Help ease my Primary concerns
My daughter, Rachel, recently turned 18. I didn’t
have a lot of wisdom or inspiration to offer her – my
wife is better at that than I am – but I did have one
piece of advice.
I told her: “Don’t forget to register to vote.”
Those of you who have 18-year-old daughters
can picture the way she rolled her eyes. But then she
smiled and said, “Yes, daddy.” I’m proud to say
Marc
Rachel will be able to embrace her unalienable right
Kovar
Executive
to vote, and will do so in the New Jersey Primary
Vice-President Election on June 7.
I hope NJ State PBA members follow Rachel’s
lead. You should all have more motivation and
enthusiasm to go to the polls than somebody who is voting for the
first time ever.
If you don’t cast your ballot, you might as well cast your fate.
Don’t hide behind that “there are no big races on the ballot now, so
why bother?”
If there is an election for mayor, city council, freeholder or
another municipal or county office, there is no more important
time to vote than in the primary. If that mayor or a city council
member is behind your Local and your department, then your
members need to get out and show you are behind them.
But if those elected officials are screwing with you, get your Local
members together and get those people out of office. Vote them
out. You don’t need the County Conference or the State PBA to do
so. Vote your freeholders out or give them a vote of confidence.
Believe me, they will know how important your votes are.
State Delegates and Local Presidents should be having meetings
to get members together and get behind a local or county candidate that has supported them or one they want to get rid of. Develop a strategy, and, if you need help, go to your County Conference
and ask to send over some members from a neighboring town.
Follow the lead from Paramus Local 186 where there were two
council members who