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In late April 2009, the Hoboken political scene is sizzling with its mayoral and council at-large seats up for election in early May. With days left in the hotly contested race, three major candidates are vying for the top prize for Hoboken mayor: Council members Dawn Zimmer, Peter Cammarano and Beth Mason.
Amidst that battle, Joe Concha the editor of a Hoboken website RealHoboken, sends an email to Lane Bajardi inquiring if he’s ghostwriting at the notorious Mason sponsored website Hoboken411.
In Part I of the hospital series, an email from early 2011 from James Barracato, a years long political operative for Beth Mason optimistically mused, “They can really destroy the administration if they work things properly.”
From the Old Guard perspective, Mayor Zimmer had kept them blocked out of the bidding process and the complex workings over months to reach an agreement with the winning bidder HoldCo. The City of Hoboken with $52 million in bonds had every reason to want to see the deal succeed. Its failure could ultimately harm Hoboken and lead to massive municipal layoffs and the cusp of bankruptcy if not outright insolvency.
We’re just getting warmed up!
Hey there lads and lasses, if you want another tasty treat of the Hoboken Truth, then you need to spread the word. Get out and share today’s breaking Nazi Truck story on your Facebook and Twitter. (Shoot share a few of MSV’s Bench SLAPPED series while you’re at it.)
For those who consider themselves part of the Mile Square reform movement, wake up!
The handy buttons are available at the bottom of the story lower left. Beth will thank you later.
In an exclusive interview with the former business owner of the video truck connected to the 2012 Move Forward BoE campaign, better known as the Nazi Truck, Noel Torres stated all the transactions from payment to the controversial videos came in transactions via Beth Mason political operative James Barracato.
The Nazi Truck is notorious for flashing swastikas on two separate nights in an attack video against Grafix Avenger and numerous officials connected to Hoboken’s reform movement back in the fall 2012 Board of Education election.
The prism of Hoboken politics is under a microscope as the dark underbelly of the hyper-political partisanship of Beth Mason and her political operatives is exposed.
Much discussion in yesterday’s story related to the Hudson County View story. Perhaps it’s time for a little light hearted humor.
An original email from September 19, 2010:
In an exclusive news report yesterday afternoon by the Hudson County View, Beth Mason’s long time intimate political associate and friend Lane Bajardi is alleged posting vicious anti-Semitic attacks online in Hoboken against Mayor Dawn Zimmer and her family.
The comments made in 2009 came under two admitted screen names on NJ.com in a deposition Lane Bajardi gave last July in his $2,000,000 defamation case filed by him and his wife, Kimberly Cardinal Bajardi against almost a dozen online Hoboken commenters.
After almost three hours of discussion with much fair debate, Hoboken’s second wet weather pump is approved in a decisive 7-2 vote.
Tim Occhipinti made a decisive move indicating the financing was needed to move the project forward saying flooding was a priority for him in office. His support proved pivotal in seeing Hoboken’s second wet weather pump approved. The City Council had not two months earlier voted unanimously for the wet weather pump.
| Tim Occhipinti: key to success approving flood pump. |
Hours of discussion mainly in public portion saw dueling concerns between Maxwell Place and west side Hoboken residents. (Video at the link.) One Maxwell Place resident was asked to leave the meeting after repeatedly calling out during the council discussion.
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Hoboken will be most interested if tonight’s special City Council meeting can muster six required votes for its second wet weather pump. The pump which will be built underground by Maxwell Place was previously approved unanimously by the City Council.
A needed second vote however saw Council members Beth Mason and Terry Castellano reverse course and vote no leaving the measure one vote short of a required six to pass.
Timmy Occhipinti and Michael Russo were not in attendance last Wednesday so how they may vote tonight will be decisive. It would not be surprising to see neither Beth Mason or Terry Castellano not showing up at all. They can vote no by simply being absent from the special meeting putting the other two votes front and center.
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