Who are your elected officials working for, anyway?
Brian Levine, as Ordinary Citizen, stated that after the Feb. 11 Planning Board meeting: "Every citizen who came before the council and the Planning Board was against the project...It seems we're saying to the residents of Franklin that Franklin is for sale to the highest bidder. I'm failing to see how this is good." (Home News Tribune 2/3/06)
I think that Brian has hit it right on the head. Ordinary citizens, the ones who cast the vote for their Township Council members, are not being represented. "Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder." (George Washington)
In the Home News' Housing Plan Back on Track, reporter Deborah Lynn Blumberg wrote about the Planning Board meeting as being the PB's "last say on the township's fair-share affordable housing plan". Sorry to dispute that fact, but that last say came the night of Jan. 25 when the PB Subcommittee pushed through the Council's plan. I think that the reporter was on target for rest of the article, especially when describing Stuart Lieberman's questioning of the consultant Schoor, DePalma's background. Good show! Should be even better on Feb. 8!