BCDO Bylaws changes Vote is January 31 at 5 pm

Can anyone explain... (0.00 / 0)

...further the effect of amendment #3?  According to Oury's summary, it simply takes an existing rule and moves it to a more prominent spot in the bylaws.  Is that truly the case, or is there a substantive change being made?  In any event, it seems, from my reading of it, that if that rule already exists in the bylaws, they will be trying to prevent anyone who has publicly opposed a BCDO-endorsed candidate in a general election from voting.  That would include Committee members who supported the independent challenge to Wildes in last year's general election, not to mention a few other Committee members I'm aware of.  Honestly, I'd never heard of this provision being enforced in the past, but then this is the first time I've actually seen the BCDO bylaws.

Also, can anyone explain what a "statutory vote" is?  Committee members falling under this rule are only barred from "non statutory" votes. 

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by: Bill W @ Wed Jan 24, 2007 at 11:50:49 AM CST

Can anyone explain how to even get involved and/or run (0.00 / 0)

for something. I am in essex county and can't seem to find any info. the web site is off line and in the counties that do have functioning web sites there is no information provided on this subject.  HELP

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by: jerseygirl @ Wed Jan 24, 2007 at 13:45:40 PM CST

To vote or not to vote? (0.00 / 0)

On Monday, January 27, the Democratic Committee of Bergen County will find their mailboxes full of love. It seems that there are a lot of Committeepeople out there that simply just don't know what to do. I'm with Carol. Get yourselves out there to Hackensack and vote NO. I will personally be outside and join the many others that are simply outraged by this vicious attack on our civil rights as citizens of the United States. Many propose that committee members should simply boycott the meeting to make a statement of solidarity and protest against Joey Joe Joe Shabadoo's (that would be Joseph A. Ferriero) proposed amendments to the bylaws. And, maybe  prevent the validity of the meeting by negating the required  fifty percent of the total membership of the County Committee. Another idea is that all Committeepeople attend and make a resounding statement by voting NO and prevent the required two-thirds vote to adopt the amendment. (everyone agrees that people should vote NO, except maybe those Committeepeople on the County payroll?)

But Carol's cry to "run, walk, crawl, drag yourself" should extend not only to every County Committee Person but to everyone in the state of New Jersey. This affects all of us.  Boss Tweed, I mean Boss Ferriero, I mean Chairman Ferriero has to be stopped.

Some Committeepeople that I have spoken to believe that people simply do not know what the proposed change would do to the democratic process in Bergen County. They had to explain it to me in very simple terms. I'm just learning here. The proposed change would mean that state legislative candidates (i.e. Weinberg, Johnson and Huttle) would be chosen by the entire county, rather than the districts that they represent. District 37, for example, would lose it's right to determine their representatives to the state legislature. Needless to say, this would endow Dear Leader Joey Joe with even more power to facilitate the election of his personal choices and make a mockery of the democratic process. He is attempting to do this without any discussion or input from Committeepeople that are responsible for their districts.

Why is Ferriero doing this? It is said that even some of his supporters are asking him the very same question.

 

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by: lsanchez490 @ Sat Jan 27, 2007 at 21:22:37 PM CST

Vote NO (0.00 / 0)

So many worried that since the Bergen County Democratic Committee bylaws changes were not formally discussed by the Bylaws Committee before being brought to a hastily called vote on January 31, that the election will be a sham.  I still say - get to Hackensack any way you can on January 31 at 5 pm.  VOTE NO to the bylaws changes.  If you are not on the county committee but you are a Democrat from the DEMOCRATIC wing of the Democratic party, and you feel your district should choose its own candidates, and you feel powerless against an old-fashioned party boss who behaves so much like Tom Delay that we should call him "The SLEDGEhammer", PLEASE come to the Hackensack Middle School and show your county committeemen and women that you want them to vote NO to the bylaws changes.  Ferriero is trying to give you "Representation without Representation".  Translation: he'll let you feel like you have power when you vote on someone else's state senate and assembly candidates while diluting your own vote in your own district.  It's just plain undemocratic.  Please come and make your voice heard even if you can't vote yourself, you can perhaps sway your committee men and women to do the right thing.  Please, we need all the support we can get.  We must fight the machine.

Remember, if we all had stayed home last November because we were scared of Diebold and black box voting, and the fear that Bush would steal another election, we would not have won the House AND the Senate. We MUST vote and we must vote NO to the Bylaws Changes. How can we stay home when we implore our base every June and November to show up and be counted, no matter what?

One Vote. Yours. It really does matter.

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by: carolh @ Mon Jan 29, 2007 at 21:42:09 PM CST

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The Battle Must Be Joined (0.00 / 0)

Carol, once again, is right on. 

This is one of those  situations in which anyone and everyone who understands what's going on MUST do whatever they/we can to struggle against the evils of undemocratic bossism that are a direct and perverse betrayal of everything that is good about the ideals and principles of the Democratic Party and, I dare say, of the United States of America.

Win or lose on Wednesday.  Everyone reading Carol's and lsanchez490's pleas for involvement must show up on Wednesday if it's at all humanly possible.

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by: Nick Lento @ Tue Jan 30, 2007 at 01:05:10 AM CST

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