As Reported on NJ.com's Hoboken Now yesterday, Jimmy Farina is acting Mayor of Hoboken until Dawn Zimmer gets back from vacation next week. Jimmy as a long time City Clerk is probably the best choice Dawn could make to temporarily fill given his experience, the fact he has done it before several times under the Roberts Administration, and knows all the contacts in City Hall. With that said one reader sent me this yesterday:
WTF! My heart skipped a beat for a second today....thankfully it was just for a moment after reading beyond the headline.
Hoboken City Clerk Acting as Mayor (on NJ.com)
Photo Courtesy of the MSV Blog (cropped)
My comments: Despite one readers initial reaction the City of Hoboken should be in good hands with Jimmy's experience and knowledge of the workings of City Hall.
Here are things that I can guarentee that you won't see Jimmy do in his week long stint as acting mayor of Hoboken....
- Have a photo-op session on a trampoline. Cammarano has been there and done that. Besides, he doesn't want to throw out his back.
- Do a money drop exchange at the Malibu Diner. Cammarano has been there and done that.
- Put his name on all City Vehicles. Roberts has been there and done that.
- Cut a ribbon at Pier C Park. The park hasn't been finished yet. Handrails are still needed to complete the park. David Roberts is pining for attendence at this event but will have to wait until 2010 to see his $20 million dollar kidney bean/fetus shaped park come to fruition. I must admit it looks awfully nice.
- Threaten to grind certain Hoboken constituents into powder. Cammarano has been there and done that.
- "Cut" the City work week to 21 hours. The new hours would be 10AM-4PM with a three hour siesta from 12-3PM. This is simply too radical for someone like Jimmy Farina. The increase in hours would be too much for some at City Hall. Just kidding. :) Joking aside, it must be noted that there are many employees that do work hard in City Hall.
- Search for the $600,000 in missing quarters from the HPU. Thanks to the investigative work of the NJ Attourney General, they have most likely solved this case. Due process must happen but the case against John Corea former HPU Director is pretty compelling.
- Find an additional 80 absentee ballots laying around for Beth Mason. Even if they were found the margin of the election (a whopping 20%, despite the way-off predictions of a close race by Hoboken 411, a leader in misinformation about Hoboken politics) was so wide it wouldn't make a difference. Besides, the County handled the last election anyway.
- Have a celebrity boxing match with Dave Roberts. For those of you who don't remember or weren't here, there once was a bit of a donnybrook between the two a few years ago. They have since patched things up.
- Get a "God Complex" and just go "Klaussen" on employees at City Hall. While I might not always agree with Jimmy's politics he is an intelligent man who knows the workings of City Hall very well and for the most part has an even temperment. The thumbs up in the picture above should give the Citizens of Hoboken confidence that his temporary placement of holding the reigns of City Hall will be uneventful and guide Hoboken until the new year safely; that is until our duly elected Mayor Dawn Zimmer gets back from a well deserved vacation in the new year. Revolt's latest letter will be awaiting her response on top of the gazillion other things that are on her plate.
