Letter: Liz Lempert for Mayor of Princeton

To the Editor:

It’s nice to have two good candidates for the mayor of Princeton. Our new mayor has a big job ahead. It’s a job that will and has already required a lot of planning, preparation, logistics, and a deep understanding of the issues, the departments, the combination of departments and the careful management of the most precious resource, human capital.

One of these issues alone would require quite a bit of quality time…time to study the people, their strengths their weaknesses, the budgets; comparing one budget with the other, selecting the best in each budget, to make the operations use the best practices, to revise the logistics for the new geography and to make it all run as efficiently as possible.  

There has been a long learning curve for those intimately involved. It has come from two distinct areas: one, from the daily, current activities of the town; and, two, from the planning, decision making and developing the consolidation plan.

So who is best qualified, today, to lead this effort. All things being equal, it is the person closest to the ground, with sleeves rolled up, an understanding of what’s to come and with a demonstrated ability to work well with people with divergent opinions. Only one of the candidates has those qualifications. Only one has the shortest learning curve to successfully overseeing this critical time. And only one candidate is best prepared now. It is for these reasons, we support Liz Lempert for Mayor.

Sincerely yours,

Ross Wishnick

Iona Harding