Mullica Township
Hearing tonight on new permit requirements
Issue: The Township Committee is set to vote on a controversial ordinance tonight that would require anyone interested in using any of the township's facilities or assembling along a public street, other than a public right-of-way, or public property within the township to pay for a permit. Applications for permits must be submitted to the municipality at least 30 days prior to the event, and the applicant must show evidence of liability insurance coverage within 10 days of the event.
Why it matters: The Republican committee members and the township's attorneys feel the ordinance would help prevent the township from being held liable if someone is injured during a gathering on public property. Democrats argue that the ordinance is a violation of the First Amendment and is worded too vaguely, allowing township officials to deny permits based on personal opinions instead of statute.
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18 comments:
Kathy Chasey loved to campaign at the dump and she knows the value of standing there to meet voters to get one's name known. Three years ago, she had her husband sleep at the exit every weekend night leading up the the election to reserve the exit for herself and to shut out her opponents from using it but they turned the tables on her by campaigning at the entrance instead. Since that didn't work, now she wants to shut down the site for all, figuring that she has the name recognition advantage over her two opponents to get re-elected.
That was the year that Janet Forman's husband came close to seriously injuring her opponent, Mike St. Amour, with his pick-up truck as St. Amour was erecting campaign signs across the road from the dump. This is her way to somehow vindicate her husband's conviction of careless driving as a result of the incident by creating an ordinance that could prohibit campaigning there under the pretext that it is too dangerous.
I want to say, not only was St. Amour almost seriously injured by Forman with his truck, St. Amour had his back facing him at the time.
It's not only about campaigning. Chasey got really rattled when people started handing out the Pineland's pamphlet against the rezoning of the Elwood Village.
She despises the fact that information can be given out quickly at the "dump". Her main goal is to keep the public in the dark until it's too late.
The garbage transfer station was another example of information that had to be given out quickly.
As I see it, this whole ordinance is to block literature that she doesn't approve and allow by permit only things she wants the town to be aware of.
Any literature of a political nature or that deals with the Town's welfare should not be hampered in anyway or anywhere.
I'm not an attorney so maybe one would like to comment but don't municipalities have immunity in cases regarding personal injury?
The 3 idiots will push the bill through. The solicitor will go along with it because they'll be told to. The ACLU will file suit but Foreman wont care-she's out. Chasey will figure if township loses it'll be long after November (*the election is what she's only worried about) and so what if township has to pay? She's not footing the bill. Kennedy will go along with it even though he was opposed but now he's owned by them and he'll follow their wishes. This gang wants to gag free speech and bully all opposition. In the long run they'll lose this one.
Something is not right when you have the insurance company overly influencing Mullica's laws this way. When the committee won't decide on its own whether or not protected speech is an undeniable right and instead abdicates its deliberative responsibility to the insurance company instead, the voters need to seriously question if they are suited for the job that they were elected to do.
Talking to residents at the town trash transfer station is an effective, quick and cheap way to get the word out in Mullica. I can't imagine why anyone would object unless they wanted to control or stop the flow of information getting to the residents. Once you talk about controlling information, you are talking about a police state and not a democracy.
Having a police force that is focused on issuing tickets and requiring residents to get $100 permits for just about anything they want to do on public property describes a police state too.
I WAS AT WORK, HOW DID THE VOTE GO, DID KFC GET THEIR WAY?
7:59, This was a ordinance suggested by the insurance company. They pay our claims . We have a safety committee that meets regularly to insure that not only workers are safe, put also that the public is safe. The rest of the jargon on this site is pure paranioa. You SHOULD rethink your choice of leaders. Try to seperate fact from fiction.
Re11:27 am
I'm waiting to view the meeting. I know at the last meeting that the solicitor said that the ordinance was legal the way it was written but it could be enforced anyway the committee decided.
If there is any paranoia in this town,it has been caused by the many lies of Chasey,Forman and Kennedy and their vendetta files.
The truth is that they all have been exposed in the past and shouldn't be trusted with a vague law that they can interpet anyway they wish.
I have rethought my leaders and Polk and Gabris will give Mullica back it's dignity and reputation.
Re: The 11:27 AM post
This explanation sounds more like a fascist state than a democracy.
"They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety," Ben Franklin.
We really do need to change our so-called leaders, as the poster suggests, starting with Kathy Chasey, who supports restricting our essential freedoms.
RE: HOW DID THE VOTE GO, DID KFC GET THEIR WAY?
Out of concern that the FC portion of the KFC cabal was intent of using the proposed ordinance to illegally restrict speech, last night the solicitor recommended additional wording that specifically excluded first amendment activities from the bill. Rather than accept the attorney's recommendation, they decided to ask the insurance company for a second opinion. As Larry would have said, "huh?".
What is good for the Joint Insurance Fund is good for Mullica, I guess.
When did we vote the insurance company in to run town committee and make decisions on how we should live?
Chasey and Foreman are devious people. Nothing more needs to be said about them.
Since KFC is throwing the whole thing at the insurance company it is reasonable to have them invite a representative from the company to attend a public meeting to hear and answer the many concerns. I cant see them doing that because they are using the firm to get this thing approved. I would worry that they are being very selective and exagerating the issue to sucker the insurance company into this web of deception.
NOT ONLY DID CHASEY HATE THE PINELANDS PRESERVATION ALLIANCE FLIER BEING HANDED OUT AT THE DUMP, SHE "CROWED" AT THE COMMITTEE MEETING HOW SHE CONTACTED CARLETON MONTGOMERY, THE HEAD OF THE PINELANDS PRESERVATION ALLIANCE, TO COMPLAIN ABOUT THE CONTENTS. WHO'S SIDE IS SHE ON? WHY IS SHE SO HELL-BENT ON DESTROYING ELWOOD VILLAGE, AND, THE BIG QUESTION, WHO IS SHE HELPING OUT??? ASK HER BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE. AND YES, I AM SCREAMING...
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