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Tuesday, May 26, 2009
Give the late Al McWilliams the Respect He Deserves
I hope that with these remaining 8 days in the primary, we can discuss issues that are of concern to residents. Unfortunately, my opponents and the candidates running against the Mayor have yet to discuss what I and the public consider as solutions and moving ahead in the right directions.
I have not only developed a working relationship with Senator Bob Menendez, who I served with in the Legislature early in my career, but also with just about every Congressman that represents New Jersey. These sorts of relationships are very reassuring when I am able to reach out personally and get answers and solutions for my District.
That is why it is important that I make it very clear that I have the utmost respect for the late Al McWilliams and his family. Even when some people use his name for political reasons, I try very hard not to respond in a manner that would offend or slight the McWilliams name. If these people were true friends of the late mayor, they would make it their business to give the family the same respect and not misuse the McWilliams name. Any response from me to negative attacks from the opposition would be "spun" as an attack on the McWilliams family.
Politics can be a very tough business. As an elected official, I understand being in a position where sometimes you have to accept things being said that are not true, only for the greater good. I always try to remember that i will have a life after politics, so that I can always look people in their faces and know that I have been fair and honest. I hope these principles are adhered to within these final 8 days of the primary, especially in the use of the McWilliams name.
Whether the McWilliams’ decide to get in the campaign or stay out of it, the late Mayor deserves that respect. I for one have no feelings of negativity towards his family, especially since his daughter is an elected official within my District. The only relationship we have is a professional one. All I ask is that those involved in this local campaign give the late Mayor Al McWilliams the respect he deserves by keeping him out of political games within this primary season.
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New Democrats for Plainfield
By desnuda
Mayor Albert McWilliams Resigns from Executive Board
of the New Democrats for Plainfield
Plainfield Mayor Albert T. McWilliams submitted his resignation from the executive board of the New Democrats for Plainfield today. Mayor McWilliams served as Immediate Past President of the organization since July of this year. In accepting his resignation current president, Union County Freeholder Adrian Mapp thanked the mayor for his service and wished him well on his future endeavors. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
September 24, 2005
Contact:
Adrian Mapp at (908) 577-0630
Shep D. Brown at (908) 405-5755
Mayor Albert McWilliams Resigns from Executive Board of the New Democrats for Plainfield
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
September 24, 2005
PLAINFIELD - Plainfield Mayor Albert T. McWilliams submitted his resignation from the executive board of the New Democrats for Plainfield today. Mayor McWilliams served as Immediate Past President of the organization since July of this year. In accepting his resignation current president, Union County Freeholder Adrian Mapp thanked the mayor for his service and wished him well on his future endeavors.
Mr. Mapp announced the Mayor's resignation in a statement to members today reminding them that according to the by-laws of the organization the New Democrats for Plainfield could only endorse registered Democrats.
“Although the organization will not be making any endorsement in this race, we will seek to play a positive role in the upcoming elections by hosting a candidate's forum where all candidates for local office will be invited to share their views with the members of the New Democrats and the general public, said Mr. Mapp in his statement. “I believe that it is in the best interest of all the citizens of Plainfield to have a comprehensive issues based debate for all mayoral candidates."
Shep Brown, spokesperson for the New Democrats said that no date or location has been set for the candidates forum. He went on to state: “In keeping with our mission to increase the civic involvement and participation of residents in all segments of Plainfield community life, we encourage other organizations and neighborhood associations in Plainfield to keep up their tradition of hosting their own candidate forums so that they can hear where all of the candidates stand on the issues that are important to them."
For further information contact Shep D. Brown at Walliedog1@nycboe.net
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Published in the Courier News, Sunday, April 20, 2008
Letter to Editor
Support for Annie McWilliams as agent of Plainfield change
I am truly inspired by Annie McWilliams' answer to the call of public service in announcing her candidacy for the at-large seat on the Democratic ticket for Plainfield City Council. Like her father, the late Al McWilliams, Annie is devoted to the betterment of Plainfield for all of its residents. Through her youth advocacy, she has offered hope to the young people of this city, whose need for young role models to emulate is greater than ever during these difficult times. Her strong business background (a degree in economics from the Wharton School of Business) would be a welcome addition to the council.
Unfortunately, what has happened in our city of Plainfield over the past years under the current administration of Sharon Robinson-Briggs is a travesty. The ineptitude of municipal government, as illustrated by the performance of this administration more than halfway through its tenure, has caused many of us to throw up our collective hands in disgust.
At the behest of the Robinson-Briggs administration, the municipal budget has become inflated with jobs for individuals whose qualifications have been very much in question. Residents are upset at the crumbling infrastructure of our city, the lack of communication on the part of the administration and the continued waste of money, as exemplified by the mayor's private security detail, for which Plainfielders foot the bill to the tune of nearly $200,000 per year!
Currently, the Plainfield City Council consists of a majority that denies the right of public access to its citizens by illegally refusing to air City Council meetings on the local channel (which is paid for by Plainfield residents, by the way!), that rubber stamps every new employee the administration puts before it (while deliberately withholding resumes of qualifications from public scrutiny!), and that refuses to pass a strong municipal pay-to-play ordinance to protect residents from conflict of interest in the awarding of public contracts.
Our taxes have gone up every year as services have declined. We need an advocate who will work for us, not for some political agenda that is hostile to the needs of Plainfield residents.
We need to restore transparency and trust in our government, along with a sense that our city council members will strive to meet the highest standards of ethical and personal behavior. Second Ward Councilman Cory Storch has already demonstrated his independence by endorsing Annie's run, noting that he, too, is inspired by her candidacy in this historic year.
It has been my pleasure to know Annie, as I was a friend of Al McWilliams, who inspired me to get involved in helping make change. At his urging, I became involved in several campaigns over the years, serving in the past as campaign manager to Linda Carter, Cory Storch, and the late Ray Blanco, as well as campaign co-chair on Al's second mayoral campaign.
All Al asked was that the city, as opposed to any other agenda, come first. Annie asks the same of all who desire to work on her behalf. She is strong, independent, and smart -- qualities that we should demand from all of our public servants.
It is time for a change. I encourage voters to come out and support Annie, who is devoted to her family, to her Shiloh Baptist Church community, and to Plainfield, for the at-large city council seat. I am convinced that Annie McWilliams best represents the change that Plainfield needs and that, with the support and votes of the greater Plainfield community, she can be successful.
REBECCA WILLIAMS
Plainfield
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Published in the Courier News, Thursday, November 10, 2005
Dust in Plainfield settling
Race for mayor could end up being the most costly in the city's history.
By CHAD WEIHRAUCH
Staff Writer
PLAINFIELD -- A day after Sharon Robinson-Briggs won the city's highest elected office and said she would work to heal the political split in Plainfield, a final election tally still was unavailable.
However, one thing that did seem clear in this year's mayoral contests -- the primary and general election campaigns combined -- probably will end up being the most expensive in the Queen City's history, costing at least $320,000.
The Union County and Plainfield clerks' offices said Wednesday that write-in votes, most of which likely will go to incumbent Mayor Albert T. McWilliams, still were being counted.
Robinson-Briggs, a Democrat, received 4,336 votes, and Independent Robert Ferraro picked up 1,118 of the unofficial total 8,787 cast. That would leave McWilliams with a maximum 3,333 votes, assuming all remaining voters chose him -- though that probably was not the case.
McWilliams said he estimated he had received about 2,300 votes.
Robinson-Briggs was not immediately available for comment, but McWilliams added Wednesday he thought he had been beaten by money.
"Clearly it was mainly outside influences that bankrolled the Robinson-Briggs campaign, and that's been clear from the beginning. And I guess that's New Jersey politics," he said.
However, Assemblyman Jerry Green, Robinson-Briggs' campaign manager, said the mayor's loss was a result of discontent.
"He has to accept the responsibility that the city and the people in the city do not think the city was moving in the right direction," Green said.
McWilliams, 52, is a former Democrat and two-term incumbent who lost his re-election bid in the June primary to Robinson-Briggs.
He later switched his political affiliation to become a Republican and fill a vacancy on the ticket when a previous GOP candidate stepped down. However, the state Supreme Court refused his attempt to appear on the ballot as a Republican, upholding a law that says candidates cannot run for one party's nomination in the primary, then switch parties and run for the same office in the general election.
McWilliams ran as a write-in candidate for mayor in Tuesday's election.
Robinson-Briggs, 46, is a school board member who, with her win, becomes Plainfield's first woman mayor.
According to documents filed with the state Election Law Enforcement Commission, Robinson-Briggs' campaign had raised $201,225 through the end of June for primary spending. McWilliams had collected $77,250 in the same period.
The $201,225 was more than the three Union County Democratic freeholder candidates collectively had raised through Oct. 28 -- for the general election -- through their political committee, Union County Victory 2005.
However, the spending frenzy fell off in Plainfield after the primary.
As of 11 days before the general election, McWilliams had raised even more than Robinson-Briggs, claiming just $25,590, compared to her $23,828.
By contrast, in the last mayoral race in 2001 -- the only other year for which figures are available on the Election Law Enforcement Commission's Web site -- the two mayoral candidates combined raised only about one-fifth of the total spent this year: $64,561.
McWilliams was a Democrat then, and out-spent Ferraro, who was then a Republican, by about 4-to-1.
Even the more than $300,000 spent this year by both campaigns is deceptive, McWilliams said, because it does not include outside money spent in Plainfield supporting the entire regular Democratic slate.
"We estimate that they spent from the primary alone something approaching half a million dollars," he said.
Still, Green said Democrats spent relatively little money in the run-up to the general election. After bouncing McWilliams from the party's slate in June, more expensive advertising methods were abandoned, he added.
"There was no reason to get into spending money with a TV campaign," he said.
Final campaign funding reports must be filed with the state in about three weeks.
Chad Weihrauch can be reached at (908) 707-3137 or cweihrau@gannett.com
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Published in the Star-Ledger, Wednesday, April 13, 2005
[Tom Moran]
'Machine' goes after mayor of Plainfield
The city of Plainfield has more than its share of gang murders and drug deals, and more than enough poverty.
But things are improving. Crime is down overall, and new buildings are finally sprouting up next to boarded-up storefronts in the downtown. Homes that have been vacant for years are being renovated as the city's population grows.
"People are working together like never before," says Donna Albanese, president of the local chamber of commerce. "The mayor deserves the credit for that."
The mayor is Al McWilliams, a soft-spoken attorney who has won two elections by landslides. People in Plainfield like him.
But the party bosses don't.
They have declared war on him by denying him their endorsement, and backing a rival for the June primary.
And that could spell trouble for McWilliams.
Because in New Jersey politics, it is not enough to be competent and popular. To be secure in your job, you also need the blessings of the county bosses.
They are the gatekeepers who can make or break your political career, no matter how many landslides you've won.
They decide who gets the money, who gets the best position on the ballot, and who gets help on Election Day turning out the vote. In a primary, when turnout is low, the bosses almost always get their way.
The bosses in Union County -- led by Sen. Ray Lesniak and county chairwoman Charlotte DeFilippo -- are moving against McWilliams because he's been fighting for years with Assemblyman Gerald Green.
And Green is one of the old boys.
"If you can't work with people on the line, then you can't stay on the line," says DeFilippo.
What exactly was McWilliams' offense? What did he do wrong?
"He's trying to destroy my career by blaming me for every problem in the city," says Green. "He has to take responsibility. He's the mayor."
McWilliams says the trouble began when he fired a political ally of Green's who was doing shoddy legal work for the city.
"He called Jerry, and Jerry went ballistic on me," says McWilliams. "Our fights are usually over who gets what contract, and who gets what legal business. I don't care as long as the price is right and the quality is good. But you can't give away the store to be cooperative."
The party leaders could have left this one alone by endorsing both of them, despite their rivalry, and letting them battle it out in Plainfield. It would be awkward to put two rivals on the same team, but it could be done.
Instead, they decided to go after McWilliams with a head shot.
And so a man who has been mayor for eight years will now have to fight for his political life against his own party establishment.
"It boggles the mind," says McWilliams.
He drove through the city this week, pointing to improvements. A small park with benches and a fountain where weeds once grew. New sidewalks and street lamps near a train station. An office building in the downtown on what was a vacant lot.
Williams is promising to deal the machine a well-deserved blow.
He started out as a volunteer trying to revive the city's downtown, and ran for office only after he couldn't get the city council interested. Since then he's beaten the machine twice by supporting challengers for the city council and for the local Democratic committee.
And some people in Plainfield don't like the idea of bosses from the suburbs telling them whom they should support.
"I think this is dirty pool," says Valerie Cummings, eating a sandwich at the Plainfield Donut Shop and Luncheonette. "The mayor is trying. And he's a good man."
Tom Moran's column appears Wednesdays and Fridays. He can be reached at tmoran@starledger.com or (973) 392-1823.
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Published in the Courier News, Saturday, April 7, 2007
'His heart was with Plainfield'
Renal cancer claims former mayor Albert T. McWilliams
By CHAD HEMENWAY
Staff Writer
PLAINFIELD -- Albert T. McWilliams, a former two-term mayor of the Queen City whose personality inspired others to help revitalize the city, died early Friday morning. He was 53.
"I remember a soft-spoken man who had the ability to influence and get people to rally around his cause," said Freeholder Adrian Mapp, a former city councilman.
McWilliams died at St. Peter's University Hospital in New Brunswick after a brief battle with renal cancer, his friends and family said. McWilliams, a corporate lawyer for Engelhard, now BASF, in the Iselin section of Woodbridge, is survived by his wife of 25 years, Darlene, and five children.
"His heart was with Plainfield," said Councilman Rashid Burney. "He got the city back up and running."
Dan Damon, the city's public information officer during McWilliams' tenure, said his old boss was diagnosed with cancer several months ago. Damon said McWilliams wanted to keep news of his illness among close friends and family.
Former campaign chairwoman Rebecca Williams described McWilliams as a family man who was "funny, intense and charismatic."
Many officials contacted Friday did not know McWilliams was sick. The Rev. Rick Taylor, who was Plainfield's mayor from 1984-89, called the Courier News newsroom to confirm McWilliams' death and offer his condolences. Mayor Sharon Robinson-Briggs, who defeated McWilliams in November 2005, said she was "shocked and surprised" at the news.
"My sympathy goes out to his family," Robinson-Briggs said. "The city will do whatever we need to do to honor him."
Even Assemblyman Jerry Green, D-Plainfield, once an ally of McWilliams who turned his support to Robinson-Briggs in her contest with McWilliams, said McWilliams "was a champion in moving the city ahead." Green said he now supports many of McWilliams' initiatives as well as councilpeople whom McWilliams played a large role in getting elected -- those of the "New Democrats."
"I'd like him to know that what he did for the city was appreciated, because it was," Green said. "Plainfield is better because of him."
McWilliams, first elected mayor in 1997, was described as a man who "believed in the human spirit" -- a "people's person" much less concerned with taking part in politics than his commitment to the people of Plainfield.
Supporters of McWilliams credit him for ridding the city of political bickering, restoring the Queen City's infrastructure and laying foundations for redevelopment while involving the community in the planning process.
"For 25 years this place was stagnant. The 80s and early 90s passed the city by," Damon said. "Plainfield was a totally underdeveloped town. People came and went and broke their vows of getting things started. Nobody could get it done, but he (McWilliams) found a way."
Many agreed McWilliams' legacy will be the Park-Madison complex on West Front Street that used to house Tepper's department store. McWilliams also had roads resurfaced and began a streetscape project. Others credited the former mayor with ridding the city of trash and crime.
"He turned around a city that was in a downward spiral and those who now serve after him have a foundation to build upon," said Mapp, who served as president of the McWilliams' New Democrats -- a group which includes current councilpeople Rayland Van Blake, Cory Storch, Linda Carter and Don Davis.
"He started my political career," Storch said. "I ran for office because he inspired me to get involved. Instead of focusing on politics, he focused on his vision for a better city."
That vision would apparently keep McWilliams up late at night, said Burney.
"He was a tireless worker," Burney said. "I'd get e-mails from him. I'd look and they'd be from 2 or 3 a.m. He's say, 'I just had to get those ideas down.' That was just Al."
After losing his re-election bid in the June 2005 primary to Robinson-Briggs, McWilliams switched his political affiliation to become a Republican, but wasn't allowed on the ticket. He later ran as a write-in and was defeated.
Storch said McWilliams was "more than a little disappointed" at losing, but "backed off gracefully."
McWilliams "fought the good fight in the face of the entrenched machine," said Williams. Just a week ago, she and McWilliams looked back at his time as mayor.
"I think he was proud of what he set in motion," Williams said. "When we were campaigning, we knew the odds but he was always upbeat in spite of them. Even when we lost, he said, 'It's not over. We'll continue to fight for this city.'"
Chad Hemenway can be reached at (908) 707-3148 or chemenway@gannett.com
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Published in the Star-Ledger, Saturday, April 7. 2007
Albert McWilliams, ex-Plainfield mayor
Lawyer led a downtown renaissance in city
BY JOE RYAN
Star-Ledger Staff
Albert T. McWilliams, a soft- spoken corporate attorney who rapidly ascended through the bare- knuckled ranks of Plainfield politics and served eight years as the city's mayor before losing a bitter election in 2005, died yesterday at St. Peter's University Hospital in New Brunswick.
He was 53.
The cause was cancer of the kidneys, which had been diagnosed several months ago, said his wife, Darlene McWilliams, 52.
A native of Georgia and father of five, McWilliams moved in 1987 to Plainfield, a once-prosperous city left scarred by the riots and urban flight of the 1960s. He fell in love with the town's elegant Victorian homes and majestic trees, and in 1996 friends encouraged him to run for city council.
"He really cared deeply for Plainfield, and he wanted to rescue the city from its downward spiral and decay," said Adrian Mapp, a Union County freeholder and friend of McWilliams.
With strong backing from Plainfield's Democratic Committee, the articulate and debonair McWil liams won an at-large seat. The next year, he ran successfully for mayor.
Over the next eight years, McWilliams oversaw a small renaissance in downtown Plainfield, where new offices, stores and apartments rose for the first time in decades. But crime, especially murders, remained a vexing problem.
By his second term, McWilliams had fallen from favor with the city's most powerful Democrat, Assemblyman Jerry Green. When McWil liams tried for a third term, Green backed his own candidate, a school board member named Sharon Robinson-Briggs.
Robinson-Briggs coasted to vic tory, and McWilliams stepped away from politics.
Yesterday, Green saluted his former rival.
"There were times we didn't see eye-to-eye, but he did move Plainfield in a positive direction. I think the city is a better place became of Al McWilliams," Green said.
Born in Atlanta, McWilliams was the youngest of three children. His father, Albert T. McWilliams Sr., was among the first black bus drivers hired after the city's historic bus boycott. His mother was a den tal assistant.
After studying public administration and political science at Georgia State University, McWil liams earned a law degree from the University of Michigan.
He moved to Dallas and be came a lawyer for Diamond Sham rock, an oil company.
It was at a Super Bowl party in 1979 or 1980 that McWilliams caught the eye of Darlene Crow, a 26-year-old runway model.
She liked his Calvin Klein jeans and well-trimmed afro. He called her a few days later. And for the next 45 consecutive days, they met for picnics, walks and horseback rides.
They married in 1982 in the backyard of the bride's parents' home in Gurdon, Ark.
McWilliams took a job with Engelhard in 1987, and the family moved to New Jersey.
Once he became mayor of Plainfield, McWilliams set out to redevelop long-vacant properties in the city's downtown and recruited some 500 residents to help draft a long-term plan to cut crime, bolster economic development and spruce up flagging streets.
With Green's support, he won re-election in 2001. Then the alliance crumbled.
McWilliams dismissed a political ally of Green's from city hall. The assemblyman accused the mayor of blaming him for the city's woes. And a political war erupted.
Despite his measured and courteous demeanor, McWilliams was no pushover. Between 2002 and 2004, he backed five victorious council candidates against Green's hopefuls. In 2003, the mayor won control of the city's Democratic committee.
Then came the election of 2005.
In an effort to preserve Green's authority in Plainfield, the powerful Union County Democratic Committee donated $65,000 to Robinson-Briggs' campaign. She sailed to victory.
At the urging of supporters, McWilliams registered as a Republican and challenged Robinson- Briggs in the general election.
It proved a luckless gamble in a town as Democratic as Plainfield.
McWilliams took the loss hard.
"Politics in New Jersey is a blood sport. This is not a gentleman's game, and he was a gentleman," said Dan Damon, McWil liams' former spokesman and longtime friend.
The loss, however, gave McWil liams more time for his passions: fishing with his children, riding his bicycle, reading his four daily newspapers and tending racks of mes quite-smoked ribs on his barbecue, wearing his beloved royal-blue Williams-Sonoma apron.
McWilliams is survived by his wife; mother Annie Ruth McWil liams, of Atlanta; and children Annie, 22; Allison, 18, Albert T. III, 16; Adam, 14; Avery, 12; and two sisters.
The family was still planning fu neral arrangements last night.
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Published in Politics NJ, Friday, April 6, 2007
Ex-Plainfield Mayor dies
By Editor - April 6, 2007 - 10:41am
Former Plainfield Mayor Albert McWilliams passed away early this morning after a battle with renal cancer.
McWilliams was elected Mayor in 1997 and re-elected in 2001. In 2005, he lost his bid for a third term, losing to Sharon Robinson-Briggs by about 300 votes in the Democratic primary after losing the support of the Union County Democratic organization. He later switched to the Republican Party and ran as a write-in candidate. Funeral arrangements are pending.
"Al McWilliams was a man who cared much more about the people of Plainfield than about politics," said Union County GOP Chairman Phil Morin. "He was a man with vision and hope for the City of Plainfield, and he worked tirelessly to make that vision a reality. Plainfield's renaissance is due in large part to his efforts.""
COMMENTS:
He will Be missed
Submitted by walkdown on April 6, 2007 - 2:43pm.
Albert was a good Mayor who took a pragmatic approach to government. He well be missed.
A Super Individual
Submitted by PoliticsSJ on April 6, 2007 - 3:25pm.
Al was a gentle man who had great ideas for Plainfield, and was cut loose by the democrats when he wouldn't play their game. He kept his integrity to the end. Al could teach all politicians what it means to have integrity. God Bless the McWilliams family."
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