ELECTION DAY : February 2008 Archives
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.
