Re “Time to Raise Awareness Again on the Natatorium”'
It seems Robert Zirgulis still has not lost all hope in convincing at least three School Board members that there is more community support out there for refurbishing the Natatorium than they think.
Wading Around
After spending over $13,000 on a losing campaign, the support he was hoping for did not materialize. Isn’t it about time for Mr. Zirgulis to acknowledge that there is no overwhelming support just “wading around” to refurbish the pool?
If there was wide support for the Natatorium, would it not already be back in use by now? Does he think his imagined support by community members had somehow been ignored by their elected officials, again and again, over the last 20 years?
Three Out of Five
Since he could not convince a majority of the community to support him in his efforts, he is now looking to convince a majority of School Board members that there is backing and show them that he is willing to keep pestering them (and the community) until they believe it, too.
Town Hall Politics
He is asking to include an all-defining question about the pool’s future in an upcoming School District survey. He wants to turn this single question into an up-or-down public referendum on refurbishing the pool, as if our local government is a plebiscite and not the representative democracy chosen by our forefathers.
This manipulation of the bond survey is an effort to give the pool’s supporters one last chance to come out en masse and sway Board members by making it look like as if there is deep ther community support for refurbishing the Natatorium.
Not So Noble a Knight
Obviously, he now has a small, hard-core minority who supports his efforts.
But there will come a time when the community will see Mr. Zirgulis for what he has become: Not so much our local, noble Don Quixote, fighting the good fight and “reaching for that unreachable star;” but more as an obsessive zealot who can’t step away from the political spotlight and accept the obvious communal truth about the Natatorium.
He will be seen by the community as just another local gadfly and political pest.
Mr. Laase may be contacted at GMLaase@aol.com
