Grist for the Mill: Kissing the ring of the Masonic Temple

After the Rotary event at Stevens last Saturday, a group descended on Elysian Cafe including Councilwoman Beth Mason, her husband Ricky and the always inscrutable Scott Delea with another self-proclaimed “independent.”
They spent some power seeking quality time together as Delea bent on half knee to kiss the Masonic Temple ring and pledge his fealty if the Ricky checkbook would be opened on his behalf as an at large candidate in 2013 where Mason imagines herself a winning mayoral candidate.
A bar patron interrupted the worship, telling others Beth Mason “will soon be in jail” loud enough for people in his party and Mason’s to hear.
The response from the Mason group came from the self-proclaimed neutral who then boasted, “One check from Ricky” to their employer “and you will never work again.”
There was no additional exchanges among the parties and no protest whatsoever from the other “independent” Scott Delea.
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Scott Delea seen kissing the Masonic Temple ring at the Elysian Cafe Saturday. He was silent on a threat to a Hobokenite from the Masonites. |
Talking Ed Note: MSV is following up with its lawyer who was issuing Scott Delea a letter for his copyright theft of this website’s work in thousands of flyers in his third failed attempt to win a city council seat last spring. A phone call “later today” to sort out the matter from Delea via his lawyer was conveyed in an email but never came months ago.
Which speaks volumes on all you need to know about Scott Delea along with this public appearance.
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