DeFusco missed ANOTHER Planning Board meeting! (he's missed 2 out of 3...)

Mike DeFusco's empty chair. 

Councilman Jim Doyle served for 3 years on the Hoboken Planning Board without missing a single meeting.  

Sadly, he misses every meeting now. That's because the Ramos-Giattino council majority replaced him with a hologram, Mike DeFusco. 

So how is Jim remembered by his Planning Board peers? Words they used: "thoughtful, collaborative, mature, deliberative."

And Mike DeFusco? How's he working out?

Let's see... He missed his second Planning Board meeting last night-- that's two out of three meetings in total... or a 66.6% rate of absence.  Impressive! 

Yep, DeFusco no-showed to Planning Board meetings on January 9th, and on March 6th. The only one he's attended so far met three weeks ago, on February 14, 2018.

How'd he do at his first (and only) meeting?

Read this transcript excerpt  and you tell me.  

So, what do you think?

That exchange occurred 3/4 of the way through the meeting.

Earlier, DeFusco argued with the entire board including Planning Board Attorney, Dennis Galvin, on a legal matter of jurisdiction; Defusco insisted that the proper jurisdiction for that application was the Zoning Board- not Planning. DeFusco's pronouncement that the application should be pulled from the agenda presumed his 20 minutes of experience trumped the years of Planning expertise of the board professionals. It was bizarre.  Other words to describe his conduct: imperious, disrespectful, arrogant, not-sharp, non-collaborative; like an anti-Doyle sent from a diametrically-opposite universe.  

So?  Who stuck the Planning Board with this nitwit?  Council President Ramos, Council VP Giattino, Tiffanie Fisher, Peter Cunningham, and the nitwit himself,  Mike DeFusco. 

You would not be wrong to say that the judgment of this political faction is warped. 

Anyone could have predicted this would happen. The truth is, this council faction is running on spite, not on what's best for Hoboken.   

Tonight there's a Council meeting, unless it gets snowed out.  If not, what else will we see from this bunch?

We know there's a power grab on deck tonight.  And probably more whining that the Mayor didn't use the right paper to answer their 26 questions.  Stay tuned.