MVP resident: "they didn't even make it to the elevator" (PHOTO)

Full garbage can next to Marine View Plaza mailboxes

This photo was sent to GA by a Marine View Plaza resident with the following explanation:

"In MVP there is a garbage can next to the mailboxes.  People go through their mail and normally throw out junk before getting on the elevator. So they didn't even make it to the elevator." 

When I asked for a copy of the mailer, the person replied:

"Threw mine out and the garbage was empty this morning."

What a waste.

 "I speak for the trees. I speak for the trees for the trees have no tongues.” 

― Dr. Seuss, The Lorax

GA did score one mailer: a full color, 6-page brochure, as impressive as the ones the DeFusco campaign sent out in 2017 and 2015, and derivative of both.  Same photos and renderings, like the  "I have a Dream" Lackawanna market which LCOR does not seem to support.    

The candidate's mailer does showcase some #FreshNewIdeas, depicted below. As shown, (1) he proposes replacing existing Pier A kiosks with ones that float, and (2) mounting art on the city's electric boxes.   

Michael DeFusco for Hoboken City Council MAILER

Sure, GA gets conceptual design, but the Councilman is not in art school.  He aims to spend public money on buildable things not on dreamscapes in his head.   

As for hanging art on electric boxes (!) did the Councilman consult with the City Engineer? That has to be against code- it is common sense that electric boxes and other public utilities need to be kept accessible, that includes visually accessible.  Yes, they are ugly. But utility companies and emergency services need to see them.  (Unless of course, the art floats in space like the kiosks.)

[UPDATE: a reader advised that electric boxes can be wrapped with a synthetic material that can be peeled off, as a substrate to painting directly on it. Kind of like wallpaper. It is unclear what Councilman DeFusco is proposing from his rendering, other than the subject, Frank Sinatra.] 

Honestly, this nonsense insults our intelligence. 

Not to mention that pie-in-the-sky is served with a plate of borrowed accomplishments.  Such as the repaving of First Street in the photo below.  This work was done by the County; First Street is a County Road.

Michael DeFusco for Hoboken City Council MAILER

And the dog park!

Councilman DeFusco had nothing to do with the dog park; the idea came from First Ward resident Teresa Palumbo-Miller, during the Zimmer administration.  Palumbo had suggested it to then Mayor-Dawn Zimmer and then-Councilman Ravi Bhalla. The park was executed during the Bhalla administration by Director Leo Pelligrini, designed by Larisa Carachakova.  DeFusco had no role , did nothing.  Mayor Bhalla  honored Palumbo-Miller in his public remarks at the dog park opening, from which the First Ward Counciman was AWOL.

https://patch.com/new-jersey/hoboken/hoboken-resident-s-idea-dog-park-becomes-reality

Did DeFusco's mailer even mention that the idea for this park came from Palumbo-Miller, a constituent?

No.   That would have been honest and classy. Instead he wrote this:

Michael DeFusco for Hoboken City Council MAILER

PINOCCHIO says: " with your support, I will continue to activate underutilized space..."

Folks, there is more, but you get the idea. Judging from the turnout at DeFusc's fundraiser last night,  folks are catching on.

An eyewitness told GA that there were "50 people if he was lucky, and 20 from the 1st ward again if he was lucky." The campaign had to bus seniors from downtown to fill the room, and the only Councilpersons who showed up were Ruben Ramos and Vanessa Falco. 

  

“There's an old saying in Tennessee — I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee — that says, fool me once, shame on — shame on you. Fool me — you can't get fooled again.<”

-George W. Bush, September 17, 2002