Ragman's an ass. His Headline is "Update: Alleged victim wife of town employee", and then the only thing written on that point is "Coleman hit a woman - identified in court as Pam Miller (the wife of a sewer department employee Brian Miller) ". 95% of his story has nothing to do with the headline.
Also, his "discovery" of the organizer of the meeting is ridiculous. This town needs a meeting like this, and more. It's a great fuckin' idea. report that!
Oh yeah, and Brucie lied(but admitted it to Bobo,not the public record), and Crusty the Clown is a douche,

Damn, Bobo says he's going to come to the community meeting.  Bring your nose plugs!

I want to send him an email so bad. I don't want to interfer with Mr. Brady is doing, so I won't address Slager trying to channel Sherlock Holmes. Geez, I'd laugh harder but I don't want to cause a scene.

Welcome or not, if this is like most towns you can't have a private meeting in a public facility.

I hope Steve Urbon comes so if there is "reporting" is is actual reporting.

On the 52 people voting on a poll, I don't think it is likely he has the capacity to insure people don't vote twice.

Every time you even mention his name on this site you are vindicating his presence in Wareham. I beg of you---ignore him. He has caused way too much pain to so many good people in town. Don't give him the time of day. IN MY OPINION he is worthless and below our dignity. IN MY OPINION--even though I have factual evidence---he has lied so many times it isn't even funny any more.

Do you want the fake observer--the rag-- to go away???? STOP READING IT OR REFERRING TO IT. Please.

Last edited by Molly (2009-07-22 17:37:54)

Hamatron5000 wrote:

Damn, Bobo says he's going to come to the community meeting.  Bring your nose plugs!

Too bad it wasn't scheduled on a Tuesday night.

More fact on why THIS site is the real Wareham Observer:
Fact: We have breaking news (that is correct)
Fact: We have cartoons and political commentary (Thank you Ham)
Fact: We have humor and satire section (Thank you IHL)

We don't have much of a sport section, but last time I checked, neither does the FAKE Observer :)

Sports:

Red Sox go into prolonged slump during Wareham computer audit.

If a private group pays the facility fees and associated costs then the meeting is private. Does anyone crash the Girl Scouts?

Are we still in the midst of a computer audit?  Isn't it a more logical conclusion that there was nothing to be gained from all this nonsense and we won't hear anything about the audit cuz they won't want the publicity.  Who's to say they wouldn"t plant stuff on the computers?

It would have to be something huge to have cost the taxpayers as much as the audit has already cost. And if there are future legal bills as a result of the audit findings, then whatever they found would have to be super-huge to justify the use of our tax dollars.

Molly,
I agree, the audit was poor fiscal planning. IF the audit was done after they finances of the town are better, or if they had planned the audit in the budget, it would have been better received. I think it's funny that Slager thinks all the "hate blogging" is to distract from the audit findings. I think all the hooplah created from other events is to distract from the fact that there was nothing of any consequence found in the audit.  Don't misunderstand me, they will find something, but I don't believe it would justify the expense of the audit.

At this point, they see the tide turning. They are losing voters faster than Sauvageau loses his temper. People are focusing on the fiscal spending and lack of controls. They also have seen a competent town staff slowly be reduced to people who have no clue what they are doing or fear for their jobs. At the very least, it's obvious the Selectmen have received a "no confidence" vote from the town.

To me, it doesn't matter what they find, they showed poor decision making skills by doing an audit during the worst financial crunch this town has seen. I think the most important thing to remember is that when you review the management skills of this group of Selectmen, you find many red flags. The decisions on the TA, the dismissal of the accountant, several department heads and key employees resign or leave, lack of qualified candidates (look at the new accountant), and a steep increase in legal fees associated with their decisions. Employees are most assuredly blogging and voters are starting to come out of their long sleep to voice displeasure with the Selectmen. The tide has turned. If we take this momentum and present qualified candidates, then we stand a real chance of change. No amount of misdirection and character assasination by the Fake observer will make it go away.

I've never seen anything quite like this before, in my experience.

Typically a Dept Head or Manager will have an issue or suspision about an employee.

Then we would take the issue to our Human Resource Department.

IT would then audit the employee's computer, which takes a matter of minutes (not months).

If anything was found, there would be disciplinary action based on what was found, a written or oral warning, or dismissal. In over 30 years I have never seen an employee dismissed on the first offense.

In today's technology, if the Town has issues with on-line activity, they could have just simply ordered the IT shop to block access to sites that are not considered appropriate for town business, that's what we do.

No cost just a few minutes updating the Firewall settings. And no this does not violate someones rights, we don't have rights to shop and blog on an employers time.

If you read the email exchange I had with Mr. Sauvageau, you will see that in his opinion, "HE OWNS THE AGENDA". I tried to point out that it says Citizen Participation and as a citizen it was my right to bring up my concerns and seek answers, his response is he would have me thrown out of his meeting. Now, unless I am missing something, when we did we, as voters and taxpayers, pass ownership of the town to Mr. Sauvageau? Yes, the current Selectmen were elected by a majority of votes, but the voter turnout was low. So where do I turn for answers to my questions? I tried another Selectmen, but apparently that isn't going anywhere. I have written the DA with no response. I have had conversations with people at the state level who tell me my complaints were not the first and it has become a daily thing to receive complaints from Wareham residents. I was also informed that the process of investigating the complaints is a long process.

Basically, our most obvious choice is to organize as a group, present qualified candidates, and gain a majority of voters.  it's as simple as that. We can demand all we want, but they are thumbing their collective nose at us and smiling with arrogance.