| This week, Carol Hoernlein resigned from the Tenafly Council seat she's held for two and a half years, and withdrew from her re-election campaign, citing health reasons.
You can trace the arc of Blue Jersey by Carol Hoernlein, who posts here as carolh, a username hardly anonymous given how clearly she's localized herself by her writing. She's one of the early registered users here, and contributes on a number of fronts, from tainted food, to the arrival of a new firetruck in Tenafly. But most powerfully, she's chronicled the mutiny that rocked the Bergen County Democratic Organization (BCDO), the thirst there for party transparency and democracy, and the strong progressive undercurrent that fuels it. For me, the best things she writes are about her joy discovering the power of ordinary people to drive change.
We hope you feel better, Carol. Rest up. And with so much of the pulse of the 2009 Governor's race centering on Bergen County, I'm sorry to see you off Council, but I hope your voice raises up somewhere else.
Get well soon. |
