‘You can see me outside’ — NJ councilman taunts public at raucous meeting A city councilman has apologized after challenging a member of the public to a fight during a raucous meeting Wednesday night when he and his colleagues made the argument that they could do a better job than voters selecting members of the school board. "You can see me outside," Ward F Councilman Jermaine Robinson said from the dais in a vulgar schoolyard taunt at someone being removed from the council chambers. "You ain't got to wait to 2021 ... I'll be outside in the back in 15 minutes." Robinson later posted an apology on Facebook acknowledging that he "became out ... Mayor Steven Fulop called for the action following several resignations from the school board as well as criminal charges filed last month against former school board president Sudhan Thomas, who was accused of taking thousands of dollars in bribes from an attorney who sought to be hired by the district. Thomas was also charged by the feds this month with stealing from the Jersey City Employment and Training Program. Thomas, who lost re-election in November, was an ally of Fulop, who also had appointed him to the jobs board. Fulop was also angered by the school board after it declined to address anti-Jewish comments made by school board member Joan Terrell-Paige on Facebook following last month's massacre at a kosher supermarket. “There is no question that the Jersey City school system has been in chaos," Fulop said in a written statement before the vote. "We are asking the voters to hold myself and the City Council directly responsible for the schools, but also in fairness, to give us the tools to make decisions that will fix the schools. “Today, we are blamed for the schools but we don’t have ... Continue reading... https://nj1015.com/you-can-see-me-outside-nj-councilman-taunts-public-at-raucous-meeting/
