The Fight To Stop A Deadly Nursing Home Takeover - More Perfect Union

[TexasTowelie]

Seniors in a rural Wisconsin town are fighting to save their publicly owned nursing home. The county wants to sell the town-owned home to an undisclosed, likely for-profit, buyer.

Residents are outraged. And their organizing is creative.

[DURHAM D]

1. This is interesting.

I did not know that there are any county nursing homes left in this country.
Where I live they were all closed many years ago.

It used to be a joke for someone to say after a bad crop or some other financial loss to say:

"Guess I will just go live on the county"

[sybylla]

5. Clark County still has one.

So far sanity has reigned (with a lot of liberal pushing and protests) on our county board. County board is pretty split, though and we stand a chance of losing it to MAGAts in the next few years. They'll sell off the county nursing home and then everyone will move away to visit their family in homes in other counties. Because "mY tAXes ArE tOO fOOkinG HiGh."

[stage left]

2. Republicans took over

And with them, cruelty is the point. I hope the residents win.

[usaf-vet]

3. I was an elected school board member in the earyl 1990's. During your first term It was strongly suggested that.....

..... you attend a statewide meeting for new board members. You were taught how to work within Robert's rules of order, and other do's and don't. It was beneficial.

They also had breakout sessions for us to attend. I remember attending one session where the presenter talked about local elections at one point and made the point that there was a national movement of groups to get elected to small local boards or government offices to influence them from within.

Although the presenter avoided pointing to any specific group, now, years later, it is evident to me that that is precisely what we see now years later across the country.

National news has shown that this is precisely what we are seeing nationwide. And this is a right-wing approach to influence (destroy) existing boards that don't meet their standards.

This OP is a perfect example of this methodology. First, elect like-minded board members to gain a majority, and then start changing what the majority wants regardless of what the community wants.

[PlutosHeart]

4. When I researched nusing home ownership

a few years back I discovered most of them were owned by conservatives. Big business sucking money out of people's and State's pockets while skimping on care.