Ramapo Democrats up for grabs?
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The Sept. 9 Democratic primary isn’t just about Assemblywoman Ellen Jaffee’s race against Town Clerk Christian Sampson. It’s also about control of the town committee, with more than 200 canidates for seats in 31 of 90 election districts.
Ramapo Democrats for Change, the group challenging the status quo, said in an e-mail this week that it was out to fix “a local party broken by self-serving incumbents, special interests and patronage.”
Its organizers include County Legislator Joseph Meyers, D-Airmont, who’s also been a committee member since 2004, as well as Preserve Ramapo members and others sympathetic to that group’s opposition to multifamily housing in single-family neighborhoods and large-scale development without infrastructure upgrades.
The deciding factor will likely be how many voters Ramapo Democrats for Change can get out to the polls.
Sooooo, are you going to vote? Which slate are you supporting? Why?
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on Monday, August 18th, 2008 at 2:24 pm by James Walsh. 
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Dear Mr Walsh,
Please check out Preserve Ramapo’s New “Democrats for Change”.
Preserve Ramapo has long been fighting off crictics who label them as anti semites. (During the New square fugitive case a few months ago. Preserve Ramapo, Rob Rhodes even had to respond to thier OWN supporters that they are not anti semtic see title “Preserve Ramapo editorial policy and anti-Semitism”http://www.preserveramapo.com/Preserve%20Ramapo%202008/open_letter)
Yet on thier website they blatantly have the audacity to not even try to hide thier anti semtic agenda, and I quote “we have terrible polarization in our Town because the interests and needs of the religious community are supported”.
Link can befound at http://www.preserveramapo.com under “Democrats for Change” under FAQ last question first paragraph.
(direct link: http://www.ramapodemocratsforchange.com/aboutus.htm
I have included the entire page before Preserve Ramapo can deny it as a typo…
What does “Ramapo Democrats for Change” hope to accomplish?
Politics is broken in Ramapo. We have a political machine at Ramapo Town Hall that responds only to the needs of special interests in our Town without regard to the impact its decisions are having on the quality of life in Ramapo. We need a local Ramapo Democratic Committee whose members are independent of party bosses. We want a Ramapo Democratic Committee that is open and transparent, that will endorse candidates for office who care about the entire community they will serve. We want a Ramapo Democratic Committee that recognizes that we have terrible polarization in our Town because the interests and needs of the religious community are supported, while those of the rest of our community are too often ignored.
Dear Mr. Walsh,
I ask you, if this would’ve been against any other religion I.e Muslim’s wouldn’t there be an outcry??? (oh and dont let Rob Rhodes fool you by stating ” I said religious not which religion, um…which religion is the majority in Ramapo?