Emily Jabbour allegedly received $1,000 in conflict of interest with CLEAR's automated ticketing vendor

 The Hoboken hills are alive with the sound of what isn't music. 

That's the sound where the Emily Jabbour campaign finds itself in a controversy weeks before Hoboken's mayoral election.  

The mayoral candidate is allegedly seen in her campaign contribution report as accepting $1,000 from the head of the CLEAR company engaged in the Washington St. automated parking ticketing program.

The issue exploded on X yesterday with a post connecting Emily Jabbour accepting a $1,000 campaign contribution from the CLEAR vendor president. The vendor is used by the Ravi Bhalla administration to surveil Washington Street with an automated camera ticketing system, an operation some City Council members and Hoboken residents deem illicit and never approved.

If true, the illicit contribution puts Emily Jabbour in the unique position of receiving a four-figure political contribution from the vendor in the controversial policy. None of her mayoral opponents appear to have acted similarly, exposing Emily Jabbour singularly in a Ravi-type conflict of interest position. 

At the last City Council meeting, a resolution offered by Councilman Paul Presinzano and Councilwoman Tiffanie Fisher sought to halt any enforcement mechanism with the CLEAR camera system. 

The resolution failed in a 4-4 tie with the opposition led by Councilwoman Emily Jabbour, Joe Quintero and the Ravibot council voting bloc. 

Emily Jabbour never told the public of her financial interest and apparently did not ask for legal guidance at the meeting if she should recuse herself from voting on the resolution connected to the vendor.

The allegations arose from this post on X yesterday:

Some Hoboken residents are furious and assailing Emily Jabbour on X who is keeping silent as nothing she doesn't say can be used against her. 


Hoboken 2025 Election Note: Emily Jabbour was not and will not be available for comment on this story. Please see Jabbour's campaign Instagram for announcements about bike lanes and photos of her riding a bicycle. 

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