Hoboken Election 2025

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The approaching lull with Thanksgiving this week sees no slowing of the mayoral and council runoff ahead next Tuesday.  More people are lining up announcing their endorsements and offering words on behalf of their advocacy. The Ruben Ramos campaign council slate announced its support of Councilman Michael Russo for mayor while one BoE member called for a vote for Councilwoman Emily Jabbour, deeming it "common sense." Was it common sense to hide and then try to shovel ahead a $241 million high school down Hoboken residents' throats? Short memories or shorter runways as reported on the Hudson County View.   On Friday, the Team Fisher event with Michael Russo reportedly saw a "good vibe" and a good time with the appearance of one former mayor. No, not Dawn Zimmer who is being presented as part of a last push for Emily Jabbour but allegedly Peter Cammarano, who lives not far from the Madison. A last push to the runoff features this Emily Jabbour campaign mailer with...

Ravi Bhalla, the lame duck Hoboken mayor successfully inserted himself to replace his former aide in a NJ Assembly seat and is unofficially checked out of the Mile Square City. He's moved on to self-promotion on X but didn't exactly see a warm welcome barely generating two comments as he congratulated himself celebrating the NJ Working Families party, a communist front group enslaving minorities to a future of bleak handouts in a state where affordability is code for giving the very people who made the state unaffordable control.  Their power comes from redistributing your money not theirs. This scam has been going on for decades in the Soprano State.  It's made New Jersey one of the least affordable, most expensive states in the country, trapping the poor holding their hands out for scraps from these "political leaders." The failed policies are recycled with another, succeeding trapped generation.  The second comment is included: Hilarious. You begged to be part ...

  Of note in recent days, there must be someone with a big investment in bollards at City Hall. With the days dwindling for the outgoing mayor Ravi Bhalla, the Mile Square City landscape is being littered with bollards making for unsightly neighborhoods and preventing the most routine of resident actions. You have to wonder if there's laughter on the second floor at City Hall as the inventory of bollards falls before a new mayor can stop the utter pollution and bollard mania.  It's gone on for far too long and it's a sorry Sign of the Times. 

Former councilman Mike DeFusco, the undesignated but true victim of the Ravi Terror Flyer, announced an endorsement for the Hoboken mayoral runoff. The former councilman and rumored County Commissioner (Freeholder) candidate of the future endorsed Councilman Michael Russo for mayor, the latest among a slew of recent council-type endorsements. A Russo campaign email shared the news stating DeFusco's endorsement with the former councilman advancing a pet issue, "We advanced the European-style market at Warrington Plaza - an idea I championed, and one Mike defended behind closed doors when the administration resisted. When the projection opens, the city will see what real collaboration can achieve."  As DeFusco weighs his political revival run for office, there's more endorsement chatter or in one case, a non-endorsement.  Dini Ajmani who was a late challenger for mayor, invested heavily in an outsider campaign but came in fifth. A few noted that leap-frogging all the co...

  The wheels keep turning as the December runoff approaches, and Team Emily is acting like anything but a frontrunner.  Today, it's Councilman Paul Presinzano offering yet another council seat of support against Emily Jabbour's bid for mayor. It's not definitive, but a cumulative body blow that is beginning to have an effect, with the writing on the wall.  Only days ago, former mayor Dawn Zimmer told Hoboken Emily Jabbour would not be Bhalla 2.0. She claimed the councilwoman's years of rubber-stamping Bhalla's bad government and worse behavior were over. Team Emily pocketed the support and then went right back to the Ravi-style action of division and hate.  The above campaign mailer cost a pretty penny and was likely sent only to Democrat voters. Jabbour thinks this kind of low-brow Trump attack will propel her into office. As seen, Emily Jabbour lumps in Big Developers, "lobbyists and Trump supporters" into one bucket for Russo. Of course, she's also ...

Near and far, it's a losing proposition for the Mile Square City today, with Michael Russo and Emily Jabbour, two big pro-development candidates, vying for Hoboken mayor in the December runoff. The outgoing mayor of Jersey City, Steve Fulop, weighs in from his vantage point as he prepares to become CEO of Partnership for New York City, a high-profile organization that represents corporate and entrepreneurial firms with an eye on economic development. He'll likely do well, but can't foresee the pain coming to the Big Apple under the incoming communist mayor, Mamdani.  Fulop offered this post expressing his admiration for big buildings and a huge skyscraper in Jersey City.  Below his post, another, in contrast to the vantage point of Hoboken residents, who don't want to follow in a similar vein to Jersey City: Looking from downtown Jersey City Hall, it’s a sea scape of jutting skyscrapers. 🏙️ We’re trying to avoid it in #Hoboken but losing to Soprano State pay-to-play w...

Today is Hoboken Endorsement Tuesday. Not officially, but it might as well be. Dawn Zimmer, the former mayor who led a Reform Movement before torpedoing it with a single shot, an endorsement of Ravi Bhalla, came down today to tell it from the Catskill Mountains.  On Hudson County View, she offered her endorsement for Emily Jabbour to be the next mayor. Her last such endorsement for Ravi Bhalla didn't quite work out. She offered severe criticism, writing: "(He)  abandoned my Administration’s commitment to ethical, fiscally responsible, accountable governance. He engaged in transactional politics, patronage hiring, and irresponsible budget practices that created a large, growing structural deficit. He made major development decisions influenced by his desire to advance his political career beyond Hoboken." No kidding. But wait, there's more. Councilwoman Fisher, in a bid to aid council candidate Liz Urtecho, who is in the council runoff, is uniting with Team Russo as th...

 us?  Us? Really?  Councilman Michael Russo wants to know what happened to "us" with Councilwoman Emily Jabbour as they prepare for a mayoral runoff on December 2nd. Pic not taken from the back of 10th & Willow.  Or is this some sort of subliminal threat?  Councilman Michael Russo, a Hoboken leader and role model in how to go from mean bro corruptocrat to friendly and gregarious mayoral candidate to a number of low information voters took this show late Friday night. Late Friday night, what?  Yes, the mano-a-mano battle began when Councilwoman Emily Jabbour launched a pulverizing liver shot at Russo and his history of corruption. Then she lobbed a weird shot at Hoboken Republicans claiming they benefited from Russo, somehow. It doesn't make any actual sense but just roll with it. This is the Ravi strategy of division and hate, Jabbour's mentor. Unless she's talking about an individual on the Russo Campaign payroll, the allegation was most circumspect....

The Hoboken 2025 municipal election moves forward with runoffs for mayor and three at-large City Council seats.  The runoff scenario presents challenges for all candidates coming 48 hours after Thanksgiving weekend with no early voting and the election set for December 2nd. Who has the advantage with the timeline and who is facing more formidable challenges is the topic for many plus the intrigue on how Hoboken politicos will navigate. Since the top mayoral vote getter Emily Jabbour didn't manage much more than a quarter of the vote, the dispersion of the almost 75% among other candidates and their voters means endorsements will play a more important role than is typical.  That hearty number is going to filter from the top all the way down to the six council at-large candidates vying for three seats.  Team Fisher council candidate Liz Urtecho is likely to be confirmed as the last runoff council candidate when provisional ballots are counted Friday. She'll be flying solo ...

With the Hudson County Board of Elections' unofficial figures at 97%, councilmembers Emily Jabbour came in first place, and Michael Russo is in second place. They will advance to a runoff in December. Councilwoman Tiffane Fisher took third place, and Councilman Ruben Ramos came in fourth place. Independent Dini Ajamani came in fifth place, but upended Fisher as a financial professional with her independent bid.  The Russo and Fisher council slates are vying for the runoff in the unofficial count for the three at-large council seats versus the Emily Jabbour council slate atop. The Hudson Council View filed this story detailing the possible matchup.   Diane Imus from Team Fisher easily defeated her opponents and will be certified this week and fill the seat of the late City Council President Jen Giattino for the sixth ward. 

NJ statewide vote projection - may surpass 3,000,000! Hoboken has well over 12,000 total votes by midday alone, including early voting.  Remember, you live in Hudson County, where your legacy of voting can continue after death. According to Michael Pruser on X: All counties are currently coming in at about the same rate as their 2024 election-day totals, and we are tracking a turnout of 3.15 million, a ~ 20% bump vs. 2021. VOTE TALLIES FOR HUDSON COUNTY AS OF 2:00 PM

 Today is Election Day, and you will choose statewide offices for Governor, Lt. Governor, Assembly, and County Sheriff.  In Hoboken, five major campaigns will vie for mayor, three at-large city council seats, and the open sixth ward seat held by the late City Council President Jen Giattino. The Hoboken school board race fills out the ballot. 'Take Hoboken back' is a Michael Russo refrain. He's not kidding.

In the final stages of Hoboken Election 2025, the so-called inevitability of the corrupt and irredeemable is not in evidence. The Hoboken 2025 election voters will decide whether the ill-informed, misinformed, or simply uninformed decide the future of the Mile Square City. Take a look at downtown Jersey City near City Hall. It's a seascape of odd, jutting towers seemingly randomly placed. That's the Big Developers' wet dream for Hoboken. They are close to achieving that dream, once thought dead, back when Dawn Zimmer was mayor. The issue, however, would soon arise after her departure.  The late Jen Giattino held the line as Hoboken Council President on one big development effort led by Mayor Ravi Bhalla with his Ravibot allies on the council, Emily Jabbour , and Joe Quintero in 2019: "Recently, the City Council declined to conduct a vote. Council President Jen Giattino asked why the mayor’s office made no notification to the public on the massive redevelopment, nor of...