Every year since our Township Committee has gone all Republican, the committee members chose one of their own to anoint as mayor for the following year. They choose a member who will be up for election for the Township Committee in the following year.
Why do they do this? Well, there are several reasons.
Their election advertising for the next year will read "Vote For Mayor Smith" and there are many politically-naïve residents who think that they are actually chosing their mayor. This also allows next year's candidate to get a lot of Mayoral photo-ops and other free advertising without running afoul of the NJ Election Law - so far.
And now with the advent of social media like Facebook, the "Mayor" can open a Facebook page, use his honorific title, and claim that it is a personal page even though he self-identifies as a politician. He loads up this "mayors" page with vote-for-me advertising, only lets his worshippers (otherwise known as fans) and sycophants post on there, and blocks and deletes the comments of residents who don't agree with him.
Of course, this is the same mayor who works as a lobbyist and sent out a disgraceful negative political mailer last week.
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Karma: action, seen as bringing upon oneself inevitable results, good or bad, either in this life or in a reincarnation
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Oldie of the day...
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