THE 2012 PCDO EXECUTIVE BOARD

The PCDO membership elected the following officers and Executive Board members at its meeting on January 29, 2012:

President: Dan Preston
VP Borough: Sheldon Sturges
VP Township: Walter Bliss
Treasurer: David Cohen
Assistant Treasurer: Ginger Lennon
Corresponding Sec: Peter Wolanin
Recording Sec: Peter Lindenfeld

Borough At Large:

Donald Dowd
Anne Neumann
Patrick Simon
Bainy Suri
Kate Warren
Tom Zucosky

Township At Large:

Jose Alcantara
Doreen Blanc Rockstrom
Sondra Bierman
Kip Cherry
Liz Cohen
Jim Floyd
 

Sunday, January 29, 2012 – 6:30pm
UNITARIAN CHURCH, 50 Cherry Hill Rd, Princeton, NJ (please note the location!)

*** FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC ***

It’s time for our annual potluck dinner (bring a dish!) and election of the PCDO Executive Board. Most of all, we’ll enjoy each other’s company as we share food and drink and get fired up for this important year ahead.

Note: Everyone is welcome to attend, but only full PCDO members who reside in Princeton and have paid dues by 1/15/2012 will be eligible to vote.

ELECTION OF THE PCDO EXECUTIVE BOARD

All PCDO members who indicated interest in running for an Executive Board position and who submitted their names by the January 14 deadline will be on the ballot. There will be no nominations from the floor. The candidates are:

President: Dan Preston
VP Borough: Sheldon Sturges
VP Township: Walter Bliss
Treasurer: David Cohen
Assistant Treasurer: Ginger Lennon
Corresponding Sec: Peter Wolanin
Recording Sec: Peter Lindenfeld

Borough At Large (vote for 6):

Donald Dowd
Anne Neumann
Patrick Simon
Bainy Suri
Kate Warren
Tom Zucosky

Township At Large (vote for 6):

Jose Alcantara
Doreen Blanc Rockstrom
Sondra Bierman
Kip Cherry
Liz Cohen
Jim Floyd
Charles Rojer

Statements by the candidates are at www.princetondems.org/execboard2012

Your Democratic Club needs you! - Run for the PCDO Executive Board!

The next PCDO Leadership Election will take place at the annual potluck dinner and leadership election meeting on January 29, 2012. All interested PCDO members are welcomed and encouraged to run for a position on the executive board.

Click here for a list of job descriptions for executive board positions.

The PCDO's nominating committee oversees the nomination and election process, ensuring that there are candidates for each position and presenting a report with candidate information to the membership before the election. The Committee seeks to attract new candidates and diversify the executive board, but it does not recommend candidates. Any member who wants to run for a position will have his or her name listed on the ballot without the prejudice of a nominating committee recommendation (or lack thereof).

Potential candidates should contact the nominating chair, Liz Cohen or a member of the nominating committee at the latest by two weeks before the annual meeting. The committee begins actively seeking candidates in October. If you are thinking about running, any member of the nominating committee will be happy to talk with you and to advise you about potential competition if that will help you make your decision. We hope you consider running!

Congratulations to Yina Moore, Heather Howard, and Barbara Trelstad for securing positions as the Democratic nominees on the November 2011 ballot in Princeton Borough; and to Bernie Miller and Sue Nemeth as the nominees for Princeton Township Committee.

Above results are unofficial. Data for Princeton Township to come.

The PCDO's endorsement meeting for local races had a tremendous turnout this evening. No nominations were made from the floor, so the two Township Committee candidates were endorsed by acclamation. After the Borough candidates spoke, a total of 200 ballots were collected and counted from PCDO members.

To summarize the results, of the three candidates for Mayor, only David Goldfarb exceeded the 40% of the Borough votes, the threshold to receive a recommendation to be placed in the Democratic column on the primary ballot, but without the official slogan. In the council race, both Heather Howard And Barbara Trelstad exceeded 60% of the Borough votes and 50% overall, so received the full endorsement of the PCDO to be in the column with the official slogan on the primary ballot.

A detailed breakdown of the votes is as follows:

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

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

Chad Goerner and Liz Lempert, both incumbents, were endorsed for Township Committee by a vote of acclamation.