Comments on: Who’s Who? http://communityrights.wordpress.com Thu, 10 Dec 2009 16:03:37 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Hildy Jackson http://communityrights.wordpress.com/whos-who/#comment-2141 Hildy Jackson Wed, 22 Oct 2008 02:07:57 +0000 http://communityrights.wordpress.com/?page_id=995#comment-2141 There is a replacement on the School board for Edwin estevez. It is Nancy Szaroleta. There is a replacement on the School board for Edwin estevez. It is Nancy Szaroleta.

]]> By: Michele Ixim http://communityrights.wordpress.com/whos-who/#comment-920 Michele Ixim Thu, 08 May 2008 02:10:20 +0000 http://communityrights.wordpress.com/?page_id=995#comment-920 Non-partisan? Borough Council - Frank “Skip” Stabile (President), Michael Giordano, Frank Righetti, Robert Hitchcock, Douglas Singleterry, Mary Forbes, Jenny Flynn (Essentially a rubber-stamping committee.) <em>Editor's Note: This is also nonpartisan. It remains to be seen whether a Republican-dominated Council will have any more authority to rein in a runaway Republican Mayor, under the terms of the Faulkner Act, adopted by State Legislature, which established rules for municipal governments that essentially strip municipal officials of all meaningful authority and remove meaningful municipal checks and balances. Don't believe me? Check out the provisions of the Optional Municipal Charter Law, especially Mayor-Council Form E, the one in use in NP. The difference may be that Republicans will move forward with the Self-Governance Ordinance, which directly challenges that usurpation of local power by asserting that the State can't preempt or override local self-governance. There's no guarantee that, if elected, a Republican Mayor and Council will move ahead with the Self-Governance Ordinance, and there's no guarantee that if they do, the State won't bear down with a huge amount of police force to put North Plainfielders back in their subservient place. The current Democrats, however, have made it absolutely clear that they are content with subservience to the State Legislature and the corporate directors who control the legislative process. It's not partisan - the State doesn't care whether the local officials are Democrats or Republicans, as long as they scrape and bow prettily enough. </em> Non-partisan? Borough Council – Frank “Skip” Stabile (President), Michael Giordano, Frank Righetti, Robert Hitchcock, Douglas Singleterry, Mary Forbes, Jenny Flynn

(Essentially a rubber-stamping committee.)

Editor’s Note: This is also nonpartisan. It remains to be seen whether a Republican-dominated Council will have any more authority to rein in a runaway Republican Mayor, under the terms of the Faulkner Act, adopted by State Legislature, which established rules for municipal governments that essentially strip municipal officials of all meaningful authority and remove meaningful municipal checks and balances. Don’t believe me? Check out the provisions of the Optional Municipal Charter Law, especially Mayor-Council Form E, the one in use in NP.

The difference may be that Republicans will move forward with the Self-Governance Ordinance, which directly challenges that usurpation of local power by asserting that the State can’t preempt or override local self-governance.

There’s no guarantee that, if elected, a Republican Mayor and Council will move ahead with the Self-Governance Ordinance, and there’s no guarantee that if they do, the State won’t bear down with a huge amount of police force to put North Plainfielders back in their subservient place. The current Democrats, however, have made it absolutely clear that they are content with subservience to the State Legislature and the corporate directors who control the legislative process.

It’s not partisan – the State doesn’t care whether the local officials are Democrats or Republicans, as long as they scrape and bow prettily enough.

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