To the Editor: Shame on you for making Erik Albert’s latest complaint a “Hot Topic Letter” without checking any of his allegations. If you’d bothered to ask any member of West Tisbury’s Task Force Against Discrimination, you would have learned that we put Mr. Albert on our agenda over a year ago at his request […]
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Officers elected for Democratic Council
In mid-January, the Democratic Council of Martha’s Vineyard (known as the M.V. Dems) elected its officers for 2021–23. The incoming officers are Steve Power, chair; Nicola Blake, vice chair; Susanna J. Sturgis, secretary; Carla Cooper, treasurer; and Holly MacKenzie, immediate past president. All five officers are longtime Vineyarders who have been active in Democratic and other community activities in recent years.
“First, let me thank Holly MacKenzie for an excellent job as our chair for two years,” incoming chair Steve Power said in a press release. “Rather than a change, I see my tenure as an extension of the great work Holly and her team have done. We are overjoyed and relieved to have a Democratic president and the first-ever woman vice president in Washington, and look forward to supporting them in any way we can.”
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Both houses of Congress need to impeach
To the Editor:
On Wednesday, Jan. 6, Vineyard activists woke up to the welcome news that the Rev. Raphael Warnock had won his special election, and was now a U.S. senator-elect from Georgia. Warnock has a close relationship with the Vineyard. He has preached at the First Congregational Church in West Tisbury, where his longtime friend and former classmate, the Rev. Cathlin Baker, is the pastor; she has reciprocated at his church, Ebenezer Baptist in Atlanta. This past summer, many of us attended a Zoom fundraiser for Warnock, and many more of us have made phone calls, texted, written postcards, and donated to support his campaign.