Secretary Donovan also received a briefing from New Jersey Governor Chris Christie and joined Jersey City Mayor JerramiahHealy on a tour of areas damaged by Sandy.
The campaign between 62-year-old JerramiahHealy and 36-year-old Steven Fulop personifies the gentrification playing out in cities across the country, from California's Bay Area to New York City, as young, mostly white professionals priced out of certain areas build new lives and in some places a new political culture amid swaths of the old guard.