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CHARTER REVIEW COMMITTEE MINUTES Monday, March 25, 2024* 2 <br /> letter was sent to our little local Mashpee emptyprize from two separate email addresses and <br /> allegedly signed by two different human beings. This has happened here. Democracy is not <br /> harassing the local garden committee and accusing them of racism or religious prejudice or anti- <br /> beardism or something because you didn't get you way. How many hours of the Town's time did <br /> this little caper take up? <br /> Democracy is not violating the open meeting law to such an extent that the State AG's office <br /> sends an open meeting law violation reprimand. Democracy is not secret Thursday night Zoom <br /> meetings where a certain "vision" of Mashpee is hashed out by the select anointed few and then <br /> perpetrated on the unsuspecting many. This is what Vlad Lenin and Joe Stalin did when they <br /> created the Council of the People's Commissars. Democracy is not yelling and screaming and <br /> threatening a Town employee with "I'll create a show" if the Town employee refuses to remove <br /> a letter from the meeting packet that the board chair told him to put in. This is Trumpism, this is <br /> corrupt. This is ugly. <br /> So why am I here today? So many reasons, but one prime reason arrived in my email today. It <br /> seems you guys have created an online survey asking us locals several key questions. For <br /> example, would you like to have the Town Clerk elected or appointed? Now we know Mary <br /> Waygan wants this position to be appointed. Why is this so important to her? Vengeance would <br /> be my first guess. But I'm also told that Waygan wants the job. So here's what's going to happen <br /> to your survey.This little self-appointed group of super-righteous folk are going to go around and <br /> ensure that certain people are going to fill out the survey. Which makes this effort nothing more <br /> than wasted money. <br /> Town Clerk Deborah Kaye wrote in an email to the Committee: <br /> When the Charter Committee (Committee) created the first ever Mashpee Charter, I personally <br /> never agreed with the position of the Committee regarding candidates for re-election. The <br /> various elected boards all require members to donate much blood, sweat, and time to their <br /> respective duties as a board member. I have always felt that the candidate for re-election should <br /> be afforded the opportunity to be placed at the top of the list in "alpha" order (if more than one <br /> candidate is running for re-election; ie, John Cotton and Tom O'Hara for Select Board). While <br /> understood the Committee's position, I never agreed with it. Prior to the Committee adding the <br /> below paragraph, candidates were listed on the ballot in alpha order with the candidates for <br /> reelection listed first and then all others were listed alphabetically below. (e) Ballot Position -The <br /> names of candidates for each elective town office, and including candidates for re-election to the <br /> same office, shall be arranged according to the results of a drawing, by lot, conducted by the <br /> Town Clerk to which the candidates or their representatives shall be invited to attend. At this <br /> time I would ask you and the rest of the Committee consider amending this paragraph in its <br /> entirety to read: <br /> (e) Ballot Position - The names of all candidates for each elective office shall be arranged in <br /> alphabetical order with candidates for re-election at the top of the IistJohn Miller opened up the <br /> floor for discussion. The positioning of the incumbent on the top of the ballot may present an <br /> unfair advantage. <br />