Frustration boils over
February 28, 2008
Editor, The Citizen:
It might not have escaped your notice that there is frustration here in Moultonborough over the lack of respect that citizens get when we ask our local government to be responsive to the needs of the entire community.
After last week's meetings, this frustration has now bubbled over into a citizen write in campaign for the two Selectmen seats and Town moderator's office.
I will be running against the current Town Moderator.
Gary Torressen and Al Hume will be running for the Selectmen seats.
The primary reason that I am running for the office is to bring moderation back into the position of Town Moderator. The duties of the Moderator include presiding over town meetings, regulating the business thereof, deciding questions of order, making public declarations of each vote passed, and prescribing rules of proceeding which may be altered by the town as need. They do not include injecting personal opinion and agenda, admonishing citizens who prefer the secret ballot or any personal invective into public discussion forums.
Moreover I plan on bringing to the office the facilities of Robert's Rules of Order to allow all points of view to be heard and deliberated in a modern, democratic, fair and balanced way.
There are many efforts underway by many groups within Moultonborough to make this a better place to live; including discussions regarding the building of a Community Center, SB2, Master Plan and others. All points of view on all of these issues can and should be heard in a non-confrontational environment and moderated in such a way to balance all points of view. At the end of the day the will of the citizens will be done through the ballot process and the Town Meeting forums. If we bring back moderation to the discussion; we can live better as a community knowing our points of view have been heard and respected, no matter the outcome.
I am appealing to the citizens of Moultonborough to write me in as a candidate for Moderator in the up coming election on March 11, 2008.
James Castleberry
Moultonborough
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