We Deserve Our Government
Formerly Unpublished Article By Tony Domenech from before the 2007 Mayoral Election
In Saturday’s Virtual Town Hall Meeting published by the Gainesville Sun, writers Kay the Losen and Terry Martin-Back mentioned a couple of issues which got me to thinking. Mr. Martin-Back wrote “mob rule” was worse than a representative republic and called for the voters to “establish a platform and run against the incumbents” if we weren’t pleased. Ms. the Losen suggested it was “time to resort to common sense.”
While I strongly agree with them, unfortunately neither will happen in our community and I’ll tell you why. There are 68,800 registered voters in the City of Gainesville, of those only about 15%, at best, will turn out for the city election Tuesday, March 6th (I’m betting the percentage will be closer to 12%). continue reading »