Depends on Your Definition of Broad.
By Jim Conley • Mar 16th, 2008 • Email This Post to a Friend •
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According to the TAB, the pro-override campaign effort has been launched and it’s a doozy. The TAB runs the press release which features the announcement of a Web site, and that Selectman Robert Allen is a “founding member” of the committee. Co-chairs are Selectman Betsy DeWitt and School Committee Chair Judy Meyers.
Of course they are. I mean after all, these are the people who racked up the spending deficit and now need the bailout. I can’t imagine a constituency with which Allen has any sway—except town employees, and most of them don’t vote in Brookline. Good move, that.
And check out the Web site: www.yesbrookline.org. I’m not familiar with the idea that a landing page claiming broad support makes it so, but that’s just me.
And what about this broad support for an override? Did the yes forces poll residents as the basis for the claim they are making? If so, I think we ought to see the results. Otherwise, their guess is as good as anyone’s on the levels of support for an override.
So, here we go again. When these same people ran a pro-tax surcharge for community preservation, the campaign was a web of fabrications and misleading claims. And they’re at it again.
A campaign on the merits? Not possible in Brookline.
Jim Conley is publisher of On Brookline.
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COALITION OF THE UNWILLING!
This is a call for counterinsurgents to the COALITION OF THE WILLING TO SPEND OTHER PEOPLE’S MONEY. Let’s monitor the latter to make sure that Town funds, in various forms and by various means, are not used to support the override, as that would appear to be illegal. Let’s hear it from Whistleblowers who learn of any violations.