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| Hackensack Councilman John P. Labrosse, left, is the only incumbent who will return when the City Council is reorganized on July 1. |
Mayor Michael R. Melfi and two other lame-duck City Council members offered weak congratulations on Tuesday night to the slate of reformers who swept to victory on May 14.
Councilman John P. Labrosse, who led the Citizens for Change team, is the only incumbent returning on July 1.
Quack, quack
Melfi, Councilwoman Karen K. Sasso and Councilman Jorge E. Meneses each spoke briefly to congratulate Labrosse and three other members of his slate, Kathy Canestrino, Rose Greenman and David Sims, who were sitting in the audience.
Melfi, Sasso and Meneses are allies of the Zisa family political machine. They were elected to the council in 2005, and chose not to run this year.
Deputy Mayor Marlin G. Townes is the fourth incumbent whose days are numbered.
Low turnout
Despite a low voter turnout -- only 3,513 out of more than 20,000 registered voters -- the Labrosse slate defeated a new Zisa team, which was composed of 5 mental lightweights who called themselves the Coalition for Open Government.
One of their vocal supporters was Jack Zisa, who served as mayor from 1989 to 2005.
None of those losers attended Tuesday night's council meeting, which lasted all of 35 minutes.
Final numbers
The final tabulation of votes in the 2013 municipal election, including absentee and provisional ballots, as released by City Clerk Debra Heck:
Labrosse, 2,024; Canestrino, 1,924; Sims, 1,929; Greenman, 1,804; and Leonardo Battaglia, 1,820.
Open Government candidates Kenneth Martin, 1,657; Jason S. Nunnermacker, 1,685; Joanne Mania Colon, 1,666; Joseph A. Barreto, 1,664; and Scott Young, 1,639.
Independent candidate Victor E. Sasson received 344 votes.
I will be very surprised if anything changes at all. New group will bring in their Tea Party cronies and Hackensack will be as crappy as it has been for years.
ReplyDeleteYou will only be happy if they pave your street.
Truly, there is no one in this town who will be able to save it. Everyone here is inbred.
You have to be one of the few who swallowed the Tea Party smear or maybe you're one of those who created it. A lot will change thanks to the new council and what the police director already has accomplished. I'll be attending meetings and pushing my agenda. It will be a new day for Hackensack.
ReplyDeleteI have heard this song for years. I will bet money that the new council will hire a new consulting firm and pay them another 200,000 dollars to do another study.
ReplyDeleteA study of what, your sanity?
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