Tonight, aside from a full Agenda, the Council deals with several political controversies of their own making. The Council-majority, that is.
First: the fallout after Carepoint's top tier management yanked Council V.P.'s Ruben Ramos' illegal appointee from Hoboken University Medical Center's Board of Trustees. Not only did Ramos' allies fail to react to news that: (1) he'd made a hospital board appointment without Council consent in a public process, and (2) he'd violated the hospital's own bylaws, they appeared to aid the cover up by abruptly shutting down Emily Jabbour's shocking revelation on December 5, 2018.
This leaves a vacancy on the HUMC Board of Trustees. The designee must be a Hoboken City Council member. It is unclear what the purpose was of 'giving' that seat to a Ramos political crony, but GA believes the only way to thwart that plan is to appoint a Council person who did not aid in the cover up of the ill-given board seat. Which leaves Councilpersons Emily Jabbour, Jim Doyle and Vanessa Falco. Jim appears to have had an unsung role in the Herculean efforts of Toni Tomarrazo, Chair of the Hospital Municipal Hospital Authority, HMHA members, and Mayor Zimmer to save our City's hospital. Who knows if Jim wants it, but it would be decent and appropriate to nominate him anyway for the seat.
Next: the Agenda shows that the payroll issue will be resolved in Executive Session. This nothing-burger was blown up to Watergate proportions on a deviant Trumper website which the City Council majority uses to bash the mayor in the same way that Beth Mason operatives used Hoboken411 to bash Zimmer. And so, having created a public controversy, these Council members will feast on nothing-burger as their deviant troll creates the next controversy.
Of course, all this happens with the backdrop of a 2015 campaign being implicated in a new voter fraud investigation. GA speculates with confidence that the subject campaign will not be that of Fisher, Giattino, Cunningham, or Wefer. It may be a losing candidate.
If you think think these new charges (and a widening investigation) signal the end of VBM fraud, the Queensboro Bridge is for sale. Clever folks find new ways to cheat. GA heard an unverified rumor about one of the 2015 campaigns. According to the source:
"[redacted] learned very well how to cheat with VBMs and paying people to vote under names that moved. Anybody can produce an ID today as you know, [redacted] needs to be watched carefully on those matters, s/he got away with it, s/he will do it again."
I agree, source. All Hoboken residents need to be the eyes and ears for the VBM activities of our candidates. Some more than others. It becomes complicated when so-called Reformers look the other way.
Of course, all this happens with the backdrop of a 2015 campaign being implicated in a new voter fraud investigation. GA speculates with confidence that the subject campaign will not be that of Fisher, Giattino, Cunningham, or Wefer. It may be a losing candidate.
If you think think these new charges (and a widening investigation) signal the end of VBM fraud, the Queensboro Bridge is for sale. Clever folks find new ways to cheat. GA heard an unverified rumor about one of the 2015 campaigns. According to the source:
"[redacted] learned very well how to cheat with VBMs and paying people to vote under names that moved. Anybody can produce an ID today as you know, [redacted] needs to be watched carefully on those matters, s/he got away with it, s/he will do it again."
I agree, source. All Hoboken residents need to be the eyes and ears for the VBM activities of our candidates. Some more than others. It becomes complicated when so-called Reformers look the other way.
The plastic bag exemption is for those who need to tote many VBM ballots, which can be slippery when wet. They're also hand for carrying around a lot of fifty dollar bills to pay your campaign workers. So many uses...
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