In the surprising nervousness of three progressive democrats, the basic elections won to send representatives from Cherry Hill to the Camden Foreign Party Committee, whose task is to support the candidates for the office.
The progresses defeated the list of 74 candidates from Camden County Democratic Committee Inc (CCDC), an organization that has long been controlled by the election of the Forge E. Norcross III.
CCDC together with the chairman James Beach, who represents the unit in the Senate of New Jersey, has suffered a change in the election result.
On Friday, the judge ruled in their favor.
The edition of the accused, in terms of the accused, stated that the decision of the Supreme Court of Camden, Michael Kassel, issued after a three -hour hearing, would be canceled.
Before interrogating, the Prosecutor General New Jersey Matthew Platkin submitted on behalf of the progressive brief of Amicus, which the beach criticized as a political dispersion.
But while Platkin and Beach are known political characters in the state, Cherry Hill progressers are less known names.
For 31 days, the progressive trio – David Stahl, Ren Margulis and Susan Druckenbrod – enjoyed the status of being winners, but not the authority that accompanies him.
They say they survived the unexpected pause well, each of them admitted that they would win anyway.
From various environments, three ended near Cherry Hill, where their related political spirits moved them to join the progressive Democrats of South Jersey, created in 2017.
All three say that they fought with a democratic machine, which has been conducting Camden’s county for years, trying and not winning the committee’s fines until they were unlikely to win on June 10. They said that they were interested in greater transparency of democratic policy and a more open election process.
“I think their … [victory] It testifies to the strength of perseverance, “said Kate Delany, the leader of the Ferriers’ Progress.
Delany added that politics is so challenging in Camden, that Democrats do not need Republicans to torment: “they fight enough with their own.”
She said that board members bring various skills to their novel roles.
One of the trio is a trained actor whose child fights with an ultrarararch disease. Another is the MBA of the Stanford University, which left the world of finance to become a masseur. The third is an ESL teacher (English as the second language) who listened to the call of former President Barack Obama to apply for office if you don’t like the management of the country.
Here are their stories.
David Stahl
Thanks to the theater diploma at the Temple University, 42 -year -old David Stahl, who grew up in Westville, Gloucester, thought that most of his life would be conducted on stage.
After he got married and bought a house in southern Philadelphia with his wife Jessica, Stahl had to complement his acting career, working in restaurants, and even as a so-called normalized patient-person trained to thoroughly present the patient from the hospital to teach and assess goals.
Supporting the actor’s life, Stahl obtained a master’s degree in Temple’s Fox School of Business in Analytics for advanced skills in the field of processing, analysis and data interpretation.
Now, living in the Kingston district in Cherry Hill, he and his wife have two children: a 10 -year -old daughter and son, 8 years elderly. Stahl asked that the names of his children would not be used.
A lot of family life focuses on the son of Stahl, who suffers Myhre teamStahl said that such a infrequent genetic disorder that is so infrequent that only 200 people in the world. Common Characteristic Diseases include a low height, autism, fibrosis, heart and lung problems and developmental delays.
“We want him to have the best life he can,” said Stahl. “He is smart and funny, with a huge personality.”
Stahl’s daughter agrees. “My brother is a unique and talented child,” she wrote in a school essay. “I am very proud of him as he is.”
Despite the challenges at home, Stahl decided to take part in politics because he wanted “more sun” in the election process.
“For such a long time, the county policy was carried out out of sight, in the proverbial rooms filled with smoke,” he said. “In my opinion you are not so rule.”
Rena Margulis
Rena Margulis, 67, from Cherry Hill’s Cooper Park Village, grew up at Burnt Hills, Schenectady suburbs, New York, after which she took many intellectual classes all her life.
Between the younger and seniors in Smith College, where she studied chemistry, Margulis got a job at Eastman KodakKnown for the production of cameras and film. There, she worked in a laboratory whose goal was to improve photos by improving chemicals in photo paper.
After graduating, Margulis worked on the analysis of energy policy for a consulting company in Washington. Then she went to Stanford for a business diploma, which led to the work of financial analysis in Menlo Park.
The years of stressful hardship caused repetitive stress injuries, which according to Margulis would prevent it from performing any task for a demanding computer.
At that moment, she turned dramatically, becoming a licensed masseur and body therapist. “I have always liked the massage,” said Margulis, “especially helping someone in pain, getting out of it.”
Her many years of interest in social justice never far from her heart, Margulis worked for volunteers Amnesty InternationalGlobal movement for human rights over the years.
“This commitment is at the heart of my political activism,” she said. “I met real heroes, people who were imprisoned for speaking.
“People are too afraid to say because of what the Norcross or Donald Trump machine can do them. But I’m not because I met people who have gone through so much for their beliefs and survived.”
Susan Druckenbrod
With the degree of political science at the University of Connecticut, Susan Druckenbrod was not sure where she imprints its mark in the world.
Born in Meriden, Conn., 60 -year -old Druckenbrod from Erlton North in Cherry Hill, decided to transform her love to teaching work. She obtained a master’s degree in teaching at Merrywood University in Scranton and became an ESL teacher.
She worked in the Adult Education Program at Center City YMCA and taught ESL for students from kindergarten to 12th grade in various school districts South Jersey. Druckenbrod, whose 17-year-old son is the emerging senior in Cherry Hill High School West, also spent time as a mother remained at home.
Disappointed with Trump during his first term, Druckenbrod threw himself into politics, inspired by Obama’s call to act. She said that she recognized CCDC “is an island” and decided to join the progressors.
“They remind me more about FDR [President Franklin D. Roosevelt]Helping all kinds of people than today’s Democratic Party, which is so dependent on the corporation – said Druckenbrod.
Unsuccessfully ran the poviat committee in 2017 and 2019.
But now she and her two partners say they can’t wait for work.
“Dave’s trio, Ren and Susan began in Cherry Hill,” said Delany. “So it’s good that we all make waves in the place where our bottom -up group began.”
