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A county dumps ‘councilman’ and other gender specific titles on the ballot because words matter

It was a year ago in April that I filed my petition to run for borough council in Mountainside. I was part of the feminist blue wave, the record breaking number of women who signed up to run for office in the wake of the 2016 election. Our ticket consisted of two...
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