‘Don’t cry for me Hoboken…’

The ghost of Tom V. came to visit me and whispered in my ear, Theres a lot of singing in the mayors office this year! Envision Steven, Patty, Anthony and David all in unison.

Tune is the same as Dont Cry for me Argentina.

Dont cry for me Hudson County, the truth is I Never Left You! Not in my wild days, my Sad existence, I ditched My Promise…Now Keep Your Distance!

Now that we know the real David Roberts…aka 180 degrees of Pat Pasculli…I say you are unseemly and deliberately oblivious to all you have reneged on. You deserve the same fate as your compadres. While you speak on being honest and loyal, your only loyalty has been to your wallet and your buddies. They are all in city hall and many are coming back.

Raising the spending cap to 5 percent is a huge flag. While the nation sits glued to TV reports on CEOs being cuffed, you think you are off the radar screen. No you are not. Look again Mr. Mayor, you dont screw Hoboken like your predecessors did and laugh all the way to the bank. Do you think the hundreds of people like myself, who worked tirelessly to bring change to Hoboken City Hall are happy with your behavior? Years of toxic chemicals giving us cancers, pollution spewing from the trains, years of brutal urban blight and decay, years of the killing fires and the renaissance have given the community a whole new feel. No place to safely walk across the street with the kids cars careening all over the roads. A school system that is the template across the state for what Not to do within academia. People cannot even sit and have a soda now, without having a car coming right at you and severing off their extremities.

Hiring Mr. Drasheff, who has not been a city business administrator, to oversee the city budget? Hiring Mr. Calligy to oversee the Board of Education budget so that they are able to sell Demarest School? When will it stop?

Its time to act.

Karen OShea