Last Minute Dirty Politics

There have been many good people working hard in our community hoping to serve on our council to make our city better.  There has been a few incidents of dirty politics already, and my expectation is that they will explode over the weekend.

We have had posters show us the anonymous mailers against Lynn.  There was a newspaper article alleging the same thing is happening against Bill Boom in the third ward (I would love to see this one as well).  These are illegal by the way.  You are not allowed to distribute political literature without saying who you are.

I have tried to provide a forum here where people can look at facts and exchange ideas so they will be informed for the election.  Unfortunately, even that will be abused in the next few days as desperate lobbyists attempt to subvert the democratic process by vague allegations and unprovable innuendos.  I hope the average voter will take these attacks for what they are and not allow themselves to be swayed because some jerk thinking of his/her own benefit tries to cloud the real issues.

There are some great candidates out there.  I am saddened that some may have knowledge of these tactics and allow them to happen anyway. 

The next two years we can accomplish a lot if we can put aside our history of negativity and move forward together.  This starts by ignoring those who want to distract you from the real issues.  We have crime problems.  We need better jobs for our area.  We need the west side sewer tunnel and the Promise could be a great tool.  We have inflated property taxes, slum landlords who are sucking the equity out of neighborhoods, and a flat growth rate.  Pick an issue, any issue, but PLEASE, don’t fall for the smears which are coming on full steam.