By: centraljersey.com
Pennington Borough residents are looking for a responsible, experienced and community-minded individual to represent them on Borough Council.
To many of us who know her, Eva Kaplan is the person for the job.
During the 16 years that Eva has lived on Railroad Place, she has been involved with a multiplicity of local events and organizations. These include Pennington Day, Pennington Business and Professional Association, her Pennington Computer School and her Computers + Kids Summer Camp.
She also has taught Pennington homebound students as well as designing and teaching Mercer County community courses at Hopewell Valley Central High School. She has been an advocate for local artists by providing a venue for their talent.
On a broader scale, she was requested to meet with leading officials in Washington, D.C., on matters with regard to improving education, and during the anthrax scare, asked to indicate how the Princeton-Hamilton-Hopewell Valley residents were coping with the situation.
Eva is an articulate, enthusiastic individual who is genuinely concerned and dedicated to representing all Pennington residents.
Kathy Boozan Pennington
Vote for Scott Sipprelle
To the editor:
New Jersey’s 12th Congressional District has a phenomenal candidate in Scott Sipprelle.
He has a "cluster" of qualities that have gained my respect. His years of honest and successful financial endeavors give him the experience to bring to Congress the direction needed for fiscal responsibility.
Mr. Sipprelle is committed to challenging Washington to make the type of sustainable reform that will bring back traditional American values and a government that will represent its constituents. He is not ambivalent – willing to communicate his beliefs.
His charisma has its base in his genuine willingness to "hear" what others are expressing to him. He exemplifies the altruism that those of us who are referred to as grassroots citizens desire in their leaders.
Let me encourage you to read Mr. Sipprelle’s platform. I am certain you will concur with a predominance of his statements and agenda and will place your vote for Mr. Sipprelle over Rush Holt
Eva Kaplan Pennington
Sipprelle could make difference
To the editor:
With all due respect to my Pennington neighbor, Rush Holt, please consider the following on Nov. 2, 2010, before casting your important vote:
Mr. Holt:
– Voted for the so called health-care bill full of political pork, bribery and garbled language for which no one can seem to establish a set of regulations to implement the bill.
It is also well known that nearly all of our representatives haven’t even read it, but, as Nancy Pelosi so elegantly said, "Vote for it, and then you will see what’s in it."
Wonderful procedure!
– Voted against making English the official language of America.
– Voted for the stimulus bill, which to date has shown no significant positive results. (Still 9.6 percent unemployment)
– Supports a president who said that if the political winds turn ugly, he will support the Muslims.
– Supports a president who still refuses to make public his "official" birth certificate. (Why?)
– Supports a president who has declared America no longer a Christian nation. (Not so!)
– Supports two New Jersey senators who voted to give illegal aliens Social Security benefits without even paying into it.
– Supports a president who sues a state (Arizona) for not doing what the federal government is obliged to do, but will not.
– Supports increased spending, thus keeping us and our offsprings in debt forever.
– Does or does not support the (not legal, but tolerance aspect of)) building the (Cordoba-victory symbol) mosque at (or at all) near Ground Zero in New York.
Keep in mind that "radical" Islam proclaims three main goals – convert the world to (assuming radical) Islam and Shariah law; have Infidels (nonMuslims) pay Islam higher taxes, creating enslavement; death to all Infidels.
– Supports a president who cancels National Prayer Day as too Christian and then proceeds to have a Muslim ceremony on the front lawn of the White House.
– Has, to his credit, supported veterans in some of their needs, according to his public letter.
Perhaps Scott Sipprelle could make a positive difference if given the chance in November 2010.
Wayne Fuller Pennington
Promote public safety in town
To the editor:
All of us in Hopewell Township deserve a public safety department that is able to respond to emergencies and at the same time be working proactively on the prevention of crime.
This is one of the key points that individuals evaluate when making a decision to move into this community, and public safety is just as important to all of us who already call this our home.
Over the years, the previous administration has allowed our Police Department to dwindle from a force of 36 down to a force of 29 sworn officers.
Early in our freshman year, Committeeman Markulec and I realized that this depletion of officers was having a negative effect on our community’s safety.
On several occasions during the last three years, the chief of police has come before the committee, explaining the reasons we needed to stop the decline of officers and at least replace retirees.
The traffic safety unit was disbanded; those officers were sent to fill the gaps in the patrol squads. Chief Meyer was also forced to eliminate the officer who was assigned part time to the high school and middle school.
Elimination of the traffic safety unit has resulted in an increased level of complaints from citizens concerned about speeding and other traffic violations in different areas of the township. Eliminating the school officer has destroyed a program, supported by parents, that promoted safety and created a rapport between our students and the police, allowing students to feel more comfortable and confident to contact the police should the need arise.
This year Mayor Markulec, Committeewoman Kim Johnson and I were able to approve the hiring of two new patrol officers while still maintaining a zero increase in your township taxes. This decision has made it possible to reassign a police officer to our schools and will soon enable Chief Meyer to reinstate the traffic safety unit.
On Nov. 2, your vote for Burd and Markulec will guarantee a committee majority that supports public safety in Hopewell Township.
Jim Burd Hopewell Township
Don’t go back to failed policies
To the editor:
This election is about returning to the policies that brought this nation to its knees or giving the Obama administration support to rebuild this economy and institute good government oversight of the environment, education, military spending and health care.
Please support Rep. Rush Holt in District 12 and urge your friends to turn out on Election Day.
Going back to failed policies is not an option.
Carl Swanson Hopewell Township
Don’t keep Holt as congressman
To the editor:
It’s becoming more obvious every day that electing Barack Obama was a colossal mistake.
Add Speaker Nancy Pelosi to the big government mix, and America’s future becomes even more grim.
But we can neutralize the damage their policies are doing by removing their enablers such as Congressman Rush Holt. Holt believes big government spending somehow makes us richer. Maybe it makes him and his political family richer, but not the taxpayers.
Holt voted for the national health care bill that nonpartisan analysis now shows will cost far more than anticipated, and some will lose choices. No wonder they postponed the costs of this charade until after the next election. Either he voted without even reading the bill, didn’t understand what he had read or he just didn’t care that we can’t afford the high cost and the reduced health-care options that undoubtedly will result.
He also supported the huge deficits racked up by the poorly conceived, fraud-filled "stimulus" spending that has done little to create permanent jobs but saddles our kids with suffocating debt. Even members of his own party recognize that the huge debts Rush Holt has helped create weaken our national security.
We have to change this November if we want the next generation to be able to earn a company pay check rather than just receive a government welfare check.
From what his supporters say Rush Holt is a nice guy. I don’t doubt it.
But then let’s keep him at home as our neighbor in Hopewell and not as our Congressman in Washington.
Fred Sickels Hopewell

