Saturday, January 21, 2006
Hester to win as freeholders change mind
TOMS RIVER — Reversing themselves after months of battering at public meetings and in the press, Ocean County's freeholders are scheduled to vote Wednesday to extend pension benefits to the domestic partner of Lt. Laurel Hester and other members of the Police and Fire Retirement System.
It's great that the Republican Freeholders are changing their minds. But the bad taste remains. So much opposition, national media attention, threats of boycotts, & finally pressure from their own party (facing a tough Senate election this year) had to be brought to bear upon them, as they waited for the State to offer a deal. Those Freeholders were unable to do the right thing for one of their own employees when they should have done it simply because it was the right thing to do. & what most Jerseyans surely wanted them to do all along.
# posted by Bob : 10:23 PM
"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be." Thomas Jefferson
