To the editor: Chester Democratic Committee played no part in recent dust up
The Chester Telegraph | Jan 17, 2025 | Comments 5
The Chester Telegraph’s editorial about local Democrats “kicking up dust over a MAGA event” was surprising to members of the Chester Democratic Committee. (Dems kick up some dust over a MAGA event, Jan. 10, 2025)
The editorial mentions “a local Democratic social media site.” The Chester Democratic Committee, however, has no social media site of any sort.
Contrary to assertions in the article, CDC members have always supported and continue to support all of Chester’s local businesses, including the Fullerton Inn. Members of the CDC also appreciated and enjoyed Roy Spaulding playing the part of Santa Claus.
The CDC is working to control the cost of living, improve the availability of housing and the efficient operation of our local government, provide a high-quality education for our youth and a viable path to more than a paycheck-to-paycheck existence for our entire community.
We urge all Chester residents to join us in working together on these issues.
Sincerely,
Nick Boke
Member
Communication Committee
The Chester Democratic Committee
Filed Under: Commentary • Letters to the Editor
Keith Stern, based upon your comment below, it appears that we have more common ground than I may have understood.
“I don’t know of a Republican who wouldn’t be behind a single payer/universal healthcare if it made sense financially.”
It’s clear that virtually every other developed country has found a path to provide universal, single payer healthcare to its inhabitants in ways that do make financial sense. With that in mind, let’s add this to the list of issues to work on together, across the isle. I’m willing to bet that in doing so, we’ll find that we truly do have more in common than most of us currently realize.
Robert Nied mentions the democrats’ commitment to affordable healthcare while ignoring the fact that health insurance costs are far above the national average in large part to the democrat-controlled legislature’s actions.
And in case he wasn’t aware of it Governor Shumlin tried to push single payer in Vermont and it was shown to be unsustainable because of the cost.
I don’t know of a Republican who wouldn’t be behind a single payer/universal healthcare if it made sense financially.
In his comments about the Chester Democratic Committee’s (CDC) commitment to serving the people of Vermont, Keith Stern identified a carbon tax and Medicaid-for-all as threats that he feels have been avoided by the recent election of Republicans.
Common-sense efforts by Democrats to make affordable healthcare available to more Americans and to address the devastating consequences of climate change are often criticized by Republicans, who use such attacks as distractions from their own failures. Such failures include Republicans neglecting to improve the national minimum wage, to support affordable health care for all, and to protect Americans from mis- and disinformation by fossil fuel companies.
The CDC stands by its commitment to improve the availability of housing and the efficient operation of local government, provide a high-quality education for our youth and a viable path to more than a paycheck-to-paycheck existence for our entire community.
Nick is correct. The opinion was expressed in a private Facebook group that I created for local folks with progressive political view. The group had no affiliation with the Democratic Party, nor did the person who expressed the opinion in a private setting that Cynthia published without permission.
If the CDC really cared about the issues listed then it would have put the people’s interest over party. I am thankful that many people decided to do that this past election. I hope that movement continues to grow so we never again have to fear the carbon tax passed by democrats and the threat of the proposed Medicaid for all misguided plan.