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The big barnstorming event last night for Mayor Zimmer is not all the news that’s fit to print in the Mile Square City today.

There’s word confirmed from the Team DeFusco camp his first quarter campaign report filed with NJ-ELEC and it’s a bonanza of riches almost certain to raise eyebrows.

The reported Team DeFusco net for the first quarter is in the vicinity of $90,000.

A source close to DeFusco confirmed the campaign proceeds approaches $90,000!

The benchmark haul is sure to generate lots of attention, surprise and some heated phone lines in and outside the Mile Square City. If the figure turns out to be in the ballpark of $90,000 assumptions will be made concluding a race for the Hoboken November mayoral and three at-large seats is most definitely on. Read More...

The planets aligned with the stars shining favorably on the political fundraiser for Mayor Dawn Zimmer.

One rising star brought plenty of supernova power with him. That would be presumed Democratic nominee for governor Phil Murphy. Hundreds filled the room at the new restaurant at 14th and Willow, Porter Collins and the good will overflowed embracing most of Hoboken if not Hudson County.

The new large uptown restaurant was jammed wall to wall with politicos of all stripes mixing with long time Hoboken Reform activists. The crowd into the hundreds was a mosh pit mingling in the juice of those in the know, in power or anticipating both. Read More...

Or sometimes the early am. One could wince with the “anonymous” rantings over on Grafix Avenger and no one would say you’re out of order.

Is accusing an event cafe of illegally serving alcohol at private events fair comment?

That’s the musings among a select crowd that is less selective about ranting about such things and going overboard with the vodka and the baby water.

The weather is too nice and Passover and the Holy Week of Easter are upon us. There’s little desire to see an outbreak of villainy here. Horsey believes in free speech; it’s not an extreme position but basic First Amendment advocating will get you stifled with politically correct suppression laws and literal lashings in certain corners. Read More...

Enter spring and the tide of the seasons is sweeping out pretenders and wannabe contenders for the Mile Square City mayoral sweepstakes. The November mayoral election contest is off in the distance this fall but it’s the descent of improbable candidacies looming in the spring.

Councilman Mike DeFusco, the ambitious First Ward Councilman is discovering some of these lessons the hard way. Mayor Dawn Zimmer will be bringing in big gun Phil Murphy, former US Ambassador to Germany and likely NJ gubernatorial candidate for her fundraiser next week. The favored Democratic candidate for NJ governor sheds his light of inevitability: on both himself and Mayor Zimmer’s prospects for a third term as mayor. It’s less a campaign stop of mutual admiration than the prelude to the parade of a conquering hero. Read More...

According to a late Friday report on InsiderNJ, attempts by the Hoboken’s Old Guard Russo faction to win the primary line under Assemblyman John Wesniewski who is running for NJ governor failed.

The effort came after Mayor Zimmer’s Reform team rebuffed attempts to share the local Democratic committee Line A under NJ gubernatorial candidate Phil Murphy in the June primary.

From the late breaking Friday report:

A day earlier, April 6th InsiderNJ story reporting the Russo faction Democrat committee candidates would run under Wisnewski was either premature, inaccurate or in retrospect rejected. Read More...