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Article: TOWN MEETING 2005; Voter unrest concerns moderator; Proposal to give hard look to town meeting gets voice-vote OK
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- The Patriot Ledger Quincy, MA
- Article date:
- May 3, 2005
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The Patriot Ledger
Some people might say it was simply democracy in its purest form.
Others say it was so painful that they will never come back.
Marshfield's town meeting was slow, fitful and nasty this year. It
was so bad that Town Moderator James Robinson, for the first time in
his nine years in office, yielded his powers to Town Clerk Patricia
Picco and proposed a resolution to voters last night during the
fourth and final session town meeting session.
The nonbinding resolution, which passed on a voice vote, asks the
selectmen to allow Robinson to appoint a town meeting review
committee. The committee would review:
The conduct of this year's town meeting. Town meeting rules. The
order in ...