Zimmer promised no more Ravi but Emily says "I'm Bhalla 2.0"

 

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 taking plenty of big developer monies and lobbyists of every stripe herself. Apparently, she's incensed there's not adequate Republican monies going her way. Well, needlessly hating on people isn't going to do it. 

To be clear, this is not an endorsement of Councilman Michael Russo. We've butted heads over the years with the dastardly effort to sink Hoboken's hospital, the issue of Hoboken election fraud Russo blatantly claimed never existed, and scores of bad actions on and off the council against Hoboken not even including the FBI undercover video with Solomon Dwek.

While selling his new and improved Mikey persona, Russo issued a threat through a third party that he was going to "get" me over a story of his having dinner with Ravi Bhalla. For the same story, he was offered ample opportunity to comment. He elected not to, and the story was hardly the bellwether of the campaign. It was more of a rehash of the old Ravi-Russo Alliance. 

Was it the follow-up question about the dinner at Jersey City's White Horse Tavern that caused the kerfluffle, Mike? How did that go for your old ally, Beth? 

We reluctantly offer Hoboken a third way via write-in and VBM. No political insider or local elected official's support will be sought or accepted. This is strictly a distress call for Hoboken sovereignty. To see Hoboken protected from special interests and massive developer monies, a candidacy based on over a decade of exposing corruption in all its forms and election fraud, leading to arrests and convictions in the 2013 and 2015 Hoboken municipal elections.

Somehow, Russo didn't get pinched there either, just as he was the sole person to walk away unscathed without doing time in a federal prison at the Solomon Dwek lunch. 

One of those Festivus miracles that occur only in Hoboken.