Applaud Spicer's Performance In Framingham's COVID Battle: Letter

Framingham MA

12 October, 2021

7:18 AM

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The following is a letter to the editor and does not necessarily reflect the views of Framingham Patch. As a resident of Framingham, I was glad when the three times I needed COVID testing at theheight of the pandemic, I found a free testing site within a ten minutes' drive from my house andreceived my results the next day. Over the last nearly two years, Mayor Yvonne Spicer has workedtirelessly day and night to confront the pandemic. The results speak for themselves: withinFramingham the pandemic is contained and we now have a higher vaccination rate and fewercases on average than the state of Massachusetts. Mayor Spicer's accomplishments are all the more remarkable when we consider the politicalheadwinds with which she has had to contend from a spiteful old-boys-and-girls-led majority inthe City Council. Remember how the Council incessantly criticized our Director of Public Health,Sam Wong (the other hero of this story) until he left and then they hampered the hiring of hisreplacement? I urge you to re-elect Mayor Spicer to continue the work of making Framingham a world-classcity that welcomes and thrives on diversity, and to support those candidates for the City Councilwho will collaborate with Mayor Spicer. —George Deak, Framingham