| It is apparent that some political partisans are making their efforts known to make sure elections are held at large with the new Charter. If you disagree with them, they threaten to veto the whole process. They seem to believe that when they speak, all voting citizens will blindly follow of their political party. They use fear of your fellow neighbor as their logic.
I believe the charter is an improvement in representative government, accountability, and making sure more citizens become part of the process. Having an Executive voted at Large, while council members representing districts insure a system of checks and balances.
Elections at large do have good points, but they also have given partisan political parties more say in who become volunteers for the various county committees and commissions. In some cases favoring ideologies instead of favoring commitment and ability. Instead of those dedicated to all children and services, we find those dedicated to promoting only some children and some services. This hurts all of us, even those who vote to the right, middle or left way.
Listen to the destructive arguments of the past political party chairs, its not just disagreement, its the onslaught of demonization of those who disagree. Painting them all with the same brush, all in the name of being a good neighbor?
In a democratic republic such as ours, we need those who win and loose in elections participating after the dust is cleared. They are our neighbors, not the demons Mr. Dietz, Mr. Hartman and Mr. McCool would have you believe. We elected officials to listen to us, your neighbors, not just to them.
We need communatarians, not politicians. We need government leaders dedicated to human justice, not dedicated to listening to the political diatribes of partisan political parties.
Mick Sheldon
Kingston. |
