To the Editor:

Mark Laris, editor in chief of the Stanford Daily, who worked with Liz Lempert, said she was organized and responsible, with a good sense of what was important. Could it be that five years of political involvement have made these good qualities go away? Has the sweet taste of power gone to her head? Is there something that she needs to prove?

I want to believe that our mayor is still a person of integrity, who has some of the same qualities that she now considers interfering and bothersome. She says that she is not campaigning as there are many things that need attention, which is difficult to believe when we all know that she was part of the attempted ousting of one of the Council members of her own party.

What is left, after impulsivity won over common sense, is a Council divided not by ideologies but by inflated egos, used to making decisions behind closed doors, without interruptions, even from the people who voted for them or from the others who are working hard, checking details, and becoming knowledgeable about the issues, in order to find the fairest of all solutions.

Jo Butler, whose record shows a host of accomplishments, is a brilliant and honest person who offers strategies and is willing to compromise for the good of this town.

Time has come for Republicans in Princeton to run again, and add some diversity to the Council because I don’t want Council members who feel they have to always be on the good side of the mayor, and I don’t want a mayor and council members manipulated by former mayors who cannot let go. I don’t want a mayor who will always break the tie, siding with her group. Because we already know how the voting will go in every single town meeting from now on. I don’t want a herd of lambs, I want people who are not scared and who are ready to fight for this town, I want lions. And this is why my vote is going for Jo Butler.

Sandra Jordan

Grover Avenue