Dan Fox-Gliessman (Citizen): This is a letter to the Editor I submitted to the Highlands Ranch Herald this morning: A disturbing thing happened this past week just a couple of days after the election. A young woman was driving her van westbound on Highlands Ranch Parkway in the vicinity of Burntwood Way, accompanied by her two young children, ages 4 years and 10 months. Her van was still displaying the names of the progressive school board candidates who challenged the incumbents on the DCSD board – and lost. She had not yet had the chance to clean her rear window off and some disturbed individual dressed in business attire and driving a small, dark-colored SUV, pulled up to her left, slowed down and began to make obscene facial and hand gestures to her. He then pulled in front of her, hit his brakes, moved behind her, raced up to her bumper and continued the harassment until he came to Burntwood where he turned south into the neighborhood and disappeared. The terrified young woman pulled off the road and burst into tears, not sure what to do. This harassment was clearly due to the anti-incumbent candidate’s names still displayed on her rear window. We have lived in this community for 21 years. I served as an HRCA delegate for 4 years and on the HRCA Board of Directors for 2 years. We raised our children in this community from the ages of 4 and 8 respectively. We co-founded Highlands Ranch Aquatics, our daughters swam, lifeguarded at Northridge Rec Center, participated in sports, were active in community service, attended elementary, middle, and high school in this community then went on to attend college and graduate school here in Colorado. I have never been so appalled as I was when I heard of this incident – though I am not at all surprised. I am not interested in finding this individual, but I am interested in helping the police find him. He needs to know that our community does not condone this kind of behavior and that it is, in fact, illegal. He needs to be brought to justice. I would never confront such an individual – he is clearly a volatile man and I would not risk the likelihood that he is a gun-owner as well. Please help locate this person and contact the police. It is not freedom of speech when you endanger the lives of others, as was the case here. There is no circumstance that can justify this kind of unprovoked behavior - not before an election, not during an election, not after an election. Never. Oh, by the way, this was my daughter and my grandkids. She is a resident of this community as well, is a teacher in DCSD, and is now raising her own kids here. I never took politics personally in the years I have lived here. Now it is personal. If anyone is compelled to accuse me of generalizations, so be it. We need to take our community back from this brand of extremism. Now. Dan Fox-Gliessman Highlands Ranch
Posted on: Mon, 11 Nov 2013 17:09:35 +0000
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