From the desk of Council President Peter Cunningham:

Dear friends, family and neighbors, 


Lot’s has happened since I last wrote.  My absence has been in large part due to new job responsibilities at work (same company) which has delayed my usual outreach on different issues.  Development continues with lots of challenges in the NW part of Hoboken which made for a difficult summer.  However, with the summer over and kids have long been back at school, my dear colleague Councilwoman Carol Marsh resigned.  However, with Jim Doyle stepping into the fold, we will continue to make progress despite unrelenting attempts to derail our efforts by the others.


While there’s much to discuss, first matter at hand is the City’s upcoming school board elections in November.  I will have more to say about the positive direction our schools are heading as a result of changes in governance and leadership and the increased value a Hoboken public school education brings to you as a parent with children in the School District AND you as a taxpayer as well.


Some may want my opinion right off the bat (and many of you know I do support Kids First), while others may want to weigh the issues, and decide on their own.  A good balanced place to start with the latter is with general information on the Board, and the two slates running, plus an independent.  The following is from Board member Irene Sobolov, and I ask that you please give this a quick read, and familiarize yourself with the basics, and let me know if you have any questions.  Thanks and happy reading…


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This week has seen some sizable traffic and much of it is centered around stories of a Nazi swastika appearing on a truck used in political attacks against reform minded council members, Kids First BoE commissioners and Hoboken satirist Grafix Avenger.

MSV has seen local and national media cover the story missing both context and basic journalistic accuracy surrounding the origins of the Nazi swastika graphic and its original usage.

The use of the swastika first appeared here in early February 2010 as part of a story lampooning the pathological lies of Hoboken411 on a mayoral press conference Perry Klaussen did not attend where Mayor Zimmer encapsulated a story of her in-law escaping the Nazis by way of Spain. Read More...

Hoboken has been on fire with the ugly Nazi Truck scandal gaining national renown thanks to Old Guard leadership and now it’s Solomon Dwek, the FBI informant and lunch time companion of Councilman Michael Russo making the news.

Yesterday, Dwek received a six year prison sentence for his crimes in a $50 million check-kiting scheme.  The sentence puts a finishing note on Operation Bid Rig III, a scandal involving marketing human organs and garden style NJ corruption snaring over several dozen people, mostly public officials. Read More...

The Hudson Reporter just got on board the Move Forward Nazi Truck Express and published the first comments on the swastika application by the moving 100 year Reich vehicle.

While it’s another denial from the other co-campaign manager, this time John Castellano not Joe Branco, the denial is not total in the language from the press release.

According to the Hudson Reporter, the release said:

“The Move Forward campaign is not responsible for the video truck or content it was playing outside of the Hoboken BOE meeting. We do not support sensationalism of that nature; however, we also do not condone Ms. Pincus’ long history of inappropriate behavior on her blog.”


Then the Move Forward slate continued with this money shot against Grafix Avenger:
(John) Castellano said Pincus should not protest the use of an image she has used.


“Our position is simple,” he said. “We denounce the bully tactics used by Ms. Pincus, and we call on Kids First to do the same.”

In case you didn’t get the message here, Move Forward is ON BOARD with the Beth Mason type scorched earth tactics repeating the attacks on Grafix Avenger using the same language. Read More...

Hoboken’s pay to play anti-wheeling ordinance is the law of the mile square land but not if Beth Mason has her way allegedly flouting it as so much tissue paper.

The evidence cited in NJ ELEC reports show a $7,000 contribution to the Old Guard backed Move Forward BoE slate made from a “Friends of Beth Mason” committee.

The monies given, when confirmed are illegal since last year’s passage of the campaign reform “anti-wheeling legislation” limit campaign committees to giving $500 in Hoboken elections. Read More...

Outside the City Council at City Hall and right across the street by Carlo’s Bakery stood the big blue truck, again blaring out its video message of hate, lies and scurrilous victim hood, courtesy of a certain councilwoman’s checkbook and her Hudson County dirty tricks political operatives.

MSV has viewed, obtained the video and can confirm it’s an absolute continuation of the attacks appearing in the midnight flyer last week and follows a line of attack familiar to most readers and observers of Hoboken politics.  In other words, it has all the tell tales signs of a Beth Mason operation. Read More...