Not reporting to council duty tonight for a vote to enforce local Pay-to-Play law: Jen Giattino, Tiffanie Fisher, Ruben Ramos, Peter Cunningham and Vanessa Falco.
Imagine for one moment that Mayor Bhalla skipped work because he didn't want to attend a meeting?
This is worse: deliberate obstruction of a resolution that would enforce PAC and Union contribution limits to $500. And 3 of the AWOL council members are candidates, making them direct beneficiaries of tonight's sabotage.
Taxpayers pay them to work, not stamp their feet and take their toys home.
Taxpayers pay them to work, not stamp their feet and take their toys home.
Shameless. Well, it looks like folks will be studying the incumbents' ELECs under a microscope!
More to come...
Call another special meeting next week and every week until the cowards show up and vote.
ReplyDeleteMy idea: schedule 3 consecutive special meetings (or 2 more if there is enough notice prior to the regular council meeting)... a council seat is automatically VACATED if he/she misses 3 consecutive meetings. I'd like to see that!
DeleteIn the private sector, a stunt like that would get you fired. Maybe that's why Giattino and Fisher are unemployed / unemployable. A Google search of their names will insure that they will be radioactive and undesirable to any prospective employer for a long time.
ReplyDeleteBut this is right out of the toxic, warped, Republican's playbook, which is what Cunningham, Giattino are, and what Fisher behaves like most of the time. From the president right on down, they pull crazy, illegal shit, and say to the rest of us "try and stop me".
For every meeting they miss, they should get docked the 2K we pay them per meeting, plus the administrative costs associated with keeping staff in the building. In DeFusco's case, he'd wind up owing the city money, he's missed so many meetings.
Six more weeks folks, just six more weeks.
I'm much less concerned about them missing the meeting than about why - their hypocrisy on pay to play.
ReplyDeleteEveryone should be able to agree with the principle that our pay to play and anti wheeling laws should be as strong as legally permissable with the most effective enforcement provisions possible.
If changes in the law need to be made to achieve thosd goals, so be it.
Agreeing to focus on those goals if and when changes are made, as well as agreeing to personally abide by and have the City Clerk enforce the existing law as long as it's on the books, should be principles the mayor, every council member, and everyone running for council can easily agree on.
Giattino claimed credit as the 5th vote for the anti-wheeling ordinance when she ran for mayor. Cunningham co-sponsored the ordinance. Fisher filed a detailed complaint about DeFusco's multiple violations of the law in 2007.
The hypocrisy is breathtaking.
Why did Mig miss yesterday’s debate with MDF. It’s all over his FB page.
ReplyDeleteLike many people in Hoboken I do not have access to MDF's highly restricted sycophants only Facebook page that his campaign media handlers run for him.
DeleteBased on MDF's past stunts this was bogus too.
The debate wasn’t published. Just not going to it was published. We only had time for one or the other so we chose not going.
DeleteWhat’s the point of having a debate that’s not published. Isn’t this the time for voters to hear the candidates views.
DeleteBlocking constituents from his Facecrook page like me and others is just another law that he's breaking. The rabid chihuahua is not bringing "new energy" and "new ideas" to town, just his own half-baked ramblings and the same old corrupt bullshit Hudson County is infamous for, crafted by his bosses and served up by the little twerp. And he's too stupid to know he's being used.
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