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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[bloguser]

Read it as "I also tanked the seniors manning the elections." and couldn't figure out what you mean :-)

Yes, I thank the blood drive volunteers for taking my blood.

[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.