Friday, May 20, 2011

Secaucus Pool Open to Hoboken Residents at Reduced Rate

From the City of Hoboken, yet another highly political press release from communication Czar Juan Melli (just joking):

Secaucus Pool Open to Hoboken Residents at Reduced Rate

As a result of an interlocal agreement between the cities of Hoboken and Secaucus, residents of Hoboken may use the Secaucus municipal pool at a reduced rate.

Click here to download the application form: http://www.hobokennj.org/docs/rec/secaucus-pool-application-2011.pdf ◦
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Citywide Garage Sale in Hoboken Saturday May 21st

From the City of Hoboken:

Hoboken Citywide Gate Sale & Flea Market
around Church Square Park
Sat. May 21st, 9am to 4pm

Takes place all over Hoboken. Find everything from the mundane to the unusual. People are cleaning out their closets, basements & backyards.

If you need something, chances are you'll find it here, all at discount prices: including children & adult clothing, furniture, electronics, jewelry, housewares, home decor, sports equipment, toys, artwork, photography, vintage items, CDs, DVDs, 45 & 33 RPM records, books & so much more.

For a list of locations, go to www.hobokennj.org/citywide-yard-sale ◦
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Thursday, May 19, 2011

Hoboken Terminal and Yard Redevelopment Plan - First Community Meeting May 31st

From the City of Hoboken.....

Hoboken Terminal and Yard Redevelopment Plan - First Community Meeting

The City of Hoboken is working to produce the Redevelopment Plan for Hoboken Terminal and Rail Yards property. A two phase redevelopment plan, which will reflect the vision and needs of the community, is underway. Phase I of the Redevelopment Plan will be prepared first, focusing on the 1.8 acre portion along Hudson Place – One Hudson Place. The plan for Phase 2 of the plan will include the remaining portion of the 52 acre Hoboken Terminal and Yards.

This is an invitation to participate in a conversation about Phase 1 and Phase 2 Redevelopment Plan and this important site within the City.

Date: Tuesday, May 31st 2011
Time: 6.00 p.m. to 8.00 p.m.
Location: Rue Building Auditorium, 301 Garden Street, Hoboken, 07030

The first community meeting will:

• Review existing site conditions and constraints for One Hudson Place property.
• Discuss issues, opportunities, and your priorities to guide the Redevelopment Plan.

We want to share our ideas and hear yours. Help us in this effort by attending and encouraging your family and friends to do so as well.

Contact Information
City of Hoboken
94 Washington Street, Hoboken, NJ 07030

Email: redevelopmentnjtransit@hobokennj.org
Website: http://www.hobokennj.org/hobokenterminal
Flyer: http://www.hobokennj.org/docs/communitydev/Hoboken-Terminal-Public-Meeting-5-31-11.pdf ◦
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Setting the Record Straight- Melissa Longo Assistant Corporation Counsel

It has been reported by Hoboken Patch and the Hudson Reporter that a criminal investigation regarding City Hall personnel is underway, according to Assistant Corporation Counsel Melissa Longo.

Melissa called me this morning to confirm that there is an investigation going on and that the investigation is not related to the Resolution on last night's agenda sponsored by Beth Mason that calls for the City of Hoboken's emails to media outlets from the Mayor's two communication aides.

She stated that the matter involves an employee of the City of Hoboken and that the name is being withheld as per policy while the investigation is being conducted.

I observed that the 3rd Floor in City Hall IT office was padlocked as of last night. The City Council also went into closed session at the beginning of the meeting but the reason was not specified to the public (that's why we have closed sessions folks).

Longo added that it was irresponsible that a certain website would publish such false rumors but declined to go on record as to the name. I figure my readers can guess as to which one was spreading the lies by going to the following link to help feed Perry Klaussen. He looks disheveled lately but someone is keeping him fed. He is almost is big as me and that makes him one fat guy.

Das Link to Beth Mason's own "Hoboken Wiki Leaks" website: http://hoboken411.com/archives/64703 ◦
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My Remarks on Beth Russo's Spanish Inquisition Style Email Request Resolution of the Zimmer Administration

Last night the Resolution sponsored by Beth Mason and Mike Russo to get at all emails from Mayor Dawn Zimmer and her communication staff was tabled. I got wind of that possibility and decided to go home and get some rest. I want to minimize the amount of time Beth Mason wastes of mine. It turned out to be a good decision. Here are my prepared remarks the were rendered moot due to the tabling of that witch hunt of a resolution:

"I am here tonight to respond to this witch hunt of a resolution perpetuated and sponsored by hypocritical self- anointed queen of transparency and the clown prince of corruption Beth Russo. Beth Mason and Mike Russo are being combined here as a political singularity. They are representative of the stagnation and obstructionism that has besieged Hoboken City Council Chambers with the “Council of No” gaining the Majority in November of 2010. This all accomplished with the help of Tim Occhipinti’s political puppetry. All of his “rubber stamp” anti-Zimmer votes that he has cast since are in no doubt tied to the wheeling in excess of $13.4 K by Beth Mason on his behalf for that election.

I am not a legal expert in these matters but I understand it to be the case that the City Council really doesn’t have any powers here. In any case I will defer to Corporate Counsel for the most part. It is clear that Bethy and Mikey (sounds all cozy and family-like, right?) are clearly reaching here and looking for something. But what? I wonder if they care to elaborate? Seems like a witch hunt to me. Well, if it is this oversized warlock is here to shed some light on the situation and defend his family name. You guys are familiar with the concept of La Familia right? Welcome to my German version of it!

Over the course of 2010 to the present I have received hundreds of emails from Juan Melli in his official capacity as Mayor Dawn Zimmer’s communication contact. I would assume that I am one of many that are copied on his emails that go out to traditional media as well as new media (bloggers).

These emails were either press releases or media advisories. I all his emails I only responded to 30 of these with either questions or the occasional snarky political commentary. Based on my precursory view of the emails Juan Melli at all times maintained his professionalism. In the interest of transparency, even though there are no legal requirements for me to do so here are a few samples of my responses via email to Juan Melli at Hobokennj.org…
Juan Melli Press Release sent to media on the Expansion of the Hop:


My sarcastic reply unrelated to the the HOP but another political issue from within reform at the time:


Juan did not reply to this email.  


Here is a second email from Juan. He posted an update on Church Square Towers Trees and I thought that one of the pictures looked suggestive as well as the fact I wanted to correct a spelling error. At the time Lane Bajardi was on his anti-poop jihadist phase when Nancy Pincus had done a lampooning graphic of BOE Real Results slate as turds in a punch bowl. I was being flip as well as looking out for Hoboken's best interest in not publishing a photo of a hand and a tree that was sexually suggestive in nature. Lane Bajardi might have gone nuts. Wait, he already is/was!

Juan did not reply any more in the thread other than to thank me for correcting the speling error.

This is just from 2 of the 30 of the instances over more than one year where I replied to Juan directly at his Hoboken email. There is nothing in any of these emails from Juan than press releases or media advisories and perhaps a handful of web links to articles that may have been of interested. At no point did I take any direction from the Administration and it was left up to me as to whether to publish or not. In most cases I did.

A few off color remarks by yours truly......

Smoking Gun?

Ok, I guess you got me!

My father always said that prohibitions are usually established by those who have partaken of the forbidden fruit. Internationally we have Osama Bin Laden who despite preaching about Americans being infidels was caught with a boatload of porn. Those titles I can only begin to imagine being like “Jerka Jerka, What’s behind that burka?” You get the idea.

Now we have Beth Mason being elected with incomplete ELEC reports. She had the following expenses and very little of it was on her ELECs before the May election including:

  • Website advertisements on Hoboken 411 and Hoboken Patch.
  • Newspaper ads in the Hoboken Reporter.
  • Paid Consultants.
  • Video ads and TV commercials.
  • Lane Bajardi and Perry Klaussen not listed on her expenses.
  • Campaign fliers.
  • Legal expenses required to unearth dirt on Tom Greaney's bankruptcy.

Some transparency huh? Looks like good old dad was right after all."
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No Giant Speech Tonight- Beth Mason Tables Witch Hunt

Update 5/19/2011: As suspected, the resolution was tabled. Perhaps Beth Mason was not trusting Nino's vote when it came to this resolution. Anyway I am glad I didn't waste my time waiting on the worst City Council President in recent Hoboken history (Beth Mason) and her chicken sh*t witch hunt. Perhaps she calculated the blow back wouldn't be worth the price of admission.

Original Post 5/18/2011 8:50 PM: I left the City Council Meeting 20 minutes ago. I will be publishing my prepared remarks tomorrow instead. I got there hung out a bit but couldn't wait until the end of the meeting to let Beth Mason have it. This way I am sure to get the last word against her minion Lane Bajardi. He finally showed up at City Council chambers.

Da Horsey is planning to speak. Could be a hoot!

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Wednesday, May 18, 2011

Hoboken City Council Meeting Tonight starting at 7PM

Hoboken City Council Meeting is tonight starting at 7PM. No live blog tonight as I will be in attendance.

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Hoboken McCarthyism - Charlie McCarthy that is

Update 5/18/2011: Since Beth Russo (Beth Mason and Mike Russo combined as a political singularity with near infinite gravity to suck at the taxpayer's wallet with their pandering and ineptitude) have brought it upon themselves to go after normal citizenry in a McCarthyesque way, I figured I would bump up this post to remind us of one of the diminutive agents behind the dark forces that drives Beth Mason's power lust.

Original Post 12/7/2010: If there ever was a talking puppet for Beth Mason in Hoboken, it would be this sycophantic, race baiting Napoleanic hate monger, known for his anti-Zimmer venom and hate towards progress at City Council meetings. He is usually spotted wearing a suit although some question whether he is gainfully employed. He occasionally dons props like an easel (giving him the nickname "weasel with an easel") in an attempt to take out all political opponents. Most people ignore him unless of course they are on the side of Mason/Russo syndicate that want to sabotage the Mayor's agenda.

Here is a political cartoon (photo-shop) of this person, who has become a bit of a pariah, the topic of the police blotter (just once so far), and the butt of many jokes from people who really want effective government. You can almost imagine Beth Mason pulling the strings while the useless and twisted so called Hoboken 411 (Mason 411)  talking points come out of the comically contrived yet buttery baritone voice against all reason. Take a guess as to who I could be referring to. In some circles he is an alleged ghost writer of Hoboken 411 and is also known as Channel 78's diminutive anchorman. He also is on record for assaulting Roman Brice but that case was settled via mediation as a opposed to medication which he and Hoboken 411 proprietor Perry Klaussen should be on. C'mon take a guess.

Hoboken's Charlie McCarthy- Guess who!
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The Hoboken Journal is Number One On Beth Russo's Witch Hunt list!

I'm Number One! Not number two, Not number three, but number one! The Hoboken Journal is the number one target in a resolution sponsored by Beth Mason and Mike Russo here-ever known as Beth Russo after another alleged vote buying operation in subsidized housing coordinated by the Russo operatives got Beth Mason barely re-elected. This story about the pending resolution tonight has been extensively covered by both MSV and Grafix Avenger blogs and now you can get my take:


Tonight I am wearing the colors of reform betrayal. In 2009 Beth Mason sold
out reform in a deal with the Russos. Mike Russo was heard bragging on FBI tape
how he would own the City Council.  Beth used a color scheme of purple and "Linda Blair
exorcism puke my guts out while Satanically possessed" pea soup green to run her
campaign along with her Mike Russo handpicked slate. Tasteless Lane Bajardi allegedly
was behind the brash color selection.Then again, we always knew he had poor taste.
Heck I am honored. I even beat out the Horsey (Mile Square View) who would rather blog away about Hoboken than make big coin. Many who want good government in Hoboken may appreciate his sacrifice but I'm number one on Mike Mason's hit list! I guess I might be doing something right. Can I gloat a bit?

Tonight, there is a resolution sponsored by the head of the axis of evil and obstructionism that asks for all email correspondence from the Mayor's communication staff that asks for all emails since 2010 to a number of media contacts. I am listed first, Kurt Gardiner of the Hoboken Journal.

Hoboken McCarthyism has reaered
its ugly bushy browed head yet again!
Not You Charlie, Lane Mason and Beth Bajardi!
I am curious to see what the legal opinion is on this matter is. I highly doubt that the City Council has the right to such documents carte blanche. I can say this, that over the course of 2010 to present I received numerous press releases from Juan Melli from his official email account just like any other member of the traditional or new media. In total,  I responded to the 30 of those emails with mainly questions about the release. A couple of times I made some political comments. Some pretty flip, some outright funny (from a certain perspective). Juan maintained professionalism throughout. I can honestly say there is no smoking gun here.

I being the first on the list of targets from Beth Russo have nothing to hide and it turns out I may share some of those responses at some point soon. Beth Mason's McCarthyism strikes again and I for one am not going to stand for it. This is a witch hunt and I will not stand by idly while she tries to tarnish my family name of Gardiner. I can't wait for tonight.

Personal Message to Beth Mason: Welcome to La Familia German style Beth Mason! You attack me then you attack my family. You suck and you and your dirty non-transparent ways will never allow you to be Mayor unless you completely buy the election. 2013 will not be be a good year for you. Tonight won't be so good either.

Link to Resolution Pack: http://www.hobokennj.org/docs/council/respack11/respac-5-18-11.pdf

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2013 Mayoral Election Analysis: Number Crunching by The Giant

Note: This article was published last week and due to a technical glitch with blogger was finally restored yesterday.

While it is true that Dawn Zimmer did get the City Council Majority back by just winning two out of four City Council seats, it is also true that her allies directly received only 43% percent of the vote. It would seem that to the simple minded Zimmer haters out there that she is in big trouble in 2013 as her candidates were outmatched 57% to 43% percent but that doesn't tell the complete picture. People without college degrees should refrain form any numerical analysis as ghost writers on Hoboken 411 because they don't understand how the numbers work in Hoboken. All the little diminutive bushy eyebrowed Zimmer hater knows is how to spin an anti Zimmer negative yarn over and over again and day after day.

That percentage is misleading due to a couple of factors when it comes to 2013 Mayoral election results and here is why I think why. Number 1, about 100 2011 votes in Ward 2 were not for Beth Mason in Ward 2. I think Zimmer gets those in 2013. In the 5th Ward about 100 of Scott Delea's 2011 votes will also go to Zimmer and not to the old guard in 2013. Scott was a "wishy washy fake reformery guy" and probably plucked about 100 votes from Peter Cunningham.

I also made a very minor adjustment to Jen Giatinno in the 6th Ward as Zimmer will pick up at least 20 votes from the rent control advocates that voted for Nino instead. They will have nowhere else to go in all likelihood. With those adjustments that brings the vote percentages to 54% to 46% with Zimmer on the losing end but keep in mind that is only with a turnout of only 8000 votes. I think just about any political insider not choking on their own Zimmer hate induced bile will know that Zimmer loses in 2013 if only 8000 people show up . The old guard will get out their numbers as always and it will be game over.

For 2013, 8000 total votes in the Hoboken Mayoral race however is not very likely to happen.


I think 11,000 total votes is the most likely number of total votes based on past elections. 14,000 in November of 2009 was an anomaly since that was a hotly contested governors race. The key assumption to my analysis is that for every 1000 votes over 8000 voters in Hoboken, it breaks 667 to 333 for Zimmer or about 2-1. You can change that assumption around and get different results but I am going with that ratio since the old guard base is finite and the pool of any voters over the hard political core will come from people not in subsidized situations but instead pay taxes or rent at market rates. Those people will not be voting for people who make well over $120K per year to get a big fat subsidy in Church Towers for example. Higher voter turnout bodes well for Dawn Zimmer. Most people would agree with that that follow Hoboken politics closely.

10,000 total votes seems to be the break even plus point for Zimmer under these assumptions and the margins just get larger from there. Dawn Zimmer will have a majority for 18 months and will have to make progress on many fronts to maintain her popularity but if that holds up then a good turnout in 2013 of over 11,000 voters should give her the narrow margin of victory she needs to get over the top and be elected for a second term. The field will be crowded so I expect a runoff.  


Granted there are a lot of assumptions in this model but I am fairly confident that the following will go down:

1) 10,000 to 12,000 will likely vote in the 2013 Hoboken Mayoral Election, not 8,000. This is not a given.Voter apathy is a disease in Hoboken that fuels the Mason-Russo axis of corruption and gives them what power they have.

2) Dawn Zimmer would be the odds on favorite barring any political catastrophe in the next two years.

3) Zimmer's margin for error would not be very large unless the vote count approaches 13000 or 14000 and this is not likely.

4) The filed will likely be crowded with several old guard candidates throwing their hat in the ring. The fractured alliance that got Timmy his support in November of 2010 will not last until then. Too many egos and big swinging dicks with that crew for the top spot.

5) There will be a runoff between Dawn and the top vote getting candidate.

6) Beth Mason will likely not be in the runoff. She will not get the core old guard vote unless everyone else that covets the Mayor slot in the old guard defers to her. Not likely.

Of course if elections get moved to November turnout will definitely go up. That is also a distinct possibility.

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