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| Greg Lincoln: Victim of Religious Bigotry |
It's as predictable as the sunrise. Hoboken elections open the gates of Hell- otherwise known as Ricky Mason's wallet in the hands of his wife, Beth.
Friends have been replaced by a coterie of paid consultants who feed off her anti-Zimmer mania. These parasites flatter their host, inflame her malice and carry her piss-bucket just to live another day. Another payday.
Speaking of the Mason-Barracato symbiosis.
His signature mischief is sowing the nj.com forum with rumor, innuendo, smears, lies under a variety of screen names.
Now Mason's political survival is two-fold: holding onto her City Council seat and maintaining a majority. Which puts all the Reform candidates in her cross-hairs. Like Greg Lincoln, 3rd Ward candidate.
GA's uber-source, Deep Uvula, has told me that opposition research on Greg Lincoln has come up empty. No dirt on this guy. No scandal. Nothing. And now Russo's in trouble. He may not think so. But he is. Because while he hasn't lost his base, he's gained a backlash. An angry one. An antidote to voter apathy.
You can bet Lincoln got a 'spike' from this scandal.
So, how to take down this very clean guy? With the help of Mason's parasite.
This way:
Don't get it?
Greg Lincoln's a Mormon.
Here's another:
They've decided to attack Greg Lincoln's religion.
Bigotry as strategy. This is how Mason rolls. And she's rolling for Russo.
THIS from the woman who tried to run me out of town on a charge of anti-Semitism.
Mason and Russo are using the politics of Bigotry. The politics of HATE.
GET OUT THE VOTE on May 10th. Rupudiate them.
I have known Greg from Church now 6 years, those posts on NJ.com are disgusting.
ReplyDeleteHow can Beth and Ricky run around bragging about the money they donate to their Synagogue and wear their faith on their sleeves as a defense, and then attack Mormons, a Christian faith?
Beth is really disgusting.
Mike Russo made a major ruckus with Father Vinnie last fall too.
These people have no understanding of God, Faith or Personal choice.
Greg has a wonderful family, and polygamy is not practiced by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints Faithful members. But they know that.
While I believe anyone should be allowed to live and marry as whomever they choose I think it's probably way to expensive to have more than one partner.
When does Mason start going after gays?
As a catholic myself, I think this is one of our worst attributes as a group. We don't let our faith challenge us, ask us questions, make us explain our actions. We are extremely self-satisfied. "Just look at that beautiful building" we seem to say. "How can I go in that building every Sunday and not be justified?"
ReplyDeleteIt's a short walk from there to feeling very comfortable dumping on all other faiths. There's more at foot here than that of course. But Russo is a classic catholic bigot. That opens the flood gates to other behaviors.
What's sad in this town is there's a tolerance for this type of political animosity. It doesn't exist in many places in America. Yet here, not only do people indulge in it, they will often do so and point the finger at the other team making false claims of racism and such.
ReplyDeleteGreg Lincoln is just a solid citizen, family man and contributor to the community in notable ways as others. But until now he wasn't a threat. Now he most certainly is because although Russo has a voter bloc willing to vote for him even if he murdered someone in the Church Towers lobby as someone joked to me, the real threat is the huge number of voters nearby, a sleeping giant.
I've gotten to know Greg Lincoln some in my time covering Hoboken. If I remained silent now, it would be anathema to decency and so I can not. Greg is a great guy, reasonable and easy to speak to and no doubt he would be easy to work with listening to all sides and working toward a consensus where possible.
Mike Russo has shown contempt for Hoboken up and down in countless meetings in City Council, his propping up of Tim "massive voter fraud" Occhipinti and the revelations on his true nature.
For some of us, this doesn't come as much of a surprise. But for his supporters, it's a call to arms to protect a way of life. Like communism, it's doomed to end.
Hoboken needs to end it sooner than later. The poison is costing our community too much in dignity, self-respect and unity.
So I will not stand with the bigots. I will stand with Greg Lincoln.
There really aren't enough good things to say about Greg Lincoln. He has politically gone where almost anyone would fear to tread with a smile on his face, a determination in his heart and his chin held high. In the eyes of many, little to gain but potentially much to loose. Trust me when I say I believe he is running this race because he loves Hoboken and thinks this is simply the right thing to do. No other motive exists.
ReplyDeleteThere is a way I choose to play the game. In my experience, Mr Lincoln has proven himself a good friend to me both as a blogger screen name with who he shares a neighborly camaraderie, regardless of politics, and completely independent of that as a Hobokenite who does not know me to be "p1ywood", for the same reasons. I am not sure even I can wrap my brain around that, he has double-downed with me. My biggest question is "what's a nice guy like him doing in a place like this?".
He's just a great human being.
For the record, he is completely beyond reproach, which I'm sure the council majority political powers that be find completely incomprehensible and terrifyingly unlike themselves. But we see they've done the research, and surprise, surprise, in light of that have chosen the low road as the only means of attack.
Hey council majority, try some ethics on for size. One size fits all and you might find that if ethics didn't exist, someone should have invented them as the best way of getting ahead in life. Mr Lincoln has known that all along.
Remembering the old Malcolm X quote: Dixie is any place south of Canada. Harsh words, different time. But in the beaker of Hoboken, the old dark ways do persist.
ReplyDeleteTake the $40 for a vote. There's a deep personal insult between the payor and payee. This is what your dignity is worth. Take it or leave it. If the cops come, we didn't have this conversation.
And these are the people most likely to play the race card when it suits them.
It's the same with the religious bigotry. You don't expect to find it flourishing north of the Mason-Dixon. Wrong again. Hoboken is almost an island nation in outlook. Inter-marrying, little change in the way people live from one generation to the next. If you listen closely, old Hoboken is not rejecting reform so much as they are rejecting change.
The rec fee debate was a great example. Not one anti speaker - not one - spoke about the issue, the feasibility, the possible hardship. Instead each one spoke about the old days, coaching, doing things with the kids. They were mourning a passing era, and we have to start taking that more seriously.
Unfortunately we first have to deal with cynics like Mason & Russo who only want to manipulate those fears to secure their own place in the community. It's not surprising that they would try to play on the imagined otherness of members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. They care about it no more than they care about the rec fee. It's just a hoped-for wedge between reform and a part of Hoboken that they hope to keep forever trapped in their fears of change.
The challenge is to find a way to abolish the old guard while making our peace with old Hoboken. We haven't done that as well as we could. And that's why Mason/Russo are pulling this stunt.