It is an incomparable disgrace to witness the so-called “Entitlement Class” of modern aristocrats who now control the City Council unabashedly admit to an expectation of keeping that control as it were their fathers’ right to pass the house on to the child.  One of the many contemptuous notions of Hoboken’s Entitlement Class is that they feel they are deserving of the keys to the city (and more importantly the city’s coffers) because, they contend, to have suffered through the hard times, or because, more egregiously, their families have maintained such control for so many years.

Listen to them talk of their family names like Old World nobility as if the thieves who have sullied Hoboken’s name for their own benefit only could possibly own of anything that were noble.  Defend their reputations they do, praising the brethren, CONVICTED FELONS WHO STOLE MILLIONS FROM OUR CITY, as if they had committed minor mistakes since then repented.  Is it repentance to never pay back what you owe the residents of our fine city?  Is it repentance to avoid fines and penalties costs with lies and shifting of real estate to other family members?  Is it repentance to disgrace our city with selfish motives and to continue to play politics vicariously through disingenuous progeny?  Ignore the graft and corruption they do, speaking of the brief, good moments (“But we plowed the snow, did we not?”) while forgetting the painful, suffering, corrupt era that has spoiled so much of the potential of our fine city.  

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Talking Ed Note: Before you ask, MSV has not confirmed the author and can not reveal his identity other than to say it is not your host here as some have suggested.  However, there are echoes of similarity in our thoughts as we head toward the decisive citywide Council ward elections May 10th.

It’s only the heart and soul of Hoboken that’s at stake.