Carol Clark
James
Gerrish
I have already expressed many of
my opinions about Carol Clark before, mostly based on her actions
of blocking me (and others) from her Facebook page simply for
asking her to explain her goals in writing (EXAMPLE). That is equivalent to her, as mayor, of slamming the
door in my face when I go to city hall. If that is how she treats
constituents who question her statements or who do not share her
views, she is not worthy to be elected mayor, because she then
has to be mayor of EVERYONE, regardless of race, or color, or
religious creed, or political party, or social status, etc. She
has shown me, by this action, that she cannot handle the job.
After seeing Carol in action
during several Mayoral debates, I understand why she is reluctant
to explain herself in writing. She is a "preacher." She
expresses herself best face to face with audiences of her
"congregation." Like a religious preacher, she gets
them excited by her rhetoric and can build up political fervor
within them, feeding on their verbal responses to her
invocations. (EXAMPLE).
When she has to resort to writing
down her plans, the "platform" on her flyer, for
example, she is less convincing. One can read her words without
the "excitement" she generates in speaking, and see
through her arguments to cold, hard facts.
Her "platform," which is written on all of her publicity fliers,
mentions "Expanding and Improving community health and
Planned Parenthood Clinics." To anyone who has studied the history of Planned Parenthood and
its founder, Margaret Sanger, she is talking about abortion clinics. She is talking
about murdering African American babies, whether she will admit
that or not. Expanding the number of such "clinics" in
our community means that Carol is planning on using OUR taxpayer
money to fund even more abortions that are currently happening in
the clinics that even now operate in our city. Instead of killing
babies by the dozen, we could perhaps kill them by the hundreds.
By "normalizing" these murders using such nice phrases
as "Planned Parenthood," she forgets that people with
their eyes open know that what she really means is "Planned
Non-Parenthood." This frees young people to have sex without
the consequences of having babies and all the responsibility that
entails. Carol is advocating (whether she knows it or admits it
or not) Planned Parenthood's active attempts to get rid of laws requiring parental consent for minors who want to abort
their babies. Finally, lest you think the recent stories about Philadelphia's infamous Kermit
Gosnell are an isolated incident, you
may want to research a little further into Planned Parenthood's Delaware Clinic, Women's Health Care Clinics in Kansas, and the Aaron Women's Clinic in Texas. I know you can find more examples on your own if you
can stomach it.
Let's get off the subject of baby
murders and see what else Carol has on her platform that will
cost us taxpayer money. Her plans to "Construct a Skate & BMX bike parks
and state of the art Community/Recreation & PAL Centers"
shows that she is living in the past and not considering the
expense to taxpayers of such projects. These ought to be funded
privately, not by taxpayer money, and I doubt she will find many
people who even know what BMX bicycles are capable of in terms of
injuries to the riders. There's a reason why all the public parks
in East Orange have begun posting signs prohibiting bike riding.
Bike lanes and bike trails (such as those once planned for making
use of abandoned railroad tracks) are one thing, but crowding
bicycles together for trick riding is not a good use of public
funds.
In her speeches,
Carol has mentioned "setting up a bazaar with kiosks"
several times, although she has not yet put this statement in her
"platform." Listen to her answer to Question 1 from the debate on 5/15/13. Contrast this with her desire to
"revitalize" Central Avenue and Main Street with fine
restaurants and "boutiques." If we are trying to move
up from resembling a flea market, as several of the candidates
have agreed as being one of our city's problems, the "bazaar
with kiosks" is a bizarre response.
That is similar
to Carol's plan to "Advance, innovate & create
green space revitalization & Green Job programs." Carol seems unaware of the federal
government's disasterous adventures into Solyndra, A123,
Abound Solar, and Beacon Power to name just a few failed "Green Job
programs" that made the newspapers. With who's money and at
what cost does she plan to do this? Our money, of course, and the
cost will be enormous.
Finally I take
issue with her plans for "creating homebuyer incentive
programs for public servants, urban professionals, & men of
color." Public servants have some of the best paying jobs in
the city and should not need her incentive programs as much as
people with real jobs in the private sector. Likewise, urban
professionals are usually much better off than those who simply
work a 9 to 5 job. As for her racist and sexist selection of
"Men of Color" for inclusion into these incentive
programs, she obviously has a poor view of males of her own race
being able to stand on their own without her help and incentives.
However, my primary reason for objecting to her homebuyer
incentive programs is because the last time government got into
the housing market with "homebuyer incentives" it was
credited as being the "primary cause
of the recession of 2007 -2009 in the United States." East Orange should be able to learn
from this recent history and stay out of the housing business.
In rendering this opinion, I have not listened
to any gossip, rumors or political "attacks" from her
opposing candidates for mayor, just as I will pay no attention to
her blistering attacks on them. I do note, however, that in all
of the debates that I have attended, she is the first one to
begin the attacks, inciting her opposition to counter with
attacks of their own. You can listen to her and verify it for
yourself using the video and audio samples and transcripts
provided on this Web site.
Additonal note: 5/28/13 - As a taxpayer I
personally found it reprehensible that Carol Clark used her
position as Freeholder, which allows her to appear in our city's
annual Memorial Day parade honoring our veterans on 5/27/13, to
make use of that privilege to continue her campaign for mayor
from within the parade itself.
Even mayor Bowser simply rode in
the parade as mayor, not taking advantage of his position to
disrespect the veterans by using their parade for his personal
campain for re-election. By contrast, Carol Clark had her
sycophants chanting her name and election slogans as they marched
along with her and rode in her decorated car. Behind her
Freeholder car came a line of other cars driven by her
supporters, and bearing only her campaign signs on the sides of
the cars.
Carol Y. Clark Campaigning for Mayor from the Memorial
Day Parade 5/27/13 from James Gerrish on Vimeo.
5/29/13 On Monday, Carol Clark
confronted me at City Hall Plaza and accused me face to face of
lying about her. I responded with a challenge to her to point out
where I have lied about her. As anyone who is reading these words
can see, everything I have stated about her on this Web site has
come from her own campaign propaganda, her own words, on her own
flyers and in her own interviews and debate answers. I cannot be
lying about her unless she is lying about herself. It has been
three days now, and she has not responded about these so-called
lies on her Facebook page, nor has she sent me an e-mail (perhaps
she doesn't know where to send it even though it is published
everywhere on this Web site- it's [email protected] , Carol). If she can identify even one lie- even a
small fib, I will be happy to apologize publicly and retract it.