Blogger Marilee Walters: Voter turnout could have been better for municipal elections

We have a new Guard. The Nov. 3 municipal elections brought more voters. Yet out of 18,000-plus voters, we had roughly 6,000 show up.

It starts in your own backyard people.

NSB wanted change, leadership, and success for our city. We will see what happens.

We, in America, can only change our "future" by voting. This is a "sorry turnout."

Maybe, and I mean maybe, when it gets so bad, people will realize that change will come with the power they have, their "VOTE." This goes with federal, state, county, and municipal elections.

So where are we?

Hopefully, our new mayor, Adam Barringer, and our new commissioner, Judy Reiker, will be able to make a difference. I hope the citizens will support and help them in any capacity they have to offer. This is not going to be a "cake-walk" with the economy, and the over-spending in the city.

They are in precarious times, and I do not envy them. We need to support them.

Marilee