At the 2 May 2022 Sterling Annual Town Meeting the voters approved amended Warrant Article 3 to have the Select Board submit a Petition to the Massachusetts Legislature (General Court) requesting that the Sterling Select Board be expanded from three (3) members to five (5) members.
At that Annual Town Meeting none other than self-perpetuating Select Board Chair “Our Lady of Perpetual Bullsh*t,” Maureen Cranson, promised all voters present that such Petition would be submitted. Just so ya know, Select Board member John “Bent Buffoon” Kilcoyne’s daughter happens to be an elected representative in the Legislature.
According to The Item newspaper, Clinton, Massachusetts, at every Sterling Select Board Meeting since 2 May 2022 attendees have demanded that the Select Board submit that Petition to the Legislature.
Seven (7) full weeks after that Annual Town Meeting I submitted the following Public Records Request to the Select Board (here all text is justified to left margin):
P.O. Box 1149
Sterling, MA 01564-1149
14 June 2022
Select Board
Municipal Building
1 Park Street
Sterling, MA 01564
Dear Sterling Select Board Members,
In accordance with Mass.Gen.Laws Ch. 66, Section 10, request is hereby made for a complete copy of the following:
- The Sterling Select Board’s Petition to the Massachusetts General Court (Legislature) requesting that the Town of Sterling Select Board be expanded to five (5) members from its current three (3) member limit, such Petition being approved as Article 3, amended, during the 2022 Sterling Annual Town Meeting and, during said 2022 Sterling Annual Town Meeting, the submission of such Petition to the Massachusetts General Court being promised to all then present by none other than Sterling Select Board Chair Maureen Cranson.
NOTE: Sterling Select Board member John Kilcoyne’s daughter is an elected member of the Massachusetts General Court.
Failure to respond to this Request in a timely manner may result in a Superior Court action for enforcement.
I thank you for your consideration.
Sincerely,
James F. Gettens
cc:
Clerk, Town of Sterling
Gregg J. Corbo, Esq., KP Law, P.C.
The Item, Clinton
Note the ccs to The Item and to Town Counsel.
Well wouldn’t ya know, that Public Records Request apparently prompted the Select Board members to actually shift on their ass cheeks and vote, during their 22 June 2022 Meeting, to so Petition the Legislature. Now isn’t that just SPECIAL?! They could have done THAT during their 11 May 2022 Meeting and directed Town Counsel to draft the Petition. They failed to do so–then and repeatedly thereafter.
It is obvious that they are dragging their feet, now claiming that the Petition process will be delayed further due to the Legislature’s summer recess and fall elections. Massachusetts legislators mostly sit around with their thumbs up their A$$E$ while feeding from the taxpayer-funded public mammary gland, anyway, so it’s not like this Petition will disrupt any pressing legislative initiatives, except maybe those sponsored by the HARD LEFT and intended to screw Massachusetts taxpayers more than they are already getting screwed in order to benefit all the Massachusetts parasites who vote for the HARD LEFT… Yeah Folks, the Massachusetts Legislature is really on recess most of the year.
Oh, and the Legislature won’t OFFICIALLY start summer recess until 31 July 2022. SEE https://ballotpedia.org/2022_Massachusetts_legislative_session
SO WHERE IS THE SELECT BOARD’S ACTUAL PETITION TO THE LEGISLATURE– YOU KNOW, THAT PAPER THING WITH WRITTEN TEXT ON IT???
Well, late last week, after the Select Board’s 22 June 2022 Meeting, I got an email from Kama Jayne, the Select Board’s Administrative Assistant, saying that that “document does not exist.”
NO SH*T, KAMA! I guess that’s why you get paid the big bucks at our expense.
J.G.
STERLING, MASSACHUSETTS, OVERWATCH 
Lying cranson….I don’t see why we wouldn’t petition if that’s what people voted for…..
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