Benka Shows Up.
By Jim Conley • April 1st, 2008 • Email This Post to a Friend •
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Gee, you would think that after imposing the burden of the St. Aidan’s housing project on residents around Pleasant Street, our selectmen would show up to hear their neighbor’s concerns over lead and asbestos abatement. You’d be wrong.
Sure, Bobby Allen was on hand to provide his concierge service to this developer. But no others made the scene.
Dick Benka, a candidate for selectman, was in attendance. I know, I know; he’s running for office so it’s no surprise. Maybe. I’m willing to bet, though, that a lot of people didn’t know he was there.
I still worry that Benka is the developer’s choice in this campaign. But I have a copy of the brief he filed on the Spooner Road appeal that will be heard next month and it kind of sang to me.
Reserving the right to change my mind…
Jim Conley is publisher of On Brookline.
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But Brookline still awaits Godot, who probably won’t show up as long as we have Representative Town Meeting. Do any of the Selectmen or TMM candidates really believe deep down that RTM woks well in Brookline? But don’t expect them to speak up against RTM as that might deprive them of their social lives.