Election season. The time of year where we exercise our democratic right. Or not.
This year, as two years ago, we have 7 candidates for Town Council. They are: Barbara Capalbo, Jonathan Osborne,Scott Hirst, Frank Landolfi, Edward Gaul, Thomas Buck and Sylvia Thompson. To my considerable surprise, Beverly Kenney has decided not to go for a third (or is it fourth?) term. She is running unopposed for Town Moderator. I have no idea what the point is of her bothering- sheer boredom? Since no one went to the Financial Town Meeting, I guess everyone is pretty happy with the crappy state of affairs in Hopkinton. Did anyone even bother to vote for the budget? Barely. Anyway, I expect that Capalbo, Buck and Thompson will remain on the Council. Landolffi replaced our best friend Felkner when he decided he had better things to do so he’ll probably stick around too. Although, he doesn’t have the same name recognition as the others. The race is probably between Osborne, Hirst and Gaul. Hirst has been on the Council in the past but was shut out last time around and I don’t know anything about Osborne or Gaul. Anyway, I guess the point is that nothing is going to change in good old HopTown any time soon.
The School Board may be a more interesting race but probably not. Ure, Abbot and Petit are running so there will be one open spot for Blau, Swann and Kenney. I believe Gregory Kenney is Beverly Kenney’s husband so I guess that means the status quo. I don’t know anything about Blau but I have heard that Swann is frustrated with Chariho but to what extent I’m not exactly sure. All in all, I don’t expect much to change.
The real fun is going to be in Charlestown. Both Mr. Magoo (James Mageau) and Clifford Vanover are running for the Council. I can’t even imagine what would happen if the two of them ended up on the Council together. But I am not sure that as dumb as everyone in Charlestown is, they are going to let Mageau have another chance on the Council. I could reiterate the whole stupid escapade that was his first term but is that really necessary?
I’m going to grab my popcorn and watch the fireworks.
September 16, 2010 at 12:47 pm
can this gaul guy find any houses to put his signs on instead of breaking the law and sticking them all over telephone polls? not only is it illegal, its obnoxious. besides, why is he putting them out 2 months early??
November 4, 2010 at 3:10 pm
I’ll give you credit for saying you don’t know anything about a canidate. As a canidate I left over 1500 flyers, sorry if I missed you. But over 1500 uninformed or ignorant voter just put in a 28 year old guy who is a renter, “doesn’t pay taxes”, lacks life experience and indicated he doesn’t give a crap about the town by not campaigning and not going to more than the one meeting to see if he was going to fill Felkner’s seat in the last year and a half.
Buck leadership is that is a reality is nothing more than give it away and lie to the taxpayers when explaning the contract, but he gets away with it because no one shows up to listen and if you did, as I did, discuss it at public forum he bangs his gavel and stops the meeting. But the taxpayer themselves are to blame. STOP YOU WHINNING DURING THE YEARS AND VOTE THEM OUT WHEN YOU GET THE CHANCE. OBVIOUSLY YOU HAVE MISSED A QUALIFIED AND ENERGETIC CANIDATE AND YOU DON’T KNOW WHEN THE NEXT ONE WILL COME ALONG. I GUESS I’LL PAY THE HIGH TAXES THE FOOLISH HAVE CREATED FOR ME, THEN HOPE TO SELL, WITHOUT A LOSS, BECAUSE THE TAXES ARE SO HIGH NO ONE WILL BUY, UNLESS THEY ARE DECEIVED BY THE RURAL INTEGRITY, THAT IS THE THEME ISN’T IT????