Location, location, location... and other stuff

Enemies of the current and former mayor are in full-spin mode. 

Yesterday one (or more) of them spun Hudson County View-- unnamed "sources" announced that the Hoboken Democratic Committee (HDC)  is meeting this week, will fill vacant committee seats, AND appeared to tie both to the candidacy of Amy DeGise.  

Um, no....

For the record, Hoboken Dems planned tomorrow's meeting before DeGise announced her candidacy on May 10.  And the meeting was no secret-- GA wrote about it a month ago.  The truth is, since booting Fisher, the HDC is 'cooking with gas': holding meetings, planning events, preparing for the Blue Wave...

So, here are the facts. 

On April 29, 2018, the Hoboken Dem Committee sent out a "Hold That Date" email:

"In just a few weeks, we will be holding our first public event - a fundraiser for Andy Kim, a Democratic candidate for NJ's 3rd Congressional District....  Just prior to the event at 6:30pm, we will also hold a very quick, 30 minute meeting. We have two vacancies that we need to fill - one committeewoman vacancy in 1-3, and a vacancy on the Executive Committee in the Sergeant-at-Arms position."  

GA wrote the next day:  "...there is a full committee meeting scheduled on May 31."   

So yeah, filling vacancies is the agenda of tomorrow's Dem Committee meeting. 

So yes, there are at least two more vacancies to fill since the April 29 email; as reported by John Heinis, the two in Ward 4 - District 5.  There may be others. 

A brief 4-5 history: the couple elected to fill 4-5 committee seats moved from Hoboken. Then on April 9, the Committee voted for Dawn Zimmer and Stan Grossbard to fill the 4-5 vacancies. (This got little attention because the meeting's main event was booting Chair Tiffanie Fisher.)  Now, Zimmer and Grossbard had originally planned to return from an extended vacation at the start of June, but... seem to be having too much fun.  Are you jealous? I am. So, those two love birds aren't coming back.... yet.  Hence in fairness,  both resigned.   So? 

Sure, the names "Zimmer" and "Grossbard" get certain folks really, really excited, but the rest of us know that every ward/district should be represented on their respective party committee: Dem or Republican.  This goes for the Executive Committee; the Sergeant-at-Arms vacancy left by Kurt Gardiner needs filling, too. 

Okay, okay. I'll say those names again: Zimmer!  Grossbard!

Ooooooh! Aaaaaaah! I love it when you say "Zimmer, Grossbard"

Yeah baby!

REMINDER: TOMORROW'S DOUBLE-HEADER!

That's right, people...

See you at the Andy Kim event, followed by:

LOCATION, LOCATION, LOCATION

If an election fell in a forest and no one was there to vote, would the loser make a sound?  You bet!

Which is why in an election with only one polling place serving an entire geographic region (Hudson County) and where all voters must show up at the same time, you would expect to know the location  well in advance.   Right?

In normal elections, registered voters receive Sample Ballots well in advance of election day, with all relevant information: where, when, who. 

So, its peculiar that 2 weeks away from such a highly contested election that has gotten a lot of local media attention, no one seemed to know where they have to be on June 12.   The HCDO is not the Skull and Bones Society.  There seems to be no reason why the current HCDO Chair, Vincent Prieto, has not informed the Chair of every local Democratic Committee where the vote is being held.  

Or is there?

When I served on the  Hoboken Democratic Committee, I remember getting advance (snail) mail with the HCDO election details. Is such a communication in the works? Maybe. Anyway, a source in-the-know provided the June 12 polling location:

"The vote is being held in Kearny High School.  The location was picked by Prieto."

Got that, everyone?

Kearny High School  (Google)