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Peter
Citizen
Username: Peter
Post Number: 4
Registered: 7-2004
| | Posted on Monday, August 9, 2004 - 2:59 pm: |     |
Mayor Profeta, quoted in the Star-Ledger, August 4, 2004, regarding the Bette White petition:
"But Profeta said the township could not wait until November for a referendum and warned that putting this issue on the ballot could set a dangerous precedent.
'I would never advocate reversing a township committee decision based on a petition,' he said." |
parkbench87
Citizen
Username: Parkbench87
Post Number: 1031
Registered: 7-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, August 11, 2004 - 8:49 am: | |
Peter,
Democracy is not putting every Township Committee decision to a vote. We elect the TC members to make the decisions. if we don't like the decisions they make we can vote them out when they come up for relection. |
cjc
Citizen
Username: Cjc
Post Number: 2041
Registered: 8-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, August 11, 2004 - 2:04 pm: | |
This is nothing on the dangerous scale, compared to allowing the us to vote on the budget. |
steel
Citizen
Username: Steel
Post Number: 538
Registered: 2-2002
| | Posted on Sunday, August 15, 2004 - 11:51 am: | |
I agree with Parkbench, -We live in a "representative" democracy, not a "true" democracy. -This is generally viewed as the best way of doing things. -Until something is done to you of course. -Then you feel that you have to create a petition and get a whole bunch of other people to sign it etc etc. |
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