Following Labor Day, on September 7th, phone banking on behalf of Rep. Rush Holt will resume with expanded hours and an bigger phone-banking team.

The campaign needs volunteers wiling to commit at least two hours a week making supporter-identification (and/or other calls) for Rush between September 7th and Election Day. The phone bank at Rush Holt campaign headquarters -14 Washington Road, Building 2, near the Princeton Junction train station - will be open for business every day, seven days a week, from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. After a brief training session and a least two-hours of making calls at headquarters, experienced phone bankers who wish to do so may sign lists out and continue to make calls on their own phones from their own homes.

Please let Roy Winnick know if you would like to join the Rush Holt phone-banking team; whether you would prefer to work at Holt headquarters or from home (after training); what days/times you would like to phone-bank (if you prefer to work at headquarters); Volunteers are strongly encouraged to come in for training and first calling session between September 7th and September 12th. We hope to see many of you at Rush Holt headquarters next week.

Thanks in large part to the efforts of the PCDO's ad hoc committee on Local Issues and its successor non-partisan group, Princeton Citizens for Tax Fairness, the topic of Princeton University's contribution to our municipal finances has been in the news lately.

 

This was the lead editorial in Saturday's Star-Ledger. 

http://blog.nj.com/njv_editorial_page/2010/07/princeton_university_should_co.html

This was the coverage from Bloomberg News over the past few weeks:

Video feed:        http://feedroom.businessweek.com/?fr_story=c2b132bc383f23ef64ddb1567b1dbecd43843a87

Article:    http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-06-29/princeton-as-hedge-fund-foils-residents-seeking-relative-share-of-taxes.html

Last April’s article from the Princeton Alumni Weekly:

http://paw.princeton.edu/issues/2010/05/12/pages/4849/ For those of you who haven't seen these articles, they are quite informative. Check them out!

 

 

Introductory Remarks by:

Patricia Fernández-Kelly

Chair, Latin American Legal Defense & Education Fund, Inc.

Sunday, June 13, 2010

7:30-9 PM

Suzanne Patterson Center, One Monument Drive (behind Boro Hall)

Princeton, NJ

 

It has been called the third rail of politics.  It is not just a national but a global issue.  We’ll discuss the Good, the Bad and the Ugly of the immigration conundrum and the latest legislative developments at the national and state  levels .  A panel of foreign-born Princeton-area residents will share with you their immigrant experience.

 

Everyone is welcomed! The event is free and open to the public.  
Refreshments will be served.

 

Democratic primary - polls are open from 6 am to 8 pm.

 

Your vote is key to helping to decide the contested primary race for the Democratic nominations to Borough Council. Below you will find a link to filmed and written statements from our three highly qualified candidates seeking your votes, each unique and informative in their own way. Please take the time to read them - we hope they will help you in making your decision at the voting booth

Roger Martindell's statement

Anne Waldron Neumann's Statement

Jo Butler's Statement

See all three candidates as filmed at TV30: http://www.princetontv.org/pctv/candidates.html

All Mercer County voters are also urged to come out and vote to show our support for Rush Holt for Congress, and Andrew Koontz for County Freeholder.

Congratulations to all the candidates!  The results of the PCDO endorsement vote for Princeton Borough Council:

PCDO Endorsement Vote Totals

3/21/2010

 

Votes
		Boro	Twp	Total
	Martindell	33	31	64
	Neumann	21	27	48
	Butler	18	18	36
	no endorsement	1	1	2
	BALLOTS:	43	45	88
Percentage of Total Ballots*
		Boro	Twp	Total
	Martindell	77%	69%	73%
	Neumann	49%	60%	55%
	Butler	42%	40%	41%
*Total votes > # of ballots since people could vote for up to 2

According to PCDO Bylaws, the PCDO has communicated our recommendation to the County Chair to put Martindell in the official Democratic column on the primary ballot with the official party slogan, and both Butler and Neumann in the column without the official party slogan. Acording to state law all ballot placement is up to the county chair.

Location: Suzanne Patterson Center, One Monument Drive (behind Boro Hall), Princeton, NJ

Candidates for two Township Committee seats:  
Liz Lempert and Lance Liverman

Candidates for two Borough Council seats: 
Jo Butler, Nick Karp, Andrew Koontz, Roger Martindell and Anne Neumann.

ELIGIBLE PCDO MEMBERS
Registered Democrats who reside in Princeton Borough or Princeton Township and a paid member as of Sunday March 7.

MEETING SCHEDULE
7:30 - 7:45 Opening Remarks
7:45 - 8:00 Candidate remarks – up to 3 minutes each by Borough Council candidates: Jo Butler, Nick Karp, Andrew Koontz, Roger Martindell and Anne Neumann
8:00 - 8:30 Questions from floor: all questions will be written on index cards and passed up front.
8:30 - 9:00 Ballots Collected. Township Candidates (all uncontested) will speak while Borough vote is being tallied: Liz Lempert and Lance Liverman. Vote by Acclamation.
9:00 Results of Borough vote announced

GUIDELINES UTILIZED for the ENDORSEMENT MEETING:

• Ballots will be handed to eligible members upon check-in at the beginning of the meeting.
• Each Borough candidate will have up to three (3) minutes to address the organization members
• Written questions on index cards will be taken from audience members at the completion of all presentations and then asked of the candidates by a moderator
• Candidates will not be permitted to ask questions of each other
• Names of candidates will appear on the ballot in alphabetical order
• Eligible PCDO members will have the option of voting for up to two candidates or voting for No Endorsement
• Ballots will be collected and counted immediately after voting. In a departure from last year’s procedure, no early voting will be allowed—a recent review of the bylaws clearly revealed that voting should not commence until all candidates have spoken, and the executive board has ratified the decision to recommit to this procedure.
• In order to obtain the endorsement, a candidate will need to obtain votes from both of the following:
  
  1. 1. Majority of PCDO members present and casting a valid ballot
  2. 2. 60% of PDCO members who reside in the candidate's home municipality present and casting a valid ballot
• There is no proxy or absentee voting

For more information see Elections and Endorsements.