Rainbow did it!
After a sleepless Monday night, I
slept quite peacefully on Election night. The reason was the rainbow!
As soon as I saw it at the Gateway Industries packed parking lot on
Election day, about 4:30, I knew we’ll be OK. Not only did it presage
victory, but it also signified all the people of all ages, and colors,
and races, and religions, and sexual orientations, and what not, who
participated in the long haul these 2 years. We carried petitions,
knocked on doors, made phone calls, held meetings, attended resistance
training sessions, and HOPED. I also knew we are on a good track when
on Monday a life-long Republican friend told me that she will vote
Democratic!
Reading the results of our voting on Wednesday
morning, I wept tears of joy! Even the weather rejoiced! Do you
remember how numbed and desperate we felt that grim and rainy Wednesday 2
years ago?
However, we have to remain being diligent, and
organized, and work as hard, if not harder, as the evil continues to
ooze out of that ignorant, arrogant, self-centered, vindictive troll.
Misha Harnick
Publication history:
New Platz News 11/22/18
Thursday, November 22, 2018
Wednesday, November 21, 2018
"Lawn signs & racist remarks" Letter to the editor Andi Weiss Bartczak
To the editor:
Who
among us has not driven by a lawn sign for a despised candidate and not
wished to stop and yank it out of the ground? But I remind myself that
if I can do it, so could
opponents of the candidates I support. So I restrain myself. Laura C.
Ebert is rightfully charged for the misdemeanor of petit larceny for
stealing two campaign signs in Rosendale, but she should also be charged
for damaging the fabric of society. It will
be interesting to compare how SUNY New Paltz will react to her action
as compared to how it reacted to the racist remarks of Professor Gerald
Benjamin about the African American who ran for Congress in the 19th district. Although Mr. Benjamin didn’t
steal any object, he, like Ms. Ebert, damaged the fabric of our society. Some people believed that it should have led to a stronger reaction from SUNY New Paltz, despite Mr. Benjamin’s apology. Will
the fact that he is higher up in the college hierarchy than this adjunct make a difference?
Andi Weiss Bartczak
Publishing history: Daily Freeman: November 21, 29018
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