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Shiny Penny Mike DeFusco goes all out in Big Lie attack

by SmartyJones1 Min Reading

Many will have seen the latest mailer from Councilman Mike DeFusco in his last ditch bid to see the Big Lie technique fool voters against his mayoral rivals City Council President Jen Giattino and Councilman Ravi Bhalla.

A quick analysis of the attacks features a reference to debt. Councilman Mike DeFusco has supported bonding for infrastructure improvements in Hoboken and to date, those measure weren’t considered controversial. He’s voiced in bizarre fashion, payments for infrastructure need to be made from the budget. He of course doesn’t suggest who he will tax to obtain immediate funding in such a proposal. No one pays for long term capital improvements out of an annual budget. Read More...

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Jen Giattino: ‘Join our Hoboken based movement to reach the finish line’

by SmartyJones2 Min Reading

Official release:

Dear Friends:

We have accomplished so much together but I need your help to get over the finish line.  With just 13 days left and another campaign fundraising deadline coming up at midnight tonight, we’re still short of our fundraising goal.  I am asking for your support once again.

Will you support us with a donation of $25 or more?  You can click here for an easy way to give now.

I am completely humbled that 220 donors have given approximately $147,000 to date to support Team Giattino and am proud that over 90% of this has come from Hoboken.  Every dollar that is spent goes to reaching voters – whether mailers, flyers, social media, or all the additional services and events.   And every future dollar raised will be spent the same way.

My running mates Jim Aibel, Jason Ellis and Sal Starace and I have all been working hard to meet our neighbors citywide – hearing about and discussing the issues that really matter every day to all of us.  Although we may not share all of the same views, I have found that we do all share a common goal of having the best quality of life in Hoboken.  I am looking forward to working even harder as your mayor to make your quality of life my priority.

I appreciate any additional support you can provide, and remain grateful for all that you have provided so far.  This election will be won by all of us.

Thank you for stepping up when it matters most.  Please vote for Team Giattino on November 7th.

– Jen
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Post defamation, the stupidity at the Cave digs deeper

by SmartyJones1 Min Reading

If the early story wasn’t sufficiently crushing enough to blow Sybil’s Cave to smithereens, the utter vapidity and raging ego digs deeper on the way to China.

Altering the earlier story to remove the outright defamation is replaced with a hasty attack on Jen Giattino debunked yesterday on twitter by Jason Freeman. It’s regurgitated in a desperate bid to change the narrative in TextGate.

Now the distraction attempts to point to some moral equivalence to the City Council President at the Hudson Reporter mayoral forum. Her phone is seen on the table and this presented as an equivalence to the activity MSV accurately showed depicted on videotape at the Mile Square Theatre. Read More...

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Defamation at the desperate Bonkers for Bhalla Cave leads to further exposure in Bhalla TextGate!

by SmartyJones1 Min Reading
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Yesterday MSV established the getting hotter by the minute issue of TextGate. Witnesses pointed out someone was contacting Councilman Ravi Bhalla on his phone during the mayoral forum.

The question to the Bhalla campaign was posed early yesterday an hour before the gristy chewable goods went up and the invitation for an answer is pending.  So the TextGate issue was highlighted in the Grist for the Mill rumor column. To date, there’s no Bhalla campaign explanation and no defense offered although a follow-up opportunity was extended. Read More...

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TextGate, 70 story Hoboken towers and Reform is kaput, show me the loot!

by SmartyJones1 Min Reading
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The mayoral forum Sunday morning went off without a hitch. Other than the bombs being lobbed by some of the candidates it was relatively peaceful. Until the question of campaign funding came up on the six figure flows into Hoboken campaigns. Then things got red hot.

Hundreds of thousands of dollars have flowed into Hoboken this campaign cycle to two council members’ campaigns: Mike DeFusco and Ravi Bhalla. Asked what do those foreign investors expect, the answers showed classic avoidance avoidance behavior with a couple of M-80s tossed into the mix. Read More...

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Valente Campaign’s Newest Video Spotlights the Need to End Residential Parking Meters

by SmartyJones1 Min Reading
=&0=& =&1=& Angelo Valente, Independent Candidate for the Hoboken Council at Large, has released another video in the series of videos showcasing the Valente for Hoboken common sense campaign platform. The video released at ValenteForHoboken.Com focus’s on Valente’s plan to remove parking meters in residential areas. 

“I believe parking meters in residential communities are wrong at all levels,” said Valente. He explained, “It sends the wrong signal when we are now charging our friends and family to pay to visit our homes, and interrupting family gatherings every two hours feeding the parking meters to avoid hefty fines. I will introduce a resolution to the city council to eliminate parking meters in all residential areas.” Read More...

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Hoboken mayoral forum at Mile Square Theatre

by SmartyJones1 Min Reading

The first of two mayoral forums was conducted earlier today courtesy of the Mile Square Theatre and

John Heinis, publisher and editor of the Hudson County View.

John Heinis of the Hudson County View.

The candidates took questions and rebuttals with several audience members participating with questions.

Some of what we learned, Councilman Mike DeFusco is a declared “independent” who is concerned with bonding by the City although he’s voted on bonding himself as a councilman of less than two years.

Councilman Ravi Bhalla is planning to unveil a proposal to support arts in Hoboken but local businesswoman Karen Nason is making efforts now bringing art from New York City and wants more while City Council President Jen Giattino wants to see the City support arts for children. Read More...