Politics in Hackensack is a coalition of interests. There are very different interest groups in Hackensack that vie for attention and to share power. These are (1) geographic, meaning different neighborhoods (2) ethnic or racial (3) interest-based, for instance Baseball of Hackensack, PTA folks, or a group based on Zoning dispute like the 19-story hospital proposed for Summit Ave, (4) political parties and even FACTIONS within political parties, and (5) sometimes a large and entrenched political family like the D'Arminio's, the Zisa's, and others. An example of factions that would be your blue-color white ethnic Democrats and your liberal Jewish anti-war, pro separation of church and state Democrats, who are both Democrats but very different politically. We all know people in Hackensack that fits those descriptions.
The point I'm making is that a political organization is not a unified organization, but rather a collection of various interests (see 1 - 5 above) that have agreed to work together for the common interest in running the City of Hackensack. There is no single person in power behind the scenes, and the players are constantly changing and evolving. There is an expectation of loyalty, but also an unwritten understanding that if individual people in power drift out of line, the "organization" might evolve in a different direction.
These concepts illustrate how you get Roger Mattei and Lynne Hurwitz on the same side, for example. They are very different politically. So to "connect the dots" as Regina suggests means only to define the intricate political web-network or various and sometimes conflicting interests. 44,000 people is still a small place, politically. The dots are going to connect everywhere.
But they don't connect with Citizens for Change because the organization is not based on people working together to advance various issues, it's based on complaining and protesting. [Personal attack removed by Editor]. And it's people out of power wanting power, and wanting to control the strings of patronage.