2025 Life Logs, Day 79: Luncheon, Meeting, Meeting, Town Hall
Date: Thursday March 20, 2025
Weather: Cloudy, Foggy; High Temp 47, Low 42 degrees F
Location: At Home on Lakeview Avenue with My Shadow, Falmouth, MA
These are busy days. I attended an Encore Lunch In at noon, wedged in a short meeting where I decided to run in the town election for a 3-year position as one of the Trustees of the Public Library and went to Town Hall to pull my papers to make it official,
attended an Encore gathering of new board members for next year, and then traveled off the Cape for a 6:30 pm Town Meeting with our Representative to the US House, Bill Keating.
Keating entered the political world in 1977, so he is certainly not new to representing his constituency. And in the past 60 days, he has stood up for what is right. But tonight was a tough meeting. There were a few very angry people who want to know what Democrats in Washington are going to do to stop the dismantling of our government. Keating calmly explained that there is not a lot Democrats can do right now. But that answer was not what these people wanted to hear. I guess it is an answer that none of us wants to hear. I support what Keating has been doing up to this point, but I agree that playing by the rules might not be a strategy against actions made by the opposing party who is not playing by any rules. The one thing that was made clear is that it is up to the people to make their voices heard.
