Friday, May 29, 2009

There goes Hoboken 411 Again and Again and Again!

Here is the latest incarnation from Perry Klaussen of Hoboken 411. He has borrowed the campaign colors of Dawn Zimmer and placed a banner ad on his site that has the ballot position of Peter Cammarano and his slate but no names and no paid for. The banner then goes of course to Peter Cammarano's site. That Perry Klaussen is one funny guy. :) This has to be some kind of practical joke because he can't seriously thinking that he wil sway any voters with this stunt.

What does make this bizarre is that Perry just a few weeks ago posted an article that attacked Peter Cammarano's personal life. It was a post that Peter Cammarano denounced as completly untrue and vile. A few weeks later when I spoke to Peter Cammarano he seemed rather non-chalant about the fact his ad was on Hoboken 411. After all who dosen't like free advertising? What he was serious about was to make sure that they at least did account for the donation in kind on the ELEC report.

So how does Perry Klaussen go from attacking Peter the week before the first election and then go to giving out free ads and writing essentially puff pieces for the Cammarano campaign? Things that make you go hmmmm.... Yet today he claims "Hoboken 411 is not a political website" in one of his articles today. Here is the link to the article that contains this claim: http://hoboken411.com/archives/19665.

Below are several reader submissions of the misleading banner ad:





Here is the Peter Cammarano ad with no paid for that was seen today and mentioned previously. The Cammarano campaign's legal counsel had sent a letter to Hoboken 411 to put paid for language on the ad but it looks like that has not been done for yet. To be clear Hoboken 411 has the right to put up any ads it sees fit but if he in fact put this up on his own according to Cammarano's lawyer, this should have the paid for language on it indicating who paid for the ad. Why is it Perry Mason-Klaussen can't seem to comply? If I was to start placing political ads on my website I would at least make sure I didn't violate any ELEC laws.






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