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At the last Hoboken Housing Authority meeting in April, HHA Executive Director Carmelo Garcia’s aide Patricia Waiters who is paid $10,000 by NJ taxpayers under his Assembly budget went on a racial screed unchecked, twice during the meeting.
Councilman Dave Mello’s attempts to interject to no avail as Chairman Rob Davis and Carmelo Garcia sit by.
Three times during the meeting, Garcia aide Patricia Waiters takes the floor. The first was not captured in its entirety as Waiters who holds no official role in the federal meeting orders a “five-minute” break in the meeting (Page 133) to address the audience.
The transcription restarts again and captures Waiters in her first extended remarks during the public portion. Later she will take the floor when Fox Hills resident Carmen Vega gives her the floor a second time during public portion.
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HHA Executive Director and his employee, Assembly aide Patricia Waiters at the last HHA meeting.
She called Councilman Dave Mello racist, accused Mayor Zimmer of hiring only people who are Jewish.
She would later at the same meeting say “get ready for tactic number two.”
Carmelo Garcia sat by saying nothing to discourage his employee through it all. |
Among the highlights from the transcript:
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Garcia Assembly aide Patricia Waiters yells at HHA commissioner Dana Wefer “You’re out of order!”
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Patricia Waiters: “I’m going to give it five minutes so you can all take a recess…”
Chair Rob Davis: “You can’t. We can’t have this.”
Meeting Secretary Garcia: “You have four members of the Board”
(MSV interjected during its filming objecting to the “politicking,” directly to Carmelo Garcia and Rob Davis which is captured in the transcript. Transcription ended temporarily and the next remark, “Mr. Chairman control your meeting,” was not and saw Davis order MSV out of the meeting.)
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Waiters: “…this have a bunch of racist issues in here, okay, and this is pertaining to your supporters.” (Reference to Mayor Zimmer?)
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Waiters: “I am not going to fill out no documents whether I wear a wire or not.”
(Reference to Carmelo Garcia asked to sign he isn’t surreptitiously recording a meeting at City Hall.)
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Waiters “I went and applied for your chair and your chair.” (To commissioners Sanford and Wefer) “You know why they didn’t pick me? =&9=&
Waiters: “–and I’m going to do the right thing, okay — =&10=& I want you to know it…”
Waiters: “.. you got a personal vendetta (to Dave Mello).”
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Waiters: “You are out to get him.” (Her employer Carmelo Garcia.)
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Waiters: “It is disgusting that both of you came aboard with a dirty motive, and we are not letting it happen.” (Comment directed to HHA commissioners Sanford and Wefer.)
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Waiters: “… she lost three elections and now you came here.” (To commissioner Wefer.)
Dave Mello: “Show us some respect.”
Waiters: “I don’t have to respect you, because you are not respecting us.”
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Waiters: “… I don’t care.”
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Waiters: “I’m showing facts… Why was I denied?” (Reference to not being voted by the City Council to an HHA seat.)
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HHA audience: “That’s right.”
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Waiters: “Yes or no? Yes or no?”
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Waiters: “– stop it already because—“
(Reporter lost section of Waiters remarks according to transcript.)
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Waiters: “… we being denied, because we are not good enough. =&25=&
Waiters: “For Housing Authority residents, this is disgusting.” (Reference: Waiters lives in uptown Hoboken in an Applied Housing building.)
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Later in public portion, Waiters would be again given time. Previously, she had told MSV she never supported Vision 20/20. But now…
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Waiters: “I just want to touch base for Ms. Vega real quick on the 20/20 plan…. again Mayor Zimmer is in control.”
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Waiters: “… I am African-American, and I took offense to this. You can call it what you want. Racist, anti-semitic, whatever you want to call it, it’s racial. It is racial. Dawn’s actions speak louder than her words. =&28=&
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Waiters: “–I am going — I’m defending Carmelo because of what? There ain’t no place big enough for Carmelo to hang on my — I am going to still defend him, because I do what is right. Now this 20/20 and this money, okay, they are trying to play a scare tactic with you…. I need a Letter of Need, and if we got to march, we will do that, because we already know your motive, and all of her friends on the Zoning Board and Planning Board is not going to give you no letter, okay? So we all have to get ready for tactic number two.”
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(Applause – audience yelling and screaming, and this portion could not be stenographically recorded.)
The Audience: “Justice Pat.”
(Audience yelling and screaming, and this portion could not be stenographically recorded.)
HHA May 2014 Meeting Minutes
Talking Ed Note: Many other Carmelitos would speak with pro Old Guard Vision 20/20 advocate and Ruben Ramos backer David Liebler joining in and criticizing MSV for reporting on Vision 20/20 and its original proposal of more than doubling the expansion of the HHA in downtown Hoboken. There is no Master Plan available to the public and Liebler says a claim for a smaller footprint is the real plan and reference to the written size of more than double is “B.S.”
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