Mr. Brady,
Again, I am shocked by his demeanor and his complete disregard for the voters of this town. We certainly don't need this man in charge of anything. The ITA is weak, I saw that first hand. I still haven't shared the complete conversation I had with him the day I visited town hall. He obviously disputes the conversation, but I have two witnessess, and I don't lie.

Thank you for sharing, I know I'm not the only one!

Even the Courier reported that the new planner quit, but he'll still go into denial mode.

Bruce is the Chair of the Selectmen-not the town manager.  They are easily confused, because the interim town administrator only does what Bruce tells him to do.

Why is the Chairman answering the e-mails sent to the TA?
The Chairman of the BOS has no more or less power than any other elected Selectman. He has been elected Chairman by the rest of the Board to carry on the daily needs that require some member of the Board's signature or the need to meet with Dept. Heads, personnel, etc. He is also expected to REPRESENT the Board with dignity and respect.
Due to the Sunshine Laws, he has to be very careful not to speak to another member of the Board about issues that would violate Sunshine Law.
Under Robert's Rules, any member of the Board is entitled to question the Chair and is certainly entitled to move to have the Chair removed from his position as Chair if necessasry.
If this was 34 years ago and a memeber of the BOS  spoke to me that way, or wrote to me in those terms, I would make it my business to have a little "talk" with him.
The very least I would tell him is that I would make it my busines to destroy his career as an elected Selectman. Since he is up for re-election in a few months, I don't think I'd have much of a problem.
I have told my sons many times: "Don't let your mouth write a check that your butt can't cash."
Find a candidate or candidates to remove the dead weight and replace it with citizens that understand representative form of government.
Clowns belong in the circus.

to:  urneighbor
if you think your leg is being pulled, then i suggest you ask others who have worked with mr. sauvageau on various committees if they ever received emails such as the ones posted by mr. brady.   you will find that there are so many more condescending pieces of correspondence that this is not a joke. send me a pm if you would like to see more examples.

Oh come on folks, last time I was in Wareham I didn't notice a sign that said "Entering North Korea" at the border. I didn't see armed guards at "Gateway to Iran".

You have elections, right? Nobody would elect a selectman with that kind of dictatorial temperament.

Tell me you are all making this stuff up? You're writing a sequel to "Through the Look Glass".

'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.

"Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun
The frumious Bandersnatch!"

He took his vorpal sword in hand:
Long time the manxome foe he sought—
So rested he by the Tumtum tree,
And stood awhile in thought.

And as in uffish thought he stood,
The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame,
Came whiffling through the tulgey wood,
And burbled as it came!

One, two! One, two! and through and through
The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!
He left it dead, and with its head
He went galumphing back.

"And hast thou slain the Jabberwock?
Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!"
He chortled in his joy.

'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.

urneighbor,
If you don't believe, I suggest you try to ask him anything he chooses unworthy to speak of. I guarantee, you'll get a front row seat. Have fun.

YES THE PREVIOUS BOS WAS DEALING WITH SWEET BRUCEY LONG BEFORE THE PUBLIC GOT A TASTE OF HIS WRATH. HE THREATENED ANOTHER BOS MEMBER. YOU CANT HAVE THAT. NOW THE PUBLIC SEES WHAT WAS ACTUALLY GOING ON. THESE PEOPLE ARE A DISGRACE. BOBO CALLS US HATEBLOGGERS? MORE HATE SPEECH COMES OUT OF BRUCE'S BREATH EVERY MINUTE

If I recall correctly, one of the reasons sweet brucie was ousted from his role as chair of the bos before was for not only threatening another board member, but for being rude to citizens in just the same way as he was rude in his emails to Mr. McDonald and Mr. Brady. History does repeat itself folks, but aren't we supposed to learn from history?

In my opinion--of course--Bruce should no more be chair of the bos now than he should have been in the past. He should not even be on the board, but if we have to have him there until April, at least he should be ousted once again from his lofty grand poobah position. His behavior and language in those emails is nothing short of reprehensible.

Also, bruce is not the only selectmen who uses his/her personal email to conduct town business. Perhaps they are protecting themselves from the audit?? Or future audits?? Just an opinionated thought.

danoconnell wrote:

Just as an aside, if the Chairman has any brains and knowledge at all, and I will have to give him that due because of his longevity in office, he knows a Selectman cannot resign his office to the BOS.

With all due respect to your very informative commentary re: the resignation process for a member of the BOS, I don't believe the Chairman tried to "resign his office to the BOS"....Bruce simply stated to his fellow board members that if any one of them felt they no longer wanted to serve with him on the board or thought he should resign, then he would resign...when they all replied in the negative, the 30 second process was over...

Ms. Lilly,
Do you think that little exercise in pity for Sauvageau would have went over as well in the general population? I know I would gladly accept his resignation.

Please share.

You can certainly present a petition to the Board of Selectmen asking them to censure him at the very least. Make sure you have a LOT of signatures...and make sure they are voters.
Don't forget, he is up for re-election. Get your candidate!

The last time a petition was presented to the BOS, not so sweet brucie grabbed it and tossed it aside.  He said he wasn't interested and then the BOS ridiculed the petition saying that many of the names came from people in the bars.  They also said people were duped into signing.

Ms Lilly,
I'm sorry, but "this crowd" is much bigger than you think and growing by the day. It's very sad that you seem to still support this man. I was told the first thing you need to be a leader is respect, and his actions disqualify any respect. At the very least, this man needs to return to private life and allow reasonable people to manage the town.

Larry, I agreed with you about this crowd, so I don't know why you apologized...

And I don't know where I said I supported him...you asked me to comment and I did...actually, I did say I did not condone his rudeness...if that is what you consider support, then okay...

And yes Ham, in that particular instance, I do think it was showing great respectful towards his fellow board members...did I say the same about Tuesday?

Blind loyalty to not so sweet brucie and the ragboy is pathetic.

The last time the grand poobah bruce was chair he was ousted for multiple reasons by three members of the bos. Only brenda stood up for him and returned him to the chair seat at the very next meeting. He continued to be rude to the citizens and to the other members of the bos. He has not changed, nor will he change. He is an embarrassment to the current board and to the town.

As for the ragboy, he is gulping for his last breath, in part, because he is being ignored. He is the water boy for the grand poobah and cannot continue to write--plagiarize from the other real newspapers (in my opinion)--publish and deliver the rag alone much longer.

Folks who support these two jokers are in the minority. No one can look at Wareham today and say we are in a better place than we were one, two, three, even four years ago. How sad and pathetic. Keep in mind that every town in the commonwealth is hurting financially, but no other towns are imploding like ours is. The fact is, we are also sad and pathetic if we don't do something to save our town.

Maybe we should order some new signs to put on lawns---instead of Save Our Library they could say---Save Our Town.

Sweet Brucey took the chair even though being legally voted out and not entitled to it.  He, Brenda, and Ragboy set up a precedent - once you have the chair, it is illegal to be removed from the chair for any reason.

That's the dumbest thing I've ever heard of.  Any organization or group has the right to decide who their leader is and to decide that leader is not doing a good job and to pick another leader. 

Let's take a hypothetical to see how dangerous that precedent was.  Suppose, maybe 10 years in the future, someone is elected to the board of selectmen and they become chairman (this is just a made up person to illustrate a point).  Suppose this person as chair is awful.  They show up to the meeting high on drugs and they openly accept cash to use the chairmanship position to steer the meeting people's way.  Picture a hypothetical selectman so bad that all sides think he is awful and needs to be removed.

This person could point to the Sweet Brucey precedent and say "You cant remove me as chairman because under the Sweet Brucey precedent, no one may be removed from the chairmanship for any reason!"

What a load of crap.  These clowns never think about how their actions affect the future, they only live in the now and think about how things affect them.

I believe that the Charter also dictates the Rules of Robert's specifically.

If no one reads his propaganda, then it's just a fart in a mud puddle.