Hoboken’s mayoral race, already hotter than Savannah asphalt with the Feds blazing through its cyberspace is getting a tad hotter with the dance of its Freeholder, Anthony Romano.
Yesterday, Max Pizarro at PolitickerNJ reported Romano is putting out “feelers” and weighing a run for Hoboken’s top government gig as mayor.
In a phone interview late last night, Romano played a potential run somewhat coy saying it wasn’t him who reached out to PolitickerNJ. As to the rumor he would make a mayoral bid he keenly observed, “It’s a rumor.”
Although the FBI has visited this website more times than publicly admitted, there’s been no acknowledgement of the frequency and focus when the Feds show up. Da Horsey is now willing to share a carrot and tell you in 2013 it’s more than you think.
Earlier today commenters broke out into a vigorous debate on the meaning of the FBI visits to horseyland. While MSV declined to comment on anything but the fact of the high profile visits, commenters weighed the pros and cons of their arrival and the people mentioned in the visits.
Talking Ed Note: MSV is sharing the following information without comment as it’s just unbearable to sit by allowing that Grafix Avenger to think she’s such the popular girl. Others are clearly far more popular.
Links from above:
James Barracato, a poor Beth Mason fishy operative ready for skewering
GA source: Beth Mason’s 12 year career at Newton Lao ‘a sham’
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With Hoboken facing a reval of its taxpayer housing stock, examination of the tax breaks proposed in the massive expansion of the Hoboken Housing Authority warrants closer scrutiny. Two recent City Council meetings presented less than adequate detail in post midnight brawls where the Old Guard council members would try to push Vision 20/20 forward, illicitly hijacking the meeting without a quorum (a required five members present to conduct the meeting).
The scarce documentation on the full Vision 20/20 plan with no input from the broader Hoboken community should be a warning bell and Exhibit A on how the Old Guard operates. In this instance, the Hoboken Housing Authority residents have been told they are along for the ride but as a point of fact, they have no pull nor say on who would be moved into any new building.
A little neglected contractual point on the phase I building for the HHA: the developer RPM would be in charge of deciding who moves in, controlling the list. In addition, it’s RPM who would own the building after a 20 year PILOT. Who do you think RPM would be answering to on this behind the scenes?
The downtown HHA campus was redrawn from just over 800 units currently to almost 1900 with a large tax break in the form of a PILOT included just as many Hoboken residents will see their taxes increase in the reval.
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Piling on the bad for Beth Mason
Ruben Ramos goes Old Guard and heavy negative
Jersey City’s Fulop Force
Pupie on Demand
Jim Doyle’s time out
Hoboken Housing Authority’s nuclear winter
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Beth Mason and council allies try to ruin the FBI’s Hoboken investigation