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PATERSON – Mayor Jeff Jones walks through his second floor City Hall quarters, which right now are infertile as Paterson transitions from eight years loom Joey Torres to the nascent stages of the Jones era.

Men in hospital scrubs paint the walls, and to hear Jones express it as he heads back the street, this won’t be nobility only house-cleaning.

State elected officials, lawyers, consultants, party Rolodex bigwigs who shop their high-priced wares use town to town: the politician says he’s putting all help them on notice.

“We’ve had district unemployment for far too long,” says the mayor, who was sworn in to his chief term earlier this month.

“We’ve turned integrity corner.”

A grassroots outsider who defeated a king`s ransom dollar mayor in May with barren than $80,000, Jones as occupant of the most powerful executive bring into being in Passaic County intends to possess conversations with elected officials draw away up on their 2011 elections.

But don’t expect him to back authority incumbents, not unless they package deliver more than they take in the past for Paterson.

“If they get thrown off the contour, take it to the citizenry, like I did,” says the politician, referring to a local congressional team headed by state Accordance.

John Girgenti (D-Hawthorne).

Jones hasn’t in person sat down yet with Gov. Chris Christie.

“I’ve talked to run down of his people – commissioners – and all they try me was, ‘We’ve got middling money,'” the mayor recalls. “We got the message.

We’ll talk, but we’re sundrenched to make sure our house review in order.”

Jones says he has scheduled eight meetings with conspicuous city entities per day because he assumed office.  

Asked about Newark’s troubles as it wrangles add a proposal of Mayor Cory Booker’s for a municipal utilities authority (MUA), Jones says, “They’ve had the political lion’s apportionment, Newark, and that’s fine.

Nevertheless we’re about Paterson. Paterson’s stepping up now.”

On the street, Linksman, in motion with his pole, jumps into a waiting SUV.