Councilwoman Beth Mason heralds a banner year if your measure is taken by the number of personal attacks you make on people who get in the way of power and ambition as the measuring sticks for success.

Early this year Beth Mason launched attacks on Councilman Ravi Bhalla with ethics charges – the story “broke” on Hoboken411, called Mason411 by many, concerning him voting on a resolution to complete legal work for a case over years the council unanimously approved.  Her call for his resignation blew up when analysis of her campaign street money surfaced with numerous unresolved ELEC problems.

She then took some shots at Councilman Peter Cunningham and his family in a City Council meeting while he was attending the funeral of his mother-in-law, also for an ethics complaint on the same unanimous vote.  It went nowhere and last MSV heard, Councilman Peter Cunningham returned and asked for decency re: an apology receiving none.  As he noted on the assault on him and his empty City Council chair at the end of a council meeting on his return, “that’s politics.” Rather than respond, Mason sat quietly for the the meeting to end and quickly exited.

Last June Beth Mason’s campaign manager to her 2009 spring mayoral run, Jake Stuiver decried her behavior as she sought to rebrand herself the kinder, nicer Beth Mason.  He noted in a letter to the Hudson Reporter,

Councilman Mike Russo who has often spoken about decorum oddly enough was the other recent example attacking a Hoboken resident at a City Council meeting – completely out of the blue.  MSV was in attendance when that attack was made on a frequent attendee, charged by Russo for improper non-verbal behavior.  No that’s not a misprint, his non-verbal behavior in an audience of nearly 200 people.

After he was challenged by the resident, Councilman Russo quickly apologized ending the matter.  But Councilwoman Mason doesn’t do apologies even when tossing out racist innuendos.  It’s all in a day’s work, just not on behalf of the people of Hoboken.

Here’s the reply to Beth Mason reading the exact text from the MSV article “Tim’s street money time,” that happens to be featured in the middle at the top of the MSV home page with the complete sentence.  Beth Mason either couldn’t or wouldn’t read the actual sentence.  She’s lobbed a live bomb – racism, and she isn’t going to be dissuaded by anything like the truth.

Usually the councilwoman has her dirty work handled by her bottomless checkbook of paid political operatives, consulting firms and the Mason411 ghostwriting minion.

Talking Ed Note: There’s been a great deal of discussion about the squalor in the political environment in Hoboken.  Last summer the discussion revolved around rebuilding the damage done to the Mason brand and a group of people complained her children were under attack on some various websites including NJ.com.  Seems like a long, long time ago now.

Although it’s flattering to be hit with a defamatory charge of racism by Beth Mason considering her street money election problems in the fourth ward, it’s surprising she would make it so easy to set the record straight.  Well she didn’t plan it that way.

Thank you Beth!

When MSV talks about the problem of money being put to questionable use in the fourth ward, the Queen of Street Money is absolutely included.

Related: Grafix Avenger has a timely piece on the sewer feeding recently erupted (again) over at Mason411:


https://hobokenhorse.com/2010/12/playing-at-next-city-council-meeting.html