Bring Your Mob.
By Jim Conley • August 28th, 2006 • Email This Post to a Friend •
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If nothing else can convince you that we should abolish Brookline’s town meeting form of government, this should. I have been asked back to speak to its member’s association (known as the TMMA) on Monday, September 11. The lack of good judgment shown by extending me an invitation proves beyond doubt that members of our 240-member politburo have lost it.
I’ll be covering “Brookline’s Development Culture” in the High School’s Martin Luther King Room beginning at 7 PM.
Jim Conley is publisher of On Brookline.
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Great job Jim…Iwill be there to hear you and shake your hand!
This is sort of the bizarro version of “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.” I wonder if Groucho Marx would have accepted the invitation? “You Bet Your Life” he would have. I recently saw “The Blues Brothers” for the umpteenth time; perhaps for your safety, Jim, make sure the grate is down between you and the TMMAs in attendance. Who knows, the TMMAs may be inspired lemming-like to dump Town Meeting at the upcoming Special Town Meeting. But Jim, no good deed goes unpunished: “Brookline’s Development Culture” just might attract developers who normally do not fit in Brookline, seeing it as an opportunity to compete with Brookline”s favored developers and their supporters, to wit (or, un-wit?) our illustrious but not illuminating Board of Selectmen. The locus of this TMMA confab may serve as an inspiration to my own “I have a dream” of Brookline’s governance entering the 20th Century early in this 21st Century.