Southern Progressives

The McMinn County Board of Education will have a Called Meeting TOMORROW, Tuesday, May 6 to begin at the close of the Board Workshop at the McMinn County Center for Educational Excellence.

If you are an alumni of E.H.S., and are interested in attending the last Etowah High School Decades Reunion on Saturday, June 14 at the L&N Depot from 10:00 am - 3:00 pm, with Free Lunch served at 12:00 noon, please RSVP asap with your name and one guest to: E.H.S. Alumni Association, P.O. Box 24, Etowah, TN 37331 or by phone to 423-506-9097. Bring your own lawn chair!

My Take:

I was talking last week about judicial eloquence but could not find an example. Here are a couple:

 “If the founding history of this country is any guide, those who stood up in court to vindicate constitutional rights and, by so doing, served to promote the rule of law, will be the models lauded when this period of American history is written.” - Beryl Howell

The moment calls for courage, and if elected officials, regardless of party, can’t muster it, then they need to step out of the way (and we don’t need to reelect them). It’s a failure of imagination to think government has to be the enemy. That it has to be stagnant, cowardly, and mired in gridlock. But at a bare minimum, our elected officials should be capable of defending the Constitution. Why else do they take an oath to uphold it? Trump offers only the politics of grift and revenge, and that is not democracy.  -  Joyce Vance