Exclusive WHISTLEBLOWER report: DeFusco sent campaign mail to "at least 10 unique names at City Hall"
Today's DeFusco press release, another Vision Media excretion, seems timed to silence a whistle-blower-- me. (And attacking a Jewish woman on Rosh Hashana!)
EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH DIRECTOR MARKS
Two days ago, GA inadvertently discovered that Mike DeFusco's campaign has been sending political campaign mailers to Hoboken City Hall. Honestly, I had never heard of any Hoboken campaign sending their lit to City Hall (94 Washington Street.)
Neither had Hoboken's Business Administrator Stephen Marks.
After publication of my story, sources contacted me to disclose that the amount of mail coming from Mike DeFusco's campaign to City Hall addressed to persons who do not work there had drawn attention. GA did not realize that the campaign had established a pattern of sending mail to City Hall; I was amused that the sponsor of recent ethics legislation was sending political advertising to City Hall which seemed... amazing. And did not make sense to me. Others at City Hall had taken notice to DeFusco campaign mail arriving addressed to persons who did not work there.
One of them was Hoboken's B.A.
GA reached out to Director Marks, asked if he had ever heard of campaign mail addressed to City Hall.
"Never," he said. "Not in my seven years working for the City of Hoboken."
"How many unique names has the Mike DeFusco for Hoboken City Council sent political mail to?"
B.A. Marks replied, "At least 10 unique names."
When the unusual DeFusco campaign mail arrived, the unfamiliar addressees were checked with Human Resources, who verified they were not City employees. Marks told GA that to his knowledge, the mail had been coming since "about a month ago."
The extreme reaction of attacking a blogger, trying to smear me as 'homophobic" smells like panic. So, I don't know what this weird mail is all about. It's not a mistake. One peice of mail might be a mistake' not ten.
WHERE THERE'S AN APOPLECTIC DEFUSCO PRESS RELEASE, THERE'S FIRE!
What's going on? Shouldn't DeFusco's campaign spokeswoman address this instead of punching down at bloggers? And on the High Holy Days.
Stay tuned...
I don't care if he is registering homeless people or not, city hall is not their address. The homeless shelter would be more appropriate. Any person registered at city hall as their "place of residence" should be purged from the rolls. Nobody lives at that address.
ReplyDeleteThe way they justify it is that if they sleep on the bench outside of city hall which is 94 Washington then that makes that their address. I'm not saying its right I'm just saying it's been going on for years
DeleteI'd consider that voter fraud as it is a fake address if you don't include the bench. And if the mailman can't find you at said bench when your mail arrives then you clearly don't live there and it is also voter fraud. Purge them.
DeleteI believe homeless people, in order to receive whatever benefits they're entitled to, use certain addresses, such as general delivery to the local post office. Not sure about using city hall...
ReplyDeleteBut one thing is clear, GA struck a raw nerve which pushed the rabid chihuahua into attack mode because the ten or so names who received campaign literature (in violation of DeFusco's own ordinance of not campaigning in city hall), are just the latest in a string of populations the old guard and county bosses have exploited forever.
Whether it's seniors they deem gullible enough to vote for them because they provide flowering plants and turkeys on holidays, or the low-income housing residents they lead to believe that they owe them their votes in exchange for housing, or, as has been revealed, buying them outright, or now, in DeFusco's case, getting his name known to Hoboken's most vulnerable citizens he has done nothing to help. What's the incentive? What will they receive when they show up to campaign headquarters? What will he promise them?
It all adds up to one thing: a new low in their playbook, and it's just another strategy they're working, now that the vote-buying has been curtailed. And this is why they so desperately wanted the runoff elections to return, their coinciding with Jewish holidays be damned.
Blatant anti-Semitism? Maybe, maybe not. But at the very least, it's politically tone-deaf to Hoboken's active and engaged Jewish community. And just like the Republicans he aligns himself with on city council, the one thing they all have in common is not listening to their constituents.
Remember when Mike lost the mayoral election? He had his sister cry on GoFundMe and Facebook to ask for money to catch the guys who put out the flyer. Says a lot about Mike because he doesn't trust the Hoboken police but wanted to be their boss. But anyway what ever happened to that money. Did they catch them? Or did he think it was back pay because he took unpaid time off from work and lost the election anyways. Smells fishy all around.
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ReplyDeleteMDF has framed his entire political career by claiming to be a victim while victimizing others.