Ines Garcia Keim served as Beth Mason’s campaign manager when Beth ran in the May Hoboken mayoral election. After Beth lost out to Dawn Zimmer and Peter Cammarano, and those two entered a June runoff, Mason supported Zimmer — but Keim endorsed Cammarano. In fact, Keim even served as the MC for Peter Cammarano’s inaugural festivities.
Some were surprised by the actions of Keim, who had run for several local political offices as a reformer, but others felt it was just the latest result of the fighting between Zimmer and Mason’s supporters in the “reform” movement.
Recently, Keim explained some of her recent comments in a thread on Hobokenrevolt.com, the taxpayers’ revolt website. While the tax group does not endorse a candidate, most of the posts in the last few months have been pro-Zimmer, and recently there has been a lot of anti-Mason talk since Mason said she may run for mayor in November.
After some back and forth on the site, Keim’s husband, John Stevens Keim, stepped in with this post:
“At the risk of being labeled old-fashioned or worse yet, chauvinistic, I feel the need to defend the honor of my family. My wife, Ines Garcia Keim, of whom I am exceedingly proud, was recently called a prostitute by Georgia in a recent post because she en dorsed the winning candidate in our recent mayoral election. She is exceedingly sorry that his integrity has been impugned; she feels that our political leaders must be held to a high standard of ethical integrity; in fact, she VOLUNTARILY carried petitions for the People for Open Government ordinance four years ago.
“She VOLUNTEERED on Beth Mason’s campaign; Beth did not make the runoff and Ines compared the community service resumes, the private sector resumes and the perceived abilities of both candidates in the runoff election to think on their feet (the final debate and the Reporter roundtable forum) and decided that Peter Camerano was the more qualified candidate. Could she predict he would be ensnared in a sting operation? No more than Mayor Zimmer could have predicted that her handpicked choice for the Housing Authority would be arrested for taking bribes.
“Ines was not promised anything by Peter other than good, competent government. She does not have a government job; she has worked in retail buying offices, store management, airline load planning…”
Hey, it takes guts to post on a site where you’ll be attacked. What do you think? Read the thread HERE and comment below!