The Oak Bluffs select board unanimously approved its controversial flag policy on Tuesday, despite previously agreeing to fly the Progress Pride flag for two weeks in June. The decision to fly the Pride flag on town property still stands, according to the select board and town counsel Ron Rappaport, because it was agreed upon before […]
To the Editor: The Oak Bluffs Democratic Town Committee would like to thank our Oak Bluffs Planning Board for their continuing scrutiny of this very controversial MVRHS proposal. We as residents of Oak Bluffs, actively concerned about the welfare of our fellow citizens, and very much dependent on our public water supply, want to express […]
Oak Bluffs voters gathered for the town’s special and annual town meetings, held at the Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School’s Performing Arts Center on Tuesday. Far surpassing quorum requirements, it was the first Oak Bluffs annual town meeting held indoors since 2019. Select board member Brian Packish opened the meeting with the acknowledgement of recently […]
To the Editor: The Oak Bluffs Democratic Town Committee would like to demonstrate our support for state-enabling legislation to fund an Islandwide housing bank on Martha’s Vineyard. Citizens can join us by casting your votes at town meeting and in your town’s election. The crisis of affordable housing on Martha’s Vineyard is a crisis for […]
The Martha s Vineyard Times
Time to end the filibuster
To the Editor:
We believe now is the time to end the filibuster. Our Oak Bluffs Democratic Town Committee members believe that the filibuster is an age-old relic of our nation’s pro-slavery and Jim Crow past. It has been used to obstruct every piece of civil rights legislation that has gone forward.
The filibuster was originally used by former South Carolina Senator John Calhoun with the intent of empowering the planter class and blocking progress on ending slavery. The framers never intended the filibuster to be in the Constitution, nor is the filibuster part of a constitutional amendment.