Introducing Democracy for Gloucester County

by: Josh Aronovitch

Sat Feb 24, 2007 at 12:32:46 PM EST

Among other issues and projects, we'll be working on banning pay-to-play.  I've been coordinating with the Citizen's Campaign to develop an effective pay to play ban for my home town of Washington Township.  If the town council doesn't want to join us in ending legalized bribery, we only need 1311 signatures to get it on the ballot in November.

We will also be looking into an important local issue, the County's plan to move the courthouse from Woodbury to somewhere else.  Washington township and 3 other towns have expressed interest, but many are worried that this would devastate the economy of Woodbury, and provide little to no benefit to the town that got the new courthouse.  We will be exploring the pros and cons, and deciding if we should, and if so how we would, oppose the plan.

Longer term, we will be actively engaging our neighbors on issues and informing them of what is going on.  Our goal is to make the grassroots more organized and more effective than the machine.  Please join us, if not in Gloucester County, by working with (or starting) a DFA chapter in your own county.

To join, go to Democracy for Gloucester County