05/13/08 - RTM NOTES - Greenwich's Youngest Legislator Is Repeatedly Singled Out By Those Who Claim To Support The Talents Of Our Youth

There Cheers To 18 Year Old Harrison Davidson Who Stood And Delivered At His Very First Representative Town Meeting.

The RTM's Youngest Member Showed Many Greenwich Legislators How To Step Into A Volatile Public Controversy And Stand Up For Your Beliefs.

Three quarters of the RTM members have never had the guts to go before the nations largest municipal body and fight for what they believe in.

Some of these long term RTM members have sat in their RTM seats for years as proud members of the go along to get along club.

Maybe Harris Davidson will show these old time seat warming RTM members how to fight for districts and their town.

Watching Harris in action reminded one of a Rudyard Kipling poem....

If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or, being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or, being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise;

If you can dream - and not make dreams your master;
If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with triumph and disaster
And treat those two imposters just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with wornout tools;

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breath a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on";

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings - nor lose the common touch;
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run -
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And - which is more - you'll be a Man my son!

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