Civic doody?

[bublik64]

Went and voted in town elections today. The most important was the prop 2 1/2 override, but there were a bunch of town office elections which i did not at all anticipate. Since I wasn't going to go home, research and come back, I voted for everyone. I figure, it's a small town, there's nothing much wrong, and for every office, there were either

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[aite]

Well, we'll see if the nice seniors killed the override or not.

[aite]

They did, too:

http://wwc.townofchelmsford.us/election/electionresults.pdf

[bublik64]

yep, I saw.

The value is still as good as ever :)

[aite]

Got called a blue collar town by boston.com:

http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2008/04/02/3_of_4_towns_say_no_to_overrides/

Wonder if that's the source of the bad-schools reputation.

Also, the failure of the override is a chance to check if your theory (that this is just baseless panic) was right. We'll see if that school closes, etc.

[bublik64]

yes, it'll be very interesting to see what happens. Other sections of the budget will likely suffer, but we'll have to pay attention.

[inostranka]

We are having an override vote in Newton in May and are debating the issue now. How did you vote and why? I am really curious, as I am not quite sure what my position on this is yet.

Off-topic to bublik64 - turns out we don't need the carseat, after all - we got it as a gift as well! Thanks for the offer!

[bublik64]

No problem. Offer still stands if you want to return the seat - we've already switched to a convertible.

[inostranka]

Thanks, we'll keep ours - hope to need it for the next one as well ;)) But we will gladly take another base!

[bublik64]

What color would you like? :) We have blue or beige.

[inostranka]

Beige, please ;)

[bublik64]

Will pass it on. Hopefully, there's a couple of weeks yet, and it'll make its way along the commuter chain, or meet you in the hospital.

[inostranka]

We do have one base coming with the seat (I think), so it's not that urgent. We would love to have it, though - let us know when you've passed it along!