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 Posted: Mon, Apr 9 2012, 1:08 am EDT Post subject: Re: Thomas Connolly republican making a TC run |
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| Anyone have more detail on Cindy Smithers who the article says is also running as a Republican? They just mentioned her in passing at the end. |
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| Posted: Mon, Apr 9 2012, 2:30 pm EDT Post subject: Re: Thomas Connolly republican making a TC run |
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| Cindy has served for a while as one on of the leaders in the Cranbury Republican party. She serves as the county Republican chair for her district. |
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| Posted: Wed, Apr 11 2012, 5:15 am EDT Post subject: Re: Thomas Connolly republican making a TC run |
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| Aside fom Cindy's partisan activities, can someone share what these candidates have done to serve Cranbury? Thanks. |
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| Posted: Wed, Apr 11 2012, 5:20 pm EDT Post subject: Re: Thomas Connolly republican making a TC run |
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| I would be more interested in their work experience and/or skill sets. Whether or not they have volunteered for community service is of interest, but less so for me. |
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| Posted: Wed, Apr 11 2012, 10:17 pm EDT Post subject: Re: Thomas Connolly republican making a TC run |
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| 123 wrote: | | I would be more interested in their work experience and/or skill sets... |
It appears Tom is the night-time front desk supervisor at a hotel. |
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| Posted: Wed, Apr 11 2012, 10:22 pm EDT Post subject: Re: Thomas Connolly republican making a TC run |
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I too would like to know more about both work and town involvement. I think being involved in the town before running for the TC shows true interest. Plus, we have highly educated professionals with financial backgrounds in Dave, Jay and Glenn. Dave and Jay coming off in my view removes two of the financial experts leaving Cranbury with one finance person, one IT person, one Enviornmental, a Hotel background and an unknown. That is my biggest concern. We saw how bad the TC was when we were weak with finance people.
Thomas graduated in 2009 so he has just under 3 years of work experience. What is Cindy's background and involvement? What do they offer that is stronger than what is on the TC now? If I'm looking to fire a department head at work then I am looking to strengthen the position. I don't think at this time we'd be strengthening the positions by firing Dave or Jay.
The TC today in my view is very good because we have long term established people from town like Susan, Dave, Jay and Dan through his wife. These individuals are here and likely to be hear for the next 20 years or more.
The TC also works in my view because it is not people doing the TC because they want the personal aspects whatever they may be.
Dave- he has been involved in the Lions club.
Jay- is on the board of the historical society and I understand joined the fire company.
Glenn- was on the zoning board
Dan- is involved in little league and scouts
Susan- was on the EC
The common thing is they showed interest in the town and making our town better before they all decided to run and serve so to me community involvement is as key as work experience. |
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| Posted: Thu, Apr 12 2012, 3:43 pm EDT Post subject: Re: Thomas Connolly republican making a TC run |
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| candidates wrote: | I too would like to know more about both work and town involvement. I think being involved in the town before running for the TC shows true interest. Plus, we have highly educated professionals with financial backgrounds in Dave, Jay and Glenn. Dave and Jay coming off in my view removes two of the financial experts leaving Cranbury with one finance person, one IT person, one Enviornmental, a Hotel background and an unknown. That is my biggest concern. We saw how bad the TC was when we were weak with finance people.
Thomas graduated in 2009 so he has just under 3 years of work experience. What is Cindy's background and involvement? What do they offer that is stronger than what is on the TC now? If I'm looking to fire a department head at work then I am looking to strengthen the position. I don't think at this time we'd be strengthening the positions by firing Dave or Jay.
The TC today in my view is very good because we have long term established people from town like Susan, Dave, Jay and Dan through his wife. These individuals are here and likely to be hear for the next 20 years or more.
The TC also works in my view because it is not people doing the TC because they want the personal aspects whatever they may be.
Dave- he has been involved in the Lions club.
Jay- is on the board of the historical society and I understand joined the fire company.
Glenn- was on the zoning board
Dan- is involved in little league and scouts
Susan- was on the EC
The common thing is they showed interest in the town and making our town better before they all decided to run and serve so to me community involvement is as key as work experience. |
Dear “Candidates”,
I find it very interesting that you have already made up your mind about the candidates at this stage in the election. We have not heard from either Tom or Cindy with regards to the positions, platform, or ideas and yet you have already determined that neither is qualified. As a registered independent and am very interested in hearing what Tom or Cindy have to say, as well as the incumbents. Regardless of political views I don’t believe any voter should rush to judgment based on one article or even party affiliation.
According to the Press article Tom is a manager. So then why is the blogger assuming anything else? I wonder if we took the job titles of the other sitting TC members, would they necessarily match their actual responsibilities or positions? Regardless why is everyone jumping conclusions without giving candidates the opportunity to state their own cases?
As a 12 year resident I take personal offense to the notion that you must be a life long resident in order to serve on TC. If you recall last year Callahan was as equally qualified to serve given her professional background and her community involvement. Given the short time Callahan had lived here, she had volunteered and been involved with the community more so then all 5 sitting members combined, but that didn’t matter to Cranbury “lifers”. I think it is unfair and not a true representation of our community.
Lastly, I caution the basis that just because Dave and Jay are incumbents they must be a better choice. There have been several issues when both Dave and Jay have made poor decisions. Mostly notably both used poor judgment when deciding to support and pursue the town wide garbage bid. Dave headed up the committee and Jay was in full support of the referendum. This was a huge debacle and could have been costly to the town in the end. For me I will be looking for the candidate that can make sound decisions. Voters should remain open-minded and choose wisely without jumping to conclusions until they have heard all sides. |
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Talk is cheap
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| Posted: Thu, Apr 12 2012, 7:03 pm EDT Post subject: Re: Thomas Connolly republican making a TC run |
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Dear person pretending to be "open-minded",
You may be willing to base you vote on what politicians say,
but I find it more intelligent to base my vote on what they do.
Jay and Dave have spent years volunteering for this community.
Has Tom? No.
Jay and Dave have extensive and relevant business experience.
Does Tom? No.
I cant see how Supervising front desk clerks on the night shift at at hotel qualifies as relevant experience.
Jay and Dave have an excellent track record managing the town's finances through a terrible recession.
Does Tom have experience to guide his decisions or a track record we can trust? No.
He may be an ambitious young man and thats OK, but given what we know so far, there is no reason to give him serious consideration for Cranbury Township Committee. |
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Still open minded
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| Posted: Thu, Apr 12 2012, 9:45 pm EDT Post subject: Re: Thomas Connolly republican making a TC run |
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| Talk is cheap wrote: | Dear person pretending to be "open-minded",
You may be willing to base you vote on what politicians say,
but I find it more intelligent to base my vote on what they do.
Jay and Dave have spent years volunteering for this community.
Has Tom? No.
Jay and Dave have extensive and relevant business experience.
Does Tom? No.
I cant see how Supervising front desk clerks on the night shift at at hotel qualifies as relevant experience.
Jay and Dave have an excellent track record managing the town's finances through a terrible recession.
Does Tom have experience to guide his decisions or a track record we can trust? No.
He may be an ambitious young man and thats OK, but given what we know so far, there is no reason to give him serious consideration for Cranbury Township Committee. |
Dear "Candidates" stop pretending to be "talk is cheap".
The point of my post was to caution voters (you in particular) to stop judging a book by it's cover. You have jumped to conclusions on serval things about both Tom and Cindy without any warrant. Stop attacking Tom's position, have you verified this with his employer? If so prove it "talk is cheap".
Let the campaign proceed and get to know all the candidates as well as you appear to know both Dave and Jay, you have plenty of time between now and Nov, what is the rush? If you make up your mind now then I would say you are not an educated voter since you are basing your decision without all the facts. I am sure that in the end you will probably vote for Dave and Jay however, wouldn't it be better to come to that conclusion after doing your homework first. At the very least give the other voters the opportunity to come to their own conclusion.
Still an open mind. |
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| Posted: Thu, Apr 12 2012, 11:23 pm EDT Post subject: Re: Thomas Connolly republican making a TC run |
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| Still open minded wrote: | | Talk is cheap wrote: | Dear person pretending to be "open-minded",
You may be willing to base you vote on what politicians say,
but I find it more intelligent to base my vote on what they do.
Jay and Dave have spent years volunteering for this community.
Has Tom? No.
Jay and Dave have extensive and relevant business experience.
Does Tom? No.
I cant see how Supervising front desk clerks on the night shift at at hotel qualifies as relevant experience.
Jay and Dave have an excellent track record managing the town's finances through a terrible recession.
Does Tom have experience to guide his decisions or a track record we can trust? No.
He may be an ambitious young man and thats OK, but given what we know so far, there is no reason to give him serious consideration for Cranbury Township Committee. |
Dear "Candidates" stop pretending to be "talk is cheap".
The point of my post was to caution voters (you in particular) to stop judging a book by it's cover. You have jumped to conclusions on serval things about both Tom and Cindy without any warrant. Stop attacking Tom's position, have you verified this with his employer? If so prove it "talk is cheap".
Let the campaign proceed and get to know all the candidates as well as you appear to know both Dave and Jay, you have plenty of time between now and Nov, what is the rush? If you make up your mind now then I would say you are not an educated voter since you are basing your decision without all the facts. I am sure that in the end you will probably vote for Dave and Jay however, wouldn't it be better to come to that conclusion after doing your homework first. At the very least give the other voters the opportunity to come to their own conclusion.
Still an open mind. |
Tom's own description of his job is "Evening Front Office Supervisor/Manager". Rather than attack me, perhaps you should get your facts straight. I'm not knocking Tom's career path. I just don't see how supervising the front desk at a hotel would help Tom serve on the township committee.
I'll credit him with having hutzpah. When I was his age, I was preoccupied with moving into my own place, my girlfriend and launching my career. You could not have paid me enough money to live with my parents for 3 years just so I could serve on the Township Committee.
That said, he may be a nice guy and he is obviously an ambitious young man but, so far I haven't seen anything that would make me give him serious consideration as a TC candidate. |
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| Posted: Fri, Apr 13 2012, 8:04 am EDT Post subject: Re: Thomas Connolly republican making a TC run |
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| Not candidates wrote: | | Still open minded wrote: | | Talk is cheap wrote: | Dear person pretending to be "open-minded",
You may be willing to base you vote on what politicians say,
but I find it more intelligent to base my vote on what they do.
Jay and Dave have spent years volunteering for this community.
Has Tom? No.
Jay and Dave have extensive and relevant business experience.
Does Tom? No.
I cant see how Supervising front desk clerks on the night shift at at hotel qualifies as relevant experience.
Jay and Dave have an excellent track record managing the town's finances through a terrible recession.
Does Tom have experience to guide his decisions or a track record we can trust? No.
He may be an ambitious young man and thats OK, but given what we know so far, there is no reason to give him serious consideration for Cranbury Township Committee. |
Dear "Candidates" stop pretending to be "talk is cheap".
The point of my post was to caution voters (you in particular) to stop judging a book by it's cover. You have jumped to conclusions on serval things about both Tom and Cindy without any warrant. Stop attacking Tom's position, have you verified this with his employer? If so prove it "talk is cheap".
Let the campaign proceed and get to know all the candidates as well as you appear to know both Dave and Jay, you have plenty of time between now and Nov, what is the rush? If you make up your mind now then I would say you are not an educated voter since you are basing your decision without all the facts. I am sure that in the end you will probably vote for Dave and Jay however, wouldn't it be better to come to that conclusion after doing your homework first. At the very least give the other voters the opportunity to come to their own conclusion.
Still an open mind. |
Tom's own description of his job is "Evening Front Office Supervisor/Manager". Rather than attack me, perhaps you should get your facts straight. I'm not knocking Tom's career path. I just don't see how supervising the front desk at a hotel would help Tom serve on the township committee.
I'll credit him with having hutzpah. When I was his age, I was preoccupied with moving into my own place, my girlfriend and launching my career. You could not have paid me enough money to live with my parents for 3 years just so I could serve on the Township Committee.
That said, he may be a nice guy and he is obviously an ambitious young man but, so far I haven't seen anything that would make me give him serious consideration as a TC candidate. |
Where did you find this description? |
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Jay Taylor is great
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| Posted: Fri, Apr 13 2012, 8:07 am EDT Post subject: Re: Thomas Connolly republican making a TC run |
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| one or two comments criticizing Jay Taylor were taken off of this site to protect him from having to run on his record. This indicates the owner of this site is backing Jay Taylor for the Township Committee. One of the posts removed was about Jay Taylors decision to have a tree removed that fell in a home owners yard on main street. Taylor also ownes a home on main street which shows his bias. The other question raised was about his support for having trash removed by one contractor the town chose which highlights bad decision making by him. I am not sure why these posts were removed however if we are going to criticize other people running against Jay Taylor on this board then it is only fair Jay Taylor recieves the same amount of scrutiny. Will this post be removed by this site to protect Jay Taylor? |
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