Common decency has been abandoned in Parkside

The following is an open letter to Parkside Council President Shirley Purcival. Dear President Purcival:

I am writing this letter in support of not only of Councilman Scott Sidlow, but in support of his wife, his family, his children and every resident of our borough. Integrity and even common decency have been entirely abandoned by every Republican member of this council and our mayor.

They have been, in this yearlong pursuit to circumvent the votes of our residents and instill instead their personal preferences and party politics, sacrificed, tossed aside and then for good measure, trampled on. Legally elected Democratic council members have been attacked and vilified and removed from committees based on our council president’s wills and whims from day one. Letters attacking them have been promoted and read while any letter, multiple letters, supporting them have been deemed as divisive and subversive and those residents’ voices silenced, again on a whim.

Female residents who have decried sexist and sometimes doxing remarks on social media and publicly screamed at colleagues in council meetings are reprimanded for being offended because it might prove injurious to the man who uttered them, while simultaneously our council president had taken her faith in her hand and crept into people’s bedrooms to pass judgment, welcoming and encouraging the entire town to come in with her and have a peek, bear witness and pass judgment on a family’s private life. Apparently because at some point, our council president has broadened her position to include morality police for consenting adults.

We are told that our town has been too much in the news while again, simultaneously a councilman’s husband has contacted every news outlet he could find on twitter before any resident had the opportunity to so much as view the meeting. If you think this is what breeds unity you could not be more mistaken. The residents voted for these people to serve them. The residents voted for you to serve them. Stop serving yourself and do your job.