November 10, 2008

Name That Party In Joisey

From the lovely Fausta I got this.

A drunken Jersey City councilman was arrested for urinating on a crowd of concertgoers from the balcony of a Washington nightclub, police and club sources said Saturday.

Councilman Steven Lipski was caught relieving himself onto several revelers at the 9:30 Club during a concert by a Grateful Dead tribute band Friday night, club sources said.

"He was very drunk," the source said, noting that it wasn't the first time Lipski had caused a ruckus at the popular concert venue.

"We've dealt with this man before," the source added. "He's never peed on anybody, but he gets really belligerent and drunk."

Lipski, 44, was hauled out of the club about 9:50 p.m. after staffers spotted him in the act on the concert hall's second-floor balcony and called the cops.

The crass councilman, who is serving his second term in office since getting elected in 2001, was charged with simple assault, police said.

Attempts to reach Lipski were unsuccessful Saturday night. His aide, Irina Zaki, said the councilman was in Washington Friday night, but she had no knowledge of his arrest.

The lurid incident marks the second time in recent years that a Jersey City pol was caught with his pants down.

Photos showing Jerramiah Healy, still a councilman at the time, naked and passed out on his front stoop were widely circulated in 2004 days before he was elected mayor.

Hmmmm. There seems to be sumpin' missing in this article. <DonSurber>Is he a Dimocrat or is he a Dimocrat?</DonSurber> Well, he is from Joisey where Republicans are an endangered species so the answer is obvious to the most casual observer.

Posted by denny at November 10, 2008 02:53 PM  
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Wild guess here, but is he of the same persuasion (political persuasion you racists) as the newly crowned Czar of the United States? In defense of some Jerseyites, when I went back for my 25th HS reunion last month, I was pleasantly surprised to see a large number of McCain/Palin yard signs in my old neighborhood. I was told it hadn't changed much in the 25 I'd been gone, and it seemed to me that was the case.

Posted by: Ray on November 10, 2008 03:57 PM

Jerramiah Healy is a democrat as well. It takes a little work to turn that fact up, though. Not mentioned at Wikipedia anywhere in his biography.

Posted by: PeggyU on November 10, 2008 04:27 PM

I'm totally useless in those discussions. I just want to point out that I clicked on FAUSTA, and I saw beautiful Fall photos that she took herself. So very helpful and so soothing in those depressing days. Thank you for the link, Denny.

Posted by: Claudia on November 10, 2008 09:00 PM

Jersey City is the crown jewel of Hudson County, where corruption is an art form. One of our current U.S. Senators (the one who doesn't smell of piss and have oatmeal on his chin), Robert Menendez, was a Hudson County political boss before becoming our Senator.

Obama country.

Posted by: Jim - PRS on November 12, 2008 11:32 PM
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