Woodlane Road resident supports GOP council candidate

Thomas Pearce of Woodlane Road
To the Editor:
In late summer 2005, when Pam Mount was spearheading a drive to force the Wilk family off land they were farming so she could build playing fields there, it was Bob Bostock who went to town council meetings and wrote letters to the editor questioning whether Mount’s efforts presented a possible conflict of interest, since she is herself the owner of a farm less than a mile from Little Acres.
Bostock had the courage to raise this issue, even while Mount was trying to silence him at council meetings, her political allies were attacking him in this newspaper, and the township attorney was trying unsuccessfully to discredit him in print.
In the end, the Mercer County freeholders (who had to approve the plan) dropped the idea from their agenda the very night they were ready to approve it, and it’s never been heard of again. That only happened because Bob Bostock stood up and spoke out for the little guy against entrenched power.
Bostock was also one of the earliest residents to question the council’s knee-jerk opposition to even considering Capital Health System’s proposal to build a new hospital in Lawrence, even though they were rubber-stamping Quaker Bridge Mall’s request for a massive expansion and turning a blind eye to Wal-Mart’s application to build on Spruce Street.
I thought he summed it up pretty nicely when he said: "It’s nice to know that if I have a fashion emergency I’ll be able to go to Neiman-Marcus but if I have a medical emergency the closest hospital will still be more than 15 minutes away."
Over the course of his career, Bostock has compiled an admirable record of success in getting things done — from leading the effort that saved 5,200 jobs at Picatinny Arsenal in 1990, to developing the plan that sped state aid to victims of Tropical Storm Floyd in 1999, to overseeing the design of the protocols that are protecting the nation’s drinking water supply from terrorist attacks, to helping save Little Acres Farm.
Bostock is someone who has proven he can get things done. Let’s put him to work getting things done for Lawrence Township by electing them to the council on Nov 6.