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Eduardo Gonzalez steps ahead for the Carmelo Garcia – Ruben Ramos ticket

by SmartyJones1 Min Reading

Multiple eyewitnesses verify Eduardo Gonzalez, a former Hoboken Housing Authority commissioner and Quality of Life group member is collecting council petitions for a run this November against incumbent Councilman Peter Cunningham in the fifth ward.

Gonzaelz, an ironclad vote for the status quo under the “ethnic cleanser” suing former Hoboken Housing Authority Executive Director Carmelo Garcia is expected to help round out a ticket under the Ruben Ramos banner.

One example of the low key Gonzalez’s ironclad HHA vote? He voted “yay” approximately seven times to re-appoint Charles Daglian for HHA counsel repeatedly put forward by Carmelo Garcia. Read More...

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The Hoboken SLAPP-suit heard ’round the world

by SmartyJones2 Min Reading
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The SLAPP suit heard around the world or at least throughout the state of New Jersey is seeing major coverage in and around the Tri-State area.

The NJ Law Journal released a major story yesterday and it’s listed as among the top stories today.

Lane Bajardi, an anchor on radio station 1010 WINS who is active in Hoboken politics, filed a suit in 2012 against 17 defendants, claiming he was defamed by various blog postings, including one calling him a “paid political operative,” and another accusing him of attempting to steal emails sent to Hoboken Mayor Dawn Zimmer.  The article continues:
Gibson and Cox failed to conduct a reasonable inquiry into whether the allegations in the suit had evidentiary support, Arre said. And Cohen’s claim that he had a reasonable basis to believe actual malice could be proven was contrary to evidence that the defendants’ allegedly defamatory statements were substantially true. 
To read the entire article, a free limited membership is available at their site.

In addition to the major write-up at the NJ Law Journal, articles about the Lane Bajardi and Kimberly Cardinal Bajardi frivolous SLAPP-suit appear on the NY Post, Hudson County View, Radioink, Hoboken Patch and the Hudson Reporter among others. Read More...

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The whining begins….

by SmartyJones1 Min Reading

It had to start sometime, this after all being Hoboken the home of a host of whiners and losers who are not about to celebrate Beth Mason’s latest political operation being taken down for the count.

After Hobken411 self-destructed, (congratulations Lane), the Old Guard, faux journalists and plain old miserable hacks haven’t been the same since. They desperately need a “safe space” where they can ply their trade of misinformation and fabrications without ginning up too many members of the Hoboken public in response. Read More...

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Coming soon…

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Best friends forever? The Hudson Reporter consistently withheld information on the true nature of the SLAPPers and the SLAPP-suit against a dozen Hoboken residents.  Now why is that?
IT CAME FROM THE DISTORTER!

(Now showing at a pro-SLAPP business partner newspaper near you.)

A CAREN-GENE-DAVE PROTECT THE CO-CONSPIRATORS PRODUCTION
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Grist for the Mill: Tiffanie Fisher is on the move in the second ward council sweepstakes

by SmartyJones1 Min Reading

Hoboken already seeing an explosion of candidates off to the races in the fourth ward won’t be lonely very long. Now it’s the uptown second ward coming to life with a similar eruption of candidates.

Despite the saber rattling of Beth Mason, the current occupant of the second ward council seat, unannounced candidacies are germinating of their own volition ready to spring into action.

Tiffanie Fisher, Hoboken activist
is on the move in the second ward.

The big news breaking uptown is Tiffanie Fisher, a resident of the Hudson Tea and member of the Hoboken Zoning Board. Word exploded uptown Sunday she’s begun collecting dozens of petitions among a groundswell of enthusiastic supporters for the Second Ward City Council election come November. Read More...

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Anatomy of a frivolous litigation with Beth Mason, Lane and Kimberly Cardinal Bajardi

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The decision rendered this week in Hudson Superior Court on Hoboken bloggers (commenters) is monumental on two fronts: NJ rights to political speech and frivolous litigation. 

First and foremost, there is no longer any lingering mystery about this Beth Mason supported SLAPP-suit.  In August 2012, the Hudson Reporter said this case could be of national importance and pointed to one example of a Washington State case where a single comment led to a negative verdict against a blogger. Read More...

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Report: First Amendment detonates free speech winds over Hoboken

by SmartyJones1 Min Reading

It’s early July with many focused on spending time with friends and family if not taking vacations – mini, maxi – or as one inspired commenter offered, catching up on the wisdom of Voltaire: the real one, not the little fascist phony quoting variety.

A nuclear detonation exploded over Hoboken Wednesday afternoon with Judge Patrick Arre’s 36 page legal decision dissecting three years of frivolous litigation against a dozen Hoboken residents including this editor. It was summed up as merely short of approaching a total “fraud on the Court.” Read More...

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BREAKING: COURT ORDERS BETH MASON “FRIENDS” LANE BAJARDI AND KIMBERLY CARDINAL BAJARDI TO PAY OVER $275,000 FOR FRIVOLOUS LITIGATION

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Lane Bajardi of 1010 WINS and a “friend” of Beth Mason and Richard Mason was slammed along with his wife for over $275,000 for frivolous litigation.
SLAPP stands for Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation and was evidenced in many defendants’ motions with the Bajardis’ own emails before Hudson Superior Court in the almost three year civil litigation. The court’s ruling is likely to harbor major First Amendment ramifications for political free speech. Judge Patrick R. Arre issued an order for frivolous litigation and sanctioning several of the Bajaridis attorneys issuing the bulk of fees in motions by the Hoboken defendants heard in oral argument last May. The bulk of the more than $275,000 fees were awarded to the defendants who went to trial: Nancy Pincus ($26,033) who writes the website Grafix Avenger, Roman Walter Brice, editor of The Hudson Mile Square View ($22,687) and named Screen Defendant M. Heyer $225,757.  Otther anonymous screen name defendants in the case dismissed in April 2014 were awarded $2,200. The Court agreed with defendants’ request for sanctions hitting Bajardis attorneys: a $2,000 sanction to =&8=& of Pennsylvania and $1,000 sanctions each to =&9=&
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Western Edge and Washington St. infrastructure on tap tonight in City Council

by SmartyJones2 Min Reading

Broadcast live streaming video on Ustream

It’s a sleepy summer day but there’s big final approvals up for Hoboken’s retry on a Western Edge plan and infrastructure on Washington St tonight.

This is the sole City Council meeting until early August.

Hoboken City Councilwoman Jen Giattino and the eight other
members will weigh in on major final legislaion tonight.

On tap:

  1. SECOND READING/PUBLIC HEARING AND FINAL VOTE

  1. ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF HOBOKEN ADOPTING THE “WESTERN EDGE
    R    EDEVELOPMENT PLAN,” DATED MAY 29, 2015 (sponsored by Councilman
    Cunningham and Councilman Doyle) (Z-357)

  2. BOND ORDINANCE AUTHORIZING THE REHABILITATION AND/OR
    REPLACEMENT OF WATER MAINS, THE COMPLETION OF DRAINAGE AND 
GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE IMPROVEMENTS AND THE COMPLETION OF
PHASE I OF ROADWAY AND TRAFFIC SIGNALIZATION IMPROVEMENTS
AND ENHANCEMENTS ALONG WASHINGTON STREET IN THE CITY OF
HOBOKEN, COUNTY OF HUDSON, NEW JERSEY; APPROPRIATING THE SUM
OF $9,957,030 THEREFOR; AUTHORIZING THE ISSUANCE OF GENERAL
OBLIGATION BONDS OR BOND ANTICIPATION NOTES OF THE CITY OF
HOBOKEN, COUNTY OF HUDSON, NEW JERSEY IN THE AGGREGATE
PRINCIPAL AMOUNT OF UP TO $9,485,000; MAKING CERTAIN
DETERMINATIONS AND COVENANTS; AND AUTHORIZING CERTAIN
RELATED ACTIONS IN CONNECTION WITH THE FOREGOING (sponsored by
Councilwoman Giattino and Councilman Doyle) (Z-360)
  1. BOND ORDINANCE AUTHORIZING THE COMPLETION OF VARIOUS CAPITAL
    IMPROVEMENTS AND THE ACQUISITION OF VARIOUS CAPITAL EQUIPMENT
    IN AND FOR THE CITY OF HOBOKEN, COUNTY OF HUDSON, NEW JERSEY;
    APPROPRIATING THE SUM OF     $2,150,000 THEREFOR; AUTHORIZING THE
    ISSUANCE OF GENERAL OBLIGATION BONDS OR BOND ANTICIPATION
    NOTES OF THE CITY OF HOBOKEN, COUNTY OF HUDSON, NEW JERSEY, IN
    THE AGGREGATE PRINCIPAL AMOUNT OF UP TO     $2,042,500; MAKING
    CERTAIN DETERMINATIONS AND COVENANTS; AND AUTHORIZING
    CERTAIN RELATED ACTIONS IN CONNECTION WITH THE FOREGOING
    (sponsored by Councilwoman Giattino and Councilman Doyle) (Z-361)





Unrelated: Commenters are anticipating the uptown second ward City Council race this November.

There’s a long list of potential candidates who are looking to take the seat currently occupied by Beth Mason – the most of any of the six wards in Hoboken. Read More...