Who Is Behind Door Number 3?
Who Is Behind Door Number 3?
March 18: Nomination papers due at 5pm<–Done
March 27: Nominating caucus, if quorum (25) is met<—Next Bloodsport Event.
April 1: Last day to withdraw from the ballot
April 14: Last day to register to vote in the town election
May 4: Election 7am to 8pm at Town Hall
Ok the papers are in and the contests are set, well sort of set in wet cement. I’m sure that the next step in our vaunted Selectboard race will be the entry of a Dickhaut candidate installed at the caucus. There is no way on Gods green earth she’s going to allow either Bill Connolly Jr or Clifford Blake II to get that seat without a fight. I have heard a name (read-former selectman and Dickhaut loyalist) that may be recruited to run against the two current candidates. I would suggest to you all that if you want a race without the trappings of a total mudslinging, bloodsport event that you show up at 5pm March 27th and vote no to whoever the Dickhaut camp tries to dredge up and to run. They had the last few months to recruit someone and get their papers signed and returned. I think the caucus is a partisan remnant of our old election system that went the way of the pony express back in the early 1970’s. It’s real usefulness is gone and it’s used as a backdoor attempt to cause problems and “outsmart the system of actually pulling papers and showing your” hand” In short its the cowards way out or into a race, unless it’s to recruit a candidate for an empty seat or unopposed seat.
Tags: Board of Selectman, Caucas, dickhaut, partisan
March 20th, 2009 at 4:15 pm
You can be sure they have someone in mind. I don’t think they like some of the names that are on the ballot. Especially, for BOS. If they don’t put someone up on 3/27 I would be very surprised.
Should be a very interesting reading next Friday.
March 20th, 2009 at 4:32 pm
Never mind reading about it, be there or be square! Don’t let Dickhaut get her handpicked candidate on the ballot, especially when they had plenty of time to pull papers, get them signed and get on the honest way!
March 29th, 2009 at 1:51 pm
The caucus system is not a “cheap way” to get on the ballot nor is it underhanded. It is a system that is well understood, open to the public, requires, with all due respect, similar citizen action than pulling papers. Some refer to politics as playing cards. The caucus merely allows a player to hold his cards a bit longer than those who pull papers. If you think this is an unfair advantage, than don’t play your cards early…hold on to those pocket twos. In this case the public was confident that there would be a caucus nomintation, so really what is the surprise that it happened?
Tom C
March 30th, 2009 at 9:34 am
Cheap? My belief is that that the caucus is an outdated way of nomination. The Caucus as I said in my Blog was for use when we had a partisan local election. If a party had no candidate one would be picked. It’s time for this vestige of the past to GO. You need 25 votes to get on at the caucus and 45 signatures to get on the ballot pulling papers. Not quite the same. This time it was orchestrated by Haley, Dickhaut and Leblanc, It you like their candidate, fine vote for him. I think it’s a shame that basically the BOS ran that caucus to try and block the two candidates that were already running. I wouldn’t vote for the guy they picked if someone put a gun to my head, he’s just a yes man for the crappy BOS was now have.