{"id":309564,"date":"2025-11-23T20:48:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T20:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/309564\/"},"modified":"2025-11-23T20:48:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T20:48:09","slug":"jersey-city-mayoral-candidates-take-on-top-issues-ahead-of-runoff-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/309564\/","title":{"rendered":"Jersey City mayoral candidates take on top issues ahead of runoff election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Gov. Jim McGreevey and Councilmember James Solomon will take part in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/newyork\/news\/jersey-city-mayor-race-runoff\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">runoff election for mayor of Jersey City<\/a>, the second most populous city in the Garden State.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/mikie-sherrill-landslide-new-jersey-high-turnout-analysis\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">other recent elections<\/a>, affordability and public safety are some of the most important issues as they make their case to voters ahead of Election Day on Tuesday, Dec. 2.<\/p>\n<p>The candidates sat down with CBS News New York&#8217;s Marcia Kramer on &#8220;The Point&#8221; for a closer look at their policies &#8212; and how to pay for them. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>They <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/newyork\/news\/jersey-city-mayors-race-jim-mcgreevey-james-solomon\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">sparred over their plans<\/a> for affordable housing and property taxes, and over the size of the police department.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Addressing quality of life concerns<\/p>\n<p>Kramer noted many residents have complained that neither candidate is focused enough on quality-of-life issues, like trash pickup, street maintenance and traffic.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Solomon acknowledged that quality of life has declined in the city and said he wants to implement something called, &#8220;Citistat,&#8221; to make sure potholes get filled and trash gets picked up. He also said he plans to fire the current trash vendor.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>McGreevey pointed out that 50% of the city&#8217;s infrastructure is more than 100 years old, and said he has the experience to lead a change.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Where they can agree<\/p>\n<p>They were able to find some common ground over scrapping plans for the Pompidou art museum and opposing the New Jersey Turnpike expansion project.<\/p>\n<p>When asked when they last admitted they were wrong, they both replied, &#8220;this morning,&#8221; and they agreed history was one of their favorite subjects in school.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As for a quality that would make them a good mayor, they both mentioned the ability to listen.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Watch their extended interview above for the full conversation.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n        More from CBS News\n      <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Gov. Jim McGreevey and Councilmember James Solomon will take part in a runoff election for mayor of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":309565,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,451,19809,3,452,453],"class_list":{"0":"post-309564","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-headlines","11":"tag-jersey-city","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-top-stories","14":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=309564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309564\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/309565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}