know, i m concerned for our city if that s these are allegations are true. because we have a number of development projects in our town. if that s on our docket now, we need to know that. we need to know and the citizens had a right to know that before the election. 250 days in between that was actually an election that took place. our governor was on the ballot and the mayor was on the ballot and it could have potentially changed the direction of that election. so let s talk about that project and its role in hoboken. this rockefeller group project. we showed you video from the site there. tell us from a hoboken standpoint, how big after deal has this been? what does this potential development mean in had this town? has this been a driving force in local politics? well, it is a very big deal and there are a l number of projects in hoboken not just this project proposed by the rockefeller group. in southern hoboken we have new jersey transit as proposing building a tremendous amo
i don t mean that in a demeaning way. she is quite popular. she gives out her cell number to everyone. looking at someone here who is not politically really connected as much as she portrays herself to the governor s office. they don t want that moon clouding their sun on this thing here. and there were a lot of complaints even by her in the beginning part until she saw the way it would really roll that i would like a greater involvement. you hear this from her former staff, people who work with her and the like and generally in trenton. when you see someone who has just been doing that on the road, the salesman for the administration, it s not really the type of typical messenger that s ever sent to deliver a hardball message like this. that is a problem to sort of stretch to cover to believe. but she is part of her portfolio isn t dealing with economic development questions. so the idea and she seemed to say in that statement that there was a conversation. she had some kind of in
under what context that is happening in, and if the councilman knew back in the summer that this was going on, why was that not brought to the council? why were we not told? he s trained as an attorney? what did he tell the mayor and how to respond to that? so these are questions that i think the mick has a right to know especially given there were decisions made in the interim in that time frame that were, you know, the citizens of hoboken made a decision to make a vote it to do. steve, the mayor has gone on in the press the past week and made clear why she didn t come forward earlier. to talk about it any further from my standpoint, i want to have those discussions with the u.s. attorney s office so they can give this matter the investigation it deserves. back to the funding, we did receive when it came to the energy allocations the same amount of funding as many other municipalities including upper saddle river. we received the same amount of funding as them. i don t think that s
other than what the governor gives had her and in this case he did have her responsible, if you will, for economic development. she would go around and try to promote economic development, tax packages, tax breaks, that type of thing. so it is very likely she would be talking about both of these things. i wasn t there so i don t know whether she linked them or not. to be honest, i don t know why dawn zimmer would lie. she has no incentive to lie. she is basically putting her whole career on the line here. so, you know, it s a very serious charge that she made. i was here on your show when she actually made them and i thought she was very credible in the way she had her diary and had talked to other councilmen about it at the time. i would not dismiss this. this is a very serious charge. and, andrea, i heard the argument put to me by a number of people that there may be we say the thing is in black and white and there may be some gray here, that dawn zimmer thought she was hearing a
level apartments, basement level apartments, they can t put themselves up on stilts. they can t bring in the contractors and put their building up on jacks. they often own a very expensive condominium which has condominiums above it which weren t affected by the storm in the same way. we would have liked to have seen the utilities, things like that raised. that would have given our residents the ability to apply for the grant. it strikes me this argument about the funding level is central to this and completely beside the point. sev central to it because you can make the argument you just made that the way the entire program was structured at the statewide level that a city like hoboken, the unique circumstances of a mile square city on the banks of the hid son river under 80% water, you are not eligible under the criteria the state has set up for most of the aid. it will go to land buyback programs, things like that. that s a totally relevant and valid argument to make. at the same