Hi Friend,
It has been a true honor to serve as your Mayor for the last 8 1/2 years. I want to thank each and every one of you for giving me this incredible opportunity. I am proud of all that we have accomplished with your support, including saving our hospital, seeing the City through Superstorm Sandy, adding 9 acres of open space in western Hoboken, making real progress to reduce flooding, and making our City as environmentally and fiscally resilient as possible.
I was deeply moved by the community response at Mayor Ravi Bhalla's inauguration and thank everyone for your support over the years to achieve our many goals for our great City. I look forward to seeing all of you as I walk and bike around town! I have also taken up climbing, so perhaps I will see you at the Gravity Vault!
With deep gratitude,
Dawn
I hope she enjoys her retirement from the public spotlight & that people leave her alone. She "served her time" and did a better job than any mayor from the 90s and 00s. My hope for her is a restoration of her privacy & her husband's privacy as well (I know his name, I made a point of not using it to maintain his privacy).
ReplyDeleteDitto. Serving this community has to stop being sufficient cause for constant personal attacks, invasion of privacy, winking references to criminal conspiracies. Or no one worth a damn is going to want to do it. Every time Zimmer belched in the last year “-gate” got attached to the description. There is as much public commentary as ever, but also less real discussion of matters of substance than ever.
DeleteThanks Dawn and whatshisname.
Dawn got it done, got it done well, and got it done with integrity, honesty, and courage. She is a true public servant who was in it do the right thing for Hoboken as she saw it, rather than serving to appease her own ego, or help her friends. She's was an amazing Mayor, and role model for us all. I truly hope she enjoys time away from it all now. She so deserves it.
ReplyDeleteAgree w all of you.
ReplyDeleteHard to believe the crummy way she was treated out the way out by people who rode on her coat-tails through 2 elections. Reminds me, last night I had a Facebook argument with one of Jen's running mates! (not Aibel) Said he "doesn't read " this blog but "knows all about me." When I brought up the fact that Dawn won with 47% and that if reform had not split, Ravi would have gotten about that much, Jen's running-mate said, "Dawn split that vote, nobody else."
That person is a moron. Don't know who it was, but if that's their thought process, they're stupid.
Delete“Thought process” is probably an over-generous characterization.
DeleteCan’t believe that after all this time, all the battles, all the change for the good that this is the only place giving Zimmer a fond send off. 8 1/2 statue-worthy years flushed because a few people on a terribly run campaign couldn’t and can’t deal with the inevitable results.
ha...i'd like to hear team jen's explanation of how it's also the former mayor's fault that jen lost both her own ward and her own district.
Deleteconsidering jen's dismal fourth place finish in the mayoral election, perhaps the main reason she ever won her council seat in the first place was BECAUSE of the former mayor's support.
here's a thought: maybe jen was just a lousy candidate who got lousy political advice from lousy political handlers and ended up running a lousy campaign. could that be why she lost, maybe?
nah, makes much more sense to blame the former mayor for everything.
If Jen was a good candidate, she wouldn't have finished 4th. She was a horrible candidate. She and her supporters need to stop pretending that she is not to blame for her poor finish.
DeleteGiattino would have done better without the angry, neurotic women around her, and the running-for-mayor-by-proxy-candidate in the form of Fisher.
DeleteStill, she had a good reputation and was very likable until the post-election shenanigans. Not sure if she's the source of those misguided misfires, but she's not distancing herself from them either. And now the party switch. We saw through it with smarmy Cunningham, and we see through it with her, if this is all true.
They lost me with the Suez debacle and with the sense of entitlement they seem to have with respect to thinking they had some right to decide who should get the outgoing mayor's endorsement. Sorry, but they don't.
Delete”nah, makes much more sense to blame the former mayor for everything.”
ReplyDeleteYES! Finally - someone gets it. I was really starting to wonder if everyone was getting enough oxygen.