The One-Party System ?

As a result of this week’s elections there will be a one-person change in the membership of the township committee, but it is an important change.

The only Democratic member lost to his Republican challenger by less than fifty votes. Not exactly a thundering mandate, but a win nonetheless.

After January’s reorganization meeting, the committee will be all-Republican and must make every attempt to not be perceived by the residents as not representing all the people.

They must not use their one-party system to make decisions without sincere and public deliberation and debate.

There must not be meeting after meeting filled with page after page of unanimous resolutions.

And, perhaps most important, this is an opportunity for Hillsborough’s mayor to prove that he really believes in “people before politics” when the appointments are made to the boards and commissions.

Will the appointed representatives be the residents best suited to each group or the most politically connected ones? Or will it just be the same old politics before people.