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Rotterdam should unite against divided Democrats

    Recently I was amused to receive an advertisement for a slate of townwide candidates that proclaimed, “Let’s Reunite Rotterdam.”
    Rotterdam is united. The fl ooding and aftermath of Hurricane Irene has shown us that. The caring neighbors and helping hands of residents throughout town, who reached out to help those who’d lost everything, proves how united we are. But we are big enough to ignore that insult. The world doesn’t revolve around their petty political squabbles.
    Clearly the politicians of the Rotterdam Democratic Party are not united, but asking the residents to vote them in again, even though they occupy every single offi ce in town, and even the county Legislature district is kind of foolish.
    Since they hold every seat and, through their own fault, are not united, asking us to blindly elect them again reminds me of the arsonist who sets a house on fi re, then rushes in to save the inhabitants to become a hero! Maybe they tried to say, “Reignite Rotterdam.”
    I think this year every voter should overlook their entire line and skip to the one below it. If they can’t be united when every last official in town is of the same party and need to “rescue” us (from themselves), then what other option do we have? Let’s not reward them by giving them another term.

MARY L. FAHY
Rotterdam

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Since they hold every seat and, through their own fault, are not united, asking us to blindly elect them again reminds me of the arsonist who sets a house on fi re, then rushes in to save the inhabitants to become a hero! Maybe they tried to say, “Reignite Rotterdam.”
    I think this year every voter should overlook their entire line and skip to the one below it. If they can’t be united when every last official in town is of the same party and need to “rescue” us (from themselves), then what other option do we have? Let’s not reward them by giving them another term.