Is Mike DeFusco's social media handler having a nervous breakdown?
GA's been getting screencaps from yet more angry Hoboken residents who've been blocked and/or deleted from Mike DeFusco's Twitter and/or Facebook accounts.
Note to DeFusco's handler: Any mayoral candidate who churns out huge, costly initiatives like high-school complexes or a beachfront development on privately-owned land is obliged to answer basic questions from Mile Square taxpayers like: "how do you plan to pay for it?"
Just try asking that question to Hoboken's reigning Censorship King...
Below, a Mile Square taxpayer shares how he/she was BLOCKED on DeFusco's Facebook/Twitter accounts for asking:
Next, see below how a commenter reports that DeFusco blocked him for posting:
That is, until GA showed him the truth about how DeFusco lied about "trying save the church" and "protecting historic structures."
Thus, the enlightened censorship-victim concludes:
All it takes is sunlight, folks.
GA's been getting screencaps from yet more angry Hoboken residents who've been blocked and/or deleted from Mike DeFusco's Twitter and/or Facebook accounts.
Note to DeFusco's handler: Any mayoral candidate who churns out huge, costly initiatives like high-school complexes or a beachfront development on privately-owned land is obliged to answer basic questions from Mile Square taxpayers like: "how do you plan to pay for it?"
Just try asking that question to Hoboken's reigning Censorship King...
Below, a Mile Square taxpayer shares how he/she was BLOCKED on DeFusco's Facebook/Twitter accounts for asking:
"Who is paying for the new school, pool, beach?"
Next, see below how a commenter reports that DeFusco blocked him for posting:
Ironically, the censorship-victim appears to have liked DeFusco, believing that "he fought for the church"..."Why are you deleting people that may have important questions?"
That is, until GA showed him the truth about how DeFusco lied about "trying save the church" and "protecting historic structures."
Thus, the enlightened censorship-victim concludes:
"This dude cannot be mayor!"
All it takes is sunlight, folks.
Amateur hour. If he'd put me on his ticket, he might have had a shot at taking down Backroom Bhalli. I know everything there is to know about Hoboken. I know where the bodies are buried. I know the important issues you all should be talking about instead of talking about why I patronize and tag team with the Krazy Konspiracy Kook. I know how to make everything run right. And most importantly, I know that if I apply for a board seat and get any pushback, it can only be because of a BACKROOM DEAL with the lady mayor and Backroom Bhalli.
ReplyDeleteYou could've been a contender, Mike. Now the only way to stop Backroom Bhalli is to turn up the terror alert and write limericks full of puns on his religion.
That dreaded Backroom Bhalli has foiled me again!
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DeleteNo, no, no, silly, it's not "Ravi Backroom Bhalla", its Backroom Bhalli Ravioli, don't you get it? It's not about the councilman, it's about the bigots contorting his name over at Hate Square View.
DeleteNow let's address your questions:
1) Perry "Control Your Animal" Belfiore is getting a lot of love lately from some very unlikely sources. Strange bedfellows indeed!
2) This is a great idea but how do we pay for it sounds a lot like Timmy on EmNet. It all boils down to where the political winds are blowing these days. You could learn that by watching the Weather Channel!
3) Yes, the bumpouts will be called Bhalli Ravioli Badabing Badaba Ballyallyinfree Bubblicious Bhallalictupus Ballbusting Boutros Boutros Bhalli Bumpouts.
Ok?
4) Ask your patron saint of climate change denial, we could burn down the entire Pinelands and still be good to go because the environment is our plaything and you are his.
5) Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of baton tossers? The Shadow knows! But his secret identity was Lamont Cranston. I don't know anything about this Stab fellow of whom you speak. Sounds dangerous.
Terror Alert- Code Red!
Yeeeesssssssshhhhhhhh! Perry Belfiore, freedom fighter!
DeleteBoth of our candidates love and admire him.
Jen because of a vague first amendmenty-sounding but not really, thank God, angle.
Mike because of fiscal blah blah legal fees breathless something-something for the children. We're still working on it, but it's the political equivalent of whipped cream. Lots of calories, lots of air.
Stay tuned. Issue Hankies on the way!
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DeleteWow indeed!
DeletePerry is a victim.
Stan is a shadow.
Dawn is a puppet (by extension of the shadow reference) and, according to some in your circles (perhaps you, perhaps someone close to you) a "lady mayor."
Let's just call them Stawn and make the transformation complete.
Let's try it out for size.
Vote for Jen Giattino! We don't want a third term for Stawn and Bhalli Ravioli!
Go, Reform!
Yep. You pretty much nailed it. But Ravi is not Italian.
DeleteDidn't you know it's not satire when you satirize the satirist?
ReplyDeleteJust like it's not propaganda if you read it on MSV.
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DeleteWho knows what fear lurks in the hearts of numbers crunchers?
DeleteNah, doesn't work.
Censorship used to bother me too. Used to.
ReplyDeleteBut then I got my Team Giafusco "Censorship makes me sad" Issue Hanky! Now, everything's great! It may not do anything about censorship or the rapidly crumbling social contract between politicians and they public they are supposed to serve. But it lets people know I'm sad about it. And what if 1000s of people got "Censorship makes me sad" Issue Hankies? What then?
Probably nothing. It's just a hanky, silly. Still, it's packed with good intentions from your friends at Team Giafusco. Collect 'em, trade 'em, share 'em with your friends! Get the whole set!
Censorship makes me sad.
Charlottesville makes me sad.
The housing crisis makes me sad.
Police shootings make me sad.
Global warming makes me sad.
The list goes on and on! But don't feel like you have to choose one of ours. If there's an issue you're doing nothing about but still want everyone to know it makes you sad, we offer customizable Issue Hankies! Just tell our printers what to say.
Daylight savings time makes me sad.
People with too many items in the express lane make me sad.
Jimmy Farina makes me sad.
The possibilities are endless! Pick up the phone and buy one now before you have a chance to think it over!
Jimmy Farina makes me sad, too. He calls me "Pinkers". Nancy Pinkers.
DeleteLet's talk about the woman who didn't run again to save the world and is cutting 20+ trees because of poor planning .
ReplyDeleteI can see a satiric cartoon .. cutting a tree with a huge smile in her face .. I'm saving the world !!!
Did Ravi say how we are Paying for his Olympic Villa ?
(Someone needs better stock pictures ) , and that Suez - Florio - Water filled pool .. sounds like more $$$$$$ on its way
Hi, Hobokened Out. The plan, which your fella voted for, will plant 50 new trees! That's more than DOUBLE the number of trees which must be removed to accommodate the new infrastructure. Your fella approved the plans. Isn't he being a dick, to point fingers NOW at everyone else? He's acting like Trump, taking no responsibility for his own "YES" vote. Listen, its sad to lose mature trees. But, the end result will be a safer, greener Washington Street! You will love it, Hobokened Out.
DeleteThank you, Hoboken Doubt!
DeleteYes, yes, yes, yessssshhhhh!
One "Cutting down trees makes me sad" Issue Hanky is on the way!
And you qualify for the Team Giafusco Inner Circle discount! Act now and get the second hanky for just half of twice the normal price! Operators are standing by.
Real hanky solutions. Real savings. That's Team Giafusco!
Sounds like more $$$$$$ on its way for that Backroom Bhalli! I can see the satiric cartoon now! It's got Tommy LaSorda's replacement as the SlimFast pitchman standing at the podium telling Russo he's sure he didn't take any bribes while Mikey sits there like a deer in headlights. Lots of great cartoons!
DeleteLet's get real about the whole 'city council voted for the trees to be cut down thing.' The council members got a pile of documents and in a line or 1 of many drawings there was probably a reference to the 22 (not 16 as the Mayor's release says) were coming down which the council members missed....which they should have seen, yes, but, the night at the city council meeting when the plan was discussed, hours were spent on the bike lane discussion.
DeleteRecall that the subcommittee and Zimmer had agreed to remove the protected bike lanes and, after she agreed, she contacted the consultants and had them (at taxpayer expense) create an entirely new (and different than agreed to) plan which was sprung on the city council in real time & the night that the plan was being voted on.
After the hours spent on the bike lanes - much created by Zimmer's 'surprise plan' - not much time was spent on the rest. Some avid tree hungers where in the room that night. Even if a consultant mentioned the tree killing plans, it was very much just in passing. Otherwise, the tree huggers would have been all over it.
The 50 new trees will be saplings and many trees being removed are mature (and healthy trees). Many of the saplings won't survive to maturity - particularly if we have a harsh winter after they are planted.
None of these new saplings will be near the corners on Washington Street because there will be cisterns underneath the bump outs. The bump outs will be largely barren with no shade - sort of like the divider on an interstate highway and twice as ugly because there will be a dirt/mud garden of some sort on some of them with dead greenery (after it's never tended to), tumbleweed and rocks.
Talk about being made sad....it makes me sad that our Mayor was soooo intent on having things 'her way' (regardless of how the people that she represents felt about it) - that she would give almost no consideration to the esthetics of Washington Street and she would double-cross her own city council with a distracting surprise plan the night such an important vote was happening.
And btw you should share with your folks that MDFs council page changed to his mayoral page so when people were supporting him (or going against Teri ) they liked his page .. and the "likes" got carried over .. no Russian style hacking .. no Chinese clock farms .. pure FB loopholes .. they can unlike the page themselves . That's the only truth .
ReplyDeleteThank you, Hobokened Out. It took me a while to figure that one out. I am still getting emails/texts from people complaining about being hijacked in your fellas ads. I think it is the HIJACKER who needs to go through his list of "likes" and contact folks about the HIJACKING. If you ask me, hijacking likes is a sneaky, underhanded thing to, in particular because DeFusco has betrayed most of the people who originally "liked" him, back when he hitched his wagon to reform.
DeleteMy advice would have been to start with a fresh, new mayoral Facebook page. Other candidates do that- look at Carmelo Garcia- he's got one for every election he's ever ran. To her credit, even Beth Mason creates separate pages for her elections.
So you know, I have been telling hijacking victims that contact me privately how to escape from Facebook ad captivity. But really, must I do a public service announcement that DeFusco really owes to the public? He really should get on that.
As for Russian tactics- yes, this qualifies. Call it a "misinformation campaign."
I think all of the Mayoral candidates simply converted their FB pages to Mayoral pages.
DeleteAnd only one did a 180 on Reform. Can you guess who?
DeleteYou should , since you lied to them and disseminated the lies even further .. it is the right thing to do if you are in for good politics in this town .
DeleteHO,
DeleteWho hijacked hundreds of Reformers' "likes"?
Who is falsely advertising that Reformers "like" him, when they DON'T?
Who are these Reformers angry at?
Who owes them an apology?
Who should notify the public that he has hijacked hundress of Reformers against their will?
No, I have not "lied"- DeFusco is using Russian style misinformation tactics. Those are FAKE endorsements. DeFusco needs to fix the problem that he has created- it's a public relations problem. I don't work for the campaign. Got it?
Here's a reform-split peepshow-
ReplyDeleteA man thought in his pocket should the city's key go
With this self-described Giant,
Bhalli was not compliant
The only thing big about him is ego