Community Housing and the Boston Celtics have a shot at winning, cheaters be damned

When the enemies of Community Housing resorted to criminal behavior last Saturday on the heels of other bad acts, we fired a shot across the bow and took the week off. A reward was offered for information about the heist and a promise was made that if the goods were returned, criminal charges would be dropped.

It worked. The purloined property was returned unharmed, therefore on June 1st the collection of signatures will resume with gumption. We will finish the job and get Community Housing on the ballot as a morally and fiscally responsible choice for affordable housing because unlike the developer of Dunham Court we don’t forfeit when the going gets tough. We get going.

Like in basketball, to have a shot at winning in life you have to take and make shots — and beat the buzzer with a proverbial three-pointer for panache, if possible.

Like the Celtics and the NBA Finals, Community Housing has a good shot at winning in Cape Elizabeth because affordable housing for families and the local workforce is a winning idea that helps solve a problem for the long term using local resources.

Whether Community Housing is on the ballot on November 8th or some other date will remain a mystery for now — along with the identify of the petty thief who stole signs that happened to be located in the vicinity of a surveillance camera.

Imagine that.

What a happy coincidence for Community Housing enthusiasts: a superior idea for affordable housing that reflects community values — and the chance to out the sign poacher. Au courant stockades. Something to look forward to as we slog through the mud.

Voters were dealt a bad hand by the enemies of Community Housing — the nasty letters, misleading propaganda, petty crimes — and we are calling their bluff. Let them defend the abandoned low-income bleak housing project on the merits. Watch them singe as Dunham Court goes down in flames.

See Community Housing rise like a phoenix from the ashes.