In a recent letter, Crystal Cavanaugh stated there was no ROT ticket for the 2024 council election. However, in that same letter, just six sentences later, Ms. Cavanaugh stated “It was only after Gayle Earle won her seat outright in the July primary that ROT endorsed and identified the three remaining Conservative candidates in the fall on our website for the General Election.”
Endorsing candidates but claiming there was no ROT ticket is completely illogical. What else would endorsing a set of candidates be doing if not creating a ROT ticket?
But the election is history and, as Kim Bartman stated at the Nov. 19, 2024, Town Council meeting, “negativity won” (along with smearing of candidates, misinformation and name-calling). Whether there was a ROT ticket or not, what matters now is whether Mayor Friedel, Vice Mayor Toth, and Councilmembers Gayle Earle, Rick Watts and Allen Skillicorn are ROT-aligned. Being aligned with ROT is an implicit endorsement of ROT’s election methods. I believe each of those individuals are ROT-aligned, but I could be wrong.
To set the record straight once and for all, each of those individuals could submit a letter to this paper and state, unequivocally, either they are ROT-aligned or they are not. Crickets from any of those individuals would tell me they are ROT-aligned, whether they want to publicly admit to that or not.
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