Connecting Candidates to Kids
Election Day is less than three months away and we still aren’t hearing much from candidates at all levels about their plans to improve the lives of America’s children. Voices for America’s Children is working to change this through its national campaign to put children on the political agenda this year. All children deserve to be healthy, educated and safe and we must make children a priority by voting for candidates who choose to make investments in these areas. Some recent activities include:
- Voices for Utah’s Children reached out to voters in their state through this op-ed published in The Salt Lake
Tribune, informing them about many of the problems that children in their state are facing and what they can do to help.
- As part of last week’s launch of the “Vote for Kids New York” campaign, the Schuyler Center, Westchester Children’s Association and the Children’s agenda
worked with Voices to develop an election guide for candidates, advocates, and voters.
- The Children’s Campaign in Florida was recently
cited for its efforts to increase awareness for the need to put children on the “campaign radar.”
- In Augusta, Voices for Georgia’s Children co-hosted a discussion among 12th District Congressional candidates to discuss their take on various child issues.
- The Children’s Alliance of New Hampshire recently
hosted a forum in Concord, NH where the six candidates running for governor discussed children’s issues.
Many Voices members also have developed terrific electoral advocacy websites – we’ll give you a tour of some of them later this week.
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September 17, 2012 at 2:07 am by PakanThe BOE, and the town for that matter, are coolnrtled , not governed but coolnrtled , by the Democrats. There is a big difference. The BOE is supposed to be non-partisan , not under the control of any party. You can go to most BOE meetings and not hear children or eduction mentioned once because of blatant party politics .BOE members are Danny O’Brien is the Pennsauken Twp Tax Collector and Assessor and also a Camden Co Democratic Committee person from District 8. Dr Allyson Meloni is the daughter of former Democrat Municipal Chair Honorable Louis Meloni. She has a sister employed high in the Twp government and her brother is in charge of Food Services for the BOE. Matt McDevitt and Dung Nguyen are Camden County Democrat Committee people from Districts 13 and 1. And last, but not least, Bernie Kofoet Pennsauken Twp Supervisor for the Dept of Public Works and President of the M-P Water Commission. Non-partisan ? Independent ?Jack Killion, Mayor, proudly point out that they (the Democrats) can do anything they want. He is right. They are, and have been in charge at the BOE. Their fingerprints are all over the failing school system. So do we reward failure by re-electing the same team ? Not where I come from.A strong Superintendent is needed. That is not likely to happen because the party first members of the BOE want someone who will do what they want. The mention of a forensic audit, due to the departure of the Superintendent and Business Administrator, threw the Democrats at the BOE, and the Township, into shock. We can’t have that was overheard.All of that can change this Wednesday April 27th. A change is needed at the BOE. That is not the smell of dead fish coming from the BOE.
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