10 May 2013
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This is a message Cohasset Selectman candidate Karen Quigley sent to supporters Friday afternoon. Dear Friends, I regret the necessity for this email but this morning my campaign was the victim of Dirty Tricks. This is just another example of why I am running for selectman. These signs mysteriously appeared around town this morning as [...]
31 Dec 2012
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This Wednesday’s BoS agenda item for 7:45 is ‘Acting Town Manager Contract – Action Requested’. I have a problem with that if, as Chair Paul Carlson stated at the last BoS Meeting, “The Town Meeting vote on Article 14 has nothing to do with the existing contract.” Their intent is clearly to ignore Town Meeting [...]
18 Dec 2012
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The ‘spin machine’ at Town Hall is working overtime in regard to Article 6 at the Special Town Meeting. This article was brought forward by the illegal Town Manager for an appropriation of nearly $1million. However, it was not properly presented in the warrant and therefore could not be voted. The result: no money for [...]
12 Dec 2012
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In the immediate aftermath of the defeat of Article 14 at Town Meeting Monday night, I was so focused on the chess game – what’s their next move/what’s our next move – that I failed to fully grasp and appreciate the importance of that vote. I apologize to everyone I spoke to yesterday for being [...]
26 Oct 2012
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We have a BoS that doesn’t understand its role, has little if any regard for process and procedure, seeks to legitimize its illegal actions by revising our governing law after-the-fact, and now needs ‘do-overs’ because it can’t do one simple task: correctly post a meeting.
20 Sep 2012
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The uproar over uncivil emails must seem inane. It is. Until you realize that it’s about public officials using their office to bully, intimidate and embarrass private citizens and members of the press who have the temerity to question and/or disagree with them. I declined to attend last Tuesday night’s BoS meeting as I chose [...]
23 Aug 2012
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I didn’t think I could be surprised by anything this Board does. I was wrong. In executive session by a 4-1 vote they extended the Acting Town Manager’s contract until June 30, 2015. We only know this because the chair of the BoS issued a press release. It is within their purview to do so. However, [...]
2 Aug 2012
While it is gratifying to see many of the processes and procedures I advocated as a selectman finally being implemented, it is also elicits mixed emotions. Why not then? Well, the answer is that it depends on who brings the idea forward and whether or not you’re in the ‘in-crowd’. See my overtly sarcastic comments [...]
27 Jul 2012
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The saga of Cat Dam continues as DEP in a letter dated July 12, 2012 asks Cohasset to “…advise the Department, in writing, as to your intentions to file the required ENF with the MEPA Office…”. At the July 19 Conservation Commission meeting, Acting Town Manager, Michael Milanoski, presented an “update” which in reality was [...]
18 Jun 2012
I’ve been watching town government from the sidelines for the past year and my conclusion and opinion is that the Board of Selectmen (excepting our newly elected selectman, Martha Gjesteby) is compromised, incompetent, lacks any respect for the rule of law, process and procedure, extends extraordinary influence to some elected and appointed officials, and has [...]
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