Seems like old times when Hoboken residents voted half a dozen times a year.  With November off in the distance the rare off cycle election presents itself in the special Senate primary to complete the term of the late Senator Frank Lautenberg.

Newark Mayor Cory Booker, state Assembly Speaker Sheila Oliver (D-Essex), U.S. Rep. Frank Pallone (D-6th Dist.) and U.S. Rep. Rush Holt (D-12) are seeking the Democratic nomination.  Read More...

Fresh off the weekend revelation an anti-Vision 20/20 group based in the Hoboken Housing Authority has emerged with one of its members going public, the response to alleged threats and bullying is anything but intimidated.

On Hoboken Patch, Save the Projects today wrote a comment about its Vision 20/20 story where Carmelo Garcia predicted its eventual success decrying the lack of credible information and alleging threats and bullying, the latter being the physical real world type not the self-proclaimed online type by Beth Mason political operatives. Read More...

HHA resident Jessica Coco lashed out at Hoboken Police for inappropriate behavior with what she alleges is an unwarranted fixation on Vision 20/20 flyers and who in the Hoboken Housing Authority opposes Carmelo Garcia and his controversial plan.

In yet a new twist in the Vision 20/20 controversy, HHA resident Jessica Coco alleges the Hoboken Police Department failed to take her police complaint on a burglary she feels is connected to the threats and intimidation with her refusal to back Vision 20/20. Read More...

Two HHA residents have come out from the cold saying they were given eviction notices last week, apparently for opposing Carmelo Garcia’s controversial Vision 20/20 plan.

The HHA residents are part of a weekend page one lead story in the Hoboken Reporter.

One of the HHA residents, Jessica Coco has come out publicly saying she is a member of an HHA resident group called “Save the Projects” opposing Garcia and his Vision 20/20 as a plan to eliminate minorities in Hoboken.

Garcia denied the residents’ eviction claims but admitted a letter from HHA counsel Charles Daglian to Coco where she was ordered to “cease and desist” for alleged flyer distribution.  Coco states two flyers after hers had no connection to the “Save the Projects” HHA tenant group she is a member of and she faced racial epithets among other acts of intimidation for not agreeing to march for Vision 20/20. Read More...

GA who broke the growing story of a tenant who doesn’t believe Vision 20/20 is what it’s being pitched as by Garcia, finds herself under duress receiving a letter on HHA letterhead from its legal counsel Charles Daglian accusing her of being behind a second leafleting of flyers.

The same tenant who is about to go public according to at least one reliable source, claims to being asked to sign her own eviction notice the previous day for distributing flyers.

In the letter, Daglian calls the tenant’s alleged distributing of flyers “libelous” and orders her to cease and desist from doing so in the future and if the tenant is not responsible they should “advise” the HHA “of that fact.”  It’s not clear under what legal authority Daglian is acting on as housing authority tenants have the same First Amendment rights as other US citizens and no evidence is offered of the alleged activity. Read More...