Jersey City mayor/NJ gov candidate Fulop handwrote a letter to get his now-fiancee to go out with him

JERSEY CITY – “When Steven met Jaclyn” has a nice ring to it, doesn’t it?
This weekend, Jersey City Mayor and future New Jersey gubernatorial candidate Steven Fulop was to put a ring on the finger of his fiancée, Jaclyn Thompson, who owns a physical therapy practice in Jersey City. They’re going to get married in New Hope, Pa.
The way the young mayor met his wife-to-be is a bit old-fashioned.
When he was a mayoral candidate in 2013, the local physical therapy practice hosted a meet-and-greet with him. Thompson was there but barely talked to him. She had never met him before.
Fulop apparently took notice of her. He went back to the practice a week later and left her a note asking her to have dinner with him. And so they did.
Fulop, who left a job at Goldman Sachs to serve in Iraq after 9/11, is 38 years old. Thompson, 34, is a founder and director of rehabilitative services at Exchange Place Therapy Group. Like Fulop, she has a master’s degree.
She said that even if he wins the governorship, she’d like to keep living in Jersey City.
For more on the couple, their first date, and what she’s thinking about her future, read the cover story in this weekend’s Jersey City Reporter, on your doorstep or at hudsonreporter.com starting Sunday.