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Tonight’s City Council meeting is a special meeting to me for it’s the last night 2nd Ward Councilwoman Elizabeth Mason will be misrepresenting Hoboken residents. We will no longer have to endure her scorched earth politics involving behind the scenes operatives, massive political expenditures found illegal by NJ ELEC, use of PACs to fund smear fliers in the last 6th Ward election, her wanton and reckless obstructionism with respect to Hoboken’s hospital, fixing Washington Street, the Municipal Garage, and open public support of the Pravda of Hoboken websites and purveyor of political porn yellow journalism, Hoboken 411.
Reflecting on the demise of Beth Mason’s political “career,” former
editor of the Hoboken Journal, Kurt Gardiner opines on the years long
war against the First Amendment undertaken by Beth Mason. |
This is a woman who as a political public figure has demonstrated that she will go to any lengths to suppress her constitutionally protected critics. This being accomplished with smear articles by her operative ghostwriter and editor on Hoboken 411, purported frivolous lawsuits by operatives falsely claiming harassment including herself for simply being served a subpoena and of course the landmark victory for First Amendment rights in the defeat of her minion Lane Bajardi vs. The Hoboken Bloggers. In the issued legal decision favoring the defendants last July,
Judge Patrick Arre stated that this litigious action was a “SLAPP lawsuit disguised as defamation case” and that “it approached a fraud upon the court.”
Numerous emails obtained in discovery have shown the extent of political operations covering quote “Beth Mason’s flank” by the plaintiffs including an email with Lane Bajardi pleading with Ricky Mason to support his potential legal action. Now that we know the facts of the case and have the legal judgement, the main purpose of the whole lawsuit was to suppress her critics and send them into bankruptcy as a few Beth Mason supporters have stated to me personally. Thank goodness for the just verdict and the fact we live in the US and not some dictatorial totalitarian regime. The idea of a gulag for bloggers has firmly been rejected by the courts. Read More...
