UPDATE #3: 23 (inc. Ramos) going to Fisher Kick-off, Church Lady to donate party favors

UPDATE #3
21+1=23

23 is a respectable number, because you know that most people will show up without RSVPing.  Anticipating a large crowd, GA hears that Church Lady will be donating party favors for each guest:

Note: party favors are not for use. DO NOT HANDLE.

UPDATE #2
13 + 8 = 21

GA's been writing about local politics for 9 years, now. So, you bet your sweet tuchas I am watching the first- ever election where alleged reform purists break bread with vbm-kings and pay-to-players and those with a long, long record of attacking. the Hoboken District.

As political stories go, fascinating. And amidst an ongoing investigation into vbm fraud in 2015 up to the present.

So stuff the Russo moral equivalency. It is detente at best. Russo is out for Russo.  Probably playing both sides, who knows.

UPDATE: 

Overnight, ten more folks have RSVPed to Fisher's campaign Kick-Off-- including the Vision Media PR person who Hudson County View identified as Mike DeFusco's campaign spokeswoman.  

DEFUSCO INVITED?

Interestingly, GA did not find DeFusco nor his partner on Fisher's Guest List.  And, Tiffanie's blogger threw DeFusco under the bus yesterday with this:

"From Dawn Zimmer in 2007 and 2009 to Tim Occhipinti in 2015 and Mike DeFusco in 2017, the Hoboken tradition using Vote by Mail in questionable voter tallies is seen over and over."

Ouch. Nothing gets written over there without his patroness' approval. Was DeFusco really excluded from Fisher's Kick-off?   Or is his spokeswoman attending on his behalf?  Even if the First Ward Councilman has vacation plans at the time, one would expect him to be invited.   

KIDS FIRST ANTAGONIST IN FISHER COALITION

Aside from politics, GA is generally fascinated by what makes people tick. And boy, the Ramos- Fisher coalition is ticking louder than a Swiss clock shop.

Some good folks from my past who've thoroughly invested themselves in raising the Hoboken Public School District from the degraded condition we inherited it in 2009 (from Ramos cronies), are in a political coalition with RAMOS and those very cronies- because Fisher is.  

 थे एनेम्य ओफ़् मय एनेम्य इस मय फ़्रिएन्द् 

That's Sanskrit for "the enemy of my enemy is my friend."

So, these good folks are now in a political coalition with persons who attacked our School Board publicly for years, one of them a school board candidate twice backed by Ruben Ramos.... and having failed to get elected, he markets our district as shitty in order to churn real estate sales.  Kaching.  

How the hell did that happen?   

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FISHER KICK-OFF RSVPs

FISHER CAMPAIGN KICK-OFF 

In fairness to Fisher, the invitation was only a few hours old when GA took the screenshot. She might yet reach a dozen.

GA expected 2nd Ward Councilwoman Tiffanie Fisher to throw in her hat.   I am surprised at the timing; just days after Frank Raia's conviction for election rigging, a story which has dominated Hoboken's news cycle. 

If I were supporting Fisher, I would have advised her to wait. But I'm not. So it is fortuitous that she stuck her toe in when a current of ominous signs are swirling about her council allies. 

Low level staffers on the Ramos campaign are rumored to be speaking to federal law enforcement.  

And after the Raia verdict, two of the trial's cooperating witnesses ran into [redacted] and [redacted] and told them this: 

"based on the line of questioning from F.B.I. investigators [redacted] might be running unopposed."

But you know, all are presumed innocent until they have their day in court.