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Post endorsement shows paper's bias
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Editorial Response - South Brunswick Post
Appearing in the 11/02/06 Edition
We were not surprised at the South Brunswick Post's failure to
endorse our Republican ticket or to offer any material word of
support.
Nor were we impressed by the logic of your argument.
The editorial page has been very liberal over the years and appears to
have difficulty in endorsing Republican candidates and ideas.
The paper's editorial pages over the course of the campaign have said
little about the absence of discussion and any exchange of ideas at
the council table.
Similarly the paper has not complained about the Lynch scandal nor railed
against the County Democrat Organization's influence in South
Brunswick's affairs. There has been no complaint, for example
about the $150,000 the local democrats received from the County over
the past five years.
This editorial pays lip service to wanting another voice on the Township
Council but cannot say even one supportive thing about out
candidacy. That's hypocrisy and bespeaks a bias summarized
most eloquently with the phrase "we endorse (the Democrats) without
qualification."
The Lynch scandal itself, the subsequent refusal to give back the Lynch
dollars for which he was convicted in South Brunswick, coupled with
the continued involvement of candidate Chris Kilmurray and
Democratic Party Chairman Bernie Hvozdovic with high profile county
Democrat law firms should have been enough to give you pause in
making such an endorsement.
Not a word of the Lynch scandal in this editorial while news of it has
been all over your paper in letters and news stories.
You praise the Democrats for talking about sharing services with other
towns and yet you have no eye for their almost total failure in
working out shared services with the local school board or anybody
else. At the same time you turn a blind eye to our Republican
platform which explicitly identifies the need for shared services
with the school board and other towns as means of reducing expenses
and saving tax dollars.
You don't want to listen.
You claim Lynda Woods Cleary doesn't understand the budget even though
she has offered the same formula, sharing services to cut spending
for all. Do the Democrats understand any better even after not
having done a darn thing about shared services for 10 years and
having raised taxes two years in a row?
We don't think so.
I notice you didn't praise the Democrats for traffic improvements.
For 10 years now they have done nothing about the dangerous Route 27
and Beekman Road intersection. They have done nothing to
connect Beekman Road with Northumberland Way. That
interconnection would improve east-west traffic flow immeasurably.
New Road, which needs two reverse jug handles, is in danger of
losing that opportunity to commercial development through the
inaction of these two Democrats.
Ten years in power aided by statehouse control of legislature and
governor's mansion and we have no Route 1 widening and no end date
in sight. Praise that record as a reason to reelect why don't
you?
You praise the Democrats for parks and open space. With $2 million
complete with bonding power available to them each and every year
for the past 10 years it would be scandalous if we did not have a
substantial open space and parks inventory. You choose to
forget that the open space tax fund, was put on the ballot by the
Republicans and supported in a bipartisan manner over the years.
Your editorial is endorsing the advantages of incumbency pure and simple.
We are committed and determined to make a difference in the governance of
South Brunswick and we will not be deterred by biased journalists.
Lynda Woods Cleary & Nanette Craig
Republican candidates for Mayor and Town Council respectively.
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