{"id":59222,"date":"2025-12-03T03:07:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T03:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/james-solomon-elected-jersey-city-mayor-defeating-jim-mcgreevey-ap-projects\/"},"modified":"2025-12-03T03:07:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T03:07:07","slug":"james-solomon-elected-jersey-city-mayor-defeating-jim-mcgreevey-ap-projects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/james-solomon-elected-jersey-city-mayor-defeating-jim-mcgreevey-ap-projects\/","title":{"rendered":"James Solomon elected Jersey City mayor, defeating Jim McGreevey, AP projects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p><span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/newyork\/news\/jersey-city-mayor-election-mcgreevey-solomon\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">James Solomon<\/a><\/span>\u00a0has been\u00a0<span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/newyork\/news\/jersey-city-mayor-runoff-election-the-point\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">elected mayor of Jersey City<\/a><\/span>, the Associated Press projects.<\/p>\n<p>Solomon, a progressive Jersey City councilman, defeated\u00a0<span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/newyork\/news\/10-years-after-resigning-jim-mcgreevey-doesnt-view-himself-as-a-gay-trailblazer\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Jim McGreevey<\/a><\/span>, who resigned as New Jersey governor back in 2004 after admitting to having an affair with a male staff member.<\/p>\n<p>Seven candidates <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/newyork\/news\/jersey-city-mayor-race-runoff\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">originally ran on Nov. 4<\/a><\/span>, but none of them were able to receive 50% of the vote, so a runoff election was held.<\/p>\n<h2>Affordability was a key focus in Jersey City mayoral runoff election<\/h2>\n<p>The candidates were out in Jersey City neighborhoods on a rainy Tuesday to get voters to the polls.<\/p>\n<p>McGreevey and Solomon are both Democrats, but party affiliations didn&#8217;t appear on ballots. That&#8217;s why they focused on <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/newyork\/news\/mamdani-wins-nyc-mayoral-election-2025\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">a winning message that&#8217;s worked in other races<\/a><\/span> \u2014 affordability.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are going to get tough on developers and force them to build housing you can afford,&#8221; Solomon said. &#8220;The second is capping rent increases and making sure if you&#8217;re in an apartment you can&#8217;t afford, you&#8217;re not going have the rent jacked up 15% in a year.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I want affordable housing, so when you&#8217;re going to build market-rate housing, 20% over that is going to be affordable housing,&#8221; McGreevey said, &#8220;and it&#8217;s not going to be separate, it&#8217;s going to part of the same building.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Voters who made it to the polls told CBS News New York&#8217;s Christine Sloan they did so because they had serious issues they were concerned about.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Just in I think 2022 alone, our taxes shot up by, like, 20, 30%,&#8221; Jersey City resident Mike Liu said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t think anything is really that affordable anymore,&#8221; Jersey City resident Nisrit Osman said. &#8220;I think everybody in the house needs to be working to support one household.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h2>Jersey City mayoral candidates on the attack<\/h2>\n<p><span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/newyork\/news\/jersey-city-mayors-race-jim-mcgreevey-james-solomon\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Solomon painted McGreevey<\/a><\/span> as a candidate backed by the political machine and developers. McGreevey called it a distraction, saying Solomon is the one in city government.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Property taxes under James Solomon has gone through the roof, the highest property tax increases in the state,&#8221; McGreevey said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The people who have made Jersey City unaffordable are the developers and the machine bosses, and the developers and the machine bosses are backing Jim McGreevey,&#8221; Solomon said.<\/p>\n<p>Both agreed on one thing \u2014 that the city needs safer streets and more police officers.<\/p>\n<section class=\"content__body--footer\">\n<p class=\"content__meta--contributors\">\n<p>                      <span class=\"byline__author__text\">The Associated  Press<\/span><\/p>\n<p>        contributed to this report.\n    <\/p>\n<\/section>\n<p>  <!-- data-recirc-source=\"chartbeat\" --><\/p>\n<aside class=\"component list recirculation component--type-recirculation component--type-recirculation-collection\">\n<\/aside>\n<section class=\"content__body--footer\">\n      <!-- tags --><\/p>\n<section class=\"content__tags\">\n<\/section>\n<\/section><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/jersey-city-mayor-runoff-election-jim-mcgreevey-james-solomon\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James Solomon\u00a0has been\u00a0elected mayor of Jersey City, the Associated Press projects. 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