BELLOWS FALLS — As most people know, there is a vast difference between telling the truth and telling people what they want to hear.
In that space, many suppositions lie. For some, hidden agendas are acted out and untruths are spoken. A lack of diligence to the elected position is taken while sitting in the seat, a lack of action and of purpose.
This is the pabulum of bureaucracy, of making that sour taste of higher taxes and poor administration go down just a little bit easier, if you care to swallow it.
For others, like myself, we see an opportunity to learn the 21st century requirements of the position:
• To seek out how best to do what is needed in the time allotted.
• To face challenges caused by years of inattention to the tasks, and correcting the course of municipal responsibility run aground.
• To take action where necessary, and not to wait on others to do so.
• To stand in that place once firmly substantiated, no matter how unpleasant, despite the false shoutings of a few misled others.
• To tell the truth behind our actions, and sleep well at night with those decisions.
These are the things that I feel are not just needed, but absolutely demanded, in filling an elected seat in this time and this place.