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Selectboard meetings, an audience member

26 Monday Mar 2012

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Tonight the hubby and I got back from Boston in time to make the Select Board meeting. It’s a weekly meeting presided over by the Chair of the Select Board, my hubby, and the two other members. Obviously, the meetings are open to the public, the Selectmen secretary takes the meeting minutes which she then posts on the Town’s website for all to see. My hubby is very committed to transparency and accountability. The Town’s website went from, basically a cover page, to a well-informed website with numerous links to every department in just a few months. My hubby worked quite closely with its webmaster to make the website as user-friendly as possible.

Sitting in the front row seat listening to my hubby open the meeting and calmly and decisively take care of old Town business and guide the meeting through a potential contentious issue of financial reconciliation between the tax collector, the treasurer, the town accountant and the finance committee chairman, was a little stressful for me. I dislike conflict and knowing how sensitive the involved players are, makes me anxious because many different personalities are involved and when public money is in question, the persons responsible for keeping track of the dispersal of public monies and the collecting, tend to get defensive when called to the table to answer questions from the Board. Tonight was such a night and my hubby kept everyone assured that no one was being personally attacked and their jobs weren’t in jeopardy.

Afterwards, all new business breezed right through, a new school committee member was appointed to serve interim until the May elections, whereby they will have to run for election. A few other items were pushed to next week’s agenda, the most important being, the landscaping of the Town park. I got to visit with a dear friend of mine when the meeting was adjourned and my hubby and I said our good nights to everyone and walked home. Small town politics at its best.

Venting some frustration

26 Monday Mar 2012

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Worries On My Mind

I worry about my German Shepard Rex. He is going to be eleven this September. He is an abnormally large German Shepard, if I don’t keep a vigilant watch over his diet and his exercise program, 3 walks a day, he easily goes back up to his young adult weight of 140 lbs. Now I have him down to 122 and that is being strict. I worry about giving him the best care in his old years and I know that the clock is ticking, we love him so much, everyone will be devastated when he goes, it is the knowing that it is coming that is hard.

This is a picture of Rex as a puppy

Rick Santorum Uses New York Times Confrontation For Fundraising Pitch

26 Monday Mar 2012

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Santorum is also running on his religious beliefs which I would argue do not reflect his political beliefs. As a lapsed Catholic who still remembers what I was taught in Catholic grammar and high school, Jesus believed in health care coverage for everyone, Jesus did not look kindly on money lenders who employed exploitative practices, Jesus loved the poor and wanted their lives to be eased, Jesus was a believer of love and acceptance. Santorum’s political doctrine runs counter to everything Jesus stood for, normally I would say keep your religious beliefs out of our political life but when you use religion to further policies that directly contradict everything Jesus taught than Santorum is using his religion in a fraudulent manner and I’m surprised that no one has publicly called him on it.
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Mitt Romney’s Health Care Flip-Flops (VIDEO)

26 Monday Mar 2012

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This republican primary season will serve as an campaign strategy 101 course over messaging and the perils of pandering to your base despite the fact that you have printed and video evidence that belie everything that you are telling the base just to get elected. What I don’t understand is why the candidates don’t simply take the bull by the horns and say the truth, the individual mandate is born out of a conservative think tank The Heritage Foundation and it makes sense. Oh wait they can’t because President Obama’s legislative accomplishment using many GOP principles is what they are running against. Oops, my bad, I forgot how annoying it must be to have to run against something that you have been on the record as having been previously in favor of, hate it when that happens.
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Nuclear Summit: Barack Obama Tells Russia’s Dmitry Medvedev More Flexibility After Election

26 Monday Mar 2012

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I don’t see this as a gaffe, President Obama is negotiating with the Russian leadership over nuclear policy, he needs to be speaking from a position of strength and showing confidence in himself and his administration go hand in hand with smart negotiating skills. He is also acknowledging recent history of bad congressional behavior on behalf of the GOP when they were holding up the START treaty last December. He is betting that the congressional makeup will shift in November in his favor and for Russia, President Obama is communicating that the hard work of achieving good treaties will be easier in the future.
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