LOL! yeah, hey hooverboy/probus/kimcurious, any sign of sara sullivan? curious to know where they parked those seven buses (the hundred of boston college students took amtrak, i guess).

I guess Dawn Zimmer won...the parade is dead. Sad. Somehow I was still hoping for a last minute miracle and we would get our parade back.

Stop being optimistic. There's plenty of time for trouble and we're hoping for a death to pin on Zimmer to benefit Ms. Mason. Go Beth!

Maybe a couple of Old Guard operatives can beat each other up in front of a bar so there is some violence to report? I dunno, Mayor looking pretty good so far....

Hey screw you rtrux. We'll be back!! We have plenty of hate and lies to spew.
At least until the FBI picks us up.

Have you contacted the Hemlock Society yet? Clearly that's the only thing left to do in your perpetually depressed and bitter state. You'll find people just like you there I'm sure.

It's time. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemlock_Society

You don't have a clue but then again how would you being in Secaucus. Things are going far better this year. Will you be spending any time with your favorite lugacon Mr. Raia?

Seems like the Secaucus Goomars are reacting to their own lack of having any semblance of a life. Lady, you don't live in Hoboken and it's a beautiful day out. See if Pupie wants to take you out for a dip in the pool on top of his Shop Rite.

Pathetic.

Outofcontrol, you make no sense at all. You are so full of hate for others and yourself you can't even make a sensible comment. You are the paid for zombie, and you don't even live in Hoboken. It's ridiculous how futile your quest for negative spin is.

If you are concerned about public drunkenness you can thank the organizers of Lepre-Con who promoted this event:
http://www.hudsonreporter.com/pages/full_story/push?article-‘We+don’t+know+exactly+what’s+going+to+happen’-City+and+bars+prepare+for+‘Lepre-Con’+event-%20&id=17657904&instance=home_Most_popular

You have one virtue - your consistency. Your comedy is growing old and unfunny like Chevy Chase!

No, those are just 90% of the Old Guard paid operatives. But you knew that. Please come back to Hoboken411 where Beth Mason underwrites the pure venomous hate for Hoboken. We know you are a hater too and we want you back.

Leper-con

http://grafixavenger.blogspot.com/2012/03/leper-con-weather-forecast.html

Gerald, please come back to Hoboken411. Don't waste your hate on that stupid GA. Have another drink and join us in hating Zimmer. We want your hate cuz we want Biffy B back.

Wait, everyone else has to ask permission to make a little joke but you don't have to ask permission to be an ahole? Seems one-sided.

Oh my, Biffy. You re one angry drunk!

Before you fall off your bar stool:

http://www.aa.org/lang/en/subpage.cfm?page=1

Yes, I had some drinks. You should try it some time.

No discrimination against the Irish? Then tell me, what's the first thing that pops into your head when you hear the word "Irish?"

My grandfather actually. I see what you're getting at though which is why I think you can't be for having the kind of parade and Fake Paddy's day like Hoboken has had in the past and cry discrimination. You're not making anyone proud to be Irish if you perpetuate that kind of nonsense and it pisses me off that no one on the committee thought to stand up for themselves and make a clear statement that they won't tolerate it.

Lane get you ass back here and do something. This is bullshit. If you would just do your job and focus on doing the ghostwriting on Hoboken411 Beth pays you for instead of trotting out new screen names like anyone is fooled by you at this point.

Feed Hoboken411, get the Mason money and be proud. In the end we'll complain about something else and Beth will send out glossy color mailers with a string of fantasy and this time we'll win.

You will be the Public Information Officer and every municipal employee will fear you.

dear "alan": please pardon me for liking a mayor who stemmed the tide of the culture of corruption in city hall, identify and fired slacker old guard lackies, stopped the flow of millions of dollars in stolen quarters, saved taxpayers from being on the hook for the hospital, and lowered taxes. yes, i must be a complete idiot for not wanting to go back to the old guard ways exemplified by the two out of the previous three mayors going to jail. you're right, thems was the good ol' days!

Somebody buy him dinner at Amanda's and give him a cell phone- the BoE's paying.

I'm just so tired of all your negativity Lane surrounding your bad investment in Beth Mason getting you the Public Information Officer job at City Hall. We know you thought you had the PIO job, the public knows you were Bajobseeking for it even when you flipped to Peter Cammarano and the Old Guard knows it too. Your negativity has dragged you down to the place you are now and you fail to look in the mirror and take any responsibility for it. We're tired of it and Kim is too.

Why haven't you written a resolution insisting on the parade being held on Saturday for Beth Mason? You've written plenty of other "stuff" for her but in almost a year since the mayor said no parade on the weekend, Beth Mason hasn't done squat.

Uh, close, paid mouthpiece for Mason for Mayor 2013. You are the negative one who clearly will never admit you are linked to some of the most disreputable persons in Hoboken and do their bidding for a fee. The parade committee killed the parade. As everyone seems to know but the Mason spin questioners. End of story. Could you at least retire that one lie. We all know it is not a good day for the Old Guard spin machine since the day went off without any major hitches, but please stop resorting to lies, your fake exasperation comes off like children's theater.

ccj: if a government does something wrong, do you think they should not be held accountable for the legal costs when a citizen took them to task...and won? Mason's now visible true colors aside...are you saying that the administration, at that time, that was refusing to allow filming of the (public) council meetings should have been allowed to continue to bar filming? When the government behaves badly, do you not agree that they should face consequences? (in that case being assessed legal costs?) Yes, we the taxpayer ended up shouldering the cost of their wrong-doing, but it was the elected officials in power that really cost the taxpayer money, not Mason (that time.) It's not that easy to be awarded expenses. Clearly the government in power was breaching the public trust. Do you see it differently? I say, when that happens, hit the government HARD so they will learn not to violate the rights of their citizens and if the citizens don't like shouldering that burden, vote 'em out...which is what we all did.

Yeah sorry Jabberwock no chopper we can chalk that up to another lie by Perry Klaussen's and his H411 my fault for beliveing anything on that hate site.

I am sure he and his blog will find some way to attack Mayor Zimmer no matter what she does too. ;-)

Jabberwock, the committee said 'no' to Wednesday, period- not Wednesday 'night'. The day was open- the City did not restrict the committee to a time, and the parade could have been held anytime. NYC's St. Patty's Day Parade starts at 11 am.

As for blog-spinnery re: the Irish Festival, sounds like your crystal ball's got it all figured out, so shoot me over an email and tell me what I'm going to write pls, to save me the trouble. If you believe your attendance at a City-hosted event makes you a 'pawn', perhaps you're over-thinking the matter? You are anonymous here, if that makes a difference.

GA, let's just say the committee said yes to Wednesday. Who besides a bunch of Hoboken politicians, stay at home moms and unemployed people would be available to watch the parade or march on Wednesday? All of us w/ jobs work and don't get home til 6-8 PM. Do you expect us to take a day off from work for this parade? Sorry but we don't even do that when St. Patty's is on a weekday in NYC. A parade on a weekday is a parade that not even the people in the parade will bother to show up for.

So Jabberwock would you say that by weighing out all the different nuances of the Irish festivals you are essentially "deconstructing" the issue? I tend to agree that such a process can often get to the bottom of something and yield important truths.

Red, the Halloween parade at 3pm gets a huge turn-out. I'd say an earlier parade on Wednesday would have gotten more of the folks scared off by rowdy, drunk out-of-towners on a Saturday.

Or, a parade at 6 or 7. Daylight savings time starts on March 11. Marching in the dark is a BS argument.

Sorry, we'll never agree on this.

GA - those are all moms taking their kids trick or treating on Washington Street at the local businesses. About the only adults who would show up for that event who don't have kids are Batman and Robin.

Red- you didn't respond to the evening, post Daylight savings time parade option.

Sorry, but the folks who won't budge from 'its only a parade if its on Saturday' are not addressing the cause for changing the day... the attendant crime wave. Our cops are not punching bags. Our city is not a urinal. Or a garbage can. That's the bottom line.

Parade on a weekday is still a non-starter. Who but government employees would get home in time to get ready, go out, have fun and still get home early enough that they weren't half asleep the next day? And do you honestly think the marchers who tend to start showing up a couple hours before parade time would ever make it to the parade especially the folks who come by car or bus from other towns? The answer is no. They would have to clock out of work early to do that. So they won't be coming either. A parade on a weekday is a nonstarter. It just logistically makes no sense unless you only want stay at home moms, their kids and the unemployed to show up.

Parade committee cancelled the parade. What we need to do is get Ms Mason and Mr Russo off the council so the forces are not in place where fools like you don't get paid to blog these kinds of lies. You really should be ashamed of repeating the same lies over and over for a profit. Get a real job that you might be able to tell your children about without glossing over your "Hoboken questionable" ethics. Get over the fact that all the money in the world doesn't make your lies true.

Here's a nostalgic Martha Stewart like report:

Someone tell Lane Bajardi and Kim Cardinal:

Federal law establishes a possible penalty of 5 years in prison for making a false statement to the federal government or its agents:

(a) Except as otherwise provided in this section, whoever, in any matter within the jurisdiction of the executive, legislative, or judicial branch of the Government of the United States, knowingly and willfully-

(1) falsifies, conceals, or covers up by any trick, scheme, or device a material fact;
(2) makes any materially false, fictitious, or fraudulent statement or representation; or
(3) makes or uses any false writing or document knowing the same to contain any materially false, fictitious, or fraudulent statement or entry;

shall be fined under this title, imprisoned not more than 5 years.

5 Years Lane, 5 years!

LW Gaston, I believe it is Chicago where the dying of the river is and annual tradition. Savannah is reported to have tried it once, and never again: scroll down to "Chicago River on St. Patricks Day" on this link:
http://www.history.com/topics/st-patricks-day

Someone told me that Castellano had complained she has to pay $1,500 or thereabouts to have someone watch her store (protect it) on parade-days.

The CC minority is quiet because they don't oppose the mayor on this one. Nor do most of their constituents who hardly like the invasion of out-of-town brats, many (NOT all) of whom disrespect our city and it's residents. The CC minority agrees: our cops are not punching bags. Our streets are not urinals.

http://grafixavenger.blogspot.com/2012/03/leper-con-verdict.html

Biffy, no one gives a crap what over-grown frat boys think.

You'll have to choose among Monday morning quarterbacks, because not one past candidate for mayor publicly opposed moving the parade.

You can safely ignore this drunken loser, Biffy won't be campaigning for anyone, ever. You have to put the bottle down and get off the couch first, and that ain't happenin'. He'll be campaigning for the late-night video special at Romantic Depot and that's the last you'll hear from him for a few days.

If only people were blind and couldn't tell the difference between streets overrun and a far smaller number of people. Then we'd all be voting Biffy B for mayor and buying Gerald more drinks.

You didn't vote for the mayor before and you will vote for whatever corrupt POS the Old Guard puts forward again.

That's who you are Gerald.

I thought you went to the Hamptons Gerald? Do you go to the Hamptons to relax or go there to comment out here? PS I rang your buzzer and you didn't come down? I heard noise coming from the apartment. Hope whomever was there had a good time.

Rory, you know this doosh? Sorry to hear it.

@ GA he is an ok guy, a little hot tempered sometimes but in all fairness not a bad guy. He likes to poke fun of me for riding around with Batman which goes in one ear and out the other, a little hair pulling here and there but he is ok. I know everyone dislikes him but he does seem like a decent guy to me.

Sorry no helicopter. Apparently that was just another in a long string of lies published by Perry Klaussen and his hate411 blog.

At this point it is fair to assume unless verified by ligit sources anything he publishes in not the truth.

I am sure Lane saw plenty of helicopters over town. Like most of what Lane ghost writes, it was all in his mind.

Actually, myself and many others who work full time still manage to get to the Halloween parade every year because the meat of it starts around the very end of the average work day. Weekday afternoon parades are generally manageable on any work schedule, and I would certainly wag my finger at any "mommies with kids" at the loud, riotous Halloween parade.

Also, out of curiosity, what type of job do you work, if you don't mind my asking? For example, many jobs are pretty cut and dried when it comes to the daily schedule, but when it comes to cultural events that matter to an area's local population, it's not uncommon for city and county employees to enjoy some flexibility to leave early and see the parade. Is this a circumstance that might apply to you in any way?

I work in Manhattan too and I have no problem making it back to Hoboken by 6 or 7 and by the crowds on the PATH and 126 bus arround that time lots of others have no problem.

PS: Aspen is very nice in August, :-)

Well, Jabberwock. It's all about you, then.

Was a Sunday parade-date ever entertained as an option? I don't know.

My view (and mine alone) is that a Sunday parade would have turned a 12-hour onslaught into a 24 hour-one, because our out-of-town friends would have started the 'party' on Saturday afternoon. "Try, at least acknowledging that". IMO, it would have solved nothing of the attendant crime wave issues- just made it a marathon event: Saturday AND Sunday- more expensive and unpleasant for residents. Now, I've got no pipeline to City Hall (or to the Almighty) on this one, but I imagine that Sunday was nixed for that reason.

Re: commentary on the Irish festival blogging- don't "wait and see". I'll blog it if there's something I want to say, so your "confidence" is simply that- confidence. Or smug self-assurance. Eeenie meenie miney moe.

As for preventing a large segment of people from attending the parade ("people that work") let's say that the attendant drunken Saturday mobs prevented a large segment of residents from dealing with unpleasantness- or even staying in Hoboken for that matter. So IMO, it's 6 of one, a half-dozen of the other.

I will err on the side of public safety. I wish we could have our Saturday parade and our 'guests' (and their resident hosts) could behave better. That's what I'll acknowledge.

Odd, Castellano seems to be on the same page as Zimmer, regarding moving the parade ot a weekday- Here, Zimmer is apparently "working with" the minority and she gets slammed. Falls under the damned if you do, damned if you don't category, no?

Castellano-Mar 2011

I have attended every St. Patrick’s Day Parade since day one. This weekend’s numerous acts of violence, including knife and gun assaults, and the two reported sexual assaults, have signaled a new, more ominous tone to the parade weekend.

I have seen some pretty awful behavior on parade days in years past. What happened in our city this past weekend crossed into a new level of depravity. What was once just a crude display of drunkenness, punctuated by public lewdness and disrespect of private property, has degenerated into an environment where not only women are sexually assaulted, but police officers and firefighters have to battle a barrage of bottles and, in one reported case, human feces, to do their job. This is an outrage and we will not stand for it.

contin..
I proposed the original “Zero Tolerance” ordinance in 2009. Today, I proposed that the council revisit that ordinance as a way to show the public that the city is reacting to its serious concerns. Hoboken was a hostile place to be this weekend, especially for women. We can’t tell the world that the St. Patrick’s Day Parade was a smashing success when we know that at least two women may have been sexually assaulted and that fights were breaking out across the city well into the night. The bitter truth is that this day has become a scourge on our community. There is no other way to say it. We are compelled to take action because we represent the citizens of Hoboken, who have suffered this insult long enough.

Among the proposals I will present to the city council are:

• Moving the parade to a weekday.

• Restricting beer and liquor service to 11 a.m., year round.

• Examine public safety staffing requirements for a 50,000-person city.

• Overhaul current emergency plan for parades and events.

• Hold a working public hearing, including testimony from residents, representatives of the city’s hospitality industry, and public safety officials. Come up with community-driven ideas for solutions and compromise.

• Enforce the Zero Tolerance policy, 12 months out of the year.

• Keep municipal courts open to process violations during special events.

contin..
• Reinstate stricter community service requirements, and reinstate reporting of arrests in defendants’ hometown newspapers.

No one person can be held responsible for the events of last weekend. We must all take responsibility for what’s happened to this parade – legislators who failed to get tough laws on the books, an industry that can sometimes puts profits over community, and those who tolerate and encourage behavior that is detrimental to our city. I hope this is a first step towards taking back our parade and celebration.

Sincerely,

Theresa Castellano

Read more: Hudson Reporter - St Pat’s parade reached new level of depravity

What I'm comfortable acknowledging is you are one of the most passive agressive dooshes I've seen online in Hoboken in years.

The parade committee said my way or the highway, Saturday or nothing and threatened to sue the city. Bluff called, game over.

Try to at least acknowledge that.

Thank you for the response and for partially addressing the question as to whether you work for the city or county. At the end of the day, all who care to attend Hoboken cultural festivities have to juggle and manage many priorities, work and non-work related, whether the event is on a weekday or weekend. That applies to all who work for private companies, the City of Hoboken or the County of Hudson.

I would say since Jamie Darrah and her friend want to take credit for Lepre.con and promoted it I think she/they should pick up the bill for their actions . :-)

Zimmer's plan absolutely backfired. In the end, people who like the parade were screwed out of a parade and there was a level of insanity just like years past. The people have spoken and next year the city will be forced to have a parade because the cancellation did not deter the boozing that occurred.

HA HA HA.

Um, no.