Hoboken 4th Ward Councilman Ruben Ramos is backing 3rd Ward Councilman Mike Russo for mayor, stating “he is the best choice to deliver the change that Hoboken needs.”
By John Heinis/Hudson County View
“I’m endorsing Mike Russo because I believe he is the best choice to deliver the change that Hoboken needs. Councilman Russo is committed to making Hoboken safer, stronger and more affordable while taking action on the quality of life issues that our residents want to see the city address,” Ramos said in a statement.
Russo faces Councilwoman-at-Large Emily Jabbour in the December 2nd runoff and this is his second notable endorsement after 2nd Ward Councilwoman Tiffanie Fisher, which many pundits found surprising during their adversarial relationship heading into Election Day.
Fisher finished third in the six-person mayoral contest, while Ramos finished fourth, with former Fisher running mate Liz Urtecho joining Russo’s council-at-large slate.
Jabbour has the support of former Mayor Dawn Zimmer as the race hits a critical juncture.
“Ruben knows government—from his years serving on the Hoboken City Council to his deep knowledge of state government from three terms in the New Jersey Legislature,” noted Russo.
“He’s also got a relentless spirit—from his career as a public school teacher to his successful fight against cancer. Ruben and I care about the same things: affordability, basic safety and quality of life, and real solutions that make our neighbors’ lives easier. I’m proud to have his support.”
Why doesn’t anyone who works with Emily think she’s competent? They’re all lining up against her even if they don’t love Russo. This is really bad for her. The 2, 3 and 4 mayoral candidates are now lined up against Emily Jabbour.
Democrats don’t think she and her Bhalla 2.0 crew are capable. Ouch.
Ramos supporting Russo didn’t take a crystal ball to predict.
But who would’ve imagined Fisher supporting Russo barely 2 weeks after delivering a damning critique of him in a letter to the editor? She looks like the most shameless opportunist in a town full of them. That endorsement permanently damaged her, and will do nothing for Russo.
More predictable was Fisher’s longtime water boy, the Terror Flyer Fetishist, lacking the stones to muster any criticism of Fisher’s cynical decision. But he can be forgiven because that is how the gelding process works. And it’s not like the TFF had any credibility to lose.
TBT analysis is correct; the social worker socialist math doesn’t work.
Emily can go to the BoE and work on undermining the Hoboken public there with another secret quarter billion dollar high school with an ice hockey rink.
She’s probably doing that already.
That’s your guess.
What’s not a guess is that Tiffanie aka Beth 2.0 sold out the city in the foolish hope of crumbs off Russo’s table.
What is also not a guess is her longtime waterboy and fanatical Russo critic lacks the moral courage to say anything about it.
Life is long but the moments that define a person are few. And both of them will be forever defined by the way they shrank here, one by endorsing Dwek’s dinner guest, and the other by looking the other way. Think of it. After all those years fighting on all those stages, even in court, to finally throw it all away so as not to ruffle feathers that badly deserve it. His little sermons and tirades have long rung hollow. But they are at last just another rerun of a very old plot: A tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
Ramos is right about Michael Russo representing change.
Hoboken has changed a lot since Hoboken voters tossed Anthony Russo out of the Mayor’s office in 2001, and was charged and convicted of bribery a couple of years later.
It’s changed a lot since 2009 when Mike Russo himself met with an FBI informant, bragged on video tape that he would soon control the City’s Redevelopment process, and agreed to what sure seemed on the recording to be a bribe.
Mike Russo represents a change back to those “bad old days” when public corruption was just a way of life.
Except for the people Mike has promised a piece of the action, that’s not the kind of change most people want.
It doesn’t really matter whether you see Emily Jabbour as another Bhalla or another Zimmer or more accurately as just the first Emily Jabbour.
What matters is she is not another Russo because a return to “you do for me, I do for you” style government is not the change Hoboken needs.
Mathematically 2+3+4 > 1+5 (and a surrogate). Russo for the win. It won’t even be close.
kurt gardiner being a complete cuck for russo is actually funny. go kurt go. abandon all principles!!
Your math assumes Beth 2.0 delivers the 2nd ward to Russo just weeks after trashing him in an op-ed on these very pages. That’s one way to look at it. Another way is that Beth 2.0 just committed political suicide, not unlike Beth 1.0. And that didn’t leave her in a position to deliver much.
But all this “the enemy of my enemy is my friend” stuff from former stalwarts of good government has really benefited Russo. Much the way it benefited Stalin. It’s quite something to see.
It is simple math: 2+3+4 > 1+ 5. It won’t be close. Emily loses and Russo wins by at least 1000 votes. Maybe more.
This is true. It’s making Team Emily berserker. They are going hard negative and falling back on Ravi Bhalla hate and division. Emily approved a mailer attacking Republicans in Hoboken. Not exactly a way to win votes and it drives voters to Russo. It’s weird because Dawn Zimmer said Emily Jabbour wouldn’t be like Ravi.
Is Dawn senile?
Let’s see… there’s “Hoboken Resistance” and there’s “Senile Dawn Day”… that makes TWO!
Turns out that for all their self-righteous prattle they have no actual integrity. So Fisher’s endorsement of Russo doesn’t bother them at all. Can’t even imagine the howling they’d be doing if Zimmer endorsed Russo. Hypocrites gonna hypocrite.
I can’t wait to see how Fisher finesses her editorial beatdown of Russo and how these doormats fall in line to support it. Dini did this town a huge favor by knocking her off the ballot.