Hoboken Election 2025

  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 ...