Remarks at Mayor Dawn Zimmer’s fundraiser last night, courtesy of The Hudson County View.
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The planets aligned with the stars shining favorably on the political fundraiser for Mayor Dawn Zimmer.
One rising star brought plenty of supernova power with him. That would be presumed Democratic nominee for governor Phil Murphy. Hundreds filled the room at the new restaurant at 14th and Willow, Porter Collins and the good will overflowed embracing most of Hoboken if not Hudson County.
| Councilman Ravi Bhalla acts as emcee to the big bash at Porter Collins last night. Missing from this photo among the political signatories is State Senator Sandra Cunningham who arrived late for this photo but stood near the new Hudson County Freeholder Chairman Anthony Vainieri and Weehawken Mayor Richard Turner (l). To the rear of Councilman Bhalla is Phil Murphy and State Senator Brian Stack. |
The new large uptown restaurant was jammed wall to wall with politicos of all stripes mixing with long time Hoboken Reform activists. The crowd into the hundreds was a mosh pit mingling in the juice of those in the know, in power or anticipating both.
That might be too much to stomach with the change of seasons to a lovely spring but Hudson County View has the latest breaking Beth Mason lawsuit courtesy of (her) ever ready lawyer in former Hoboken Corporation Counsel Steve Kleinman.
| Steve Kleinman leaves Hoboken Municipal Court with his client former Councilwoman Beth Mason in September 2014 after phony criminal charges were filed against this editor later thrown out of court. |
Based on the legal filing publicly available, the plaintiffs are second ward residents complaining about their apparent Democrat Committee opponents. The named plaintiffs are BoE trustee Peter Biancamano and long time Beth Mason political suck-up Ines Garcia Keim. (A rumored hand-me-down second ward council seat bestowed on the underling by counte$$ never quite panned out.)
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Or sometimes the early am. One could wince with the “anonymous” rantings over on Grafix Avenger and no one would say you’re out of order.
Is accusing an event cafe of illegally serving alcohol at private events fair comment?
That’s the musings among a select crowd that is less selective about ranting about such things and going overboard with the vodka and the baby water.
The weather is too nice and Passover and the Holy Week of Easter are upon us. There’s little desire to see an outbreak of villainy here. Horsey believes in free speech; it’s not an extreme position but basic First Amendment advocating will get you stifled with politically correct suppression laws and literal lashings in certain corners.
Enter spring and the tide of the seasons is sweeping out pretenders and wannabe contenders for the Mile Square City mayoral sweepstakes. The November mayoral election contest is off in the distance this fall but it’s the descent of improbable candidacies looming in the spring.
Councilman Mike DeFusco, the ambitious First Ward Councilman is discovering some of these lessons the hard way. Mayor Dawn Zimmer will be bringing in big gun Phil Murphy, former US Ambassador to Germany and likely NJ gubernatorial candidate for her fundraiser next week. The favored Democratic candidate for NJ governor sheds his light of inevitability: on both himself and Mayor Zimmer’s prospects for a third term as mayor. It’s less a campaign stop of mutual admiration than the prelude to the parade of a conquering hero.
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According to a late Friday report on InsiderNJ, attempts by the Hoboken’s Old Guard Russo faction to win the primary line under Assemblyman John Wesniewski who is running for NJ governor failed.
The effort came after Mayor Zimmer’s Reform team rebuffed attempts to share the local Democratic committee Line A under NJ gubernatorial candidate Phil Murphy in the June primary.
From the late breaking Friday report:
Assemblyman John Wisniewski (D-19) won’t bracket with Hoboken Councilman Mike Russo’s local committee candidates after all, a source close to the Hudson County Democratic Organization (HCDO) told InsiderNJ, which the Wisniewski Campaign confirmed. Yesterday, the alliance between the long-shot gubernatorial candidate and the ward councilman appeared on track. But Greg Minchak, spokesman for Wisniewski Campaign, said Wisniewski shut it down. “Yesterday they reached out to us and we told them we didn’t want to bracket with them,” Minchak told InsiderNJ.A day earlier, April 6th InsiderNJ story reporting the Russo faction Democrat committee candidates would run under Wisnewski was either premature, inaccurate or in retrospect rejected.
On Monday, Grafix Avenger scooped media across Hudson County with an exclusive report on a potential sale of the Hudson Reporter to Beth Mason.
The Bayonne based paper is reportedly looking to pawn itself off to a buyer and in is talks with Beth Mason.
Yesterday, MSV confirmed the exclusive Grafix Avenger report with a confidential Hudson Reporter source who admitted the widespread concerns among the Hudson Reporter staff on any possible sale to the notorious former councilwoman.
Today, Grafix Avenger published another never seen exclusive involving Beth Mason.
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The Mason Media Complex, a subverted form of local “journalism” so dubbed here based on the influence of money and power in the local fish wrap may be on the verge of a comeback.
Beth Mason, the notorious former councilwoman in Hoboken is said to be in talks to purchase the Hudson Reporter now based in Bayonne.
That’s the word gleaned from a panicked group of Hudson Reporter employees based on a report yesterday on Grafix Avenger.
Beth Mason who fled the political scene of Hoboken after the July 2015 legal decision issuing hundreds of thousands of dollars in sanctions against her “friends” in the infamous SLAPP-suit against a dozen or so Hoboken residents may be looking to get in again.