TRAC has run off the tracks

CREEP, the Committee to Re-elect Palmer, is proud to announce its extreme displeasure with the further meddling of a little-known band of Trenton malcontents who continue to harass and intimidate our fearless mayor and his superior city administration.

Their latest meddling comes in the form of an ordinance petition that seeks to install oversight measures on the way city-owned vehicles are used by Trenton’s officials.

The Trenton Residents Action Coalition’s initiative is a total affront to the supreme, infallible leadership of Mayor Palmer, Business Administrator Dennis Gonzalez, and the rest of the administration, and we condemn it.

Trenton’s citizens have elected this administration and have therefore turned over all power and decision-making to this bunch, which has done nothing but improve Trenton since 1990.

This ordinance infringes upon city officials’ ability to travel wherever they please in city-owned, city-fueled vehicles, a right they have earned by entering the public sector and having the public serve them.

Trenton’s citizens have no right to know how these vehicles are being used, and what’s more, city officials have a right to have a city-owned, fueled, and insured vehicle to travel around Trenton’s 7.5-square-miles.

It was encouraging to read today’s Times piece, where it was clear that Gonzalez thinks nothing of the ordinance because he hasn’t even really read it yet.

We hope City Council rejects this oversight measure, as the public should do when it comes to a vote in May of 2010.

Mayor Palmer and his people are always right, and no one needs to monitor what they’re doing and where they’re going.