Campaign Image Resurfaces
Once again, the mayor's image that was first on a campaign poster and then on a banner on the front of City Hall has popped up - this time on a promotional piece for the "Music in the Plaza" series.The card lists two Friday concert dates, July 31 and Aug. 28, promising music, food and fun. The concert times are not indicated. On the back, an Aug. 28 car show and movie night are promised, again with food and fun. The event is listed as 9 p.m., with the movie starting at dusk and running to 11 p.m.
Even though the concert series was curtailed due to budget constraints, the addition of an evening car show with 200 entries and a film to be shown on a "gigantic 2-story screen" would seem to amplify the need for police and public works involvement. It's a bit curious, given the City Council's demand to know all the hard and soft costs for the concerts before agreeing to fund them.
If the Aug. 28 concert is in the evening rather than in the afternoon as in the past, it would make more sense logistically, although whether it would benefit downtown shopping is unclear. That had been a consideration in proposing that the concerts be held in the evening.
As for the image, the original featured a campaign button on the mayor's lapel. The banner went up with the button showing, but it was obscured after complaints that it was inappropriate for the front of City Hall in the pre-primary season. On the card no button can be seen, but by now the image itself is subliminally political, as it has also appeared in campaign posters all over the city.
Anyway, considering the expense of designing and printing up all those cards, it would have been good to have the concert times included. The concerts are on the plaza in front of the new office building at Front Street and Park Avenue. The locations of the car show and movie night are not spelled out. If the council has anything to say about the matter, it will have to be at Monday's meeting, 7:30 p.m. in City Hall Library.
--Bernice Paglia
posted by Bernice at 5:37 AM
4 Comments:
The continued incompetence is startling. Actually, it's not. it's par for the course with this administration. To have the mayor's image on the card is disgustingly political. Meanwhile the county building still doesn't have a certificate of occupancy. Is it safe to have a film screening there?
If the County building doesn't have its final Certificate of Occupancy yet you can be sure they are not and have not been paying their $200,000 per year PILOT payment(payment in lieu of taxes). This has been happening then since 2006 -- more than $800,000 in lost city revenue to off-set our taxes!
This would be illegal for anyone else but the powers that be.
Detestable, Bernice. This mayor has no shame at all. That postcard is so poorly designed, all busy and crowded up with all those fonts and colors, no wonder the info as to specific time/place for the various events is missing. Will another, corrected card go out? Is this being mailed to every household in Plainfield? Why are they wasting money like this? As far as the county building showing movies, what, exactly, is the point of this? They used to do the movies in the park, where there was space for kids to run around. Who would want to sit up on that concrete to watch a movie? Is this governance?? Is this what Plainfield voted for 4 more years of? If so, God help us.
Bernice, Per your post of Grace Church .... They provide nice music, I am sure a video or two and activities at NO CHARGE to taxpayers. If people look they will find some of this in all religious organizations, so a cash low City does not need to be providing entertainment. Just clean the streets and enfore ordinances on property code. Thank you
GB
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