Op-Ed: I’m voting for Williams, Taube, Verdibello, & Blount in Jersey City BOE race

In an editorial, Hudson County Commissioner Bill O’Dea (D-2) explains why he’s voting for a split ticket in the non-partisan November 3rd Board of Education (BOE) race.

I have lived in Jersey City my whole life, and I have had the honor of spending four decades in public office here because I believe in a simple idea: government exists to give working people a fair shake.

Nowhere is that more true than in our public schools.

A public school is the one place where a kid from Greenville or West Side and a kid from the Waterfront are supposed to start from the same line…

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