Mayor Sharon Robinson-Briggs asked the state at Tuesday's hearing to keep Muhlenberg open.
It was a great performance, but it made me wonder why she was so late to the party.
The truth appears to be that she never took her responsibilities toward Muhlenberg seriously until the specter of shutting the hospital came to haunt her.
Why do I say that?
Plainfield's mayor becomes an ex-officio member of the Muhlenberg board upon being sworn into office. Except for the 2007 Annual Meeting, I am told Mayor Robinson-Briggs has not attended a single board meeting.
This means that the Mayor did not get the benefit of learning first-hand about the deteriorating situation regarding charity care reimbursement. It also means she did not make an effort to find out what the City could do to be proactive about the increasingly dire situation. Finally, it means she was absent when there was a possibility of using the skills of persuasion to get Solaris to consider other options than the road taken.
And this is the person Assemblyman Jerry Green demanded should replace the current Muhlenberg board president?
Was Mayor Robinson-Briggs derelict in her duties toward the residents -- and voters -- of Plainfield?
You tell me.
-- Dan Damon
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