Jersey City is 78 percent Democratic and only 7 percent Republican. How were you able to win office here?
SCHUNDLER: I talked about the policy implications of the philosophy I am articulating. For instance, I specifically talked about putting more cops on the street, about lowering taxes, about bringing jobs back to Jersey City. I specifically talked about workfare, not welfare; and about school vouchers. In doing so, I told the voters not only that I was going to help them, but that I was going to help them in the way that they want to be helped, by truly empowering them to be able talk on safe and clean streets, pay affordable taxes, find a quality job, and send their children to the best school available-public or private. Jersey City voters are perhaps more jaded about bureaucrats and politicians than anyone else in the country. This has been the most machine-driven town in America, notorious for corruption. So voters are very skeptical of a politician’s honesty. I argued that power corrupts and that if you accrue all power to politicians, they are going to be abusive. I argued that we
