This shouldn’t be this hard. Today the County Executive told local media he never told people the best place for people to watch the solar eclipse was at home. He did. These comments were made at a highly publicized emergency preparedness event in the lead up to the solar eclipse. He also recommended businesses should close, so many of them did. This resulted in businesses losing money and people losing wages.
Just take responsibility for once and say it was a bad decision to leave. You’re the County Executive. It doesn’t make you a horrible person, it doesn’t mean you should resign from office. But elected officials are held to different standards. And when mistakes are made, that should be acknowledged.
Even if the million people you said were coming didn’t come, we still had dozens upon dozens of large mass-gathering events taking place in our community. In this community, we all are understandably sensitive to the security and public safety issues and concerns that can surround these types of events. You should have been here in case something did occur.
The Executive has acted like he did nothing wrong, but when he stands at the podium to prepare us for the next emergency event and people tune out because they remember his “do as I say, not as I do” approach this go-around, he’ll have nobody to blame but himself.