DEM CANDIDATES SLUG IT OUT

All three candidates for Township Committee appeared at a De Hart Center Democratic Primary debate Thursday night, where Mayor Vic De Luca went hard on challenger Lee Navlen and boasted about his many accomplishments during his last years as mayor.


De Luca running mate and challenger India Larrier also spoke up, noting she has been a community activist for years. Both De Luca and Larrier claimed Navlen has not done as much as they did on the community front, with De Luca calling him AWOL.


A little sad to see the mayor go so negative on the challenger, but that is politics.


I was able to ask each how they would handle property taxes and short of squeezing everything out of the current revenue and seeking shared services, it was clear no hope remained for taxes to ever really level off or go down.



Then former Mayor Ken Pettis raised the issue of merging  with South Orange, a move each candidate offered different views on: