04.09.13
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By Bob Montgomery Thomas
In an apparent April Fool joke attempt, Mayor Sue Kay appeared before the Weymouth town council along with the CFO on April 1 to ask for its support of her proposed meals tax increase of .075% (3/4 of 1%), which would bring the effective tax on prepared foods to 7%. That’s not a lot of money – just 75 cents on a $100 meal. Still, the “plan” she presented was highly suspect.
According to the local paper she was quoted in on March 12 – and alleged state projections that no one that I know of asked for – the increase would help raise $500,000 annually to pay for the maintenance of the town’s recreation fields and costs to upgrade them. Kay promised the council that the money would be earmarked and not used for any other purpose unless it was an emergency, in which case she said she would have to return to the council to re-appropriate the money to other uses.
However, the proposal she submitted, to accept MGL c. 64L §2, contained no such guarantee, other than her word, of how the money would be spent because state law does NOT allow local aid revenues to be earmarked. The extra taxes would be submitted to the state by food vendors and the state would then return the funds to the town as local aid. This was NOT a menu override she was proposing, where monies are expended for restricted purposes: this was just her solemn, unwritten, unenforceable promise.
And she promised over and over, from the bottom of her heart – at least six times – that she would NOT deviate from her plan. Yet, she adamantly refused to put anything in writing. Why not?
And so where or what was her plan: to throw more money hither and yon, like the Emery Mistake, to see if any of it would stick to a wall somewhere to make her management style look like it made any sense? This mayor doesn’t show me a thing. I’ve overheard many say that she’s in over her head. The ones who don’t are likely in some sort of stupor – or may just be fawning mayoral appointees.
To be candid and honest, I was her only opponent in the last election; so maybe I’m a bit prejudiced – but really I’m not – I’m just stating facts. I’m just Bob Monty being Bob Monty… I got my campaign donations the old fashioned way: from my bank account. She received close to $10,000 from the town’s waste disposal contractor – through straw donors no less – and many, many more $thousands from other out-of-town special interests.
Kay told the reporter the “revenue” from the proposed meals tax would be “used to hire a supervisor to maintain the parks and fields in addition to keeping the fields in good condition” – which is redundant – just like the job might be. I’d hazard that this proposed supervisor would cost $100K a year with benefits, pension and OPEB contributions, plus a new truck and riding mowers that likely would sit idle between playing seasons – as might this “supervisor” and his or her staff.
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Posted in Bob Montgomery Thomas, More lies and incompetence, Weymouth at 11:08 AM by Bob Monty
By Bob Montgomery Thomas
In an apparent April Fool joke attempt, Mayor Sue Kay appeared before the Weymouth town council along with the CFO on April 1 to ask for its support of her proposed meals tax increase of .075% (3/4 of 1%), which would bring the effective tax on prepared foods to 7%. That’s not a lot of money – just 75 cents on a $100 meal. Still, the “plan” she presented was highly suspect.
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02.10.13
Posted in Bob Montgomery Thomas, State House News, Weymouth at 12:12 PM by Bob Monty
WHAT ALL OF WEYMOUTH AND PART OF HINGHAM ARE STUCK WITH ON BACON HILL
Bacon Hill “representatives” on roll calls from the week of Feb. 4 to 8.
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12.24.12
Posted in Bob Montgomery Thomas at 3:47 PM by Bob Monty
By Bob Montgomery Thomas
I take exception to the December 22 Patriot Ledger commentary by US Rep. William Keating suggesting it’s time to ban so-called assault weapons.
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06.07.12
Posted in Bob Montgomery Thomas at 2:50 PM by Bob Monty
By Neal Boortz
I am honored by the invitation to address you on this august occasion. It’s about time. Be warned, however, that I am not here to impress you; you’ll have enough smoke blown your way today. And you can bet your tassels I’m not here to impress the faculty and administration.
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04.03.12
Posted in Bob Montgomery Thomas at 8:45 AM by Bob Monty
By Bob Montgomery Thomas
Once again, The Patriot Ledger editors were on the wrong side of the equation in an editorial they published on March 31. For them to say that interest in the proposed amendment to the Castle Doctrine statute already in place (MGL c. 278, § 8A) only escalated after the Florida tragedy is just more pabulum that those in some quarters are trying to shove down the throats of the citizens here who have every right to defend themselves from intruders.
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03.07.12
Posted in Bob Montgomery Thomas at 12:07 PM by Bob Monty
Here are the results for the Tuesday, March 6 race for the Republican State Committeeman for the Plymouth and Norfolk Senatorial District:
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03.03.12
Posted in Bob Montgomery Thomas at 12:19 AM by Bob Monty
By Bob Montgomery Thomas
“When, in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.”
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01.26.12
Posted in Bob Montgomery Thomas, Weymouth at 8:45 PM by Bob Monty
(Picture of recent Weymouth mayoral candidate and second-place finisher, Bob Monty, contemplating his navel while listening to the incumbent mayor’s very dumb answer to an overly dumbed-down question at a League of Women Voters candidates forum in late October 2011. The “forum” was put on by the same national group who launched vicious attacks against Sen. Scott Brown without disclosing their funding sources.)
By Bob Montgomery Thomas, January 16, 2012
If you’ve never met US Senator Scott Brown one on one, you’ve really missed something. I first met him when he was still a Massachusetts state senator at a political event in Swansea. I was introduced to him by Senator Bob Hedlund, his then-fellow senate Republican on Beacon Hill.
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12.12.11
Posted in Bob Montgomery Thomas, Weymouth at 2:29 PM by Bob Monty
Following this intro is a letter I sent to the Office of Campaign and Political Finance (OCPF) regarding out-of-town special interest money and in-town special interest money taken in by Weymouth’s mayor this year – on top of the many $thousands she received from various unions – for whom she has done absolutely nothing. The police and firefighters unions left her high and dry this year – just like she left them for the last four years.
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