Weekends usually mean a drop-off in blog reading and this weekend especially may find readers otherwise occupied with early summer social events or campaign work for Tuesday's all-important mayoral primary.
Voters have given the current mayor two four-year terms, but several close watchers of city government have declared opposition to handing her another chance. Dr. Yood published a very long compendium of failures detected in her first term and updated it with more from the second. Party stalwart Dottie Gutenkauf put her reasons for not supporting the mayor this time on her blog and also in a letter to the editor.
As an incumbent, the mayor has had her own voice in everything from casual speeches to her State of the City presentations, not to mention her "Mayor's Corner" on the city web site. On the downside, her former city administrator is on record as to the mayor's demeanor with staff in this account given during the WBLS investigation.
The polls open at 6 a.m. Tuesday and will close at 8 p.m. Your polling place is on your sample ballot. Unofficial results will emerge Tuesday night. Official results will follow on June 10. Voters' actions on June 4 will send either the mayor or Councilman Adrian Mapp on to the November general election where the primary winner will face a challenge from Republican Sandy Spector and any independents who file on June 4. The next four years of the mayoralty will begin on Jan. 1, 2014.
Every registered Democrat and unaffiliated voter who decides to declare as a Democrat on June 4 will have a say in the city's future through this primary election. Think about it and make sure you vote.
--Bernice
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novel idea to the voting process here in Plainfield and quite contrary to how it normally occurs... Thinking... then voting ??? Why how positively un-Local Democratic Party of you Bernice.
ReplyDeleteYou'll receive a slap on the wrist soon enough from the powers that be.. I'm sure the next you'll support is a responsible and responsive city government... shaking the foundation to the very core, to the very core. Remember it's "the party" before "the people" every time with the local Dems.
I.J.S.
Thanks, Bernice, for your concise blog. I hope people vote with their heads and decide to move Plainfield forward. I am personally upset of people taking down Mapp lawn signs and wreaking them. It's hard to run a clean campaign when you're dealing with dirt. We need to vote as if our future in Plainfield depended on it.
ReplyDeleteBob Bolmer