Focus on the issues rather than the source and emotions of the "Bogus Letter" the Middleboro BOS received regarding the selection process for the new Fire Chief.
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A Middleboro Selectwoman has participated and offered her opinions in all discussions regarding the Fire Department.....
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Maybe Mrs. Duphily was unaware of the Ethics issues surrounding a firefighter forced to resign from the BOS, as she clearly appears to be unaware of many other town issues.
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Ironically, on the home page of The Official Website of the Massachusetts State Ethics Commission this is offered
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In House Seminar
The Massachusetts State Ethics Commission is presenting a
FREE EDUCATIONAL SEMINAR
on the Conflict of Interest law for state, county and municipal employees on
Tuesday, November 25, 2008 at 10:00 a.m. and
Tuesday, January 13, 2009 at 10:00 a.m.
One Ashburton Place, Room 619, Boston, MA.
Call 617-371-9500 to reserve your seat.
SPACE IS LIMITED!
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Mrs. Duphily is personable and kind and extraordinarily talented. But Mrs. Duphily seems to believe that Town Government is her personal playground to do and say as she chooses, legal issues be damned! She is clearly too overbooked and distracted by personal commitments to focus on Town issues. She arrives at BOS meetings clearly unprepared and having failed to research ANY issue or reviewed the documents that are hand-delivered to each Bored [sic] member via Police Department courier. Intellectual curiosity is not her forte.
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Mimi, Dear, you need to avail yourself of the resources that have been made available to understand how government works and stop embarrassing us. And you need to find the time to ensure that you fully understand that laws, statutes, and those silly things like 'Ethics' that govern your conduct.
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Dear Mimi, that you felt the need to express your anger at the Fire Department when you said (in the Middleboro Gazette still only 50 cents)
"There's infighting in the department, there's no discipline....This has got to come to an end."
"We did it in this way so the politics would be taken out of it."
"This is hurtful."
.reveals that you fail to understand what Ethics means.
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Or in the Brockton Enterprise when you were quoted
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"Ethics felt I shouldn't be there...If that's what they're pushing for, I guess they won."
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Dear Mrs. Duphily, you either need to inform yourself, do your research, invest the time in the programs that are offered that explain town government, or you need to do us a favor and resign so that a candidate willing to take the time can conduct Town business.
.Dumbfounded #2
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Footnote: Town Counsel's Advice:
Footnote: Town Counsel's Advice:
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Town Counsel wasted his taxpayer paid time traveling to Boston TWICE to fight me on an issue that he lost. The last time he lost, the judge clearly cautioned him to settle the matter and not return to court. At a future date, I may blog about the surrounding issues, but in this case, I had researched the issue and while I make absolutely no pretense of any legal expertise, Town Counsel was wrong. How many other times is Town Counsel wrong because he fails to do the research? Is Middleboro paying +$60K a year for flawed legal advice because 'that's the way it's always been done' ?
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Note to casino supporters: You supported and elected an unqualified candidate based solely on a single issue that bloggers told you would NOT come to pass. Could you give serious consideration to other issues next time around because they really matter to the rest of us?
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Note to Spataro supporters: Mr. Spataro, who told us this was the BIG LEAGUES was again ABSENT from the BOS meeting. You may recall that Mr. Spataro spent a BOS meeting text messaging, eating his supper, has been frequently unprepared and late, has no listed phone number to avoid voters.
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Is this truly what we want and need from Town Government? Is anyone watching this?
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