Hoboken Safety Advocate

[John Heinis @HeinisHardNews]

Going to wait a little longer to see if the full meeting is posted today.

In the meantime, Jersey City resident Lycel Villanueva was walked away from the mic by 2 cops after she refused to yield after her 3 minutes.

"Do your ****ing job!" someone shouted at the council.

[New York Post @nypost]

George Soros and family buy 18 plots of land in exclusive Hamptons enclave, squeezing locals: 'Ruining the island' https://t.co/Q7NXrInyKC

[New York Post @nypost]

Monmouth football assistant coach dies unexpectedly at 34 https://t.co/yOjONGGCRH

[New York Post @nypost]

Mamdani delays NYPD cops' holiday pay ahead of Fourth of July - as Finest pull 12-hour shifts for busy weekend https://t.co/pHpWWIn1Tq

[John Heinis @HeinisHardNews]

🚨 As the Jersey City Council questions the Q3 tax bill rate before their vote on 15%, I just got a hold of an email from the deputy director of the Division of Local Govt. Services offering two options for the $105M loan.

A 15% or 20% rate hike are the only options offered.

[Nick shirley @nickshirleyy]

@NYCMayor @ZohranKMamdani This is a lie. You balanced the budget by borrowing billions from the NY state government which pushed back pension payments, so you literally took money from "the backs of hardworking people."

Don’t get it twisted.

[Cre8tive M0j0 @20SomethinDesis]

We got left with a mess from #Bhalla lol then he helps #jerseycity get bailed out, while #hoboken is still waiting on structural cuts!?!

Make it make sense!!!!

11.5% tax hike is really ridiculous!

[Tweets from Zach Weinberg @zachweinberg]

Dem primary voters going full anti-business and anti-Israel. The party is changed.

It's sad because I understand why "Trump bad" is real and true in many cases, but this is not the way to counter. Disaster for America.

[NYC E-Vehicle Safety Alliance @nyc_evsa]

Heavy- 100lbs, fat tire e-bike. Goes 28 mph out of box but can go faster unlocked. THIS does not require a license plate/registration. THIS should be banned from NYC. @shaunabreu @galebrewer @nyc_dot

[Hon. Vickie Paladino @VickieforNYC]

My official statement on the budget, as read in chambers this evening, before I was muted:

"I’ve been a member of this city council going on five years now. And I’ve voted yes on the budget every year so far. All of them had problems. All of them contained things I didn’t like or agree with. But I’m not here to demand perfection, I’m here to work with what we have — within reason.

Unfortunately, this year is very different. And I must vote no.

Even in the context of our dysfunctional city government, this year’s budget represents a complete departure from reality, spending more money than we’ve ever spent — precisely when we can least afford it.

We have never seen a larger single-year increase in spending in the history of this city. Requiring not only new taxes from Albany, but pension deferrals and an eight billion dollar bailout from the Governor. And even still, the revenue projections are optimistic at best.

This isn’t a ‘balanced budget’ — it’s budget by bailout. A ticking time bomb.

And it’s the beginning of a fiscal death spiral that our current leadership will not be able to pull us out of, because they lack both the experience and the seriousness to do so.

What will we do next year? And the year after?

The only responsible way for our city to spend more is to grow the economy. New businesses, new private economic development, major investment. That’s how you grow an economy, and get more money into the city budget.

But we’re doing the opposite. Deliberately chasing away everything our city needs to sustain our spending with childish political attacks on very people we need most.

Our tax base is isn’t growing. It’s leaving.

The middle class, the financial sector, and businesses of all sizes are choosing to go elsewhere. And they’re being replaced with low-income foreigners and transplants who require significant subsidies just to survive here.

We’re trading investment banks and small businesses for delivery app drivers on welfare, and nonprofit workers whose paychecks ultimately come from government spending. That isn’t growth.

And when ordinary New Yorkers complain, they’re told to shut up and leave if they don’t like it. And that’s exactly what many are doing.

This is obviously unsustainable. But nobody in this chamber really seems to care.

And what are we getting for our money? We already spend more in real dollars AND per capita on everything from schools to housing to healthcare than anyone else in the country.

We can’t even build a public bathroom for less than three million dollars.

Why would anyone believe that shoveling even MORE money into this broken system will improve anything?

It won’t. I guarantee that we’ll all be sitting here again a year from now, with the exact same problems, listening to the exact same lectures about how the city needs even MORE money, AGAIN.

At what point do we, as a City Council, start to demand results before we allow more spending? When do we demand accountability?

The answer seems to be never. Because this spending isn’t really meant to fix anything. It’s meant to keep the machine going, keep the money flowing into the special interests and nonprofits and the political allies of the Mayor, with no real consideration for anything else.

I realize a lot of people don’t want to hear this, but we are a municipal government, not a sociology experiment or a political slush fund or the United Nations.

We are here keep the lights on, keep the water running, pave the roads, and put criminals in jail. That’s it. And we would be very well advised to get back to basics. Because we’re failing on nearly every count, other than our peerless ability to hand out free money.

Shame on this Council for pretending this budget is anything other than a disaster. I know that my single vote ultimately doesn’t matter here, but nonetheless I won’t put my name on it. I respectfully vote no."

[John Heinis @HeinisHardNews]

.@AlexGleas led a protest prior to Jersey City Councilwoman Little's town hall where she said she'll be voting yes on Wed. for the 15% rate hike on the Q3 tax bills.

" ... Concentrating the entire 2026 year tax increase on your Q4 tax bill is very painful for a lot of people.”

[Paul Presinzano 1st Ward City Councilman @presinzano4hob1]

Day902: An update has been posted to help follow the new E-bike laws due to start in July

https://t.co/BsQI4IdRoO

[Christian Heiens 🏛 @ChristianHeiens]

@ChrisMurphyCT When Chris Murphy says “be bolder” he apparently means that Democrats should embrace the “total eradication of Western civilization”.

You are a traitor to this country.

[Vitaly @vburshteyn]

@RaviBhalla @RaviBhalla how exactly did JC get into this crisis? I am asking as you are very well positioned to answer that as YOU left #Hoboken in the same mess.

[Hoboken Safety Advocate @HobokenSafety]

@basedbarnicle @MercuriusFilius @ShoshinValue I just googled. Per AI, Andover graduates ~300 per year and sends 50-65 to Ivy.

[John Heinis @HeinisHardNews]

.@SolomonforJC & @StevenFulop are bareknuckle boxing over alleged improper crime reporting.

Solomon: “Transparency is only meaningful if the data behind it is trustworthy."

Fulop: "What we’ve seen over the last 6 months is what happens when a mayor has no agenda of his own."

[Paul Presinzano 1st Ward City Councilman @presinzano4hob1]

Day884: A small report card on the 2026 budget. If you are not happy with 11.5% City tax hike and an over all hike of ~13.25% let your elected officials know.
Stay Sharp #Hoboken

[Paul Presinzano 1st Ward City Councilman @presinzano4hob1]

Stay Sharp #Hoboken

[Coddled Affluent Professional @feelsdesperate]

Who picked Platner and why?

Who flipped the switch on Swalwell and why?

How did Kamala get the 2024 nomination?

These questions are all way more interesting than the candidates themselves and the legacy press has no curiosity or interest in providing the answers.

[Hoboken’s 3rd Ward Councilman: Dr. Michael Russo @MichaelRussoNJ]

The Mayor and Administration are not going to pull the wool over our eyes and convince us that an 11% tax increase for Hoboken residents is a good thing. As Pacino said, I've been around...you know?

My full budget remarks: https://t.co/jdstLeBpB7