The Political Entanglements of Bayonne By Max Pizarro | July 8, 2021, 9:13 pm | in Caucus Room It would be the perfect Bayonne payback story. Tossed off the line in his hometown in a bruising backroom war with the mayor, Assemblyman Nick Chiaravalloti (D-31) looked like a fair bet to run next year against the man locals finger for dumping their long-serving lawmaker: incumbent Mayor Jimmy Davis. In a show of local strong-arming, Davis earlier this year selected William Sampson IV, a longshoreman and crane operator, to replace Chiaravalloti on the Hudson County Democratic Organization line in the June 8th primary. Political people want revenge in this blue collar peninsula city once chopped into recognizable ethnic neighborhoods now sprinkled with waterfront development and bursting with new populations and increasingly bigger than just blue collar aspirations.