Mike Defusco is Hoboken P2P Royalty

https://www.mikedefusco.com/blog/2017/7/25/defusco-calls-for-full-compliance-with-election-laws

All hail the King!

At last week's Council meeting we saw a merger of Sell-Outs: Giattino, Fisher and Cunningham with the Dark Side's Ramos and DeFusco. They kicked off the night with a pogrom of Zimmer appointees and Bhalla At-Large candidates from  our municipal boards, NHSA and City Council leadership.   

Yep, this  new political faction scrubbed all traces of Zimmer and Bhalla administration voices from their appointments. Scrub a dub dub.

Not to mention a total shut out of election winners Jim Doyle and Emily Jabbour from any participation in the Council reorganization. 

Lay down with dogs, wake up with fleas. 

Rather than support the new Reform administration, Giattino, Fisher and Cunningham threw in with the Dark Side against their former good government allies, choosing to elevate VBM harvesters and as you will see, a P2P King.

Good luck with those fleas.

P2P ROYALTY 
By GA's calculations- see chart below- per ELEC reports noted, Mike DeFusco's campaign is $93,500 over the Hoboken P2P legal limits.

Which makes Mike DeFusco Hoboken's P2P King! 

We may assume that DeFusco friends paid some peripheral campaign expenses, such as litigating complaints against Anthony 'Stick' Romano- which don't show up anywhere. 

Here's the law:



Hence, for compliance with Hoboken's election law,  Mike DeFusco's individual ELEC contribution limit is $500 (from PACs, political committees, and entities otherwise defined in Ordinance Z-116), his slate's  ELEC contribution limit is $1,500.

All excess contributions are to be refunded within 30 days. 

Note: Fisher filed a detailed complaint against DeFusco for P2P violations before rewarding him with Jim Doyle's seat on the Planning Board.



HOW DEFUSCO DEEFINES "FULL COMPLIANCE WITH ELECTION LAW"
So, with a moutain of P2P violations, how does Mike deFusco define "full compliance with election law"?

Read his July 25, 2017 blog post entitled, "DEFUSCO CALLS FOR FULL COMPLIANCE WITH ELECTION LAWS":

 "DeFusco is calling on all candidates to comply with New Jersey State Election Law by filing the required Candidate Certificate of Organization (D-1 Form), which is required to be filed by anyone running for office or exploring a run for office who has spent more than $500 on his or her campaign. Any campaign spending above that threshold by a candidate who has not filed a D-1 Form is illegal.

See?  Easy.

File a D-1 form, then take money like a hog on a farm, report your slop to ELEC then, after gobbling PAC slop from various building trades, be rewarded by Reform Sell-Outs with a seat on Hoboken's Planning Board .   

Comments

  1. Good job Fisher. Rewarding a guy who ignores campaign finance restrictions by putting both him and his mouthpiece on important boards! SMH

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  2. Once upon a time the other blogs would be all over this story. You wouldn't even have to cover it if you didn't want to. Yet they all insist that YOU are the one that's changed.

    I wouldn't believe this incredible transformation if I weren't seeing it with my own eyes every day.

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    1. Not sure his boss would appreciate him focusing on the campaign finance misdeeds of their new friends. He has his marching orders and he appears to be sticking with them.

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  3. This is a partial list of the types of people and "organizations" we knew were backing DeFiasco all along, for all their nefarious reasons, just like the old, pre-Zimmer days. But without enforcement, what's to stop him and others from gaming the system at every election? It's clear his new friends on city council don't give a shit. For the "Team DeFusco" donations, are Michael Flett, Andrew Impastato and Vanessa Falco implicated in this ELEC violation?

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