MSV has been quietly tracking a story speaking with a few people about illegal investigations into the personal affairs of others leading into the city council election. There was a subtle reference to it in the Council forum debates and from the front row it was clear, an indirect reference to such activity made Councilwoman Mason uncomfortable. (Yes we noticed.)
A discussion on the distant past of 2nd ward council candidate Tom Greaney and financial problems he ran into a decade and a half ago is being wielded by Beth Mason’s political operatives on Mason411 re: Hoboken411 in an desperate bid to knock off her opponent.
Kids First announces:
Dear Friends and Neighbors,
This is it!!! Election Day! The day you keep the progress going!
The Board of Education election is today and the polls are open from 7am to 9pm.
Kids First has made help make so many incredible advances in the past two years – including hiring a wonderful new Superintendent, Dr Toback, giving the classrooms and teachers what they need and deserve, expanding opportunities for the students, creating processes that are fair and open and reducing the tax levy to the legal minimum. We have come so far….. we can’t stop now!!
Yesterday the vote by mail for the Board of Education arrived via another tsunami torrent. Did I say vote by mail? I meant vote by Calicchio as in don’t worry about getting a stamp, the young man on yet another Old Guard mission is going to deliver the mail for you from Hoboken to Jersey City and make sure it gets counted, all handy like.
A report from a reliable source indicated Matt Calicchio showed up at the Hudson County Board of Elections with a friend lugging in dozens and dozens of vote by mail ballots. Wonder if I could get a comment on that from Assemblywoman Joan Quigley who likes to sport red herrings on her lapel anytime questions arise on this practice of putting the US postman out of business for days during election time.
From the desk of Peter Cunningham:
Dear Friends, Family and Neighbors,
It is with pleasure and confidence that I support the Kids First slate
of candidates of Jean Marie Mitchell, Clifford Godfrey and Steve
Feinstein. While they have had their challenges, just like the City
has, Kids First continues to make progress.
1) Continued to cut waste in the District while absorbing millions
lost in state aid
2) Audited interlocal agreements that identified $120,000 in uncollected funds
3) Strictly enforced residency policy
4) Minimized tax burden allowed under state law
5) Hired highly qualified Superintendent
6) Transitioned from IB to AP programs
7) Recently established relationships with Stevens Institute and
Hudson County Community College
These are highlights of their fabulous achievements that have helped
provide exceptional choices for all our children whether they are in
Charter Schools, traditional Public Schools or Private. The Kids
First success has also helped lead the reform movement in Hoboken.
Their continued success leads to better value for your tax dollars,
improved property values and an overall posititve impact on our
quality of life.
Let’s work together to make it happen by supporting 3A, 4A and 5A.
More information on this great team can be found at www.kidsfirsthoboken.com.
Thanks, Peter
Leonard Luizzi for 5th ward council announces:
Sad day for the Franciscan Sisters of the Poor
Mayor Dawn Zimmer announces:
 Although Councilwoman Beth Mason and the ‘majority’ in the City Council have the complete budget on their table including an additional 5% tax cut if they ever get around to approving it; she’s sent out a mailer with some intriguing tax options. Beth Mason in her latest 2nd ward mailer is promising a 20% tax cut. Add in the 5% cut from late last year and that total a whopping 30%. Wow, how does she do it? Well she doesn’t answer that obvious question. Being that she opposed the police reorganization saving the city $2.5 annually plus more than a half million in benefits this year, it’s baffling where she would go to identify such savings. More than half Hoboken’s budget is in public safety. =&0=& There’s a lot of other filler all off kilter and part of the continuation of taking pot shots from every which angle at everyone who is anyone working in service to Hoboken under Mayor Zimmer. The mailer reiterates her call to reduce Directors salaries yet again, something she said at the last Council meeting she’s had her eyes on “for a while.” Of course she fails to say as she did in City Council they were already reduced to $103,000 under the mayor. Now she wants to whack them down to as low as $70,000. At the council meeting Councilwoman Carol Marsh remarked how strange it would be to reduce Directors salaries a second time in short order when they have dozens of people reporting to them. Hey give the woman an A for chutzpah. Beth Mason has it in spades. Hoboken would settle for her just filing her required ELEC report on her campaign financial expenditures this year. =&1=& and relaunch her political ambitions for Hoboken and beyond. Has anyone got a pulse on POG (People for Open Government)? Last seen they were running wheeling interference on behalf of Beth Mason and threatening to come up with a wheeling ordinance that would suit the Queen of Transparency. Some day. At the last city council meeting, Councilman Nino Giacchi raised some eyebrows endorsing unwritten and unknown POG anti-wheeling proposals as a way to oppose even introducing the existing legislation sponsored by Councilman Peter Cunningham. The POG President was then invited to speak on wheeling against the council rules on first introduction. This even though she has no ordinance to present. How very odd.That gnarly bit of condescending flesh, Deep Uvula is back puking its little guts up on Grafix Avenger and there’s some twisted turns and takes on everything from the BoE race tomorrow to the council races on May 10th. DU’s take on the Board of Ed election and the tsunami of paper ballots confirming the 500 plus paper ballot assault on behalf of the Frank Raia – Carmelo Garcia led slate: The absentees weren’t supposed to hit so early. Minor screw up. The BOE was supposed to be a surprise attack. No way does Kids First recover from the lead. Yesterday’s latest video surveillance tape showing crime in progress produced the loudest sound of silence from the council ‘majority’ one will ever hear. No cantankerous grandstanding, no multiple consultant approved email blast, no press conference called and held on the street, no chasing down local reporters to get quoted and no statement even acknowledging what occurred. There hasn’t even been a generic bland comment describing the heist as an “anomaly” from Old Guard political operative and Jersey City interloper spokesman David Cruz who appears on the ELEC reports of the Mason-Russo team for $250 a week each. |