Office of the Mayor announces:


Statement from Mayor Zimmer Regarding Director Alicea

Yesterday, Public Safety Director Angel Alicea advised me that he had attended two meetings with Solomon Dwek, the confidential informant in Operation Bid Rig. These meetings occurred when he was a candidate for City Council on Peter Cammarano’s ticket in 2009. After the election, Peter Cammarano, with the approval of our State Fiscal Monitor Judy Tripodi, appointed Mr. Alicea to the position of Public Safety Director at a salary of $27,000 per year. Since Mr. Alicea was doing an excellent job in that position, he continued to serve at the same salary in my Administration. Read More...

Even before he’s fallen, the resurrection of Councilman Mike Russo had begun with a campaign to sully any and all others you could mention in the same sentence as Solomon Dwek.  Even if you appear in the index of “The Jersey Sting,” Beth Mason’s political operatives are willing to put you in the same category as Mike Russo.


Here’s Mike Russo in his own words on a speech he’s crafted, along with other family and friends no doubt.  Listen along and follow the words below the video.  MSV’s words are in brackets.


You will draw some remarkable conclusions.



Mike Russo’s words to ponder: Read More...

Many people will be fairly unhappy with the rendering of any sense of justice for the betrayal by Mike Russo toward the people of Hoboken.  What makes matters worse is not one of his allies spoke out on the substance of his betrayal, not one of them addressed the seriousness of the underlying transgressions against our community and not one of them asked for him to resign.


Not one.


Here’s Beth Mason trying to put distance between herself and Mike Russo’s obvious “issues,” but note she finds time to suggest we “move on,” and not focus to hard on the serious matters of conspiracy to conduct bribes on behalf of a developer just met, or the takeover of the city government and control all development by “having a supermajority,” as Mike Russo so eloquently put it.


Note how utterly dismissive Beth Mason is of these numerous and serious transgressions and how swiftly she moves on to the Mason-Russo strategy to tarnish others on the City Council and in the mayor’s campaign with unsubstantiated claims others met with Solomon Dwek.


Then ask yourself, is she someone you want in office at all, let alone re-elected in May to the 2nd ward council seat where she can immediately scheme to takeover the whole town and get her hands on the mayor’s office?


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Talking Ed Note: This is a fascinating case study in bad politics.  In order to garner the good will of the people, you’re suppose to allow them time to digest an apology and offer forgiveness.  Beth Mason will have none of that.  She determines it’s inappropriate for people to hold Mike Russo to account for his ACTIONS, not his braggadocio.


She goes on a tirade pointed at the mayor.  It’s the mayor’s fault for not allowing “both sides,” of the story to appear on the city website.  This from a woman who is working hand in hand with the most vile website in town – Hoboken411.


That website is beneath contempt in its service to her.  Is it even necessary to list the number of people smeared in service to her there, one most recently being her former legislative aide who resigned to take a civil service position?  


Does anyone else find it ironic that Beth Mason’s less than democratic temperament towards the public, her colleagues, the executive branch and the institutions of government mirror the iron fist of censorship enforced on behalf of Hoboken411?


Related:  The Russo insider Deep Uvula offered more insight into the new smokescreen: Read More...

The award winning authors of “The Jersey Sting,” will be appearing in Hoboken on April 30th, but this time they will stick around for a while for a discussion, Q&A and book signing.


Better yet, this time the men who introduced us to the Mike Russo Bribed FBI surveillance tapes are coming on a Saturday.  They’ll be appearing at the Hoboken Public Library, 500 Park Avenue from 2:00 – 4:00 pm.


Books will be available at the event.  Bring the kids, you don’t want to miss this one.  


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Yesterday a pre-City Council meeting protest was held outside of City Hall.  The weather didn’t cooperate leading in but an MSV headcount showed 75 people were not deterred from expressing their discontent with the actions of 3rd ward Councilman Mike Russo.

Several council candidates appeared and spoke at the protest including 3rd ward council candidates Greg Lincoln and Rami Pinchevsky for the 4th ward.  6th ward candidate Jen Giattino also attended.

On the TV side, Ch. 9 and Cablevision covered the protest and the early part of the meeting featuring Mike Russo’s bid to reinvent himself. Read More...

Mike Russo showed an uncharacteristic sheepish side tonight watching a completely packed audience dissect his every move and in the end he delivered a performance art speech worthy of a Greek tragedy except it’s Hoboken that’s the victim.

His political mea culpa consisted of losing his honorary title of VP, the title a designation he earned only last January when the midnight power grab from the end of 2010 had gone into effect.  In a surprise, it was learned during public portion Mike Russo also lost his role as chair of the Budget and Finance Subcommittee.  This only surfaced during former Councilman Mike Lenz’s remarks when he was critical of the lack of action by the council. Read More...

A source, no where near the quality of Grafix Avenger’s Deep Uvula says Mike Russo will resign as chair of the budget and finance committee. If he wants to make it voluntary, he’ll need to move quick. Yesterday his two year marriage to Councilwoman Beth Mason ended when after more than a week of sitting quietly and uttering not a word on the revelations of his sit down with FBI informant Solomon Dwek accepting his offer of multiple illicit payments, she threw him under the Hop.

On the surveillance tapes, Russo voiced support for Beth Mason for mayor but said his support came with a price – his selection of all three council candidates on the slate and control of six votes on the nine member council. Read More...