Anthony Olszewski working in City Hall, Jersey City (circa 2000).
To push McGreevey’s run in 2001 — and to hide incompetence in the City of Jersey City department of Information Technology (both in general and in particular), the Cunningham Administration, aided and abetted by the Jersey Journal, falsely accused a “former city employee” of a wide range of illegal behavior.
- City Web site provides link to Schundler
- Web site shut to erase plug for Schundler
- City Web site under police investigation
- One good techie worth a thousand advisers
There was no campaign banner at the City’s Web Site. No equipment was missing. There were no codes. And, if “the Police Department’s Special Investigations Unit was searching” for me, they forgot to look at the corner of Grand and Center (just off of the New Jersey Turnpike) — the place with the dayglo orange van out front and the 18′ Schundler banner on the roof. None of the papers ever stopped by or made any other attempt to contact me for a statement.
In the watch out for what you wish for, as you just might get it department, not much more than a year later, James E. McGreevey was firmly in Trenton and Glenn Cunningham was firmly stabbed in the back by the (then) Governor. As a further illustration of the through the looking glass nature of political discourse, at this point in time the pro-Cunningham Urban Times News asked me to write an article criticizing McGreevey.
