Published February 23. 2021 6:23PM
Young people are the future, we hear, leading politicians to relentlessly encourage us to become involved and bring our ideas to the table. I recall volunteering for the Groton Democrats during the 2019 municipal election and hearing from these leaders, Mayor Hedrick included, about the importance of youth activism. I felt inspired, as they led me to believe that young peoples’ voices are valued.
However, it appears that youth involvement means little to them when young people, like Aundré Bumgardner, challenge their authority.
Bumgardner has been accused of being too inexperienced to be mayor. This claim stems from Aundré’s youth, an assertion that aims to paint young people as naïve and unqualified. This argument is designed to discredit us, allowing the status-quo to maintain power.
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Published January 18. 2021 12:01AM
John Wirzbicki
The ticket of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris won the presidential election. They won by a comfortable margin in the Electoral College and with a historic numerical margin in the popular vote. This is a fact, and it is a fact of which Republican politicians, both nationally and locally, are perfectly aware.
It is not surprising that President Donald Trump chose to deny this basic truth and attempt to steal the election by dubious legal means if he could, or by illegal means if he must. It is a given that it was Trump’s lies and incitements to violence, amplified by the right-wing media, that whipped up the seditious crowd that stormed the Capitol on January 6, the first time the United States government has been attacked in its capital since the Civil War.