This article contains something I haven't heard from a politician in decades.
The article is simply about rampant NIMBY-related activities by a little New York community regarding a proposed group home in their neighborhood. While the subject matter is something I find interesting, it's not what I'm writing about.
What the article contains is an expectation about the public from a politician.
The people who made those objections are better by far than their comments, and they will eventually come to realize it.
I'd vote for the guy just based on that one sentence. The rest of the article is just as good. He manages to say all the things that
need to be said about the shameful things that the citizens of the town are doing and saying, and to do it in such a way that he comes across not as a scold, but as a disappointed parent who
knows that his kid can do better.
I know absolutely nothing about him outside of the website, but I'm sick of panderers and con-men saying whatever they think will get them elected. The sight of a once (fairly) dignified establishment GOP politicians spewing the latest Tea Party conspiracy theory in a (usually) futile effort to not get replaced by the latest clown to pop out of the wind-up box of crazy that the Tea Party apparently keeps in their toybox just makes me sad. And hearing Democrats give lip service to progressive policies while really just voting for "progress" as the moneyed interests define it just makes me irritated. But just this once, in that tiny corner of the Northeast, there's a guy who asks his constituents to step up to the plate.
There's interviews, too, but I'll have to listen to them later.