To the Editor:

I want to congratulate Jenny Crumiller and Patrick Simon on their re-election to Princeton Town Council. Congratulations also to Princeton’s own Andrew Koontz for his re-election as a Mercer County Freeholder.

Our sincere thanks and best wishes go out to Barbara Buono, Marie Corfield, Ida Ochoteco, and Christian Mastondrea for the extraordinary efforts they put forth to represent us.

While the school board elections are rightly non-partisan, we want to extend congratulations to Andrea Spalla, Molly Chrein, and Tom Hagedorn for their re-election and election to the Princeton Public School Board and wish them all success as they and their colleagues work to provide the best possible learning environment for the school children of Princeton.

I want to give a special thanks to a number of colleagues who played a major role in helping get out the vote: Peter Wolanin, Sue Nemeth, Owen O’Donnell, Dan Preston, Doreen Blanc Rockstrom, David Cohen, all the members of the Democratic Municipal Committee, the PCDO Executive Board, and other friends and families around town who helped along the way for which there are too many to name here.

Finally, while we may not have won all the races we wanted to, I think we should be very proud of the ones we did, and the fact that New Jersey has its first ever African American Senator in Corey Booker! And how can we not be proud of the fact that “Marriage Equality” has become a reality in New Jersey, an issue that the PCDO took a strong leadership role on nearly four years ago!

As always there is much work for us all to do to make Princeton, the state of New Jersey, and America the best places to live.

Jon Durbin

President, PCDO