When we first reported Marty’s plans to stage a “Rally to Save Key Food” back in May, there were those who felt it amounted to little more than an exercise in futility, a PR stunt – mostly at the expense of disenfranchised seniors.

Well, as it turns out, local residents present for the May 31 rally echoed many of those same sentiments – confirmed in the latest installment of Paxen Films’ Bay Rizz, ‘Key Food is Key.’

In an interview with Senator Golden, Bay Rizz correspondent Mike Rizzo reiterates rally-goers’ frustrations, saying he felt “something could have been done sooner.”

To which Golden replied: “You could feel that but it has to be based on some facts… we here rumors about places closing but there is no way for us to verify rumors.”

It’s hard to understand what Marty was hoping to derive from this exercise; but when you ask 100 or so pissed-off seniors to give up their Saturday morning/afternoon to ride their electric wheelchairs down to their favorite supermarket that’s closing in less than 3 weeks – you better have something to tell them, other than how out of touch you are with the word on the street.

Somehow a new Key Food opening 28 blocks north (sometime in the near future) is going to be little consolation to people who struggle to ride an extra 3 blocks just to get to Foodtown.