left panel: Mason's * videographer filming at the ZBA. Camera is in his lap. right panel: ZBA film used in Nazi Truck video. Note camera angle. |
Did you know that Beth Mason's been sending her * personal videographer with Not-Perry to Zoning Board meetings now since last March? (Not-Perry looks like Perry Belfiore's decoy- if he had one.)
Well, GA knew they were there for nefarious purposes, to collect stock footage for 'use later'. I figured I'd pop up somewhere; on Hoboken411 or in a print ad, but never on a truck.
Yes, the provenance of the Nazi truck video seems to lead to Beth Mason.
Because in my almost 3 years of service, no one has ever filmed a meeting that I attended except for Beth Mason's * videographer. (Martin Scorsese may have filmed one in my absence.) When I finally watched the video yesterday (forcibly) I couldn't believe it- that the Nazi truck video was filmed by the very same guy who films City Council meetings...
and BoE meetings...
and criminal harassment trials of Mason Civic League employee Matt Calicchio...
and Mason's * videographer taped Mayor Zimmer's deposition for Hoboken411 in the case of William Campbell vs. the City of Hoboken...
Mason's * videographer's (M*V) first showed up to film the Zoning Board on March 27, 2012. He stayed about 2 hours- enough time for a bounty of stock footage- and left. He's been a regular at my meetings since. Shoots about 2 hours of film and leaves. Comes and goes.
While other 'clues' about the video point in the same direction, the usage of M*V video on the Nazi truck is a fingerprint. That is privately obtained and owned video.
I urge the press to ask Councilwoman Mason how her *videographer's film ended up on a truck with swastikas parked at a school.
While you ask her that, don't forget to ask:
- How much the Move Forward campaign is paying to use her 1200 Washington Street gallery space for their campaign headquarters?
- Does that in-kind contribution to Move Forward meet Hoboken's Pay-to-Play ordinace?
- Is the Gallery still funded by her 501(c)(3), the Mason Civic league, Inc.? If so, does she know that tax-exempt, non-profits can't host political campaigns (Move Forward) nor employ political operatives?
- What was your $7,117.05 in-kind contribution to Move Forward really used for?
And have you read the response of Hoboken's two rabbis to this historic usage of swastikas and Nazi iconography in a political campaign?
Read it here.
* suspected
Smoking gun is the only way to describe these revelations.
ReplyDeleteIt is past the time when the Rabbi's can reasonably say, "Whoever is behind this please come forward and apologize." You know exactly who is behind it.
Yes, but a recent convert in unfortunate clothing choices attends our conservadox synagogue with accessories in the most pleasing shade of green...
DeleteIt is time for the collective of Hoboken to stand up to Beth Mason and her check book and simply ask her – Have you no shame? This should have been done a long time ago. The fact that she has bankrolled a morally depraved political strategy based upon the usage of a Swastika is beyond despicable and should not be tolerated. She and her husband should be publicly shunned until they admit that their rage at Nancy Pincus has consumed them to the point where they have completely lost their moral compass. How they can even enter a synagogue is beyond me.
ReplyDeleteEqually at fault is the entire slate of MF. Nancy has written NOTHING about any of them individually that could remotely be used to make some kind of deranged moral equivalency argument that the Old Guard and Beth Mason and her operatives are so happy to trot out. Yet these same three, Marketevich, Oland and Vasquez accept the midnight flyer and the Nazi truck and do not condemn the usage of the swastika in a political campaign. The only connection between Nancy and the BOE race is the attention her blog has brought to the fact that the backers of the MF slate are the same pigs who were feeding at the trough of the BOE as revealed in the 2006 audit. What Nancy has pointed out is devastating and yet nary a peep from the MF slate as to the waste and misuse of funds by their backers. So they hide behind a disingenuous veil of denial and allow the continued use of a disgusting display of a Swastika to deflect attention away for the fact that none of the three has any positive ideas about the Hoboken school system. These three are vile, simply vile, people that have no business holding any public office.
Liz Markevitch is the Helen Hirsch of our future - without the looks.
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