At the HHA meeting, Da Horsey had the surprising pleasure to chat with Timothy Carroll in attendance. A former reporter at the local paper, PolitikerNJ and communications maven for NJ State Senators, Carroll’s currently working for Assemblyman Ruben Ramos so Hoboken may see him back in these parts leading into the mayoral election.

Carroll wrote a PolitickerNJ story back in late 2010 on the astronomical “coincidence” of paper ballots for the army of ‘campaign workers’ in the Tim Occhipinti campaign referencing a MSV story.

Here’s Sunday gift to today’s readers of historical insight into the HHA battle Thursday night and why the Old Guard mobilized in force, revealing some of their motivation for the personal attacks on HHA Chairman Jake Stuiver.

From the October 2010 PolitickerNJ story:

Read the whole story: http://www.politickernj.com/42578/inside-hoboken-s-absentee-boom

Here’s a graphic representation of what Timmy Occhipinti is all about.  It shows the absentee ballots (vote-by-mail) for all of Hudson County in the 2010 election.

For the Timmy’s of the world, which of these lines does not belong?  A full one-third of Occhipinti’s votes in 2010 came from paper ballots.  This should help you understand why the Old Guard and Timmy are fighting so hard in the HHA.  It’s not to allow for transparency, anything but.