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April 29, 2005
Board of Finance - May Campaign '05
I am running for the Board of Finance in a small New England town. I replaced a person who moved in January and have to run for my own seat in municipal elections this spring. Saturday I was campaigning door to door, speaking with whomever might be home on a beautiful spring day. Taxes were on many minds, which is not unusual. Of the many people I spoke to, one in particular stood out, not that he was so unusual, but that he was perhaps most usual. When I asked what he was concerned about he mentioned taxes and waste in government. "Ah," I asked, "what is the problem? Can you give me some details of where the town is wasting money" He could not answer me with any specifics. He had not been to a Board of Finance meeting. He had not been to a Board of Education meeting, where most of our tax money goes, he had not even been to a Town Meeting where we approve the yearly budget. He just knew that we wasted at least 10% of our budget, because that is what he saw in his company. Hmmmmm. I have had an opportunity to sit on the board for the past three months while we have gone through the budget process. I watched as the board examined every expenditure, every purchase, including paper goods. If this board is wasting money they have sure fooled me. This man, like many others, is absolutely, without question, convinced that the town is wasting money, his money, yet he has never, ever, been to a board meeting, never spoken to Board of Finance members, never been to a Town Meeting to approve a budget and still KNOWS that the town is throwing his money away. He will vote accordingly. Would you respect a person like that?
Posted by Chip Spear at April 29, 2005 9:42 PM
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