Zimmer To Receive Italian Award For Denying Jersey Shore Spin Off

Between the Anti-Irish Defamation League and the Italian American One Voice Coalition, Mayor Dawn Zimmer is starting the year off popular. 

On Wednesday night, the Italian American One Voice Coalition will present the mayor with an "Una Voce" award,  

Zimmer said that the show would disrupt public safety in town.

The Italian American One Voice coalition is of the opinion that "MTV's Jersey Shore has been a blight on the State of New Jersey as well as an insult to all Italian Americans," and therefore Zimmer did the right thing. 

"Mayor Zimmer, in contrast to her counterpart in Jersey City, has done the right thing for Hoboken and should be commended," said the coalition's president Andre DiMino in a statement. 

The issue earned Zimmer temporary fame all over the internet—from Gawker to TMZ—and she appeared on CNN to discuss the issue. And while next door neighbor Mayor Jerramiah Healy said he would have a drink with the two "young ladies," Zimmer politely declined. 

While Snooki and JWoww seemed to be the only people upset with the denial, it's unclear what Hoboken's resident reality star Buddy Valastro thought of the whole thing.  

For the Italian American One Voice Coalition, however, the issue is a real one. 

"Our organization is in a constant battle against the continued, and actually, accelerating stereotyping and denigration of Italian Americans,” DiMino said. "The explosion of horrendous reality shows, like Jersey Shore, Mob Wives and others, as well as the constant depiction of Italian Americans in mainstream programming as criminals, mobsters, bimbos and buffoons, is disgraceful and unacceptable."