11 Facts About Beth Mason

Beth Mason attended Virginia Commonwealth University, where she served as student body president.

Beth Mason worked in an advertising agency, where she helped to launch the Trivial Pursuit board game and the Sci Fi Channel.

Beth Mason was appointed to the Hoboken Planning Board by Mayor David Roberts in 2001.

Beth Mason proceeded to run her first campaign for the Hoboken City Council, as part of the Hoboken Alliance for Accountability in Government, but was defeated in a run-off election in June 2003 by incumbent Second Ward councilman Richard DelBoccio.

In March 2004, Beth Mason filed the first of eight lawsuits she filed against the city of Hoboken before she was elected to the City Council in May 2007.

In October 2004, Beth Mason was elected president of the New Jersey Foundation for Open Government, an advocacy group.

In one case, Beth Mason successfully sued the city to lower the price it charged for using its copy machines from 16 cents per page down to 7 cents; in another, the school board acknowledged that it had violated both the Open Records and the Open Public Meeting Acts.

In July 2008, Beth Mason won a lawsuit in State Superior Court, which ruled that the Hoboken Municipal Hospital Authority had failed to properly advertise meetings and disclose documents related to its purchase of St Mary Hospital.

Beth Mason ran for Hoboken Mayor in 2009, finishing in third place.

Beth Mason endorsed Zimmer, but Cammarano prevailed in a tight race, winning with just 161 votes.

Beth Mason met her husband Rick on her first day of college.