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Nazi Truck Mastermind

by SmartyJones1 Min Reading
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In an exclusive interview with the former business owner of the video truck connected to the 2012 Move Forward BoE campaign, better known as the Nazi Truck, Noel Torres stated all the transactions from payment to the controversial videos came in transactions via Beth Mason political operative James Barracato.

The Nazi Truck is notorious for flashing swastikas on two separate nights in an attack video against Grafix Avenger and numerous officials connected to Hoboken’s reform movement back in the fall 2012 Board of Education election. Read More...

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Six year anniversary of Peter Cammarano's arrest

by SmartyJones1 Min Reading
Six years ago today, former mayor Peter Cammarano arrested for taking $25,000 in bribes

Hard to believe but it was six years ago today, Mayor Peter Cammarano of Hoboken received a knock at the door from the FBI at 6:00 am saying, “Come with us.”

The FBI would release a criminal complaint detailing how Cammarano had taken $25,000 in bribes for the promise of backing an unknown developer project sight unseen in Hoboken.

Cammarano was heard reassuring the FBI informant Solomon Dwek, “I promise you… you’re gonna be, you’re gonna be treated like a friend.” Read More...

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BREAKING ALERT: Be on the lookout for a Beth Mason telephone poll

by SmartyJones2 Min Reading
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Hoboken is trying to enjoy the late breaking summer weather but they best be on the lookout when that magical phone poll comes in asking/pushing a vote for Bet Mazin.

Yea, Da Horsey can confirm Beth Mason is phoning us here in the second ward and her political operatives want to know if we’ll vote for her and her imagined $21,000,000 surplus. Among the candidates Beth Mason is willing to have you polled: well herself, Tiffanie Fisher and Franz Paetzold with perennial candidate Patricia Waiters.
Hi, are you votin for Bet Mazin?
A phone poll with the Mason fingerprints is out and about
in Hoboken’s second ward. Be on the lookout but know
you can’t vote for Peter Biancamano from the listed candidates.
Glaringly missing from the Beth Mason phone poll: Bonnie Murray who is all but an announced candidate and Frank “Pupie’ Raia’s horse in the second ward, Peter Biancamano who is a sitting trustee on the Hoboken Board of Education. Gee, why do you think FinBoy and company left out Biancamano? Did he want to beef up the numbers from some Hoboken second ward residents who might opt to select him over Beth Mason?

Do bottom feeding Weehawken wannabe sharks like to chew on bloody chum?

Hey, people are desperate to keep that Mason family checkbook open as long as possible. This is their only and possibly last paycheck in Hudson County and NJ, political career people in the know are saying.

With that, here are the actual questions:

Are you registered to vote? 

Is the city headed in the right direction or wrong track?

What are the top issues to address?

Please offer favorable (very) or unfavorable (very) on the following officials?

Dawn Zimmer

Beth Mason Read More...

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Timmy Time in the 4th?

by SmartyJones1 Min Reading

It’s Timmy Time, maybe not in the fourth ward this November but on PolitickerNJ featuring a Q&A with the current occupant of the seat.

Timmy Occhipinti offers a mixture of the Hoboken forging ahead and his changing with it.
The answers hold some intrigue in the mixture of old Timmy and new Timmy.

Timmy Occhipinti is a candidate again for the fourth ward City Council seat as pictured here in 2010 pursued by Sara Stojkovic, a pal of frivolous SLAPPer Kimberly Cardinal Bajardi and Beth Mason.

Old Timmy took credit for things he really had no hand in, re: Mama Johnson’s field.
New Timmy doesn’t automatically attack progress in Hoboken led by reform and the administration.

One of the biggest issues not mentioned is Hoboken University Medical Center. Read More...

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Da Horsey’s Hoboken News Roundup

by SmartyJones1 Min Reading

It’s mid-summer in July but the news in Hoboken keeps coming fast and furious. If you blink, you’re likely to miss something.

Among the Mile Square news items:

Senator Bob Menendez is making news again. Not for fighting corruption charges but for raising a formidable legal war chest to fight off the Feds. Hudson County View covered one legal maneuver expected to be heard this week with the senator seeking a dismissal of the charges. 

Related to that story of Menendez’s massive $2.9 million legal fund is this Hoboken nugget starring the Barry family, the renegers who are making millions in profits off the Shipyard project uptown but backed out of promised parking and tennis courts. They have gone to court to push for two apartment towers, the Monarch Project. Read More...

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Can’t stand it, can’t stand it, can’t stand the heat

by SmartyJones1 Min Reading

City of Hoboken announces:

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The National Weather Service has issued a heat advisory through this evening, and heat index values may reach near 100 degrees.  The City of Hoboken has opened two cooling centers at the basement conference room of City Hall, 94 Washington Street and at the Multi-Service Center, 124 Grand Street until 6 pm tonight.  Both centers will also be open tomorrow from 12 pm until 6 pm.   Read More...

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PolitickerNJ: Six questions for fourth ward council candidate Dana Wefer

by SmartyJones1 Min Reading

PolitickerNJ shared some Q&A with Hoboken fourth ward council candidate Dana Wefer who also is chair of the Hoboken Housing Authority.

A sample of their conversation reveals some distinguishing factors Wefer feels work in her stead against incumbent Timmy Occhipinti and 2013 mayoral candidate Ruben Ramos.

In the article, Wefer explains why she feels Occhipinti has come up short on several fronts and why Ruben Ramos would similarly act in shortchanging fourth ward residents.

She boldly predicts she will have the backing of Mayor Dawn Zimmer, herself a formidable candidate who came out of some memorable slug fests in 2007 against hometown favorite Chris Campos. Read More...

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Michael Russo is in it to win… 5th ward?

by SmartyJones1 Min Reading

It’s summer in Hoboken meaning the November elections for six of nine City Council seats is not high on the list of resident concerns.

For those looking to get on the November election ballot for city council however, it’s nothing short of election season. The petition frenzy officially is underway with some candidates sending out juvenile hordes to get required registered voters in their ward to satisfy the August 31st deadline.

Councilman Michael Russo, a lifelong resident of Hoboken may need to get a ward map for his campaign workers. According to residents, teeny-boppers are knocking on their doors asking for signatures to get him on the ballot for November. Read More...

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Coming soon on MSV: Retrospective on Beth Mason

by SmartyJones1 Min Reading

It’s summer in Hoboken which typically means vacations, enjoying the great outdoors with a glass of wine or beer or frolicking along the Mile Square’s revitalized river views.

MSV is doing a retrospective on the political career of Beth Mason. How did so much promise go so wrong and who led her down the path to political ruin?
How did a political career which started with so much
promise go so wrong? 
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