From the issue of Nov. 17, 2005.
Appreciation for effort
To the editor:
I wanted to write a brief letter of thanks and gratitude to my family, friends, neighbors and to all those who supported me on Nov. 8. The encouragement and guidance I received from so many helped to make the experience of running for Township Committee so rewarding.
Cranbury is a special town filled with great families and a great sense of pride. I am thankful to be a part of the community and I will continue to participate in the township programs.
Thank you again.
Angela Manley Cook
Cranbury
Letter dismisses democracy
To the editor:
This letter is in response to Irene Heims’s letter in the Nov. 11 edition, titled "Bush voters please unregister."
Her smug, faux intellectualism is astounding. Her assertion that voters should not have the right to vote because you didn’t like the results is arrogant, ignorant, and foolish. Would she prefer a dictatorship?
What news sources does she use that give her "real news"? Pravda? Michael Moore?
She is are angry because she lost. Grow up. Instead of attacking her neighbors for voting for what they believe in, why doesn’t she work on making her party something that rational people can embrace.
I usually don’t respond to most idiocy, but I had to make an exception for an exceptionally bad attitude. I like that you can vote, Irene, and I like that you lost.
Ken Chiarella
Monroe
Democrats don’t back LaRouche protest
To the editor:
On Monday, when I went to collect my mail I found demonstrators in front of the Post Office. They had set up a card table and taped signs to it that said "Impeach Cheney" and "Bush is an Idiot."
I want the community to understand that the Cranbury Democratic Committee had no advance knowledge that they would be there. We were not asked to participate and would have refused if asked.
Despite our many policy differences with President Bush, he is our president, too.
And our president is no idiot.
Glenn Johnson
Cranbury
Mr. Johnson is chairman of the Cranbury Democratic Organization.
New Jersey is not Kansas
To the editor:
I see that Kansas voted to have Intelligent Design taught in science classes there because evolution is merely a theory and all theories are controversial.
I also learned recently that New Jersey is looking for a new slogan and hired a think tank for $260,000 to come up with one. The one it came up with was unanimously rejected by the idiots who spent that amount of money. So it’s back to square one.
In light of the above, I would like to donate a slogan free (of course, I would not be averse to receiving a $260,000 "thank you" from them if they adopt it): "New Jersey We’re Not Kansas."
Irving Bersak
Monroe
Shame on park supporters
To the editor:
The fact that a parkland, insufficiently used, should be deemed more important than an educational facility to house the students and future of Monroe, is disgraceful. Our children are more important than several acres of land.
Double shame on U.S. Homes and our town if we allow a seven-year usage of land by the Winters to be obliterated by more housing and less consideration for people.
Maxine Stern
Monroe

