I have no dog in the race and no horse in the race for Downingtown Borough Mayor. The guy they’re talking about in this TikTok video is one of the candidates.
This video seems to be making the rounds enough in the past couple of days, that I do want to say something.
I want to be super clear: I am NOT siding with either party, this is a public video, the creator is obviously soliciting feedback, and I’m sharing my perspective.
What I think is this is a neighbor dispute. It sounds a little Hatfields and McCoy to me to be honest, and I don’t know that this is really a legitimate reason to not vote for someone…unless where there is smoke there is fire? And to be even more clear, there is no record of issues other than this video.
Further an to make an important point, if this young woman if she thinks that he’s doing something unsavory with his security cameras, she needs to file a police report. If not, this mayoral candidate and his neighbors need to sit down and have a powwow with a mediator (AKA disinterested 3rd party) and work it out.
I’m guessing this mayoral candidate is going to be pretty pissy that I’m sharing this video, but I have to remind him that this has been PUBLICLY posted for like three days. On the Internet that’s kind of forever. People need to remember that the girl posting this IS young, I would guess early 20s if that. Her perspective is not going to be the same of an older person. She might not get her neighbor’s position and this could be resolved without further fuss.
I have had several people send this TikTok to me now. (link https://www.tiktok.com/@abbers6520/video/7535128157519760671 ) And as I said to one person who was curious about it and doesn’t actually live in Downingtown who sent it to me, I said for the record I have neighbors who play music outside with little speakers. Two of the neighbors I absolutely am in sync with their taste in music and I love it because it makes doing outside chores go much faster. And further away on clear Sunday mornings, I can hear the amplified music from a Christian church in West Chester. One person from somewhere close-ish by plays really bad country music sometimes.
And security cameras? Who doesn’t have them these days? Like the woman on the video, I looked up the camera. It’s not super expensive. I don’t know what kind of reach it has, but I imagine there is more than one camera in the guy’s yard? And do these properties back on any kind of an alley or something like that? A lot of these in town in the borough properties have cheek to jowl narrow back yards, much like a lot of homes in West Chester Borough. Translation? Not a lot of room to work with.
I would rather hear music than endless fireworks, personally. Security cameras and street cameras are part of our world, there could be a simple explanation.
Work it out people.
This is the guy they are talking about: https://richbryantformayor.com/
And he seems to have a second website, or this could be a parked site for if he gets elected? The site is https://downingtownmayor.com/
I actually heard him speak once on WCHE. He doesn’t sound like the guy this gal is dishing on, but hey, that could be down to neighbor relations, right?
So in the best interest of neighbor relations, can’t they work it out? Rock Em’ Sock Em’ Robots is so 1964.
