Overthrowing your local government

I was talking yesterday with someone who lives in a very rural area. He had many derogatory things to say about his three person Town Board. What exactly he called them is irrelevant. Funny… but irrelevant. He wanted to know how to “change their mind” on an particular issue.

I told him that in order for them to “change their mind” implies they have one to change in the first place. And, he had just spent 15 minutes telling me that wasn’t the case.

I explain in Moving Mountains and Molehills Local Politics 101  as a last resort, if the issue is that important to you, sometimes you just have to take matters into your own hands and throw the bums out. This is a three member Town Board. It only takes two to overthrow it. 

When a discussion takes that turn, suddenly the issue is not near as important as it just was.

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