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January 13, 2009
Another Loss In NJ For The People
I couldn't find anything in their online edition, but in the dead-tree edition of yesterday's Asbury Park Press there was a story that this law eliminating school budget voting had been passed and was on its way to Corzine's desk for signing. What a shock, the political machine moves to take away the one venue folks have in deciding how their monies are spent. Can't have the Little People muddying up the process now, can we?
I love the "logic" behind this bill
“School boards and school budgets are being decided by a minute population, and it’s disheartening,” said Assemblyman Wayne P. DeAngelo, a Democrat from Hamilton Township, who co-sponsored the bill.
I'm willing to bet that the number of people who voted in the school budget elections in my town alone far exceeded the number of people who voted in the Assembly to take this right of ours away from us.
Once I get the results on how each member voted on this I will post them.
Posted by Mr. Bingley at January 13, 2009 06:47 AM
Comments
"Minute population" maybe, but it's "minute" because people CHOOSE not to show up to vote. It's not like the people in favor of not passing some millage (I assume that's what this taking-away-of-power-from-the-people is about) are body-blocking parents with kids in school from entering polling places.
What's next? "No one votes in school board elections so we'll just let the superintendents appoint members."
Posted by: ricki at January 13, 2009 08:10 AM
Exactly right, ricki.
Posted by: Mr. Bingley at January 13, 2009 08:16 AM
Education in NJ will nose dive into the ground. At hypersonic speeds.
Posted by: JeffS at January 13, 2009 09:27 AM
Jeff - depends on where you are. In some jurisdictions they're already tunnelling.
Posted by: nightfly at January 13, 2009 11:02 AM