{"id":862,"date":"2009-05-13T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-13T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newyorkssixth.com\/ny6wp\/?p=862"},"modified":"2009-05-13T06:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-05-13T14:00:00","slug":"healy-wins-mayors-race-spending-185-per-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newyorkssixth.com\/?p=862","title":{"rendered":"Healy Wins Mayor&#8217;s Race Spending $185 per Vote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mayor Healy avoided a runoff election yesterday by garnering <a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.hudsoncountyclerk.org\/cgi-bin\/election.pl\">53 percent<\/a> of the vote, or 16,231 votes. Healy spent more than <a HREF=\"http:\/\/blog.nj.com\/njv_thurman_hart\/2009\/05\/democracy_worksif_you_understa.html\">$3 million<\/a> on the campaign, costing him $185 a vote and besting Mike Bloomberg&#8217;s <a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2001\/12\/04\/nyregion\/at-92.60-a-vote-bloomberg-shatters-an-election-record.html?scp=1&#038;sq=corzine%20senate%20race%20cost%20per%20vote&#038;st=cse\">$92 a vote<\/a> and surpassing Corzine&#8217;s 2000 Senate race cost per vote. Don&#8217;t worry though, Healy contributors, you&#8217;ll earn that back through patronage jobs and no bid contracts in no time. <\/p>\n<p>Also fairing well was Steve Fulop, the Ward E councilman who won his race with 60 percent of the vote. <\/p>\n<p>In Hoboken, Dawn Zimmer and Peter Cammarano will face a runoff election, each getting about 35 percent of the vote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mayor Healy avoided a runoff election yesterday by garnering 53 percent of the vote, or 16,231 votes. Healy spent more than $3 million on the campaign, costing him $185 a vote and besting Mike Bloomberg&#8217;s $92 a vote and surpassing Corzine&#8217;s 2000 Senate race cost per vote. Don&#8217;t worry though, Healy contributors, you&#8217;ll earn that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hoboken","category-jersey-city"],"views":2136,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newyorkssixth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newyorkssixth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newyorkssixth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newyorkssixth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newyorkssixth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newyorkssixth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newyorkssixth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newyorkssixth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newyorkssixth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}