Calls for Bipartisan Unity Crumble in Minutes at Reorg
Despite talks of cooperation in the new year, West Deptford's township committee is a body deeply divided.
Pleas for a more unified West Deptford Township Committee fell on deaf ears as appointment votes divided almost strictly along party lines at Thursday’s reorganization meeting. The meeting started out with promising appeals for cooperation. Deputy Mayor Sean Kilpatrick, a Republican, said he wanted to see the committee start 2013 with a clean slate and put differences aside. Echoing the sentiment, Democratic Committeewoman Denice DiCarlo opened by saying she hoped to see more involvement from the whole committee and not just the Republican majority. DiCarlo even reiterated the Republican slogan—“people before politics”—to GOP Mayor Raymond Chintall, as she urged him to keep the slogan in mind as he made his appointments. Then the …
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8:40 am on Wednesday, January 9, 2013
I have no reason to believe she was lying. I've never heard the Mayor, Sam or even Mark Cimino himself deny that she has called. If I was Mark and she blasted me like that you better bet I'd try to set the record straight if what she said was not true more ›