Longtime Rehoboth homeowner wants community to move on
I write to follow Hoyte Decker’s suggestion that we try to leave behind the animosities created by misleading campaign literature and personal conflicts in our municipal election. I second Hoyte Decker’s thought. However, I am writing as a three-decade second homeowner, voter and taxpayer in Rehoboth Beach to say we can try to leave this year’s political shenanigans behind us, but we can only anticipate more of the same in the future.
A lot has changed since my first Rehoboth election when there were still almond croissants from Cosmic Bakery on Rehoboth Avenue (and full disclosure: politically and spiritually, I am a card-carrying Save Our City zealot). But enough of what lured the Heuisler family here remains, and that includes memories, so my family is passionately committed to keeping our flag flying.
I would not presume to speak for my children or in-laws or grandchildren, but observationally I think I can say they share my late wife Betsey’s and my commitment to a common good for Rehoboth Beach. And in regular political discourse, the common good refers to those facilities – material, cultural or institutional – that should exist in a kind of relational obligation between all members of any community.
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