>> the other thing you write about equally or more important is attending school board meetings or community board meetings or city council meetings is one of the basic things every citizen in this country can do. they don't but they can, and they can participate. and your feeling is that these are not as well-populated as you'd like them to be and well-attended as you'd like them to be. and when there's this kind of vitrial it turns people off who weren't going to run for office but at least they were going to be engaged. >> and that is my biggest fear that people will see all this vitriol and say there's no way i'm getting involved in that because i don't want to be yelled at or listen to other people yelling or that's not something i want to be around. and as it is participation in school board meetings, in voting in running for office is very low. in my town in the last decade probably the average turnout was