Show Support for Our Troops, One Town at a Time
Dear Friends,
I urge all of you to call on your local municipal government to hang yellow ribbons on municipally owned buildings and trees as a symbol of support for our troops and a wish for their safe return home.
As you may have heard, the Mayor and Council of Fieldsboro, New Jersey demanded that a yellow ribbon put up by a local resident on the borough’s welcome sign be taken down. The Mayor said that if the city permitted one citizen to put a symbol on municipal property, there would be no place to “draw a line,” and the city would have to let all citizens put up whatever symbols they want.
I don’t think drawing a line on such matters should be all that difficult for the Mayor. But that said, a city government definitely has the right to say what it wants to on municipal property. (In fact, as many of you may know, when I was Mayor, we won a Federal Appeals Court ruling to that effect, after having been sued by the ACLU in connection with a holiday display we placed in front of Jersey City’s City Hall).
Accordingly, I would like to ask that you call the Fieldsboro Mayor Edward Tyler at 609-298-6344 and ask him and the City Council to put up a municipally sponsored yellow ribbon on their welcome sign. And after you do that, I’d like to ask you to call your own local Mayor and Council to do the same.
Let’s show our troops that we support them and that we hope for their safe return!
- Bret
Click this link to get contact information for your municipal offices (unfortunately, not all are listed):
http://www.cityconnections.com/muni/muniview.html