Mixie...

Doesn't make much sense to ignore the deep, abiding resentment a lot town folk feel for the library and its staff - people who, as a rule, have never set foot in the place - because these are Wareham residents who may not read but have proven they can vote.

I've said this before but I'll repeat myself until it gets through: Slager/Sauvageau did not metastasize in a vacuum. The Wareham library won't get an unexamined free pass again, and operational transparency is not a bad thing.

There are few alive who have more reason than me in seeing that the library thrive. I am a rabid reader; also an atheist for whom libraries are my only house of worship. I've lived all over creation and everywhere I've moved, proximity to the local public library was always foremost in my mind.

I now live directly across the street from the Wareham Free Library, where my family's 300 year Wareham history lives in documents, in books and bequests. I could hit it with a rock, if I were so inclinced.

If  the library's minders ever put their own self interest above the town's AGAIN and make its treasures vulnerable AGAIN, rocks are the least of their worries.

Selah

Hamatron5000 wrote:

So respectfully, I disagree with your statement that the library's minders "put their own self interest over the town and made the library's treasures vulnerable."  They never did that.

I've written on this subject elsewhere but let's bury Bruce and Bob before we publicly reexhume the library.

Mixie wrote:

With all due respect, I think what Bruce and ragman do in the privacy of their own vacuum, is their own business.

What they did, in the privacy of their own vacuum, was convince voters the town's administration was inept, arrogant and self dealing. In fact, they were so persuasive they were able to pack the BOS with their own cronies.

Events have proven their alternative was worse but the truth - as tough as it is to swallow - they were right.

BillW wrote: Events have proven their alternative was worse but the truth - as tough as it is to swallow - they were right.

Bill, I have a little trouble understanding exactly what you are saying.  Are you saying that Bruce and his cronies were correct in stating that there were some problems with the past administration, but what we have now is worst than what we had before - even with the problems of thr past?  (This is a serious question)

Mixie wrote:

Are you saying that Bruce and his cronies were correct in stating that there were some problems with the past administration, but what we have now is worst than what we had before - even with the problems of thr past?

Not exactly. You can put lipstick on a pig but it's still a pig... to coin a phrase.

The grim truth is, the clowns associated with Slager/Sauvageau haven't a single brain between them and are liable to cause LESS damage than previous iterations of the Wareham BOS.

In a big city, it's a different story. In a town this size, you can not hide slimy deals, regardless of affluence or general level of education. People talk. Hell, you can't shut them up.

So to answer your question, no, the problems are the same and never went away.

Wareham doesn't need a new form of government. It needs greater operational transparency so voters don't keep shuffling the deck every election and drawing thieving losers every time.

All I know is, thanks to the Ragman, our current board consists of a Road Rageaholic, a Brainless Brocktonite, a Bourne Resident, the Wife of the Worst Moderator in the History of Moderation, and A Guy who Copped a Plea to a dirt thievery rap.

Keep in mind in the 2007 election, Wareham voters were given the choice between a UMass Vice-Chancellor and a Dirt Thief.

They chose the Dirt Thief.

Reap what ye sew, voters.

Last edited by Hamatron5000 (2008-12-02 08:17:17)