This one's for Val ..........

Since VegasVal, the anonymous and usually incorrect poster on Limo's site, seems to have an issue with ME posting my opinion AS A VOTER about a municipal employee's contract, allow me to post an editorial, in its entirety below.

For those reluctant to search for VV's legal opinion and I can't see why you would bother:

Frightened of Litigation? Or something else?Posted By: VegasVal Replies: 12
And you HAVE NOT restricted your comments to an employment contract. You have researched A PRIVATE INDIVIDUAL'S salary history and posted it on the Internet. That sort of "digging" on someone you don't know and have no reasonable, legitimate connection with potentially falls within the legal definition of STALKING. Continual posts about this person and his salary could potentially be considered harrassment which is a misdemeanor criminal offense.



Perhaps VV can harrass the newspaper or the author as well for STALKING:

Rehoboth misused the right of recall


By Ted Gay, Editor Emeritus
GateHouse News Service
Wed Oct 03, 2007, 08:48 PM EDT

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TAUNTON -
The right to recall those holding elective office is not supposed to be used to change the will of the majority. It does get used that way, however, the latest example being in Rehoboth where a superior court judge, Robert Kane, ruled that the town’s recall procedure had been abused several times over. The decision allowed Selectman Christopher Morra to retain his seat. This was a case a member of the Registrars of Voters obtaining from the town clerk 200 blank petition forms and then using the stamp of fellow board members to certify that the voter signatures were valid. In testimony before Judge Kane, Mary Beth Moriarty said she thought the reference on the forms requiring that signatures being legal meant hers and that of City Clerk Kathy Conti. There were, Moriarty testified, many voters in Rehoboth who believed there were “injustices” committed by Morra and he should be removed from office. Maybe so, but what claim won’t be tested in a recall election because the procedure was abused by town officials who should have known better. In Middleboro, the town charter was followed as recall petitions were filed against three of the five selectmen, the claims against them stemming from sale of land to the Wampanoag Indians for a casino. The petitions produced six separate issues on one ballot, with a total of 10 candidates, certainly a challenge to the mental agility of voters, as well as to those who had to certify the results. The charge against the three selectmen was a lack of fiscal responsibility. Middleboro had a strange summer, and the arrival of fall hasn’t changed that. It is without a town manager; the police chief is the acting fire chief, and he promoted a friend from police lieutenant to a new post of captain. A new town accountant was hired from out of town and was allowed to carry his accrued contract benefits with that town to Middleboro with him. More serious than all that, the school system has failed for five straight years to meet annual yearly progress as required under the federal No Child Left Behind Act. As a consequence, the entire educational structure must be changed. Certainly, the town didn’t need the split that comes with recall elections, but the anti-casino voters pushed for it.

http://www.tauntongazette.com/opinions/x1649552248

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