To see the progress we have made roll backward – all in the cause of keeping the guys in the club on the public pad – is unacceptable and shameful.
have started making endorsements and announcing candidacies that — if all are successful in the May municipal elections and the June primaries — will make the situation worse. Rather than using upcoming elections to expand the role of women in Hudson County government, the men in power are barely giving lip service to half their constituency.
That slight gain, though, would be offset in West New York, where the current mayor/commission body of three men and two women would move to one of four men and one woman.It bears noting that many of these decisions were the product of the game of musical chairs that moves around men in power by finding new slots for them rather than, gasp, see them retire or get a job in the private sector.to make room for U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez’s son, Rob, in Washington.
To be its most effective, government must be representative. It’s a goal we’ve been scratching and clawing toward since this country’s inception with much progress but so much more still to be attained. Any changes there, though, still wouldn’t affect non-partisan municipal elections in Hudson – like North Bergen and West New York – where Democratic Party-funded war chests tip the scales.
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