So you've concluded Sharon Robinson-Briggs is nothing but a sock-puppet for Jerry Green, and an incompetent one at that.
What do you do next?
There are, after all, four other candidates running besides Sharon and Adrian: Carol Ann Brokaw-Boles, Martin Cox, Bob Ferraro and Tom Turner.
The real contest is between Adrian Mapp and Carol Ann Brokaw-Boles, and I'll tell you why.
Ferraro and Turner are not serious competitors, though it is sad to hear rumors that Jerry bullied Ferraro into running. (Ferraro, who owes his job at the PMUA to Jerry Green, has health issues and is looking forward to retiring with a small pension. Can you imagine Jerry saying, 'Before you go, Bob, one more thing...'?)
Martin Cox, perenially self-promoting, retired from his city job to run for Mayor. While he is old enough and has enough time in for a state pension, Martin is too young to collect Social Security. With a young family, one can wonder how he will make ends meet. Rumor has it that Jerry encouraged Cox to enter the race in the hopes he would peel votes from Mapp, and that he will get a nice not-overly-demanding County job once the primary is in the rear-view mirror. It's an old Hudson County technique, but it works just as well in Union County.
That leaves Mapp and Brokaw.
Brokaw is a talented, well-educated (go Georgetown!) and competent attorney. She is active in her sorority and is civic-minded (she is board chair of Kings Daughters Day School).
But she is tainted.
As chairperson of the PMUA Board of Commissioners, she has presided over a wildly unpopular 20% rate increase -- half of the 'double-whammy' she promised ratepayers at last week's candidate forum. She defends the PMUA practice of piling on 'service fees' that jack up your bills. She has defended the costly junkets on the taxpayers' dime for board members and top executives. And she has not criticized PMUA executive director Eric Watson for saying they will continue.
Further, Watson is shadow directing her campaign, which has disdained making any information available online. You can be sure he would bring his PMUA management style to City Hall were she elected.
Why exchange one sock-puppet for another?
It doesn't need to be.
Adrian Mapp has more experience, an actual plan, and would not put the PMUA in charge of City policy.
Need I say more?
Monday, June 1, 2009
Mayoral Race: It's really between Mapp and Brokaw
-- Dan Damon
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Adrian Mapp does appear to the the best qualified candidate - all things considred. He has also indicated support for restoring the Muhlenberg Regional Medical Center as a full service acute-care facility. He has the right priorities at the right time and deserves strong support from all those who are cocerned with the future of Plainfield. More years of drift and sock puppetdom are not what Plainfield needs. A candidate who is a CPA and holds an MBA is ideal for bringing fiscal responsibility to Plainfield's City Hall.
Uhh..Dan.. I believe sock puppets around the world felt the pain of that slap when you compared the Mayor to them..I believe you owe sock puppets everywhere and apology. Now, do the right thing and compare the Mayor to the proper item...Jerry's Doormat..Jerry's footstool...any inanimate object that only lives to serve Jerry Green will suffice.
Sharon and Green have bled Plainfield dry and used us for their own greed and ambition. We need to get rid of them and I'm waiting to hear and celebrate if either or both of them lose.
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