News and Views

A second letter to the editor has been published in the Concord Monitor this week attacking a Bow voter’s right to a secret ballot. The more vicious of the two letters was penned by well-known OPM Addict (OPM=Other People’s Money) Jean Rich. In her letter Rich accused five of her fellow Bow neighbors of requesting a secret ballot for “solely political purposes” without providing any evidence to her vicious claim. She also went on to state that any additional requests for secret ballot would be “frivolous.”

Rich’s attempt to tie SB2 and the failed pay-as-you-throw program into her argument was very weak seemed to expose her disgruntlement over someone else exercising their right to a secret ballot and her inability to influence their vote by intimidation.

How do BCC feel about people trying to take other people’s rights away?

May 14, 2009

Town Meeting Moderator started the meeting with a long drawn out discussion describing how he will try to be impartial by following the rules of the meeting published in our Town Reports. BCC is opening up the discussion asking the website viewer for their observations on how did Imse do?

Here are a few observations to get the discussions started: Imse stated that the State Attorney General suggested that he appoint someone else count the ballots because Imse promoted his bias against in a letter to the editor. Imse appointed a well respected Bow citizen to oversee counting the ballots, John Lyford but John is a well know opponent to SB2. If Imse would have chosen a well respected Bow Citizen who was an SB2 supporter to oversee the counting of the ballots his credibility would be much better.

For a period of time Imse allowed the Recycle Committee Rep. to rebut Bow Citizen’s comments. This breaks the rules of allowing all the speakers to speak once before a repeat speaker. In fairness to Imse he recognized that this was not appropriate and stopped the practice but it should not have been allowed from the start. A well know citizen was immediately challenged for doing just trying to speak twice before every one else got their first shot. Imse’s double standard was apparent when he quickly stopped this citizen from speaking and not doing the same with the recycle committee..

Imse also failed to recognize a motion to call the question. The motion was seconded so Imse has no excuses for not recognizing the motion. The person was even asked to recognize himself for the record on the motion.

Bow Town Manager who is not a Bow Citizen or voter was given free reign to express his opinion on a matter. The town manager should only be addressing a direct question and response should only be made in fact expressing his opinion is not appropriate and Imse should recognize that.

Imse is well aware that a motion to restrict reconsideration is non debatable he almost allowed debate on the issue but well informed voters expressed stopped his attempt.

BCC viewers are encouraged to add their two cents worth in the comments section.