During my time in politics – as a campaign manager, a public official, and speaking in public hearings – I’ve come to learn that there are essentially two types of people that work in local government.
The overwhelming majority answer the call to public service and govern with a genuine desire to improve the lives of their constituents and protect our most vulnerable populations.
Then there are the few that govern as if they carved out their own corner of the universe to lord over and are only interested in their own power and ability to use that power spitefully.
Earlier this week, in a New Bedford Traffic Commission hearing, I spoke on behalf of a friend who was petitioning for a handicapped parking space to be designated on the street in front of the walkway to their home. I explained to the commission that the petitioner has had several surgeries in the past two years which resulted in metal screws being installed in their extremities, a rod in their midsection as well a
Supporters were somehow expecting something different?
Regrets are flooding Twitter like an exaltation of Egrets: beautiful to behold, but ultimately leaving a massive trail of poop. You can’t say you weren’t warned.
In the news today: two new Biden schemes, one to redistribute more wealth to poor people, another to enrich super-wealthy Dem donors. This is what I mean when I say that Democrats are the party of the poor and politically connected rich at the expense of the middle class.
People are shocked.. Literally SHOCKED that Joe Biden’s policies are… bad for the country. Gasp , but… but… but, we voted for Transgender equality at the expense of our women of color and daughters.