Bow Voters Don’t Let Your Vote Get Stolen
Concerned Taxpayers of Bow,
Please do not let your vote get stolen. Due to the fact that there is a huge flaw in our Current Town Meeting form of government a small group of people can steal your vote and reverse every vote we made on March 13. That huge flaw is called the reconsideration vote. Please come to the March 24 Continuation Meeting and support the Concerned Taxpayers of Bow’s motion to restrict this reconsideration.
In colonial times the reconsideration vote was well-meaning because getting information around was difficult. Today the reconsideration vote is often used with devious intent. A small group of people will wait until the majority of voters go home and when they think they have a majority they pull the reconsideration vote. Unfortunately Bow has history with the devious side of the reconsideration vote when a small group of people waited until the meeting was about to end and requested a reconsideration vote in the wee hours of the next day. This is why we need to stick around at the meeting to make sure that doesn’t happen.
A Restriction of Reconsideration vote is only a speed bump to slow down the Huge Flaw in the Town Meeting form of Government. It can’t stop this devious activity but it allows for the actual revote to happen at a date 7 days or more latter given time for the Townspeople to be alerted. So please stay at the meeting as long as you can.
There is absolutely no reason for reconsideration, Bow’s Taxes will still be sky high, the Bow Power Plant assessment will still drop 5 Million Dollars causing us to pick up the tab of more than a million dollars in lost tax revenue. The economy will still be lousy. Bow will still be in the top ten highest taxed Towns in New Hampshire. The appreciation of Bow Houses will still be one of the lowest in NH. We all remember how high the values of our houses were when our tax rates were low. We can make that happen again if we stand up and fight.
Van Mosher