Hoboken gets some love from Political Insider Augie Torres
It’s not often Augie Torres who writes the Political Insider column for the Jersey Journal showers attention on Hoboken let alone a column but hey, it’s Christmas.
He correctly notes the attention and heat next year will be on the Mile Square City with six of nine ward seats up next November. He tossed his hat and sprayed some flotsam and jetsam around, mainly focusing on Hoboken’s City Council President seat and obviously spreading some bad egg nog on the subject. Courtesy no doubt of a certain Old Guard council member he has friendly relations who lives in a famous tower and disgruntled reform defectors.
So Da Horsey decided after seeing a heads up from one of our brilliant commenters to hit Augie up. Of course we elected to do so in a transparent style to avoid misunderstanding, ill will or a rash ego hitting the delete button.
For a guy who doesn’t really cover Hoboken, he actually gets a lot right. It’s an impressive display considering Jersey City and most of Hudson County is the regular beat.
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Augie Torres (l) showed Hoboken some love on his Political Insider column this week. He gets a lot right for someone who doesn’t cover Hoboken much. He could get more if he reached out a bit to the reform folks he’s writing about. |
Here’s the holiday love note seeded there just earlier:
Talking Ed Note: There’s mention by the Political Insider of former Zimmerites “willing to drop a dime.” That may be the truth but does it mean when the dime connects the parties what the disgruntled is saying is the truth?
It says here it ain’t and a Hoss just proved it.
Related: This is only the second time the Political Insider has graced MSV’s pages. The last one was not a small deal when he “lurched” toward the truth.
Da Horsey salutes whenever that happens, no matter how it happens and invites the Fourth Estate to join the Fifth Estate and stand up for the First Amendment. It’ll certainly make for a better victory party.
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