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Ramos backer David Liebler details alleged encounter with Occhipinti campaign manager Jamie Cryan

The bad blood between campaigns bled over outside the political arena when Ramos campaign supporter David Liebler alleged an encounter on Washington Street yesterday with the campaign manager for the Raia-Mason slate Jamie Cryan.

Cryan who is friends with Tim Occhipinti, the occupant of the fourth ward seat once held by Assemblyman Ruben Ramos, ran his controversial 2010 special election fourth ward campaign. Cryan was contacted for his version of events early this morning. For the moment here’s David Liebler detailing his account and complaining to Tim Occhipinti for “stabbing” Ruben Ramos in the back. Read More...

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Tonight’s City Council meeting is the finale before the November 5th mayoral and council at-large election.  Meaning there will be some hard objects and harsh words flying around.

There’s also a last desperate bid on tap to attack the mayor by a rabid group of directed Carmelitos rumored to be in the offing.

You may have heard about the coordinated political attacks orchestrated by Councilwoman Beth Mason and her Old Guard political operatives coordinated with local media – what MSV has previously deemed the Mason Media Complex.  All this noise is a mere web of lies wrapped around smoke with not a dime benefitting either Councilman Ravi Bhalla who is up for election in November or his new employer Florio Perrucci.  (The firm is not pursuing any new work with the City of Hoboken and has none ongoing whatsoever.) There has been lots of buying and actual selling in Hoboken but not solely for legal goods and services. There’s offices such as the former Hoboken municipal prosecutor and “journalists” who put themselves on the market and/or put their wares up for sale to the highest bedder, bidder.  Questions of when monies were cashed, under what circumstances is a murky swamp these hooves don’t swim in. Yet. It’s not that they so readily sell out this community; it’s they are so willing to do so… so cheaply. The relentless fabrications what Beth Mason herself incorrectly calls defamation against Councilman Ravi Bhalla are disgraceful but the attacks on Corporation Counsel Mellisa Longo by the Masonista sponsored Hoboken411 are a new low. Hey, that’s how Beth Mason rolls. She’s been doing this to people directly and indirectly by her paid surrogates for years.  (See bludiamonds.)  Rather then turning a blind eye, Da Horsey locked in on this game back in 2009  in a Horse Sense editorial.

The media cover is a “he said, she said,” blind eye form of non-journalism. It allows the monied and unprincipled to “get out their message” and do personal, political if not professional harm to others.  All an editor needs to do is deem it newsworthy. Read More...

Coming on the heels of the award to Mayor Zimmer in New York City as “Hero of the Harbor,” for her “extraordinary leadership and courage” managing post Hurricane Sandy another award scheduled to be presented tonight in the City Council meeting by the American Planning Association is set to be ambushed.

This award scheduled to be made to Mayor Zimmer in the last City Council meeting before the November 5th municipal election will be attacked by a band of Carmelitos according to reliable sources. Read More...

The following email was sent yesterday by Councilwoman Beth Mason to Council President Peter Cunningham and numerous local media sources.

A guest piece from bludiamonds with an intimate relationship not as a political operative with the Mason Media Complex obtained the email from an uptown based media friend and issued this guest piece announcing its resignation over the sordid Old Guard “Raavee Affair.”

The below email is true and original minus one city employee change:

From: beth@masoncitycouncil.org
Date: October 16, 2013 5:38:06 PM EDT
To: cunninghamforhoboken@gmail.com
Cc: Cityclerk@hobokennj.org, J <jx.xx@hobokennj.org>, terry@theresacastellano.com, deand@hudsonreporter.com, hoboken411@gmail.com, chack@jjournal.com, editor@politickernj.com, furibe@hudsoncountytv.com, JCTalking2000@yahoo.com, zak.koeske@patch.com, CMatzner@hudsonreporter.com, asullivan@hudsonreporter.com  Read More...

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Cory Booker the current mayor of Newark appears to have won his bid to be a US Senator from New Jersey.

According to the Star Ledger, Booker is the winner against Republican Steve Lonegan with a projected margin of 55-44, far closer than most pundits and pollsters predicted.

While one poll had Lonegan in the range of ten points, most others showed far larger margins and it wasn’t expected Lonegan would have the means to muster a strong closing challenge.  He was operating at a wide disparity in campaign funds: almost $10 million for the celebrity aura of Booker versus less than $2 million. Read More...

Union Local 825 announces:

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