In this week with many focused on religious observance, others planning time with family or vacation, word of a massive city wide campaign mailer from Councilwoman Beth Mason, the unannounced, self-annointed and self-financed leader of the resistance to all things Mayor Zimmer continues apace or rather to run amok.
With the Y uptown crumbling in the wake of its inability to meet payroll in Beth Mason’s own 2nd ward, you’d think maybe a fundraiser with a nice fat donation would be the kind of leadership to garner some publicity (or rehabilitation) but no such luck. The descent into the abyss of ambition is taking yet another strange and terrible turn. Last year Hoboken had mayoral elections spanning most of the year but now Beth Mason has decided it’s really still 2009 and this time she’s really in it to win. She’s not kidding. You may think it’s 2010, but Beth is geared up and ready to make a mayoralty run splash right now. If she wakes up and discovers there’s no city hall election, her Hoboken consulting team, devoid of any Hobokenites has mapped out a plan. First sting the mayor with a Passover gift of wine filled with oodles of gelt instead, video cameraman at the ready for later editing, followed with impeachment proceedings to be held in the court of Beth Mason. Hey, we hear there’s a new courtroom going up at 13th and Washington right now. The Y swimming pool is going to be rebuilt into a romper room kangaroo court, the Honorable Beth Mason presiding. All please rise. Read More...