Good Evening, SOSEaston Community,

As many of you have probably heard, the override failed this evening. For anyone who worked on PASE or the SOSEaston campaign—and for many who did neither—this will be a hard pill to swallow. 

Many Easton residents put long hours into a forward-looking vision for Easton through a grassroots campaign. They had high hopes about what the additional funding would have done for our kids, our services, and our community as a whole. It will take some time to work through the loss of that hope. 

In the end, our campaign was always up against tall odds. Too many of our neighbors still subscribe to an anti-tax animus forty years in the making, an animus that values each person keeping what is theirs over pooling resources for the common good. And, to be fair, it is likely many of our neighbors are buckling under the weight of the cost-of-living crisis in our country and felt they did not have any money to spare.

There is no way around it; these are hard times. 

From all of your neighbors here at the SOSEaston campaign, we wish you a healthy grieving process. And when that process runs its course, we hope you will summon the same energy and passion you put into this campaign and lean into the same community connections we have forged during these few months. The only way out of hard times is through them, and the only way to get through them in one piece is to stick together. Easton is worth fighting for, so we are going to keep fighting. 

Sincerely,

The SOS Easton Team