Al Sullivan is reporting today that 2nd Ward Councilwoman Beth Mason will be dining with President Barack Obama in NYC next week, at the invitation of NJ Senator Bob Menendez!
Imagine that, dinner with our president!
It was a brief mention in a longer piece about how Menendez is irked at Mayor Zimmer for a couple of reasons. And maybe so, because her invitation to dine with the president is... in the mail? On a slow boat from Tibet? Well, whatever. The mayor will be hosting Governor Christie here in Hoboken tomorrow for a town hall-style meeting at Hoboken Catholic Academy.
But I for one would much rather be having dinner with Obama- no offense to the Governor or his 'tool-kit', which I hear he's bringing with him. (But has he got a 'Tool-Time Girl' ? I hear Judy Tripodi is available)
Boy, would I love to be a fly on the wall at that Mason-Obama dinner! I always thought Beth Mason looked like Hillary Clinton- a lot alike. Don't you? Do you think the president could slip up and say to her, "Pass the salt, Hillary"? Or call Mr. Mason "Bill", by mistake?
The Councilwoman did host a fundraiser at her home for Senator Menendez last Monday so the dinner invitation is a thoughtful exchange. If I told Senator Bob that I gave a couple of bucks to Obama back in 2008 do you think I'd get an invite ? And a mean a couple of bucks. Not a lot of bucks. A few. Oh, never mind.
Since we know a photo of Mason with the president will be forthcoming, but will most likely go to H411 first, I thought I'd pre-empt his 'exclusive' with an 'exclusive' of my own-- the first fictional photo of the Obama-Mason meeting! That's right, In fact, I threw in some world leaders, because you never know who might show up.
So hear it is, the EXCLUSIVE first fictional photo of the upcoming Mason-Obama meeting:
U.S. President Barack Obama (C) smiles as he poses for a group photograph with (L-R) Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Thailand's Prime Minister, Abhisit Vejjajiva, King Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud of Saudia Arabia, Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, Hoboken 2nd Ward Councilwoman Beth Mason, Chinese President Hu Jintao and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev at a dinner on May ___, 2010 in New York City.
I have one cautionary note for Ms. Mason with regard to her placement in the fictional photo-- watch out for Prime Minister Berlusconi.
Have you ever seen this?
And she was a total stranger!
You'd be much better off next to King Abdullah-- I'll be he wouldn't even look you in the eye! (You know, the lowly status of women over there).
Anyway, it's all very exciting for the Councilwoman and for Hoboken, too! Maybe we can finally get that community swimming pool...
Barack can make it happen!
Imagine that, dinner with our president!
It was a brief mention in a longer piece about how Menendez is irked at Mayor Zimmer for a couple of reasons. And maybe so, because her invitation to dine with the president is... in the mail? On a slow boat from Tibet? Well, whatever. The mayor will be hosting Governor Christie here in Hoboken tomorrow for a town hall-style meeting at Hoboken Catholic Academy.
But I for one would much rather be having dinner with Obama- no offense to the Governor or his 'tool-kit', which I hear he's bringing with him. (But has he got a 'Tool-Time Girl' ? I hear Judy Tripodi is available)
Boy, would I love to be a fly on the wall at that Mason-Obama dinner! I always thought Beth Mason looked like Hillary Clinton- a lot alike. Don't you? Do you think the president could slip up and say to her, "Pass the salt, Hillary"? Or call Mr. Mason "Bill", by mistake?
The Councilwoman did host a fundraiser at her home for Senator Menendez last Monday so the dinner invitation is a thoughtful exchange. If I told Senator Bob that I gave a couple of bucks to Obama back in 2008 do you think I'd get an invite ? And a mean a couple of bucks. Not a lot of bucks. A few. Oh, never mind.
Since we know a photo of Mason with the president will be forthcoming, but will most likely go to H411 first, I thought I'd pre-empt his 'exclusive' with an 'exclusive' of my own-- the first fictional photo of the Obama-Mason meeting! That's right, In fact, I threw in some world leaders, because you never know who might show up.
So hear it is, the EXCLUSIVE first fictional photo of the upcoming Mason-Obama meeting:
U.S. President Barack Obama (C) smiles as he poses for a group photograph with (L-R) Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Thailand's Prime Minister, Abhisit Vejjajiva, King Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud of Saudia Arabia, Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, Hoboken 2nd Ward Councilwoman Beth Mason, Chinese President Hu Jintao and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev at a dinner on May ___, 2010 in New York City.I have one cautionary note for Ms. Mason with regard to her placement in the fictional photo-- watch out for Prime Minister Berlusconi.
Have you ever seen this?
And she was a total stranger!
You'd be much better off next to King Abdullah-- I'll be he wouldn't even look you in the eye! (You know, the lowly status of women over there).
Anyway, it's all very exciting for the Councilwoman and for Hoboken, too! Maybe we can finally get that community swimming pool...
Barack can make it happen!
Talk about pay to play or pay to dine; how much did Ricky and Beth cough-up for this invite? I hope Bob doesn't fail to deliver or he'll suffer the wrath of Mason and we all know what that looks like.
ReplyDeleteShe just missed being a tragic figure. A key ingredient is missing. Her failure to connect with ordinary people is just a logical outcome of a tendency to substitute money for warmth.
ReplyDeleteShe will have to settle for satire.
The President and Senator Menendez really could care less about working people who are fed up with out of control spending and high taxes. So this doesn't at all surprise me. Beth will be amongst her peers at dinner.
ReplyDeleteIs that Beth in the Kfiya?
ReplyDeleteDon't read too much into this! Perhaps this is simply one of the perks of participating in the "frequent flyer" program at the airline, um, I mean printers.
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