No One Beside Her

Sheryl and I attended the Three Rivers mayoral debate last night at the Playhouse in Georgetown. A small crowd came out to listen. This was my first real interaction with our municipal government, and the candidates are all strangers to me. I suppose it’s on me to understand who these people are and what they do, but judging from last night, most of them don’t understand their roles either.Like so much public debate these days, it was full of confusion about what local government actually does. Robert Rafuse claimed the sewer system was at 110% capacity, a number he admitted he made up. He and Janice MacBeth agreed that relying on a 2022 study is not the way to do things. “Less studies, more action.” MacBeth wants to buy “beautiful land” and sell it to young people at what would have to be a loss, with no mention of where millions of dollars at today’s land prices would come from. She also proposed marketing support and micro-grants for local businesses, which would duplicate what the…