It’s been a full week since the election and we allowed the dust to settle so folks can better appreciate the glory and the splendor of our final mayoral race for the year. (Yes that’s a joke.)   Let’s take a look at our handicap and see how Da Horsey performed.  Astute readers saw our odds sheet and could determine it was also a list of the finishers in reverse order.  As we called it: Everton Wilson, Patricia Waiters, Nathan Brinkman, Kim Glatt, Beth Mason, Frank Raia and Dawn Zimmer.  We had it almost dead perfect if you inverse Raia and Mason who were within a clear length of each other.  Da Horsey will confess to making one mistake.  Privately, we told someone we didn’t expect Mason would get over 20% of the vote.  She managed to exceed it by a length.  
Okay on to the next personal political issue: who will replace Dawn Zimmer on the City Council in the 4th Ward?  As we understand it, the City Council will vote on a candidate in the next 30 days to determine who holds the appointment for the next year followed with an election in November 2010.  Should no appointment occur a special election would be scheduled some time in February.  In a 4-4 deadlock on the council, a deciding vote is made by the Mayor.  If that’s the case, Mayor Dawn Zimmer will be even more influential in the final choice.


Here are the names in alphabetical order of the five candidates whispered in our ear:
Frances Jennings – contributor to the successful Kids First coalition, Moms for Change
Michael Lenz – former Hoboken Chief Financial Officer, election advisor
Rami Pinchevsky – open space advocate – Save Park 11
Tony Soares – former Hoboken City Councilman
Jake Stuiver – 4th Ward/Hoboken community activist, Hoboken Housing Authority Representative
Other than the criteria we set below, we have no endorsement. Our barn is not located in the 4th Ward anyway. We leave it to the readers and residents of the 4th Ward to consider who would be best.  After all, the Mayor did ask for you to stay involved.  You don’t need a horse to do that on your behalf do you?  Nevertheless, here’s our criteria, cognizant of the internal workings we are not privy to but we have a singular one, as always:
All Hoboken, by Hoboken, for Hoboken – no external powers/bosses shall reign over our land.  Call us naive, we don’t care.  Da Horsey also believes in love and organic carrots.  The rest in no specific order: Read More...