Hoboken Council President Ruben Ramos revealed that he’ll be backing Hudson County Executive Tom DeGise during an appearance on our live show yesterday.
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“County Executive DeGise is our current county executive, I’m gonna support him in his re-election bid: I could tell you that right now, even though Hudson County, our taxes in Hoboken are not where we want them to be, a little high, better services, but I think County Executive DeGise has always conducted himself as a gentleman to myself personally,” Ramos explained during the tail end of the interview.
“And again, he hasn’t supported me in a lot of my elections as well, but whenever I pick up the phone to call him up, he’s always answered my calls. He didn’t just [say] ‘that’s Ruben Ramos’ and hang up the phone on him. He’s always took my calls and whatever questions I had for him, whatever advocacy he could do, issues my residents had: he always picked up the phone.”
Ramos joins a group led by U.S. Rep. Albio Sires (D-8) and state Senator (D-33)/North Bergen Mayor Nick Sacco in supporting DeGise, the county exec since 2002, for another four-year term.
Therefore, he goes against state Senator (D-33)/Union City Mayor Brian Stack and Jersey City Mayor Steven Fulop, who are spearheading a group calling to replace DeGise – though they are yet to announce a candidate for the June 2019 Democratic primary.
Ahead of that race, Stack is pursuing the chairmanship of the Hudson County Democratic Organization.
On that topic, Ramos, a former state Assemblyman who ran with Stack, said it was important for the county to keep representing Democratic ideals that are a stark contrast to President Donald Trump (R) – calling the current HCDO civil war “unfortunate.”
He expressed no opinion as to whether or not he felt Stack was the best man to to lead the Hudson Dems.
Hoboken Mayor Ravi Bhalla, a top political adversary of Ramos, has joined Stack and Fulop in calling to replace DeGise and has been adamant in backing Stack for HCDO chair.
That’s the best reason Ramos can come up with? Our taxes are too high and we don’t get enough County services but dammit he answers the phone?
I guess he wasn’t answering the phone for Ramos yet back in 2007 when Ruben and his buddy Campos stabbed Tom in the back. Didn’t work out too well for Campos.
Oh the Fakes and the Shadow need to get a life.
Wait, just the Fakes and the Shadows? What about the Fake Shadows? Or the Shadowy Fakes?
One can only hope to have as much of a dynamic and fully realized existence as perpetually angry trolls obsessing day and night about Fakes and Shadows. Now that’s what I call a life — albeit, fake one, living in the shadows.
Look what I see.
It’s Doofus #3!
How much did the fancy insert in the Reporter cost taxpayers ? It is no surprise that everything that Hudson County DeGise’s staff couldn’t come up with one single thing that the he and the County did for the taxpayers of Hoboken. The County again did not even include Hoboken in something as simple as their recycling and paper shredding program. Hoboken is paying for it so why is it not getting the same service ?
We get Tommy you really don’t give a damn about Hoboken and residents.
A biker babe and Blurt Fartner walk into a Democratic Committee meeting. Committee members say, hey kids, WHY SO SERIOUS???
Boy did they come out looking like someone did a number on their cereal bowls. Boom!