Why They Hate Ian

For a gal who's been a sometimes-target of Mason-fueled stunts to damage the Mayor, I sympathize with her other victims.

And the list keeps growing.

Recently, her fury was directed at destroying the careers and reputations of 2 of the mayor's staffers via a quest for their email. And though these young men have done NOTHING wrong, the mere inference of  Mason's demand is that they have.  And that's the damage  she's done. Not just to their personal lives. But online.   (Not to digress, I would like to see a judge order her to expunge her slimy internet trail; the one  she's left traversing cyberspace like a slow-moving slug).

This  assault on these dedicated administration members is a 'Mason Joint'.  Disgusting, amoral.

But the attacks Director of Transportation and Parking Sacs has been getting for some time takes the malice to a whole new level. And it's not just coming from Mason. The pounding has come on all fronts, and I'm including that frivolous HPD arrest.  And the anti-Sacs campaign continues to escalate, as though there are no limits to what will be done to make him so miserable that he quits. Why?

All this effort for an official who, by all intents and purposes, has been doing his job extremely well.  Maybe that's the problem?

I've got a friend who's lived the better part of his life in Hoboken and knows a lot about a lot that goes on here. I asked him to tell me: WHY is Sacs so hated?

His response:

Most of the new folks in town don't get the significance of the garage and the parking authority/utility and why Ian Sacs is so hated.

For years the parking authority/utility ( I will just call it the Parking Dept.) was the mother lode for patronage jobs handed out to the various, otherwise unemployable, denizens of the local social clubs.

The social clubs in town are a whole other topic for conversation.  But the Parking Dept. was used by anyone and everyone connected in town as their own private city subsidized repair shop and coin dispensing center.  You could not only get your car done, but also walk away with some coinage.

Most of the jobs at the parking department never paid a great deal, but they came with great benefits:  cheap housing, cash under the table, and all the freebies one could grab. And no one ever really enforced the work day.  Many of those employed there were "untouchable".

Not only was the parking department a source of skimming money, i.e. quarters, you never had to pay for an oil change, blown tire , or pay for gas (if you were part of the elite).

It has been said before that, pre-Zimmer, City Hall was run like a crime ring - anything not nailed down was up for grabs. The Parking Dept was like Macy's, but only free, provided you knew the "right" people.

Ian has come in, raised revenue to where it SHOULD  have been, eliminated the graft and grabbing and taken away a prized bennie of working for City Hall. Of course they hate him.

The relatively recent automated garage was a boondoggle but a cornucopia of grifting at the time. Any initiative had a certain "set aside" to be distributed to those connected.

I hope that this provide you with a little insight as to why Ian is so hated.

As to why Beth hates him, it can only be that he is a great example of competence and accomplished a great deal, and Beth cant stand it when the Mayor may be getting any positive comments on her accomplishments as Mayor.

I get the picture now.

Thanks Ian, for making them hate you.  Because you're doing a great job.