In a rare shift in party affiliation, the entire membership of the all-Republican governing body in Lyndhurst will switch from Republican to Democrat tomorrow. Nearly 60% of Lyndhurst’s Republican County Committee will become Democrats too.
The party realignment, first reported in PoliticsNJ.com last summer, is far greater in scope than speculated. It represents, perhaps, the most massive shift in Party affiliation of elected and Party officials in a single community in one day. “It’s safe to say something like this certainly doesn’t happen in politics everyday,” said Lyndhurst Mayor Richard DiLascio.
Lyndhurst has long been considered a swing town in general elections over the last twenty years.
Strange … If only Zell Miller had switched 😉 … I have my fingers crossed that Larry Craig doesn’t 🙂 …
Lovely.
Here in San Diego we actually need a complete change – not of party affiliation- but of ACTUAL people on our totally red-neck extreme anti-citizen faith-based corporatists in our County Board of Supervisors and in our city council and in our Mayor’s office- minus perhaps Donna Frye.
These people have made it their business to champion the interests of developers, of Blackwater, of virulent anti-marijuana idealogues, and of rabid cross-huggers. MUCH of this activity done in direct opposition to the wishes of the locals as voted into law via ballot propositions!
HELP! We need new faces to actually represent the citizens of San Diego!
That sure strikes me as weird, either their awfully mild conservatives, or something fishy is going on.