HR Does Mason a Favor

BUSTED.

The Hoboken Reporter SCRUBBED  their actual most-commented post from its "Most Commented" list after just 5 DAYS.    GA noticed it gone yesterday.

This one:

 Which has almost DOUBLE the number of comments as the top one there today: 

Why?

The Masons called in a favor. What else?  

GA checked the page source; the "Most Commented" is not a widget but HTML code which is easily fiddled with. 

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Because Ricky's letter backfired BIG.

Part of a larger strategy, first sinking the hospital deal, then clearing a Zoning Board seat (mine), the letter was supposed to sway public opinion, painting themselves 'victims' of some perceived threat- the Twinkie-baking blogger-mom.

It didn't sell.

His letter was quickly buried under a heap of ridicule, becoming the butt of jokes across the Hoboken blogosphere, and  of course, here at GA.   

But more than that, his latest drink at the well is a tipping point. You'll see.

So, witnessing the massive stink-bomb the letter had become, GA believes either Mason or a representative asked the HR to 'disappear' it on the home page. To date, it's gotten over 1700 views.  For comparison, the other Hoboken letters published the same week got 220, 310, and 32 views respectively.

How ironic that trading on his gravitas as a law partner at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz to jump into the cesspool of his wife's political shenanigans, he turned his name into a punch line.