16 Days and Counting…

 …Because the reshuffling continues at town hall and the departure of yet another Clerk-Treasurer ought to alarm even the most complacent Edgewood resident. 

• Commissioner Murillo’s habit of micro-managing town staff shows no signs of abating. 
• His suggestions for dealing with the collapse of the Fire/EMS JPA were unrealistic.
• More recently, his bullying of Ms. Witt during  the June 9, 2026 meeting should be a clear signal to the other Commissioners that he lacks the understanding necessary in order to function effectively as Commissioner. 
• Allowing him to continue in a leadership role would be a mistake. 

51 Days and Counting…

… Because in 2021 a group of soon-to-become Town Commissioners said, “Vote for us and stop the train wreck!” Turns out they were the train wreck disguised as a Federalist debating society that opens its meetings with a prayer and two pledges. 

Remember that Locomotive Flying off Into the Chasm from those campaign flyers? It was a powerful image and no doubt swayed the vote, but today it looks more like an instance of unintentional prediction. 

• One person said to me after the collapse of the JPA became public, “If the town had bought out EPCOR, all that would have happened was that we’d be paying our water bill to ourselves instead of a foreign corporation, and the employees would get new shirts with the Town Logo. Losing our Fire/EMS services, now that’s a real train-wreck!” 
• In the town’s early days, Council meetings were heavily attended even when the agendas were routine. The Community Center was a place where you could meet a variety of people from the different groups that make up Edgewood. After the meetings, the best discussions happened in the parking lot. Very often the discussions ended with a handshake and a civil agreement to disagree before we got into our vehicles to take different routes home. 
• That doesn’t happen much any more. Instead we have social media as the playing field where people don’t talk to each other, they talk past each other. The more proficient users have recruited proxies that start different sub-groups which act as “agree and amplify” repeaters. It’s not all that difficult to map the virtual terrain or even to ID those using fake names. 
• Those tactics are effective at getting people elected, but all too often those who are best at campaigning turn out to be not so good at doing their jobs once elected.  
• There are even indications of who may have created the flyer which mysteriously appeared inside the meeting chambers on April 28. 
• That flyer had a faux town logo, a “dummy” QR code and was made up of an amalgam of stock photos and a bunch of “boo you” scare taglines. “AI slop put together by amateurs!” was one of the reactions I’ve seen. Another, more common reaction, was “Good grief, my tax dollars are paying for that frivolous BS???”
• The sad part: someone may have tricked the town into a violation of the Governmental Conduct Act (GCA) and left one or more employees to take the blame.