#1 2008-10-27 09:31:16
"We are fiscally in a crisis," says Selectman Bruce Sauvageau at the end of an October 22, 2008 Standard Times story. "I don't believe we should politicize any of our departments."
After 7 long years of weekly uproar, Wareham residents finally know, "The Crisis!" was cooked to ensure each town department's loyalty. State prosecutors will spend years unraveling where all the money went, but Mr. Sauvageau's pockets are the first place they will check.
They will want to sedate him first.
"Wareham thinks poor," was Sauvageau's only less-than-novel insight when he first migrated here from Boston but it wasn't until he teamed up with Robert Slager, his shadowy partner in crime, that every week brought a new horror. Race War!, one week. Class War!, the next. Then Police Brutality! and Elitist Librarians! Rinse and repeat. Stir Effluent Discharge! into the town water supply two years running while the Selectmen/Sewer Commissioners watch.
Wareham government saw more public servant turnover during the Slager/Sauvageau regime than at any time in its history.
The fear of reprisal is gone as emboldened residents and department heads alike begin to bite back. And they all want to see "THE Wareham Observer's" books, for some odd reason. The list of litigants grows daily.
Attend Town Meeting tonight and stay tooned!
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