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Depressing to me that we still are assassinating politicians in this country. My earliest memory is JFK in 1963. I was 5 years old when he died. Then RFK. Then George Wallace was gunned down in Maryland. Reagan. Giffords. Scalise. Many more I am missing. Political violence is a bipartisan problem. Seems overwhelming to me. What can we do to stop it? But the Town of Leland. This we can deal with. There are more of us than there are of them. In my opinion the argument over whether the council should stay in power is over. Should the town manager keep his job? Over. Should anyone at the director level keep their jobs? Over. Should we decimate the head count? (layoff 1 out 10) Over. Now it's time for us to do the work. We need to overcome voter apathy. We need to overcome the chardonnay commandos that bloviate for entertainment. We need to overcome the voters that approve of what's happening here. And there is a statistically significant number of those. This is as grassroots a situation as there ever was. No one is resigning. Doesn't look like any help is coming through a recall. Forget about the LGA. That fix is in. (As an aside: they received 100 emails opposing the debt increase. 100 out of 30,000 voters. Pathetic. No wonder the council is so bold.) Maybe there are not more of us than them. It's past time for us to do the work. We need 10 citizens to step forward as candidates for office. Two of them for next year and three more for 2027. I am not advocating for keeping the political pot boiling for the next three years. It's time for quiet, consistent effort on all our parts to fix what we have in our power to fix. No cavalry is coming to our rescue. We have to rescue overselves.

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