I want to get one of those Staples "That Was Easy" buttons. But instead it will be Peter saying "You're Done" to Lane. I could listen to that all day.

Peter Cuningham has been doing a good job for not only the Fifth Ward but all of Hoboken and should be re-elected.

There is much more work to be done and Hoboken's Culture of Corruption in Hoboken fear Peter and those who stand up against them.

I agree with the previous two posters. Cunningham has done an outstanding job in the 5th and should be re-elected to continue in this fashion. And I love the "You're done" button. Let's make those and hand them out!

Mr Cunninghams's agenda is right on the money. If we ever want a Hoboken where developers don't call the shots, where we end up with amenities such as a municipal swimming pool, we are going to need Mr Cunningham and others like him prudently managing our budget. Don't give "faux independent" mouthpieces for developers like Mr Delea a chance to undermine the progress of the last few years with a lot of election year rhetoric. Mr Cunningham has more than earned our ongoing support. Thank you, Mr Cunningham.

In a crowded field Councilman Cunningham is the best choice for the Fifth Ward and Hoboken .

Hobbs,
I am shocked you would think that. I guess you haven't minded being over taxed $10,000,000.00 for the last 3 years.I read the last paragraph as to why concurrect policies weren't persued I am confused chrildren still play soccer in Weehawken soisn't the waterfront still falling into the river.
Perry

Well Red
Riddle me this-we have $25,000,000.00 in surplus against which phantom encumberances are attached to the tune of $9,000, 000.00+. $9,000,000.00 is rebated and $2,500,000.00 was rebated last year. If the taxpayers of Hoboken weren't over taxed $10,000,000.00 per year,for the last three years-did Hoboken turn in a winning lottery ticket. The taxpayers of Hoboken have simulaneously been over taxed and under served. All the while children are charged $25.00 to play soccer on fields in Weehawken.

Perry

Yup let's try it one more time:
http://www.hobokennj.org/docs/businessadmin/auditor-letter-3-23-11.pdf
What is the cash surplus according to this letter?
If Perry had taken a course at my alma mata Rutgers on municipal government (like Eric kurta and Rami Pinchevsky) he would know that NJ guidelines (and probably every other state in the USA) require municipalities to run a surplus. Neither Scott or Lenny understand this either. Unusual events do occur. You don't get a 22% increase in NJ pensions every year, or tax appeals, greater numbers of retirements, piers collapsing, etc. Perry you are a home owner. Do you think it's prudent to live pay check to pay check or do you keep a 6 month reserve or something similar? I hope you keep a reserve for contingencies. I assume you want Hoboken taxpayers to pay 100% of the waterfront rebuilding according to your statement. I think it would be better if we supplement our cash with grants and matching grants. We will need a surplus for matching grants.

Scott,
Only a matter of time before you started your spin. Let go with the facts. Dave's last budget was short $10,000.000.00 Judy came in increased the rate by $10,000,000. 00 and of course sent out tax bills for 5 quarters producing the much spoken about 47% tax increase. The following two years we went back to a 4 quarter year but the $10,000,000.00 underfunded remained so we have been paying for the under funding for the last 3 years-that is why we have a $25,000,000.00 surplus after rebating $2,500,000.00 last year. No saving produced the surplus-pure over taxation.
Perry

Perry

I think Perry understands that what he is saying is not true but truth is not the point he needs to cloud the issue, repeat the same lies and even when confronted.

Big words and small morals are his stock and trade .

Perry- Word on the street is that you're a side show - not the real candidate. Delea is the anti-zimmer "chosen one" and you'll be lucky to get 100 votes. That would be pretty embarrassing - being skunked by a pseudo-yuppie pretty boy like delea. I think that would be more humiliating than losing to Cunningham 4 years ago - but I guess your desperation has robbed you of even a semblance of pride.

Perry if you're taking the race seriously where is your Elec report?

Oh Green,
Word on the street in the 5th is ABC -Anyone But Cunningham. Keep trying to spin.
Perry

I'm with Perry's ABC -- Easy as 1,2,3. Simple as do-re-mi. See you all in June.

I thought ABC stood for - Another Belfiore Crook

As Perry has stood shoulder to shoulder with most of Hoboken's most notorious crooks.

Big words and small morals. :-)

Careful Hobbs.
The days of trying to pigeon hole people as old guard and crooks as Cunningham tried on his facebook page are coming to a close. Believe that those who long for competent government are not corrupt, just against vacuity. The taxpayers of Hoboken want their over taxed dollars back. If we keep listening to Siegel spin not only don't won't we have a surplus but we will be in deficit. The Auditor said we have $25,000,000.00 surplus, of course under threat of contract non renewal, the encumberance pop up. Do you know that $6,000, 000.00 in encumbrances is a depreciation of a debt paid, leaving the taxpayers of Hoboken to pay the same debt twice. I have been knocking on doors and the people knowthey have been over taxed and under served. Forde-what about those lottey tickets and the PAC you are treasure of.
Perry

Perry - they are laughing at you, and the laughter will get louder after Delea cleans your clock. Its hard to tell who takes you less seriously these days - the Zimmer crew or your own supposed "friends." I'm betting you don't break 100 votes - Delea beats you by about 300 and Luizi pretty much breaks even with you. I hope you keep your sense of humor when the laughter starts.

Green,
At least I have never taken comfort hidding behind a Pseudonym . I am out there win or lose, you sit in the dark waiting for a intervention. You don't understand the point of the exercise is better representation for the 5th Ward. ABC. Time to add to the 100 votes. Until tomorrow. TTFN
Perry

Re ABC. Tell that to the 300 people who took his window signs that are everywhere.

Peter Cunningham has done a good job as 5th Ward Councilman. Moreover, there is no credible alternative. Perry Belfiore is unembarassable, just won't stop proudly displaying his ignorance about the 'surplus'. Proud Ignorance was once a pillar of Hoboken politics and a big vote getter and still is in some quarters, but times are changing, as Perry himself was quoted as saying in his now infamous comparison of the 'plight' of the BNR's to apartheid South Africa. The meteor has hit, dinosaur.

Scott Delea is another 'independent' we can't trust not to side with the Mason/Russon crime family, no thanks. I've never heard of the other guy.

@Redrider765:

If you actually read the story and the documentation that links to it, like most educated people do, you will see Greaney lists his occupation in Japan as a School Teacher. If he was a teacher from 1996 to 2003 it means he has only worked in HR for the past 7 years.

Even if he started in HR from 1988 to 1996 before he fled to Japan that is 8 years. Add that to the 7 years from 2003-2011 and it is just 15 years expirience. He does not have "over 20 years expirience".

Greaney repeatedly said that he lived in Hoboken since 2003. He was misleading at best if not out right lying. It has nothing to do with living in Hoboken or not it has to do with misleading the public. And he does it in his literature and in stories in the Hoboken Reporter.

Greaney is a snake just like Lenz and just like Soares. You'd have been better off running Mr. Siegel. At least he is honest even if people don't always agree with his opinions.

Greaney, Marsh, Soares, and Lenz supported Russo for City Council in 2003.

Greaney stood by Lenz and Soares when they cut a deal for Russo's vote to get Soares a 2nd job with free health care.

Greaney screwed banks out of thousands now he wants to be in charge of a HUGE surplus.

Greaney is the worst choice for City Council. Zimmer should cut bait and make a deal with Franz.

Lenz and Greaney perfect together but not for taxpayers!

The only people who hate Mason are the small clique of people with no live who hate being told they are wrong. Anyone who doesn't agree with Zimmer, Marsh, or Lenz is labeled corrupt or an out of towner. Except they are the ones who back corrupt politicians like Joe Vas and Angel Alicea.

Zimmer was happy to have Perry Klaussen on her payroll when she ran against Campos but since LEnz couldn't control him now he is vilified by the Zimmer bloggers of hate.

Mason is going to crush Greaney on May 10th because the people of the 2nd Ward see the work she has done to improve the community. Keep hating though. It is very amusing.

The main problem with Cunningham is that he keeps voting to raise taxes and then pretends he's a tax cutter in his ads. He voted to implement the parks tax in early 2008, and justified it by saying something about cutting other taxes to make up for it (which he later forgot all about, probably around the time he became a Democrat). Last year he voted for the $25 recreation tax THREE times, adding to the waste at the recreation department and discouraging many parents from signing up their kids for sports. But the real damage he's done to taxpayers here was his votes for the budgets the last two years that failed to avoid big tax increases. With Zimmer as mayor and Cunningham part of the council majority, the municipal property tax (not including the schools and county) went up 9.4% in 2009 and 4.4% last year. Is Cunningham embarrassed over this? Probably, because in his ad in the Hoboken Reporter the weekend before last, instead of admitting the truth he baldly tells this whopper: "Supported & enacted a 10% tax cut during the past 12 months." What tax cut is that, Peter? Why are you making this up? Don't you think we can read our own tax bills? Do you think we're so stupid you can just pretend there was a tax cut? Even if you're mixing up a tax cut with a tax levy cut, the levy certainly wasn't cut 10% last year. We can no longer afford a councilman in this ward who raises our taxes and then says he cut them.

Greaney's attempt to pretend he lived here for over 10 years are laugh out loud funny! Go back to Liberty Towers you freak!

Owl -- fee is one of the weasel words politicians use instead of tax. It sounds better but it comes out of our pockets all the same. And the last department that needed more money was the vastly overstaffed recreation department. The department has basically admitted the money is going into some sort of slush fund to pay for things as they come up. Zimmer ran on a platform of cutting taxes 25%. She didn't run on a platform of cutting taxes and then raising "fees" to make up for it.
And you're obviously not a homeowner because if you were you'd have a bill and you could see clearly that the municipal tax went up, as the county and school taxes also did. The year-end bill each year clearly breaks down the rate for each part of government and makes it easy to compare how much they went up over the previous year. From the city hall press releases, the levy was cut 2.5%, or 5% pro-rated over the year. You and Peter are making up that 10%.
And Rider, it was very poorly publicized that parents who couldn't pay didn't have to. The website does not mention that. The result is fewer kids playing sports this year and fewer teams in the leagues. Another Dawn/Cunningham legacy--more poor, minority kids on the streets and not playing sports.
And another thing Rider, you deliberately misread what I said (but I won't call you stupid). I clearly said I'm not talking about the tax levy, which is irrelevant to taxpayers, but the tax rate, which determines what taxpayers actually pay.

Taxes are up and crime is up. WAY UP!

Why do the Zimmer/Cunningham thugs have to resort to calling names every time they lose the argument? Why are these thugs unable to look at a municipal tax bill and see that it's going up? Why do they insist on changing the subject to tax levies when we're talking about taxes that people actually pay? Everyone who disagrees with them is a Beth supporter. I just wish Beth understood the tax issue. Zimmer/Cunningham have been raising taxes for two years and Beth hasn't said a peep (though she did vote against the recreation tax two times after she voted for it once).
1653: property taxes don't affect everyone, only homeowners, so why is that called a tax but you like the word 'fee' for the recreation tax? Maybe because it was Zimmer's idea? If it were Russo's idea I'm sure you'd be calling it a tax.
Remember voters -- Zimmer and Cunningham have raised our taxes four times in four years: parks tax, recreation tax, 9.4% municipal property tax hike in 2009 and 4.4% municipal tax hike last year. No amount of spin about tax levies and reassessments--and no amount of putting words like WRONG and LIAR in caps--changes those facts. That's what politicians do--they try to confuse the public with misinformation. And you folks are falling for that spin.

'Taxes should be cut a lot more' claim the paid Mason bloggers, but the Russo/Mason alliance is against every action that would seriously reduce City expenditures, or increase the tax base, like making people with high incomes in Church Towers pay their fair share of property taxes. They only have stunts and gimmicks like telling the mayor to take another pay cut. Zimmer and Cunningham haven't done enough about it either IMO, but you have to make a choice and there is simply no credible alternative who can win in this town, as of now. You wish 'Beth Mason understood' the tax issue? But I understand Mason has allied herself with the people who want the high spending gravy train to continue, thus taxes could never be lowered. And let's not forget selling the town to developers as Mikey was seen doing on FBI tape, which is another reason taxes are so high. And then there are the 'independents' who are either Old Guarders with a long history of siding with the people and policies that made Hoboken taxes so high (Perryasaurus), and/or are taking money from Mason (Occhipinti, and why should I trust DeLea that he isn't too?)

The 'tax' argument by the Mason bloggers is a complete joke. Anyone who has lived here any length of time, actually pays taxes, and isn't stupid, knows it's a joke. I guess it's mainly aimed at taxpayers who just moved here, might not be familiar with the history of the issue, and a few of them might be fooled.
Don't be.

Under your definition, Red, I guess I should call you stupid. But I won't. I won't stoop to that because I have the facts on my side. Stop looking at just the tax bill? But that's the only thing that tells me how much I'm paying. No one in this town cares whether the levy is $1 or a trillion dollars. Whether it went up 50% or down 50%. What you and the Zim/Cunning people don't get is that we care only about the amount on the check we have to write. What about that don't you get? There are two weeks left. Whoever gets that will get my vote.
Of course you're right on this: "tax bills only are a reflection of how taxes are allocated based on the TAX LEVY and the assessed value of property." But no one has ever disputed that. Not me. Not anyone. So why do you change the subject by bringing up this definition? You still miss the point: Zim and the council should have kept their promises and cut the levy enough to make sure we got a tax cut--either her infamous 25% tax cut or at least something. But instead of tax cuts we've gotten BIG tax increases under Zim/Cunning. That's bait and switch and my guess is the Zim people will pay for it May 10.
One more thing: your facts are wrong about 2009 and 2010. It was 2008 when we got the huge Roberts tax increase--66.4%. In 2009 taxes were supposed to go down but they went up 9.4%. And I would hardly call the 4.4% tax increase last year "flat." And don't talk about taxes going down in this coming year. We'll believe that when we see it.

You tell him, Mr. Sinatra!

I sit here with tax bill in hand. Taxes higher in all three categories (municipal, school, county) in 2010. Them's the facts.

I would like to believe that the screechy redrider and his clan are paid bloggers from out of town because it's clear that they have no idea what's on a real Hoboken tax bill. But sadly, these are most likely our neighbors who just want to slime everyone who dares to read what's written on the bills sent out by the mayor's tax office.

I looked up Mr. Cunningham's 1009 Garden St. taxes with the handy tool available on the city website. http://wipp.edmundsassoc.com/Wipp0905/#taxPage5833
It says that he paid $16,384.85 in 2009 and $17,319.25 in 2010 (almost a $1,000 increase). And his bill for the first half of 2011 is $8,659.63 --- that's half of the 2010 rate.

So where is that 10% cut that Mr. Cunningham is bragging about? He owes a thorough explanation to the fifth ward residents (his fellow taxpayers) whose votes he covets.

I know -- who's on first? Tax levy.

I can't stand Cunningham. He is anti-rent control, anti-tenant. Wife's a total jerk. I love this:

"Standing in his kitchen, preparing food for his Burmese Mountain Dogs Hayden and Phoebe"

Hayden and Phoebe? Dogs named Hayden and Phoebe. Hey Cunningham, what happened to the Hoboken Dog Association you started? Oh right, that was just to establish your base - it served its purpose so its no longer useful. This is what all these two-bit professional politicians do. See Delea's Party with a Purpose, Occhipinti's Volunteers for Hoboken. The so-called "reformers" (who don't exist anymore but anyone who opposes the machine group gets that label) are as phony as the machiners. Let's be honest: there is no one running in any of these wards who is impressive (possible exception: Kurta - I can only hope). Sorry but the new people (read Republicans) are as untrustworthy as as the old guard crooks.

Cunningham has done nothing for open space! The Henkel conversation is a joke and Peter and Dawn both know it. Peter is for budgets and finance was his mo in his 1/2 page hudson reporter ad?? No where does it talk about improving the community by building more open space, parks, fields..........
Henkel will be cleaned up by BASF and bid out to the highest bidder ....and we dont have $30 million to give them...besides the clean up will take years and that is only after a final negotiation. So What is Peter doing to improve Hoboken's Open Space and Fields Issue?
Nothing. More politics. Peter is a talking piece for the mayor nothing more. IN 4 years he accomplished nothing for the ward or Hoboken that he can say was truly his idea. The Ward has so much potential and yet it still looks like part of the Industrial Hoboken Past........
Peter is better off spending more time with Hayden and Phoebe :)

Hobbs and your function would be to bash anyone that does not vote or agree with the Mayor!
Peter has not risen to the challenge of bettering his Ward. He does not stand for Open Space!
He stands for nothing. He waits to hear what the Mayor wants and nothing more.

FAP you are hysterical. It is almost as funny as when you get up and speak at a council meetings with your notes from Dawn. I love it when your so dramatic with your outrage!!!! Does the mayor coach you with that or does someone else from the peanut gallery?

Liebler - you are just upset b/c Cunningham and the residents of the 5th ward have told your paymaster to go jump in a lake b/c they don't want what URSA and you are peddling.

Liebler, you putz, you don't even live in the 5th and probably haven't been there. If you had been there, you'd know that there are many new condos up and it does not look like something from the industrial past. You're wrong (again) and your rants would be funny if they weren't written at a 2nd grade level.

You really are a wannabe. But you're going to end up a Never Was.

Redrider said, "Stop looking at the just the tax bill..."

That sums up the administration's main talking point.