NJ GOP State Committeeman Joshua Sotomayor Einstein Calls on Bayonne Mayor Davis to Condemn Scorched-Earth Attack on Bayonne Small Business

Bayonne, NJ – NJ GOP State Committeeman Joshua Sotomayor called on Bayonne Mayor Davis and the “Together We Can” Bayonne BOE slate to condemn the recent scorched-earth political attack victimizing two small businesses in Bayonne. Sotomayor Einstein stated, “it’s unconscionable that political partisans of one group in an election for Board of Education would target two small local businesses, not for anything political they did and not for having a different opinion, which would be pathetic in and of itself, but merely for associating outside of politics in order to make a non-political commercial to the benefit of local business.” Sotomayor Einstein continued, “if Mayor Davis and the BOE slate he is supporting, “Together We Can,” supports Bayonne businesses they will condemn this cancel-culture attack and make it clear to everyone, including their supporters, that this type of behavior attacking the Bayonne community is unacceptable.”

As reported by the Hudson Reporter, in an article conspicuously no longer on the newspapers website but saved via screen shot and PDF, Buon Appetito, an Italian restaurant was targeted by a social media mob for allegedly engaging in politics. The politics it was engaging in was not political at all but a private business agreement by the Italian eatery and Michael Shatravka, local commercial videographer, who happens to be running for Bayonne Board of Education on the Make Bayonne Great Again ticket. The ticket Shatravka is on is running on a centrist platform for lower taxes, an acknowledgement that online education is leaving many of Bayonne’s students behind, and for re-introducing job and life skills development into the high school.

Shatravka is running with incumbent Michael Alonso and fellow BOE candidate Charles Shepard at ballot positions 1,2, and 3. According to the Hudson Reporter article, Shatravka offered to provide any Bayonne business, regardless of the personal politics of its ownership, a free 1 minute commercial in order to foster unity in Bayonne and better mom and pop local businesses.