REPRISE-POLITICS THE DEMOCRATIC WAY

No I was not drunk. When I wrote "Politics the Democratic Way" July 4. There is much that I must learn about speech writing on the PC. Somehow between the time that I dictate and proofread, new words , sentences and other weird things appear. I have 30 days to read the manual- who does that- or otherwise decide this program is as useless to me as others have been.

I intend to remove that post from the face of this earth and repost it in the form taht I meant it to be. I hope that the 4th kept most readers from wasting time reading this or else if they did I hope they hjad a good laugh. This is the way it was suppoosed to read.

This is been a very unusual week regarding politics. Gov. Sarah Palin announced that she was resigning as governor of the Alaska. She and all of her family have been under personal attacks from members of the national Democratic Party and fellow travelers. Even her 14-year-old daughter was the subject of a tasteless Letterman joke . Her badly mentality/physically compromise Down Syndrome child as also been the subject of ridicule.

It may be perfectly acceptable for a public figure to become the object of ridicule and personal criticism, but the family especially young children should be exempt from such goings-on.

Spokespersons for the National Democratic Party have made it a practice of abusing others while hiding behind the first Amendment. This has often been a tactic at all lower levels.

At a local level Councilman Adrian Mapp has been twice the victim of the Organized County Democratic Party'swraith. It was not the voters of Union County that denied Adrian Mapp his second term as a freeholder, but the "party" that had not renominated him.

It was not Mapp's performance at the Freeholder level. There are probably less then 10% of the voters who know what a Freeholder's role is. Even less are aware of what a financial plum the position represents.

Instead, it was the aberration caused by the temporary control of the Democratic City Party in Plainfield by McWilliams and those who subsequently designated themselves as 'New Democrats" that has focused DeFillipo's cronies ire on Mapp. Mr Mapp entered politics as a friend of McWilliams an d it was during the honeymoon period prior to the old timers regaining control of the Plainfield City Committee that he was nominated and elected Freeholder.

During the recent primary campaign. Green posted a letter blasting Mapp from the same Roselle Council Woman who is a member of the shared services group that brokered the deal with Roselle Park. and a member of the Official Democrat Party. I do not know whether the elimination of Mr. Mapp's job in Roselle was part of an attack upon the borough's Mayor or punishment for Mr. Mapp seeking be the candidate in Plainfield for the Mayor. I would suppose both.

Despite DeFillipo reported statement that she has no time to be bothered in the local county's municipalities, her position and past record would suggest otherwise. Certainly, there are two short term ex-Mayors of Hillside both members of a citizen's reformation group, that might testify that their resignation from office was the result of political harassment.

Of course our local Chairman has not the power to impact on other area towns. November is only 3 months away. It will be interesting to see how our local politicians will align themselves in the coming general election at the local level and also at the State level. Will enough Independents and resentful Democrats unite to elected a New Mayor. Probably not but the race will be interesting.