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Council President Jen Giattino’s response to the news that longtime resident and former Democratic Majority leader of the New Jersey State Senate Bernard F. Kenny Jr. has endorsed her candidacy for Hoboken Mayor. “I am incredibly honored and grateful that Senator Bernie Kenny has chosen to support my run for Mayor. His support over the years has been invaluable to me as a public servant. As is Bernie’s way his comments are thoughtful and compelling. You can read them here.” =&0=&Hoboken’s contentious mayoral election is red hot. If the trail isn’t warm enough for you, there’s this commercial looking production flying around town about Ravi Bhalla and the Suez water contract. Although it’s not clear where it originates, there’s many opponents who would be so motivated.
Or perhaps a citizen’s group is retaliating for Ravi Bhalla’s pay to play PAC connections as seen on the Fox News channel commercials connected to the massive proposed NJ Transit development downtown.
The first, Perry Belfiore is a long time Bhalla nemesis and DeFusco backer who is hunting Ravi Bhalla conflicts and filed an ethics complaint in 2010 about Bhalla sharing an office with another law practitioner.
The second, David Liebler was a backer of anti-Administration Old Guard candidates and supported the Vision 20/20 redevelopment proposed by the always controversial Carmelo Garcia.
According to a well placed source, the people thrown out of the meeting was decided in advance of the City Council meeting. Earlier that day, a story appearing on PolitickerNJ recounting emails between the mayor’s husband, Stan Grossbard and members of the Hoboken Housing Authority board.
Last night was the final campaign event for Team Giattino with one week before Hoboken’s key mayoral and council at-large election. A surprise appearance among the dozens of revelers: the former NJ Democratic Senate Majority Leader Bernard Kenny.
The former NJ Democratic Senate Majority Leader Bernard Kenny joins the Hoboken mayoral candidate and City Council President Jen Giattino, BoE trustee Irene Sobolov and Hoboken reform activist Deirdre Wall at Wicked Wolf. |
Here is last Wednesday’s mayoral forum hosted by Stevens at the Debaun auditorium.
The mayoral forum is divided into two approximately one hour segments and features: Hoboken resident Ron Bautista, Councilman Mike DeFusco, Councilman Ravi Bhalla, City Council PresidentJen Giattino, Hoboken resident Karen Nason and Freeholder Anthony Romano.
The entire proceedings come courtesy of the Hoboken Quality of Life Coalition and is moderated by Bob Bowdon.
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Joshua Einstein, the independent candidate for Hoboken
City Council launched another means of communicating with the voters today – a campaign video. Many campaigns have videos and
Einstein’s makes good spirited fun of them by pointing out that they all take
place out and about in town as if voters weren’t aware of where they lived. The
video, which at a little over 3 minutes is concise and to the point, dives head
on into the meat and potato issues facing Hoboken as well as the fact the
Einstein has a written record of addressing said issues in depth and in print
in numerous newspapers and websites.
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