On Monday night at the Hoboken Housing Authority meeting in City Hall, this video during the unscheduled stoppage offered some illumination on the proceedings.

Of the council members present in front and Beth Mason not several feet from Sigsby Cheatham, how do they respond to the less than democratic actions taking place?

With the onset of the HHA special meeting, it didn’t take long for deploying Old Guard tricks in a vain attempt to salvage the Banana Republic of de facto leader Carmelo Garcia and all the goodies that goes with it.

Previous standbys for the Old Guard deployed a plan to derail the meeting under the guise of “public safety.” Mere minutes into the meeting after Councilwoman Beth Mason declared the publicly noticed meeting “illegal” for failure to house all demonstrators brought in to save the Executive Director’s contract, Bayonne resident Nick Calicchio would hijack the microphone stopping the proceedings. (Approximately just over four minutes into the meeting.) Read More...

MSV will not be covering this meeting but for those who wish, it’s available below:

Main portion of the meeting: http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/51023476

A flyer appearing apparently without the required HHA administration’s approval has appeared stating there’s an emergency meeting scheduled for 6:30 at 221 Jackson St.

The flyer also claims, “THEY REMOVED OUR EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR WE KNOW WE’RE NEXT!

Barbara Reyes, a staunch backer of Carmelo Garcia and thrice rejected HHA board candidate may be the person who is hosting the tenant meeting. Confirmation will follow this story.

A report from a reliable source says there is rumor mongering going on telling residents they will all be evicted. Read More...

It’s a live federal government meeting. Or is it?

From this video, it’s visible there’s several recordings going on in the same location of media in the front of the room on the left. The meeting had disintegrated completely as the mob was allowed to hijack and take over the room.

A fracas breaks out on the left as a video being taken on a phone leads to a less than neighborly response. MSV captures the tail end as the crowd surges and becomes focused on that. Then Sigsby Cheatham decides it’s time to move on and target MSV. He’s the older man on the microphone urging further action be taken and it’s not of the legal, democratic variety. Read More...

MSV could not get back in as a public safety official, M. Costello decided no credentials (after a stolen wallet earlier) meant “leave the building.” His order was heeded but he was told all the stuff was stolen by the mob earlier.

After a fracas in the earlier part of the meeting, a Carmelo backer, Sigsby Cheatham who has voiced Old Guard support and some apparent weird anti-Semitic rantings repeatedly urged the mob to follow up and pursue a new victim, MSV.

Later the meeting would reconvene. A vote was held on Carmelo Garcia’s contract. The first to vote was HHA commissioner Judy Burrell. Earlier she was determined not to be intimidated by the mob hijinx and refused to leave the room immediately when urged by Acting Police Chief Eddie Garcia. Read More...

A meeting never quite got underway. Hijacked repeatedly by Nick Calicchio and former Hoboken resident  and councilman Chris Campos.