Dan in Clips referred to a posting by Dottie G which I feel is worth reading by all and his link did not work. I am reprinting it here.
Who is the hidden hand behind the trash we’re getting in the mail?
Posted by DottieG under PlainfieldLeave a Comment
There is no such group. It isn’t registered with the Election Law Enforcement Commission, and you can Google it to your heart’s content, but you won’t find it. One of the most interesting things about these mailings is that the return address (327 Trinity Place in Hillside) is a property belonging to two brothers who work for Union County. One of them is the “Administrator” of the County Board of Elections. That certainly raises the interesting question of conflict of interest, to say the least—he’s in charge of counting the absentee ballots (among other things) and tallying the returns from the polling places. Remember Bush v. Gore and the recounts in Florida during that presidential election?
As if that weren’t enough to raise our collective eyebrows, the mailings these guys have sent out accuse Plainfield’s mayor and the Democratic Committee candidates in Column C of urging people “to vote against the Democratic Party.” Now, I’m a lifelong Democrat, and my late husband, Joe, and I served on Plainfield’s Democratic Committee for many years—Joe passed away in 2012 and I didn’t run for re-election in 2013. But this year, I’m a candidate in Column C for a Democratic Committee seat; my running mate is John Stewart, and if you live in Ward 3, District 1 I hope you’ll vote for us on June 2.
I find these mailings from a non-existent group very disturbing—it’s a way of getting around New Jersey’s election laws, and there’s no information on who is paying for them. (If you’re interesting in doing some detective work you may be able to find out where the money is coming from—I certainly have my suspicions.) Last year during the primary campaign, our Democratic chair, Assemblyman Jerry Green, put out mailings accusing those running against the Council candidates he supported of being “Tea Party Democrats,” and I won’t be surprised if the same rhetoric is repeated this year. Assemblyman Green, by the way, also chairs the Union County Democratic Committee—which I suppose this year could be the source of support for the non-existent “Union County’s Committee.”
Draw your own conclusions—and be sure to vote in the Democratic Primary on Tuesday, June 2!
Thank you, Dottie. Jerry is the penultimate dirty politician and there is not enough soap in Union County to make him clean. I hope the voters are paying attention. What an a-moral joke.
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ReplyDeleteMayor Mapp is the ultimate dirty politician and the Plainfield residents will soon see
ReplyDeleteWhen will we see? Do you mean after the June 2 election and column C is the winners? Or do you think your slandering mailings will seal the deal for Jerry to keep rule over Plainfield? Right now, all Jerry is concerned about is losing the chairmen seat and control over the democratic committee. Which under Jerry’s leadership has not be democratic at all. Plainfield is on the move in a positive direction, let’s not stop now people. Vote Column C on June 2.
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and all the Democrats cry foul during the primary...and minutes later join hands and sing a song of unity and vow to vote the party line to prevent the corrupt evil invoking Republicans from making a financial mess of this fiscal beauty that is known as Plainfield ... and the same tired dismal dance goes on...
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