In a statement to the public today, Salisbury City Councilwoman Terry E. Cohen announced that she will file for re-election tomorrow, January 6. The date holds special significance for Cohen and her relationship to Salisbury.
The text of Cohen’s statement follows: “On January 6, my father, Sol Cohen, would have been 92, having passed away in 2006 after a valiant 8-month struggle with illness. This year, it will be 40 years since Dad brought his family permanently to Salisbury, recognizing the potential this community offered.
“Dad came up a year-and-a-half before the rest of us, living first in Pinehurst, then on Cecil St. where I joined him to start ninth grade in 1971. Shortly after, we settled into the family house just outside the city limits near what was then Salisbury State College, now an acclaimed university. ‘Salisbury’ wasn’t about city limits back then; it was about limitless possibilities.
“Sol Cohen was the walking embodiment of the American work ethic. After retiring at 65 from one company here, he was hired to work at Henson Aviation by Richard Henson himself and had just completed 20 years with Piedmont Airlines when he took ill at 86.
Salisbury gave Dad opportunities and he gave Salisbury a life of service: working hard at his job, supporting Community Players with his talent onstage and skills backstage, serving as post commander for the Jewish War Veterans, helping his neighbors on a regular basis, and so much more.
“My mother, Bettie Cohen, bloomed when planted here in Salisbury, joking later that she was following in her daughter’s footsteps. She became a business owner and was president of various local organizations, including the Salisbury Business and Professional Women’s Club, the Tri-County League of Women Voters, and the Jewish War Veterans Auxiliary. She became involved in local, state and national initiatives, many of which we did together and many of which dealt with policy making.
“Mom was with me in 2007 when I first won the public’s trust to serve on the Salisbury City Council. Since she joined Dad in 2009, both stand with me in spirit as I humbly ask again for the public’s trust to serve. “My parents did more than teach me the meaning of ‘family,’ ‘community,’ ‘hard work’ and ‘service.’ They showed me every day what these words truly mean and what could be achieved by being involved in Salisbury, by getting to know and love its people. "They chose to make a home in Salisbury with the last of their five children while seeing two others through college. Although neither of them had the opportunity to go to college and money was always tight, their belief in the importance of education and hard work was passed on to their children, resulting in all five of us earning university degrees. With similar determination, my family has chosen Salisbury as our home.
“Even with the problems and challenges it faces today, Salisbury still has incredible potential – the kind worth the long, late hours and dedication I’ve given it for nearly four years. It’s a labor of love – I do it for my children, for families of all kinds and sizes, for the hard workers like my parents were, for the wise seniors they grew to be, for the young adults yearning to discover their own opportunities.
“I can’t think of a better day to renew my commitment to making Salisbury the best it can and should be than the birthday of my father, who in partnership with my mother, moved our family from a big city halfway across the country to a relatively small but growing town and achieved a richness in quality of life that everyone should be blessed to have.”
The Salisbury 2011 primary is March 1, and the general election is April 5.
Cohen can be reached at 410-845-0296 or Terry@TerryCohen.com, whether related to her current capacity as a member of city council or regarding her upcoming campaign.
After Cohen officially files, her campaign website, http://www.terrycohen.com/, will become active.
Authority: Citizens for Terry Cohen - Rebecca A. Goss, Treasurer
20 comments:
Bummer! a camden neighborhood jackboot
The city of Salisbury would be crazy not to re-elect this woman. I do not live in the city of Salisbury, nor do I personally know Ms. Cohen, but I have watched her in televised city council meetings. She is one of the few sitting members who seems to have thoroughly researched issues, and when she doesn't have the required information necessary to vote responsibly, she requests such information. Good luck!
Thanks, Terry! So glad to have you on the council, and I look forward to your next term!
We are certainly glad to see her run for office. She is a plus for our community. Thank you Terry.
Terry is a hard worker and deserves re-election. I do wish she would pick battles more carefully so as not to always appear disagreeing with a majority of her peers.
No knock against Cohen, but does anyone actually govern anymore or just run a 24/7 campaign. Local, state, and national it seems to be the same game.
Micro management of dept. heads in the city, wasting tax payer funds on foolishness such as legal fees on dump truck purchases,and senseless arguements over contracts written by the citties legal dept. are the qualifications Terry brings to the council. We don't need this any more, what we do need is some comman sense candidates that will encourage growth in Salisbury, increase employment, and thus reduce crime.
7:48 obviously is a supporter of rubber stamps. The city's finance and legal departments have done more screw ups than Rosie the Riveter put in rivets.
It's not micromanagement to call out these things like wrong advertising for the old fire station 16. The dump truck? Holy Hannah, the mayor's own staff told Mrs. Cohen a budget amendment was needed, so wasn't she supposed to "trust the staff"?
Yeah, the staff that got that wrong! Either they told her wrong or they did need one and should have held off buying the darn thing till they got one.
The common sense lacking isn't Terry Cohen's. It's what surrounds her. Bunch of incompetents. Notice I spelled that right, too. In com pe tents!
7:48 --
And then there's the old fire house deal for $100,000, including land that the City administration didn't even advertise. Shame on her for wanting it done right.
Ms. Cohen is a watchdog that we badly need on the Council under Ireton just as much as when Barrie ruled the roost.
4:46 is a bummer -- slumlord maybe? What kind of a person refers to a Jewish person with a Nazi term like "jackboot"?
Also ignorant the Terry Cohen lives on the outer rim of Camden, actually in the University Neighborhood.
I actually wanted to say something different. This is really one of the most touching pieces I've ever seen an elected official do. I know Terry Cohen a little, but I didn't know these things about roots. Sure, a lot of politicians will tell you about their log cabins and walking 12 miles in the snow to school and all that.
But, I don't know, I can't explain it, but I read this and thought, wow, these were cool parents and here is a kid (all grown up) who seems so, well, grateful!
Just refreshing to see as I get up there in years myself.
6:12, but that's what the majority of her "peers" want - to make her look like the bad guy (Debbie Campbell, too) while they try to get away with one thing after another.
If Terry backed off to make herself look better, that's just what the scoundrels want and then there are a lot of things that would be even worse.
Keep at 'em, Terry. If they were doing things right, they wouldn't be trying to sneak them through.
Gosh I get tired of seeing the same people get on this blog who spew out the same old watchdog rhetoric and conspiracy theories. When you look at Terry Cohen as a council member, take off your damn rose colored glasses. As an older citizen of Salisbury, I make it my mission to watch every council meeting. In doing so, I have rarely seen Terry Cohen be sincere, only agenda motivated. Terry appears to me to be a political opportunist who uses the real problems of Salisbury citizens for political maneuvering. She also espouses to be an expert in every field of study which is hard to take from anyone, let alone a council member. Additionally, the nasty commentary and the continual attempt at public humiliation of city employees creates bad moral for the city as a whole. Terry's lack of civility wreaks of bad management skills and bad judgement. Those people who encourage that type of behavior are obviously opposed to real productivity and responsible leadership. We've had over a decade of that type of negativity. Arguing over minutia has not helped this city's reputation. We need real leaders like in the days of old who hear everyone's problems, hear everyone's input and seek cost effective solutions. We all can write a heartwarming story about our parents. It is time to vote Terry Cohen out.
Great! Another term of her time wasting!
Cohen, Campbel & Spies!
Paralysis grips City Council.
Time to move.
Speaking about the firehouse deal. Just heard Palmer has filed papers to dredge where the two pieces of property he bought underhandly. Wants to build a bar and a floating bar on that piece of property. I guess when the open space is bought back we the taxpayers will make nothing on the sale of the firehouse.
LORA was right about that wolf in sheeps clothing.
I guess a couple of our councilmen will get paid off in the end.
Terri keep their noses to the grindstone.
Terry and Debbie are what is right with the city council when there are other wrong factors. And the taxpayers know who the wrong are.
The good old boy system now walks with a limp thanks to these fine ladies.
Thanks to you both, and thank you Terry for running again. Good Luck
8:45 Sounds like Palmer Gillis speaking. She,Terry, ask the difficult questions and he didnt like being ask anything...just sign the paper.!
Debbie and Terry need to keep asking questions and remind developers they DO NOT run the City of Salisbury.
Gosh 8:45 must be part of the status quo insiders of Salisbury.
I watch PAC14 regularly and I have never heard Terry Cohen push an agenda, be rude to employees (disagree maybe, but not rude) or profess to be "an expert" at everything, but when treated like dirt for expressing an intelligent opinion, she has sometimes disclosed her experience in an area, which is part of why she got elected! She is smart, educated, experienced and well read!
If Terry Cohen looks mean to you, maybe it's because she has been holding the line on people like you who have had your way with Salisbury at the expense of every day people.
She's got my vote. Run, Terry, Run!
Sign me,
An EVERY DAY citizen!!!!!!!!!!!!
All right, I finally read something here that's causing me to post.
8:45 said...
"We all can write a heartwarming story about our parents."
Speak for yourself, buddy. My father was an abusive womanizer and my mother coped by drinking herself to death instead of getting us kids out of there. I left home at 16 and got my own life going, including college.
I read this and was impressed that this person 8:45 paints as so negative would let the public know about her re-election bid by talking about the example her parents set and how important this community is to her.
(I was also a bit jealous that she had great parents. What I wouldn't have given to know that.)
If Salisbury's staff feels humiliated by honest and intelligent questions, something is really wrong with the staff. I've watched those meetings. Cohen has complimented staff members. But when she has questioned them so she can decide a vote, they sometimes give wrong answers or act like she has a lot of nerve asking them a question!
I don't know how two people watching those meetings can have such different feelings as 8:45 and I have, but I can say this:
My impressions are based solely on watching the meetings on PAC14. I've never met Cohen, I've never come to a meeting in person, and I'm not a developer, landlord or socially important person. 8:45 sounds like someone with a dog in the political fight.
Maybe if the city people had done a better job for the last 10 years, Cohen wouldn't have to point out what's wrong and seem so negative to 8:45. But I'm glad she does because nothing will ever get better if someone just goes along for the ride to seem nice.
10:09 and 10:36 - Sounds like you also have a dog in the political fight. Incidently, all people who live in Salisbury are "everyday citizens",
so stop acting like you are better than anyone else.
I often ponder why folks are willing to overlook Terry and Debbie being in bed together? Debbie and Terry continually get a free pass on their back door deals and their waste of taxpayer dollars. Hell, they share a website. I guess if your corruption is in plain sight, it's ok. We need council members who think for themselves. Decisions impacting the entire city need not be made in Debbie Campbell's living room.
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