Hoboken Mayor replaces Doyle on City Council


HOBOKEN: In a move that surprised even his closest allies, Hoboken Mayor Bhalla decided to swap two-term At-Large Councilman Jim Doyle with a similarly qualified replacement, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders.  

When asked why he would take this hasty action, Bhalla replied, "Its clear that Jim can't stand the petty vindictiveness of a few council colleagues who are less legislators than jealous babies with loaded diapers.  Jim deserves mercy, he has done his time."

But why pick Sanders? 

"Like Doyle, Uncle Bernie supports a ban on fracking, supports reduction in coal- and oil-fired power plant emissions and enjoys sliced bananas on his morning granola. Jim also favors wooly mittens over synthetic gloves" said Bhalla.

Councilman-Senator Sanders attended his first Hoboken City Council Meeting this week, voting with his colleagues on First Reading of an ordinance to limit pay-to-play contributions.  This ordinance was spearheaded by Sanders' colleague 2nd Ward Councilwoman Tiffanie Fisher. As reported in Hudson County View:  



Councilwoman Fisher's latest perspective on Pay-to-Play precedes Hoboken's 2021 mayoral election; in the lead-up to her own 2019 election, Fisher took the opposite tact: she opposed proposed legislation to enforce local Pay-to-Play law. To add confusion, Ms. Fisher's renewed advocacy for tightening campaign finance law is directly at odds with her embrace of Councilman Mike DeFusco as a political and ideological ally. 


That said, Councilwoman Fisher's latest position on campaign finance reform aligns with the views of Councilman-Senator Bernie Sanders, who has said in the past:

"A few wealthy individuals and corporations have bought up our private sector and now they're buying up the government. Campaign finance reform is the most important issue facing us today, because it impacts all the others."

In keeping with her renewed energy for transparency, it's worth noting that Councilwoman Fisher has not filed a Quarterly Election Finance Report since October 2019.  Her October 2019 campaign finance report shows a balance of $3,437.81. Clearly, Ms. Fisher has not followed State of New Jersey campaign finance law, nor has allowed constituents to see her receipts, contributions and disbursements made since October 2019.   

Perhaps Councilman-Senator Sanders will remind his colleagues that no one is above the law, including law makers. 

Comments

  1. Welcome back GA. Great to see you doing satire again. Laughter is both the best medicine and the most effective weapon in a political world where nonsense is the norm.

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    1. Thanks, numbers. How've you been? Really, between a coup d'etat and surging pandemic casualties, I don't have bandwidth (or the will) to answer every Hoboken Call of the Stupid. It's the same cast of small-minded characters, the same dreck, like watching the same act to the same play over and over again. It's all particularly irrelevant now. Every household has much bigger worries than a few prideful council egos waging war with a mayor who's been, IMO, hitting it out of the park insofar as managing the greatest health threat to our city in a hundred years. THAT's what people care about.

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  2. Bernie deserves better than this.

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