Final Thoughts

Early voting started yesterday as we count down to the end of the nastiest local election cycle yet.

For those of you who use Facebook as your only news source, I feel sorry for you. For the most part, it is all vitriol and falsehoods all the time. A place for the few to lie to the many.

Yet with the loss of news outlets, how is a voter supposed to remain informed? It is getting harder to do so, but you need to try. Remember that almost every government meeting is now recorded and you can play it back from their website or YouTube. That probably will give you the best information because it is unfiltered.

I do have my candidate preferences, and I have made no secret of my complete disdain for Boss Collins. He is, in my opinion, the worst thing to hit Martin County since Francis & Jean.

I have presented the positives about who I believe are or will be good public servants but have hardly mentioned their opponents. I haven’t called them names or impugned their characters. You can’t say that for Facebook.

Being involved on a daily basis with government and politics, I understand more than most casual observers. Most people don’t have the time to spend studying the many meetings, documents, and nuances necessary to ferret out the best candidates. Giving you information is one of the prime reasons I have published Friends & Neighbors for over a decade.

On the evening of August 18th, we should know who has been elected. Will it be the choices I want to see? One thing is for sure…the voters will decide.

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Friends and Neighbors of Martin County is your eyes and ears so that you know what is going on in Martin County’s municipal and county governments. I attempt to be informative and timely so that you may understand how your tax money is being spent. Though I go to the meetings and report back, I am no substitute for your attending meetings. Your elected officials should know what is on your mind.

Tom Campenni 772-341-7455 (c) Email: thomasfcampenni@gmail.com