Now what?

It's over.

We lost. They won.

So, how do you feel?

You did your civic duty. You commented on blog sites. You spoke up in public. Some of you, even spoke up at last Monday nights School Board meeting. 

The outcome was not the one you hoped for.  Now what?

Well don't hit the bottle just yet.

Your work is not yet done!  A new battle, one for restoring taxpayer-lead financial control over Maine 207 has just begun.

Remember my friends, no matter what a School Superintendent thinks, it's the School Board that ultimately controls the purse strings.  We have our CURRENT School Board to blame for this mess. 

(Front row, from left: Linda Coyle, Carla Owen, Aurora Austriaco, Teri Collins. Back row, from left: Jin Lee, Paula Besler, Sean Sullivan).

We have Board President, Carla Owen to blame.  We have Building & Grounds Committee Chair, Teri Collins to blame.  We have Finance Committee Chair, Sean Sullivan to blame.  These three Chairs knew about, and irresponsibly endorsed, the Wallace scam.

Although the total Board was the key player, since together they authorized the con and allowed the Wallace gang to withhold $120,000,000 in previously taxed revenue from public sight, it can't be stressed enough, the impact  non-voters had on the election results.  As Trizna so rightly stated on his latest blog post, "...49,669 voters who actually cast ballots..." while "...46,941 slugs who failed to show up."

Plan - B

Our job now, is to place responsible adults in those Board positions to look out for everyone's best interest. Specifically, the taxpayer and student, in that order.

 

 

We won't be looking for Superintendent lap dogs like Owen, Collins and Sullivan. We'll be looking for independent grownups, adults, men and women who understand who works for whom, and know how and when to say NO!
 

• No, when it comes to withholding $120,000,000 from their purpose. 
• No, when it comes to administrator bonus plans. 
• No, when it comes to raising taxes destined to force long time residents & friends to move out, because their total property tax bills are unsustainable. 

Owen, Collins and Sullivan are culpable for:

• misusing $120,000,000 in previously taxed revenue 
• administratoring bonus plans 
• unnecessarily raising your property taxes.  

And need to be held accountable.

That's where you come in. 

There were 18,177 No votes registered.  Only 38.96% of those who cared to show up to vote. 

There are 7 Board members.  Each member serves a 4 year term. 

• Lee, Austriaco, Owen & Coyle were elected in 2017.  Expiration date: 2021. 
• Sullivan, Collins and Besler's memberships expire in 2019.

Now, I've lay out the current situation.  Where we go from here is going to be up to you.  Question is, do you and I sit this one out or start taking preventive action?

So, do you feel up to it?

Of course, it's only my opinion.

Last Call ! - Updated - 11/05/2018

Update

A couple days ago, I thought I'd seen all the reasons I needed to vote NO for this Referendum. When I learned of Wallace's betrayal, his withholding of $120,000,000+ previously taxed dollars (not $45 million) as we were lead to believe, I asked myself, what more could there be?

Unfortunately, there's more. 

For the last couple months, our group has been unsuccessful in trying to find out the funding sources behind the "Yes207 grass routes" Referendum campaign. 

Today, we know. 

Thanks to Robert Trizna's latest "PublicWatchdog" blog post, we've learned there appears to be collusion between some vendors, the Dean Patras run "Yes207" campaign and very likely, D207 Officials.  

There is a 6pm Board Meeting tonight at D207's School District offices located at Dee & Devon, to the south of Maine South High School. The issues presented within the "PublicWatchdog" blog posting will be publically addressed. 

I intend to be there. What about you?  Join us if you can. It's important for as many of you to be there as well. 

At tonight's Board Meeting, we will demand an immediate and public response from Superintendent Wallace and Board President Carla Owen to these accusations. 

One way or the other, we will get to the bottom of this issue. 

Now, more than ever, I urge you to vote NO! 

Original Text

On November 6th, the only thing standing between your families huge 20-year tax increase, is YOU! 

Apparently, some of your neighbors have money to burn. And you, based on the VOTE YES signs displayed on their lawns, aren't paying enough. 

So it's going to be up to YOU to protect yourself.  

And if you don't actively vote NO for the Referendum, even if you don't vote for anything else, the result of your NON-VOTE, is equal to you having voted YES.

Your defeating this insanity is that simple.

Now, there's nothing else I have to offer at this location at this time that will persuade you to vote NO.  

However, there is additional and valuable information elsewhere. Material I think you should read. It's on Bob Trizna's Park Ridge "PublicWatchdog". 

As many of my long time readers know, Bob and I don't always see eye-to-eye. That is not true when it comes to D207's outrageous Referendum scam. 

So please, no matter your own prior disagreements with the Triznameister on other issues, click on "PublicWatchdog" and learn more about D207 from Ed Mueller, a prior D207 Board Member; details of incompetence even I had no idea about. 

Good luck to us all on Tuesday!

   Defeating this unnecessary Referendum is now in your hands!