Month: February 2019

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Grist for the Mill: Dawn Zimmer for council?

Put this one in the “huh?” category but the rumor is out there in the bushes around the rain gardens. Former mayor Dawn Zimmer who departed mid-mayoral race in June of 2017 as she said to fight President Trump’s global warming is rumored to be a fourth ward council candidate this November.

Again?

After holding reform backing for a third term as mayor and hosting a big fundraiser back in April 2017, Zimmer suddenly went behind closed doors handing the baton to Ravi Bhalla that June and crushing the successful Reform Movement coalition. Bhalla would go on to win with 32% of the vote in an ugly and highly partisan four-way election with the vile Ravi Terror Flyer. Read More...

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The Great Emancipator honored as Republicans celebrate Lincoln In Hudson County

Official release:

The Hoboken Municipal Republican Committee and the Hudson County Young Republicans hosted a joint Lincoln Dinner in a packed private room at Lola’s Tapas Bar in Hoboken. Joshua Sotomayor Einstein, the NJ GOP State Committeeman representing Hudson County, said “President Lincoln, Reconstruction, Civil Rights legislation, the fact that the first African American, Hispanic American, and Indian American political leaders were all Republicans, and the diversity of the modern-day GOP, all show that Republicans have much to celebrate.” Einstein continued, “the party of Lincoln, liberty, less government, and lower taxes is growing in Hudson.” The Lincoln Dinner, which was spearheaded by Hoboken GOP Committee Chair Chris Carbine, Treasurer Kathy DeRose, Joshua Sotomayor Einstein, and Hudson County Young Republican Chair Matt Garofalo was well attended by long-time volunteers, officials, and newcomers. Speaking about the dinner, Garofalo said, “we were honored to have Maureen Sullivan, a former Hoboken School Board Trustee and one of the few Republicans in our county to have held public office, Natalia Ioffe, who ran a great campaign in last year’s Board of Education election, Julian Isidro of the NJ GOP professional team, Jared Pilosio, a former aide to Governor Christie, Evan Lazerowitz of the State Young Republican Board, and all the other Republicans who came out to support the party.” Garofalo continued “it was an evening of great food and great people celebrating the Great Emancipator, Abraham Lincoln.” Javier Colon, a 23-year-old Hudson County native attended the dinner and observed that “it was great to be together with all types of people. There were Hispanics like myself as well as Jewish, Christian, and atheist Republicans. There were libertarians and conservatives and everything in between. It was amazing to see this diverse group of people all under the same tent celebrating the Republican Party and Abraham Lincoln.”
From left: Chris Carbine, Hoboken Republican Committee Chair; Julian Isidro of the NJGOP, Josh Sotomayor Einstein, State Committeeman; Jared Pilosio, formerly with the NJGOP and Matt Garofalo, Chair of the Hudson County Young Republicans
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Let’s go to the Hop?

Next month a number of changes to local parking rules are set to take place. A new visitor pass will be easier to obtain online, a nod to common sense taking a 21st-century hold in Hoboken City Hall with what’s being called a “virtual” visitor system.

Then there’s the City Hop bus system. The one-dollar fare will drop to zero beginning March 4th. What impact this has on a beefed-up system remains to be seen. There are 55,000 people in Hoboken so one can only imagine how this supply-demand equation turns out. Read More...

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HudCo power, taxes and a power plant for you

Hey, anyone see Ravi Bhalla? Has he gotten back from his latest fundraiser with Uncle Nick?

Mayor Ravi Bhalla hailed the release of his mini Sandy Ocasio-Cortez-Castro green plan last week. Intended to appeal to the crunchy granola crowd, it lacked the pizzaz some among the Hoboken public expected.

In the Facebook release it states:
“our municipal operations no longer depend on fossil fuels such as coal and petroleum that produce substantial greenhouse gas emissions and wreak havoc on our environment.” Read More...

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Reliable sources: “Panic in City Hall” over Ravi Bhalla budget as major tax increase looms

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Reliable sources indicate Hoboken’s budget this year looks dire for Mile Square City residents. Word of a deficit running into the millions of dollars is causing major agita as a major tax increase looms.

One reliable source connected to the mayor’s office stated matter-of-factly, “there is panic in City Hall about the deficit.” The source asked for anonymity for fear of retaliation from the “Face Punchers” in the mayor’s office.

Other sources confirmed the budgetary dilemma unfolding under Mayor Ravi Bhalla with one saying it’s running into the millions, near double digits. “We could be looking at $8,000,000 before efforts by the Bhalla Administration begin trying to whittle it back,” said another. Read More...

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Hoaxes near and far are the new, hip and politically correct victimology

A TV actor is in custody this morning in Chicago, a “victim” of truthful overexposure to his self-acclaimed and self-evidenced victimology.

One could say it’s truly “deplorable.” The #JussieSmolletHoax as Jussie Smollett will be remembered in years to come is only the latest where politics and politicians weave their narratives in concerted plans to declare victim hood, theirs or others with the singular objective to have them elevated to higher office. Smollett isn’t a lone assassin. He’s had plenty of company in recent years. Questions are being raised about his rehearsed, staged hoax and how it may connect to anti-lynching legislation passed in the Senate by US wannabe presidential candidates Cory Booker and Kamala Harris. Impeccable timing that. The political consistency of these hoaxes and their frequency have surfaced in almost every aspect of life nationally in recent years. From university settings and now to the little screen, it’s their exposure that’s telling. With the Jussie Smollett Hoax, an actual hate crime directed against tens of millions of Americans to the Ravi Terror Flyer in the 2017 Hoboken mayoral election, each features similar commonalities and similar desires. The outcomes are new with the most recent hoaxes backfiring on their creators but the motive is always the same. Power.  When every action and every individual is viewed through the prism of being willful political operatives for the “cause,” truth is often the first casualty. The epidemic of hoaxing, national and otherwise have become common fodder. Smollett faces up to three years in prison for his filing a false police complaint but that’s Chicago. In Hoboken, it would be unthinkable that the political use of a criminal accusation would face actual justice. This editor faced one after another fake criminal complaints over years and no judicial or law enforcement authority ever asked if a counter-complaint would be forthcoming when each including one courtesy of

the noxious Beth Mason was evidenced as, wait for it… a hoax Read More...

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Councilwoman Tiffanie Fisher: Rebuild by Design & the North End Community Development

Official release:

Dear friends and neighbors: Hope you are all safe and warm today.  If you are itching to get out, feel free to come to the City Council meeting tonight at 7pm at City Hall. Alternatively, you can watch online HERE (the link will show promptly at 7) or on the Hoboken Facebook Page.   

On a relative basis, tonight’s agenda is light, but there will be a brief presentation tonight at 7pm on the Rebuild By Design – Hoboken Cove Park (or as I refer to as Harborside Park).  I recommend everyone to tune in if they can.   Read More...

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Hudson County Office of Emergency Management: Winter weather advisory

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Official release:

Wednesday, February 20, 2019

Hudson County Office of Emergency Management

Alert Details Severity: Moderate – Possible threat to life or property Urgency: Future – Responsive action SHOULD be taken in the near future Certainty: Likely (p > ~50%) Category: General emergency and public safety Event Description: Severe Weather Watch


Alert: winter weather advisory is in effect for the entire area Wednesday afternoon through 6 am Thursday. The advisory begins at 12:00 pm Wed.

Dear MSV readers,

A winter weather advisory is in effect for the entire area Wednesday afternoon through 6 am Thursday. The advisory begins at 12:00 pm Wednesday for NYC, northeast New Jersey, Lower Hudson Valley, and Nassau County on Long Island, and at 3:00 pm Wednesday for southern Connecticut and Suffolk County on Long Island.

Potential Hazards and Impacts: Read More...

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A glimmer of hope at Union Dry Dock?

A tweet by the Hoboken second ward councilwoman may offer the first glimmer of hope on the contentious battle over Union Dry Dock.

New York Waterway set up for operations and is flying the flag over the property but the reason for their placement south of Weehawken moving to Hoboken may not be what some were told.

Councilwoman Tiffanie Fisher’s tweet suggests there may be some issue:

The premise was NY Waterway had been bumped off the property in Weehawken and needed a new home. Is that actually more myth than fact? Read More...

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Ravi Bhalla celebrates second job anniversary

Almost a year to the day on a Friday night, Mayor Ravi Bhalla proudly announced his second job with a Republican law firm.

What followed the same year, tens of thousands rolling down the hill to his Republican law firm employer totaling $70,000.

The figure surpassed his $60,000 base salary, what some deemed a no show job.

The Jersey Journal would cover the big news putting Ravi Bhalla on the cover.

Invariably, Hoboken residents have been incensed when the topic of Ravi Bhalla’s side hustle comes up. Read More...