{"id":11250,"date":"2008-06-19T08:17:55","date_gmt":"2008-06-19T12:17:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/vardibidian\/2008\/06\/19\/11250.html"},"modified":"2018-03-13T18:48:42","modified_gmt":"2018-03-13T23:48:42","slug":"no-means-no","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/2008\/06\/19\/no-means-no\/","title":{"rendered":"No means no"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

For those Gentle Readers who wanted to know the result of the budget referendum I was on about<\/a> last week, well, the budget went down in flames.<\/a> Turnout was 29%, and the final result was 65% No.
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Just to tell the story as I see it, we elected a Town Council (and School Board) who have as their main job deciding what the town will do and pay for, and then we rejected the budget they came up with. And then, after we did that, we re-elected the Town Council because they were doing a good job with the budget, and then after we did that, we rejected the budget they came up with. As far as I can tell, the pressure on that Town Council to come up with some accounting shenanigans that allow them to fraudulently claim to be doing the things people elected them to do without paying for them must be immense.
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Only some 19% of the registered voters came out to the polls to say no; it’s plausible that all of those people had voted against<\/i> the incumbents on the Town Council, or at least against the ones who supported the budgets, and that the greater number of people who voted for the Town Council mostly stayed home and let them twist slowly, slowly in the wind. Fooey.
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Mostly, I wanted to highlight one quote in the Hartford Courant’s story (which I linked to above). Daniel P. Jones quotes a 68-year-old town resident as saying about the town’s schools: “They’re just way overdoing it. ... They’re paying for a private school education with our tax money\u2026” Are you as stunned by that quote as I am?
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Tolerabimus quod tolerare debemus<\/I>,
-Vardibidian.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In Which Your Humble Blogger takes down his Yes sign and stores it in the garage for next year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[204],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11250"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18404,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11250\/revisions\/18404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}