On Saturday evening an El Cerrito resident posted a Vote Yes advertisement on NextDoor promoting the library tax.
When community members began asking reasonable questions—about costs, long-term impacts, and accountability—the response wasn’t engagement.
It was restriction.
Comments were immediately closed.
No further discussion was allowed.
And prior comments were erased.
The post stayed up.
The conversation did not.
That’s telling.
If a proposal is strong, it should withstand public scrutiny.
If the facts are solid, they should welcome honest questions.
Instead, what we saw was:
Promote → Get pushback → Lock the thread → Erase the comments.
Residents deserve transparency—especially when being asked to approve a permanent tax and commit tens of millions in public dollars.
When questions lead to shutdowns instead of answers, it raises a serious concern:
What are we being discouraged from examining?
El Cerrito Committee for Responsible Government (ECCRG) 
Thank you for the work you are doing to cover the library fiasco. I’m not certain who is writing this coverage, so please introduce yourself.
I also wanted to see on Next Door who is posting the positive things about the library vote and then shutting them down. I can’t find it. There are people that I argued with for years about city politics, so I would not be surprised it is the same people.
Again, thank you for your effort!
Denise Sangster
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Hello Denise
A sitting council member posted the name address and telephone number on Facebook of one of our members. We were very concerned because their safety was compromised. For that reason, all of our writers are allowed to write anonymously, but their articles need to be factual.
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