Markey supporter hopes for bigger turnout in June election

Dear Editor:

Despite the understandable reluctance of local pols and their followers to support Ed Markey in this primary, I am sure we all recognize that the right choice was made by the people of this state. Markey will lend the gravitas, awareness and progressiveness that our country needs as he joins his friend Elizabeth Warren in the Senate.

But he can’t get there until he wins the general election June 25 against the Republican candidate, a Scott Brown clone with the same money backing him. Please, you voters who told me, “I voted for Scott Brown because he was so good looking, so that was the same reason I’ll vote for Ed Markey,” educate yourself on the issues. Fortunately, we had Lynch’s record to compare against his flip-flopping words. With this newly minted Republican, we have no record to look at, only the history of Republicans to march in lockstep to whatever pro-rich, pro Big Oil, pro NRA, pro Big Pharma brainwashing their money can buy.

We folks from Massachusetts have the brains and analytical skills to determine who will protect women’s rights the best, who will support environmental laws to produce alternative energy and diminish Monsanto’s ability to poison our earth with their pesticides, etc.

Where were the banners last Tuesday proclaiming that it was an election day? We were open until 8 p.m. and few people came. I think they don’t mean to and many are waking up today saying, “I forgot all about it. I was so tired from working or whatever issue came up.” Next time, let’s put those banners on every entrance to the town: Neponset Street, Washington Street, Dedham Street.

June 25 is the next important election day. Thank goodness, we know that every vote you make counts, since we are not hampered by town borders on that day. Today we can rejoice because once again we have given all Democrats a leader who is respected by the administration and his peers in the Senate for his work in getting the American Disabilities Act passed, for voting for your right NOT to be denied coverage for existing conditions, for taking BP to task for its continuing pollution of our nation’s beaches and buffer lands, for supporting women’s reproductive rights, etc.

Remember, the polling booth is private. Once inside that booth, you can vote however you wish, regardless of what external forces have manipulated you otherwise. You are an American and can exercise one of the few rights we still have, the right to vote — the right to determine who among us is strong and resilient enough to withstand the paralysis that now afflicts our Congress.

Thank you for voting.

Alice Brown

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Posted by Canton Citizen on May 9 2013. Filed under From One Citizen to Another, Opinion. Both comments and pings are currently closed.