Brattleboro, Vermont Selectboard Un-Candidate #18

     The meeting finally ended, and it had almost been the longest on record. I got up feeling stiff, awkward, and out of place. My nerves were shot, and when I got home, I kept thinking I couldn't do this anymore. I felt alienated and alone. Like I was living a nightmare. I wondered if I would be shunned for my pro-individual, pro-business and employment views. I had trouble relaxing enough to get to sleep. I wondered if I would fall apart and had to go to the ER for an anti-psychotic, promising all that I would be an ingratiating, spineless, socialist sheeple the rest of my life.
     I was no better the next morning except for a brief thought that said, "Now you're fighting." With that thought, came a brief feeling of self-respect. I had just about finished a day of alienation and tension, when I happened to speak to someone about the selectboard meeting. This person said, "Yeah, I know about them. My friend had a restaurant on the river, and they took his parking lot, telling him take it or leave. He had no parking lot so he left. They don't care."
     So this taking parking lots so businesses will close and people will be unemployed is a pattern for the selectboard. And there were other people besides me who cared.
     To my knowledge, and I can't afford to subscribe to the Reformer, that paper has never shown a map of that mile and a half on Putney Road being widened to show lines where the widening with encroach on the fifty private properties. All that paper has to do is show that mile and a half of Putney road plus the side roads and a line on each side of the road showing where the widening will encroach on property. Very simple and very plain. If this hasn't been done for the people, I ask the Reformer why not? Is it because you're lazy or is it because you don't want the people to know? You want people uninformed so they don't know what's going on and thus will have no say over it? You are not democratic, but totalitarian? Just what are you trying to reform - democracy to totalitarianism?
Sure looks like it!
Peter Nickerson  352-359-0850  Who's fighting for you, Brattleboro? I am!