Oh No She Ditint Say That (2).
By Jim Conley • Mar 5th, 2008 • Email This Post to a Friend •
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At last night Selectmen’s meeting, Board Chair Nancy Daly said (I’m working from memory):
“Selectman (Jesse) Mermell wanted me to announce that she is not at tonight’s meeting because she is home sick. No, she’s not out campaigning; she wanted me to tell people that she really is sick. And she is probably watching us from her couch.”
Oh sweet suffering Jaysis, make her stop.
The absence coincides with a primary in a border state (this time Rhode Island) and I wouldn’t bet that Mermell spent last night on the couch churning through a box of Kleenex. 
Just like her controversial absence on the night of the New Hampshire primary [see previous post], Mermell has made clear that the Clinton presidential campaign is a higher priority than service to the people who elected her.
The conventional wisdom is that Mermell’s tenure as a selectman has made her a political Icarus. The rise was too fast and the political establishment thrust her into a role she is ill-prepared to play.
She flew too close to the sun and caught a cold. Go figure.
Jim Conley is publisher of On Brookline.
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If I were a doctor, a real doctor (not the Juris Doctor that I am), advising a sick Jesse Mermell unable to make her appointed (excuse me, elected) rounds, it would be NOT to watch her peers in session, if she wanted to heal more quickly. Rather, she might be better off watching her screensaver if there is no drying paint around.