The Hoboken Mayoral race is set, give or take Anthony Romano

Five candidates are official and on the ballot for the upcoming Hoboken mayoral race, a wide-open affair with incumbent Mayor Dawn Zimmer moving on to concentrate on issues affecting global warming and the environment. The five who are ON the ballot are as follows:

The five other qualifying mayoral candidates are City Councilman Michael DeFusco, Council President Jennifer Giattino and Councilman Ravi Bhalla, as well as local restaurant owner Karen Nason and cycling advocate Ronald Bautista.

Now, as for Anthony Romano, that'll have to be decided in court. Romano is currently on the ballot and running for two offices simultaneously. That runs afoul of the law according to at least one FuHo resident:

"On behalf of my client, Patricia Waiters, a Hoboken resident, this letter constitutes her formal objection to the validity of the nominating petition of Anthony Romano purporting to designate him as a candidate for Mayor of Hoboken," attorney Eric Dixon wrote, in a Sept. 8 letter submitted to Hoboken City Clerk James Farina. "State law prohibits not only the simultaneous holding of multiple elected offices, but also the simultaneous candidacies for multiple elected offices in the same election." 

Now Romano of course disagrees but for now we'll need to hear from the courts on this one. There's much more on this breaking story from Steve Strunsky that you'll want to read up on. Again, follow this link and it's all right there.

Nathan Brinkman WILL be running for Mayor of Hoboken

Co-Founder of the Hoboken Republican Club will be running for mayor. He filed the necessary signatures and will join Dawn Zimmer, Beth Mason, and Patricia Waiters in the bare knuckles battle for top office of the Mile Square City.

Brinkman said in a press release the reason he's running is quality of life issues in Hoboken. He said taxes are too high, city government spends too much and transparency of the mayor's office is severely lacking.

It will be interesting to see with all the Democrats running if they don't cancel out some votes and possibly help put Mr. Brinkman over the top.

The Hoboken mayor's race is filling up fast

Besides current mayor by default Dawn Zimmer (and she warned you people Cammarano was no good), second ward councilwoman Beth Mason, Frank Raia a former Board of Education trustee, Hoboken resident Patricia Waiters who STILL supports Cammarano, are all in. Possibly (be still our fluttering hearts) Nathan Brinkman will be entering the race. All petitions to run for Hoboken Mayor and to get needled by the Jersey City Desk are due tomorrow, September 16th by 4 pm.