Has Tuesday's local election been cancelled in Paris for lack of interest?
Signs everywhere; fallen down in some places and piled up on the ground, there are so many. State and county candidates, these are.
Things happening re. the ballots in Oxford; Norway; Harrison.
Now, in Paris, except for a single Paris Utility District candidate ad in a local paper, as of today, not a peep.
Nothing about absentee ballots - or an election in 4 days - advertised anywhere outside on the grounds of the Paris town office.
Two candidates for Paris selectmen, and no one campaigning - or even talking - anywhere...because no competition makes victory a matter of fact, you say? So why bother? The public will take what they get and like it - or not - you say?
Who needs a mandate when one can just take the job by default and then proceed as if one does have a mandate.....
But to not even pretend an interest in getting people out to vote? To extend an invitation? To show a modicum of interest in the voters themselves?
For more information please see TPR posting of May 19.
