The open meetings complaint made by Exeter resident Rodney Santos, reported in Wednesday’s Projo, shouldn’t go anywhere if the meeting that is the subject of the complaint was a Democratic Party event.

But it was this part of Tom Mooney’s report that made me chuckle a bit…

Robert Johnson, one of the four targeted Town Council members and the head of the Town Democratic Committee, says he asked that the state police be present as a precaution because Santos had “made a bit of a scene” the day before at the library asking about the meeting room’s occupancy limit and “planning to call the Fire Department to disrupt the meeting”.

If members of the Exeter Town Council can reach an arrangement where the Rhode Island State Police perform basic police functions for Democratic Party events, with a little honest effort, couldn’t they also reach an arrangement where the State Police help Exeter residents with the basic police function of firearms permit background checks?