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February went out, well, like a happy lion cub with warm breezes and sunshine but the recent kerfuffle over voter fraud in Hoboken made quite a splash in the City Council last month.

The torrent of finger pointing unleashed itself with some odd misfires from Mayor Ravi Bhalla who made less than substantiated accusations pointing to the City Council before backtracking soon after in official releases to the City.

One Hoboken resident at the February 21st meeting pointedly stated they would be revisiting the issue of voter fraud at council meetings as long as it takes. At the previous meeting, the same resident noted there may be people involved in voter fraud “in the audience.” There’s been visible tensions on and off camera. Read More...

Those council efforts at outreach were apparently put out of their misery late yesterday with a shot across the bow by Hoboken City Council President Ruben Ramos.

The Council President took square aim at new Hoboken mayor Ravi Bhalla as details of his law firm employment contract with Lavery Selvaggi Abromitis & Cohen emerged.  He’s less than pleased with it, to put it mildly.

Ramos all but called the contract dirty and an outright bribe stating “it’s basically a 60K no show job… the only thing that’s missing is Solomon Dwek and the FedEx envelope,” in a story appearing late yesterday on Hudson County View. Read More...

Official release:

So the question is will you join the fight and support at a minimum government accountability?

The stakes are nothing less. With the latest Hoboken City Hall “sham” revealed, Hoboken stands on the precipice of seeing City Hall reduced to a Hudco bad government principality in practice at best or at worst, an outright banana republic.

Many are calling the law firm arrangement seen in the broken promise of Mayor Bhalla’s law firm contract unprecedented in the Mile Square City’s history. Read More...