Supervisor Candidate Sends Mailer to Voters on Eve of Election, Failing to State His Connection with Green Knight and Grand Central Sanitary Landfill
With six days until election, and having not made any effort to state a platform other than yard signs placed in some yards, candidate for the Plainfield Township Board of Supervisors Bob Cornman has sent out a mailer to voters. When Mr. Cornman was interviewed by the Morning Call a week ago, and asked about his conflict of interest with Green Knight Economic Development Corporation, he stated that he would resign from Green Knight and devote his energies to the citizens of the township. Mr. Cornman and current Supervisor Steve Hurni have been members of Green Knight since its founding in 1999. Mr. Hurni has not made such a pledge yet, but he is in his tenth year serving as a township supervisor, and must abstain from all votes associated with Green Knight and Grand Central Sanitary Landfill. Green Knight is a non-profit entity created by Waste Management to sell electricity generated by burning landfill gas to the grid. In responding to the Morning Call...