YOU People Can Change Salisbury – But Will You?

Today in the Daily Times is one of the most OUTRAGEOUS articles I’ve seen in a long time. “Council stuck in four corners” – ya think?

You would think an article like that would say what I’ve been saying for months, that as much as we ALL want to see Gary Comegys beat his cancer, he needs to do what’s best for the city and resign. The remaining four council members will just have to find SOMEONE in this city that at least three of them can agree on as his replacement.

But no, all this article does is provide a one-sided account of Louise Smith whining that it was perfectly okay for her to shut down the business of the city because of her demand that no one question her, plus a plug by the wife of a Daily Times editor and by the mayor how their employer (the Board of Education) is blocked from getting what it want (buses on Onley Road) because there’s no “third vote.”

From what I hear, the Daily Times reporter didn’t even stay past the first item on the agenda and wasn’t there for the towing discussion or Louise Smith’s meltdown as council president. Did Laura D’Alessandro even listen to the audio of that meeting? Did she even call another council member for a balanced report?

Of course not, because this is the Barrie Tilghman playbook all over again. Louise (Barrie) the victim (not!) runs to the newspaper (Tilghman Times) and whines how it’s everybody else’s fault (Debbie Campbell, Terry Cohen, the Dirty Dozen, Joe Albero, the Camden people, the Tooth Fairy) and how everybody should give her whatever she and her FOBs/FOLs want (a $14 million Fire Palace, an $82 million Wastewater Treatment Plant that doesn’t work right, increased funding for PAC14 while police officers are furloughed – you know the list that gets rammed down your throats).

Look, folks, I KNOW it’s not easy! Every single day, I’m out there in the community getting YOU what you need to know. Each and every day, I’m posting this information with MY name and face attached to it. Every day, you get an opportunity to comment on this blog or even to contact me directly and speak your mind, often without having to put your name to it.

But don’t you think it’s time you STAND UP and take YOUR city back? Where are your letters to the editor to the Daily Times calling for Louise Smith to quit her whining and DO HER JOB?!!? Or for Gary Comegys to do the right thing and resign? Where are the faces and names at the Monday night podium saying ENOUGH IS ENOUGH?

For that matter, at this point, Louise should resign. The council needs a leader, NOT a dictator, and Louise has shown time and time again, she is NOT a leader. If she resigned, even if Gary didn’t, the council would function much better with just three members in attendance. Oh, that’s right, those three would have to pick her replacement – and maybe it would be somebody who would DO THE JOB!

I know, I know. You’re thinking it won’t matter if you stand up and say ENOUGH! It sure seems like it most of the time.

Honestly, though, folks, as much as I love seeing the thousands of comments that come into this blog and I know your “leaders” read them, you HAVE to GET OUT THERE with a NAME and a FACE and say ENOUGH!

Salisbury News has given you proof that there’s power in numbers. And you know, talking about numbers, Debbie Campbell got HUNDREDS more votes in her election than Louise Smith did in hers. Where are you people? Debbie Campbell is working her heart out for you, day in, day out. Are you just going to leave her to twist in the wind and whim and whining of Louise Smith?

I don’t get it. You folks vote in real workers like Debbie Campbell and Terry Cohen, then you don’t show up to back them (except for you few brave ones who deserve a real pat on the back). I’ve said it before, if I were them, I’d say to heck with this!

So what’s it going to be? Staying home and complaining anonymously OR taking a stand and saying, no, REQUIRING, that ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!?

I hope the answer to that is a good one.