the City Council vote against&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":88559,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[42464,75,84,83,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-88558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-jersey-city-politics","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88558\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}