Seven Villages, Janet Joakim

August 15, 2008
It is discouraging and disheartening after seven years of dedicated service to our town to be living through yet another recall attempt initiated by someone who doesn’t live in my precinct, who has a personal grudge and vendetta against me, my children, my husband and family — and is someone whom I have never met.

In addition to the woman who initiated the recall, the effort is being organized, conducted and managed via a website/blog that operates solely on the assumption that every aspect of our town government is corrupt and most who are associated with any of its successes or failures are also corrupt.

I was recently contacted by someone who pointed out several instances of racial, ethnic, anti-Semitic and sexist slurs that are used constantly by the author of this website/blog, who is also the leader of the group known as COG, to incite its base.

This group seems to operate on the fuel of hate, distrust and a darkness that is in some ways sad and in other ways frightening. And, for two years they have had their sights on me, and, for over a year they have had their sights on my daughters, my husband, my brother and others in my family.

The latest recall petition that is being carried on clipboards from door to door in my neighborhood gives two Continue reading another recall attempt in precinct 6 - which precinct will it be tomorrow?…