Princeton Democrats converged on the Unitarian Universalist Church en masse Sunday night to vote for which two of the three candidates for town council would get endorsement and favorable placement on the ballot.
By the time I arrived, having tromped across rain-soaked ground in search of the entrance, there wasn't much of a view.
A big screen offered a more impressionistic effect.
The heavy rain of letters in the local papers and internet sites, supporting Sue Nemeth or Jo Butler, with Bernie Miller seeming a shoe-in, had been falling for weeks. Sometimes the local politics make me feel like I'm in a family where my beloved siblings have begun arguing heatedly and I can do nothing to stop it. I know and respect people on both sides of this passion divide. Though I haven't followed council meetings, I did work at various times with both Sue and Jo on commissions, and found them both to have capability, depth of knowledge, passion, and good judgement.
Though at first reluctant to reveal the tally, the leadership finally divulged that Miller received 216 votes, Nemeth received 197 votes, and Butler received 165 votes.
All three will be on the June primary ballot, in that order.
The process indoors appeared peaceful. Anyone looking for dramatic head to head conflict would have encountered it not at the meeting, but instead afterwards in what looked like a very serious collision down the block, at 206 and Cherry Hill Road. While close attention was being paid to Princeton politics, someone in the driver's seat wasn't looking where they were going.
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