to a meeting in today s also climate is deeply uncomfortable and running for office is out of the question. and the next school board election in my town is in march. joining us by phone is erica coleman, chair of the dairy school board, new hampshire. erica, thank you for being with us. you make two distinct points, and i want to address both of them. the first one is that this comes in the way of civic duty. this comes in the way of people like you, volunteers, typically, who get in involved in gateway levels of public participation, and that will be discouraged. we ll have you are good people who want to be involved in politics. yes, my biggest fear is that we re breaking down what needs to be out the discussion, without our discussion you can t exchange ideas, but because of all the victory are going on, i don t respond to speakers unless i respond in a very so things can be cut or posted