Following Councilman Mike Russo’s declaration of war calling Nancy Pincus, a Jewish local resident anti Semitic and “using anti Semitic imagery,” for a graphic with only a vague similarity to a 1934 pro-Nazi movie poster, the battle to clear an additional zoning board position depicting Councilwoman Beth Mason as a victim of “hate” as Russo says is escalating, moving ahead on multiple fronts.
A known Beth Mason supporter and financial backer, Larry Stempler sits on the board of a national Jewish organization, that is also attacking Nancy Pincus, a sitting Zoning Board member who lost family in the Holocaust – this posted just earlier on her website
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Although Beth Mason still has avoided comment publicly, a blitzkrieg like assault is underway on her behalf, with the initially staged presentation by her ubermensch “friend,” Lane Bajardi. At the City Council meeting Monday, Bajardi unleashed a prepared speech with a screed of denunciations accusing Nancy Pincus of calling Beth Mason “a Nazi,” and was almost screaming about Pincus’ “fascism” in a tirade that surpassed his earlier attacks.
At an earlier April Board of Education meeting where the school attorney interjected during Bajardi’s comments, stating the police could throw him out for his out of order behavior, he insisted on attacking Pincus for another graphic he railed incessantly against to any reporter who would listen during the Board of Education race. =&0=&
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| Plenty of shilling but not one Nazi insignia anywhere |
No Nazi insignia of any kind appears in the graphic Bajardi and Councilman Russo have declared intolerable for her to remain in her current seat on the Hoboken Zoning Board. The only similarity in the graphic is gothic style lettering. The attacks are being waged many local political observers suggest to obtain a decisive Zoning Board tilt in favor of a big pro-development camp.
Mike Novak, a Hoboken resident who ran with ex-mayor Peter Cammarano for a City Council seat and supporter and fund raiser for Councilman Tim Occhipinti has also entered the fray attacking Nancy Pincus as a mayoral appointment and in two twitter posts:
Mike Novak was corrected for his misstatement Zoning Board appointees are made by the mayor. Dan Bryan, the mayor’s confidential aide replied in a twitter to Novak, “When you finish drinking, look up the law. Council appoints zoning board not mayor.”
The City Council does make all appointments in a vote since in one of her first actions, Acting Mayor Dawn Zimmer surrendered the appointment powers to the City Council fulfilling a campaign pledge out of the gate.
Mike Novak is a former zoning board member known for giving out numerous variances developers typically seek in their proposals. One current member of the Hoboken Zoning Board who requested anonymity described his actions doing so as similar to “handing out candy.” Novak is believed to be again seeking a zoning board slot and and possibly considering another run for the City Council in the First Ward seat currently occupied by Terry Castellano.
=&1=& Councilwoman Beth Mason was contacted for this story. She has typically not responded to email requests but if she does, this story will be updated.
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Although the evidence of the Zoning Board actually doesn’t support that dubious claim, it’s clear the party line is established and the fight to bring back the old guard big pro-developer candidates to the Hoboken Zoning Board should be expected.
Lane Bajardi who turned his back on reform led by the mayor’s coalition is currently allied with the Russo clan and not only following that party line, he’s advancing it even before a single person has been officially put into nomination for the upcoming open Zoning Board positions. Read More...