Bhalla "does more with less" (effort to fire Freeman FAILS!)

Assistant Corporation Counsel Allen and Assistant BA Freeman preside at last night's special council meeting. 

Meet Hoboken's new Assistant Corporation Counsel John Allen and Assistant Business Administrator Jason Freeman.

(May we share a laugh together? BWAAAA- HAW- HAW!)   

Because ever since they were hired to serve as the mayor's Chief of Staff and Deputy Chief of Staff, respectively. the Dark Side council coalition (Mike DeFusco, Jen Giattino, Ruben Ramos, Tiffanie Fisher, Peter Cunningham) has thrown everything at them to get them to quit.  Yep, from trying to cut their measly $10,000 stipend (covering thousands of hours in overtime) to an illegal ordinance removing Freeman's position from the mayor's office, to defunding Freeman's salary from the mayor's budget (successfully), these young men have weathered a council shit storm.

Oh, and get this:  the council's justification for chopping Jason's salary from the mayor's office budget? That the mayor needed to "do more with less."   

("Doing more with less" only seems to apply to the mayor; last night the Dark Side council voted to spend $250K  of our money on a fireworks show.)  

And so, GA was tickled to see the mayor's aides at last night's meeting, not beaten and bowed, but elevated in new professional advisory roles far out of the vindictive reach of this scorched earth council.   

Don'tcha love it?

Oh yes,  How did the Council find out about that John Allen and Jason Freeman would be filling in for Corporation Counsel Brian Aloia and Business Administrator Stephen Marks?

Each member received one of these last night: