OPINION: Political activity overshadows family fun at elementary school carnival event

I attended the Chapel District Elementary School Fall Carnival in Cordova with my mom and my two little ones on Saturday, Oct. 10 expecting an afternoon of family fun, community involvement, and fundraising for our local elementary school. Instead, I left genuinely concerned by the overwhelming presence of a political campaign at an event that was supposed to bring our community together.

Throughout the carnival, individuals were distributing shirts, frisbees, and other merchandise promoting Emily Jackson’s reelection campaign for the Talbot County Board of Education. There were so many people wearing Emily Jackson shirts in the crowd, that it looked like

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