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Myra Suchenicz's avatar

Seth,

From Yarmouth Port:

How do we reach the mid-Cape?

We're the only Cape Cod region without a newspaper.

Local government officials are so frustrated.. They would actually welcome the Register's eye on local politics.

(plus, of course, the return of Things and Stuff!)

Myra S.

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Victoria Milne's avatar

A bill g nope to Beaty and whoever falls for this. It’s hollow at best. Today going into the Yarmouth transfer station there were many Beaty signs as well as those of the party backing a convicted felon, among other things. Self involved narcissists don’t stop being who they are, and they’re definitely not for the good of society as a whole .

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Susan Rohrbach's avatar

Thanks, Seth, for continuing to inform the public about Mr. Beaty. His last chance to redeem himself as a County Commissioner was quite unsuccessful. As I recall, he did not work well with others and was not re-elected. Hopefully he will not be elected again.

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GM Foy's avatar

I must congratulate ChatGPT on a coherent argument for the redemption of absolutely nobody. There is not one piece of evidence in Beaty's / ChatGPT's rant (as Mr. Rolbein points out) that the would-be commissioner has 'redeemed' a single detail of the insane, bigoted political mindscape that sent him to jail in the first place.

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Jeff Zinn's avatar

100% AI

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Heidi Jon Schmidt's avatar

"Has Beaty shown through actions, community involvement, or character over the last decades that he has changed? If so, this narrative should hold weight alongside his past."

Absolutely. He could have used that space to describe those actions, showing his responsibility to us, instead of lecturing voters on what he sees as our responsibility to him.

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Susanna J. Sturgis's avatar

I've kept an eye on Mr. Beaty since he started writing homophobic letters to regional papers in the early/mid 1990s. (The Martha's Vineyard Times, which I was then working for, actually printed a couple of them. We had to talk the then-editor into publishing a response with "name withheld" because the then-editor didn't understand how using the writer's name could have repercussions for their school-age kids. Editor's wife helped set him straight.)

Beaty's arguments in favor of his redemption remind me much too much of the sort of "born again" fervor common in certain Christian circles. They assume that the slate can be wiped clean based entirely on one's say-so. Maybe that's enough for any deity that's listening, but for an aspiring public servant it falls seriously short. What I'm looking for is something along the lines of AA's 12 steps. This involves acknowledging one's shortcomings to another person, making amends to those one has harmed, and changing one's behavior. AA has a term for those who bypass the middle 10 steps and jump straightaway from the 1st (realizing you have a problem) to the 12th (telling everybody about how you've solved it): the word is "two-stepper." I do believe it applies to Ron Beaty.

If Beaty has truly seen the light, there are plenty of ways to be of service to the public, and to make amends for harm done in the past, without running for office. His actions will do far more than his words to demonstrate his reformation.

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Claire Watts's avatar

Good job, Seth! Too obvious for me that no way did he write any of that. For me he remains exactly the same as he's always been. Thankful I could make the choice to never vote for him.

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