Voting Is Your Right
Maureen Scallen Failor, DCR Chamber President
In the next few weeks, we as citizens will have an opportunity to cast our votes for federal, state, and local offices. Without saying how old I am, I remember past elections where campaigns were more about working on bipartisan initiatives to help Americans achieve their dreams and to raise their families with resources to provide a comfortable way of living. We did not worry about the rising need for housing for the homeless, services for the mentally ill, or ensuring our communities were safe. Candidates debated respectfully, offering differing points of view. Fast forward, we now have a very divided government that seems to thrive on partisan politics, and there is little interest in “working across the aisle.” As leaders of our communities and businesses, we need to hold our public officials accountable, and continually push for more unity. Democracy is the bedrock of our country, and we need to preserve and protect it. How we do that is to vote.
