The whispers are growing about a shakeup in the Hoboken mayor’s office. The blowback from the election where Joe Crowley in Queens went down in the primary reverberates and his campaign manager may be eyeing a return to Hoboken

Vijay Chaudhuri, campaign manager also for Ravi Bhalla last fall is said to be looking to return working in the mayor’s office. The former campaign manager in a controversial “terror flyer” fueled victory (sources unknown) may seek a chair back in the mayor’s office where he worked as Chief of Staff for former mayor Dawn Zimmer. Overcrowded with Ravi Bhalla having doubled the political aides on arrival, the City Council is not likely to sit idly with another political fixture added to the mayor’s office payroll. Read More...

Or a hit is a hit.

Last Thursday’s visit from the FBI to an accounting business on Adams St. wasn’t the only visit made. MSV can exclusively report confirmation of an earlier unpublished report four black unmarked cars conducted an earlier raid up on Castle Point.

According to an eyewitness account, the cars were filled with FBI agents and allegedly went directly to the home of Louis Picardo, one of the owners of the accounting business on Adams Street.

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Official release:

The City Council voted 7-2 last night in favor of a resolution that cancels a contract for a law firm that had been representing Mayor Ravi Bhalla in an appeal of an ethics violation that was upheld by the Local Finance Board in November 2017, just days after Bhalla was elected as Mayor. The ethics complaint was originally filed against Bhalla by a resident in 2010 after the then-Councilman voted for a city contract for an attorney with whom he shared an office lease. Read More...

Last night, the Hoboken City Council held its August meeting with sparse denizens from the public in attendance.

One Ravibot showed up to perform a summer hit job to no consequence while another Mayor Ravi Bhalla political effort to massively increase parking fines came up empty.

The agenda item failed to obtain any council member’s sponsorship. Ravi Bhalla could not even get councilmembers Jim Doyle and Emily Jabour nor backdoor ally Michael Russo to sign on and see discussion.

The Administration item was promptly yanked without a word said. Read More...

Official release:

It’s official and with five count’em five whole candidates for three BoE trustee seats this fall’s November lineup will appear under the following slate names.

The following five names and slates are official candidates pending certification per the Hudson County Board of Elections.

Patricia Waiters – Education Before Politics

Malani Cadematori – Hoboken Proud
Thomas Kluepfel – Hoboken Proud
John Madigan – Hoboken Proud

Ailene McGuirk – All Our Kids

While other nearby towns feature 10 candidates (Jersey City) and 20 candidates (Bayonne) for their respective open BoE seats in the fall election, Hoboken will feature far less. Read More...

Mid-summer, most of Hoboken is rolling in the summer breeze with Frank Sinatra notes blowing through their hair. But for some, it’s not a summer wind but the deadline for filing candidacies in the Board of Education election this fall.

The filing deadline for BoE candidates is this afternoon at 4:00 sharp. There’s more than a bit of buzz about possible candidates and odder alliances.

Two current trustees up for re-election are Tom Kleupfel and John Madigan, polar opposites of the historical divide between reform and Old Guard elements believed to be on good terms on the nine-member board. Read More...

Semi-Official release