What's at stake in this election; Part 2

The thought-provoking news article reported here on Patch about a Board of Education member resigning, while the board member who is about to be sentenced for his conviction of a felonious crime has not should tell us everything we need to know about the nature and ethical standards of politics in government, in our little town of East Haven.

That our illustrious mayor would seemingly add insult to injury by making a mindless and fatuous comment that speaks more of his indifference, only challenges the mind for it clearly makes one wonder, if he and his fellow officials in his own party still subscribe to the fact that as public officials, they represent an interest, greater than their own and their party’s beside?

But given the vagaries of those where power resides, whose sense of entitlement seems to know no bounds, who would have us believe that right is what they say and do, not what we think, leaves us with little choice except to criticize and wait for the legal recourse aptly named Election to come and save us from ourselves, hopefully, perhaps.

As a declared mayoral candidate my observations admittedly could be described as being subjective and therefore biased (if viewed by a myopic eye) but I challenge the non-believers to prove me otherwise.

Surely we know that reputation takes nearly forever to build and only minutes to destroy but the more profound question that confronts us and which we have for decades ignored is this:

Is the scandal laden history of our government the best inheritance we could leave behind?

And if I may quote the author H Jackson Brown: “Commit yourself to a mighty purpose.”

Let us leave our children and those others we leave behind a legacy worthy of our name and their future.

Oni Sioson

Candidate for Mayor

East Haven, CT.