Who would have thought we'd see the phrase "fear the name" used in reference to the Ethical Culture Society of Bergen County?
Charles Stile of the Bergen Record reports in today's column (click, then search for "ethical culture") that Bergen Grassroots offered to sponsor a debate between Democratic county freeholders and their Republican challengers. According to Stile, the Republicans accepted but the Democrats declined. Speculating as to the reason, Stile ruminates that "maybe they fear that name of the debate's venue — the meeting hall of the Ethical Culture Society of Bergen County". True, Charles, it stands as a paragon of ethics!
According to their spokesman Bill Maer, the Democrats "... had a scheduling conflict, and we certainly worked hard to accommodate the organization's schedule." The contending slates debated under sponsorship of the AARP in September and are scheduled to do so again on October 13.
