Let it snow! Let it snow! Plainfield will some how dig itself out. That is probably today's truth.
While I watch it coming down I will have time to be a philosopher and write something worth while, if possible. For the time being this will be it while I catch up on (a)Health Care, (b) Dr gallon and the BOE, (c) Plainfeld's lack of a governmental structure, (Our urgent need for Charter reform). and yesterdays news.
Till then this is it for today.
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I wonder many years from now when local historians look back on this period in Plainfield history, who will they blame for its complete demise. I suspect that it will not be Mr. Green as he has insulated himself from the historic mistakes that continue to bring down the town. Certainly the mayor will carry a fair share of the burden, no doubt well earned.
ReplyDeleteI feel clearly the major blame will rest squarely with the Council. Historians will look at their inaction to take any type of stand to stop the insanity of the current administration. My guess is they will be compared to the band that played soothing music on the deck of the Titanic as it went down.
The only possibility that Plainfield has to avoid sinking into an abyss where the most basic of city services are beyond the town to provide and pay for is for the current Council to step up in unity and lead. The council must reign in the PMUA, the council through a bully pulpit must force change to the BOE.
The mayor seems to lack both the mental ability as well as the political toughness to lead anything.
Can anyone imagine any business being half way through their fiscal year and not having completed their budget. Even the Federal government, NYC and the state do not take near this amount of time, and their budgets I think are a little more complicated than Plainfields.
ReplyDeleteBy simple math, that I assume even members of this administration can do, a 10% annual shortfall requires 20% in cuts when you wait 6 months to implement them.
Is Plainfield unique in being this late, at what point does the State step in and take some action?
If the history of Plainfield is any indication Assemblyman Green will begin shopping for a new mayor within a few months. He will begin to distance himself from Mayor Sharon slowly at first and then throw her under the bus within 1 to 2 years. Green has done this since Lattimore. The facts speak for themselves.
ReplyDeleteSo the question is will a council member become the next suck-up to Green or will he look to find his next assistant under some other rock.
Yikes ..... Global Warming is now come to Plainfield with all the other problems !!!!
ReplyDeletePS Do yo know that the "Hill" on Watchung Ave is actually the Terminal Domain of a Galcier ?? That is what I was taught back in PHS