To the Editor:
I have been reviewing the qualifications, postings and information on the candidates running for the Regional School District 18 Board of Education (BOE). I appreciate the time commitment these community members will be making if they are elected to the four-year terms. But at least one candidate, Mona Colwell, espouses beliefs that are plainly at odds with the health and safety, and therefore the best education, of our children. It is logical therefore to question the qualifications for office of all the candidates who were endorsed by the Republican Town Committee, none of whom have stood up to request that Mona remove herself from this election. Our children and tax-paying residents deserve the best, and that is why I will be voting Democratic in Old Lyme on Nov. 2.
Sincerely,
Russell Fogg,
Old Lyme.
Editor’s Note: The author is a candidate for the Old Lyme Zoning Board of Appeals.
When England was being bombed during the world war two Blitz in England, there was a mandate to comply with the blackout by shutting all of your lights and going dark. Not only would that protect you, but it would also protect your neighbors from harm. Similarly, COVID vaccine mandates protect the unvaccinated from killing the people they come in contact with. Your right to individual freedom does not give you the right to expose others to a deadly disease. You are a member of a community and you have obligations to it. If you do not want to vaccinate your children, isolate and home school them! Don’t expose others to a disease that has killed more people them most of our wars combined. Mona Colwel’s views on vaccines are deadly!