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How the Democrats Destroyed Camden
A city's unwavering allegiance to the Party that ruined it.
April 21, 2016
John Perazzo
A century ago, Camden, New Jersey was a thriving model of prosperity. Indeed, the city was home to 365 active industries that employed scores of thousands of people in companies like RCA Victor, Campbell’s Soup, and the New York Shipbuilding Company. But today, Camden is an economic and social basket case. Virtually wherever one looks, one can readily see evidence of its decline: abandoned houses with collapsing roofs, crumbling facades, missing or boarded-up windows, and “lawns” choked with several years worth of weeds and brambles; churches with bullet holes in their stained glass windows; walls of buildings defaced by all manner of graffiti; the stench of sewage pervading run-down streets and avenues; and small, melancholy shrines (often adorned with empty liquor bottles) marking the spots where someone was once murdered.
Camden has not had a Republican mayor since 1936. The first mayor of this Democratic era was George Brunner, who served six terms from 1936-59. He was followed by Alfred Pierce (1959-69), a native of Camden who was raised in poverty and grew up to practice law. As mayor, the white liberal Pierce emphasized the need for racial diversity in city government, urging blacks and Hispanics in particular to run for City Council.
But Pierce's efforts to promote racial harmony were unable to quell the black militancy that was rising in Camden, as in so many other American cities, during the Sixties. Violent race riots—complete with arson and looting—struck Camden in 1969 and again two years later. Though some degree of “order” was eventually restored, the city has never been the same since the riots. In the aftermath of those uprisings, legal businesses left Camden in droves and were replaced, to some degree, by unlawful ventures. It is estimated, for instance, that the city today has approximately 175 open-air drug markets—outdoor locations throughout Camden where dealers make rapid, furtive transactions in streets and alleyways—through which some $250 million worth of narcotics move each and every year. Most of these illegal dealers are affiliated with gangs like the Bloods, the Latin Kings, Los Nietos, and MS-13.
Also in the decades that followed the riots, Camden's government was beset by high levels of malfeasance and mismanagement as the Mayor’s office took on some of the qualities of a police line-up. Mayor Angelo Errichetti (1973-81), for instance, was convicted of federal corruption charges and went to prison in 1981; Mayor Arnold Webster (1993-97) pleaded guilty to federal wire fraud charges in 1998; and Mayor Milton Milan (1997-2000) was convicted in 2000 on 14 counts of drug-money laundering, insurance fraud, and taking bribes from organized crime leaders. All were Democrats.
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Camden is a pathetic, dying testament to the decay and destruction that decades of Democratic leadership have brought to city after city after city across the United States. But the residents of Camden have not, by any means, been unwitting victims of those Democrats. Rather, they have been their willing partners in a dance of death, where an endless parade of Democrat victories at the ballot box predictably bring ever-greater levels of pathology to a population that simply refuses to abandon—or to even question—its blind faith in the Democratic Party.
How the Democrats Destroyed Camden
How the Democrats Destroyed Camden
A city's unwavering allegiance to the Party that ruined it.
April 21, 2016
John Perazzo
A century ago, Camden, New Jersey was a thriving model of prosperity. Indeed, the city was home to 365 active industries that employed scores of thousands of people in companies like RCA Victor, Campbell’s Soup, and the New York Shipbuilding Company. But today, Camden is an economic and social basket case. Virtually wherever one looks, one can readily see evidence of its decline: abandoned houses with collapsing roofs, crumbling facades, missing or boarded-up windows, and “lawns” choked with several years worth of weeds and brambles; churches with bullet holes in their stained glass windows; walls of buildings defaced by all manner of graffiti; the stench of sewage pervading run-down streets and avenues; and small, melancholy shrines (often adorned with empty liquor bottles) marking the spots where someone was once murdered.
Camden has not had a Republican mayor since 1936. The first mayor of this Democratic era was George Brunner, who served six terms from 1936-59. He was followed by Alfred Pierce (1959-69), a native of Camden who was raised in poverty and grew up to practice law. As mayor, the white liberal Pierce emphasized the need for racial diversity in city government, urging blacks and Hispanics in particular to run for City Council.
But Pierce's efforts to promote racial harmony were unable to quell the black militancy that was rising in Camden, as in so many other American cities, during the Sixties. Violent race riots—complete with arson and looting—struck Camden in 1969 and again two years later. Though some degree of “order” was eventually restored, the city has never been the same since the riots. In the aftermath of those uprisings, legal businesses left Camden in droves and were replaced, to some degree, by unlawful ventures. It is estimated, for instance, that the city today has approximately 175 open-air drug markets—outdoor locations throughout Camden where dealers make rapid, furtive transactions in streets and alleyways—through which some $250 million worth of narcotics move each and every year. Most of these illegal dealers are affiliated with gangs like the Bloods, the Latin Kings, Los Nietos, and MS-13.
Also in the decades that followed the riots, Camden's government was beset by high levels of malfeasance and mismanagement as the Mayor’s office took on some of the qualities of a police line-up. Mayor Angelo Errichetti (1973-81), for instance, was convicted of federal corruption charges and went to prison in 1981; Mayor Arnold Webster (1993-97) pleaded guilty to federal wire fraud charges in 1998; and Mayor Milton Milan (1997-2000) was convicted in 2000 on 14 counts of drug-money laundering, insurance fraud, and taking bribes from organized crime leaders. All were Democrats.
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Camden is a pathetic, dying testament to the decay and destruction that decades of Democratic leadership have brought to city after city after city across the United States. But the residents of Camden have not, by any means, been unwitting victims of those Democrats. Rather, they have been their willing partners in a dance of death, where an endless parade of Democrat victories at the ballot box predictably bring ever-greater levels of pathology to a population that simply refuses to abandon—or to even question—its blind faith in the Democratic Party.
How the Democrats Destroyed Camden
Virtually ALL cities are run by Democrats, Jizzhat. Rich ones, poor ones, safe ones, scary ones, eastern ones, western ones, northern ones, southern ones, long ones, short ones, medium ones, and everything in between. You could look it up. It's the way the world works.
