Here is a reader editorial about the upcoming election from Hoboken Journal poster and reader Lincoln_logger:
What does your vote mean to you?
It's important to consider what your expectations are for the mayor we are all about to elect. What are you going to get for your vote?
If you vote for Frank Raia, you are voting for budgetary incompetence. During his six years on the Board of Education, Frank Raia gave out tax payer's money like it was candy at a parade. The result was a BoE budget that swelled with bloated salaries and failed programs, making Hoboken schools cost per child one of the highest in the state. Not unlike what Dave Robert's did with his 8 years as mayor. Do you want to vote for that?
If you vote for Beth Mason, you are voting for a person who obviously craves the limelight more than anything else. Beth Mason's platform and strategies have changed more often than the daily specials at the Malibu. In the past six months, we've heard Beth say just about everything, from "Develop or Die" to "fight the NJ Transit project". The problem is, no one can believe anything she says after the mixed messages and negative (and false) attacks she's spawned. Is that kind of uncertainty what you want to vote for?
A vote for Kimberly Glatt is really a vote for the unknown. All that we really know she's capable of so far is paying people from Union City to come to Hoboken and wear white t-shirts. She's been spouting empty rhetoric and taken no hard stances on any important issues such as development, taxes, or cutting salaries from the budget. We have seen that she's willing to leap head-first and commit $30 million dollars to fix flooding, which we don't even know if it is necessary yet. Is that what you want to vote for?
A vote for Nathan Brinkman, Everton Wilson, Patricia Waiters, or even Artie Lange is honestly a wasted vote. I'm sure they're all nice people, but they have no chance of winning.
If you want your vote to count for fiscal responsibility, transparency in our city government, and halting over-development in our town, there is a choice for you. Dawn Zimmer has already shown she's up for the job with her accomplishments in the last few months. Imagine what good can be done with a whole term.
- Lincoln_logger
My Comment: Ditto. ◦
