Election Season

It looks like the candidates are out in full force for the final days. Billboard-sized campaign signs are showing up in various locations. Candidates and their campaign workers are canvassing the neighborhoods passing out flyers and shaking hands. It comes down to Super Tuesday next week in Freeport. Six candidates in the Citizens Party. Good qualities among them, but my suspicion is that it will come down to two- current Mayor Jim Gitz and former Alderwoman, Pat Leitzen-Fye. Will it be the fear of change or will it be the desire for change. Neither will be able to solve all of the problems our community faces, nor should Mayor Gitz be blamed for all of our economic and societal woes. There are times when a team or a company or a community responds to a change in leadership. There are other times when it is just circumstanial and then there are times when we have been too entrenched in the situation and cannot see where new answers lie. In that case it is time for new perspective. How will Freeport perceive this situation? The election hinges on the outcome of that vision. We'll know more in just a few days. Then, of course, there is the actual mayoral election still to come.