Wilkes Endorses Yina Moore for Mayor

To the Editor,

I am writing to give my wholehearted support to Yina Moore’s candidacy for Borough Mayor.    

Yina has stellar credentials for the job of Borough Mayor, including eleven years on the Regional Planning Board.  She was also a charter member of Princeton Future, and she and I worked together for many years on many challenging planning issues that face our community.  I know her solutions are substantive, she comes to her work prepared, and she is committed to employing strategies that are designed to preserve Princeton’s history and its diversity.  Yina’s vision for Princeton is inclusive, democratic and representative of us all – witness her accomplishments, while working with many differing viewpoints; she helped drive the community towards our successful Downtown Development and its centerpiece, Hinds Plaza, a space that used to be a nasty parking lot!

Yina and I are both graduates of Princeton University, and we share an abiding respect for the University’s significance in the life of the Borough. We also believe that the University and the Community can work together as equals toward common solutions to challenging problems that benefit us all.  Yina will be a forceful and effective advocate for Borough interests with the University.  On contentious issues, such as the Dinky relocation, she will advance solutions that reflect good public policy and common sense.

The campaign for Borough Mayor has been vigorous, and it is healthy that we have a real contest in this election.  However, in the Mayoral race, Yina Moore is clearly the better qualified and more experienced candidate for the office.  I will vote for her and I urge Borough voters to support her also.  She is the right choice for Princeton and will best represent the Borough whatever the outcome of consolidation, which I also support.  If we agree to unite our two towns, Yina will be an effective voice for our interests in the Borough as we remove this invisible but palpable wall of separation.
 
Sincerely,

Kevin Wilkes
Prospect Avenue