The Budget Fight in Tiverton
For those who take a keen interest in Tiverton politics, local politics in general, or seeing a town employee shout at me and threaten to “get in my face,” I’ve put up a number of posts on Tiverton Fact Check in recent weeks:
- An explanation of the 0.9% budget (Budget #2) that I submitted.
- Video clips of outbursts from Town Administrator Matthew Wojcik’s (a Cumberland resident and Republican) directed toward residents, including me.
- A video clip of my explanation of the budget.
- A review of misleading statements from town officials and activists at a one-sided infomercial that they produced for public-access television.
- My letter to the editor describing the positive vision for Budget #2.
- Some additional points to dispel the fear that the school committee will cancel plans to go to full-day kindergarten if they don’t get $126,000 that they don’t need.
- A review of a falsehood promoted by Tiverton 1st coordinator Brian Medeiros that one of Tiverton’s many massive tax increases in recent years came because the town didn’t have money in its reserves to soften the blow of a reduced state reimbursement for the now-forgotten car-tax phase out.
- An analysis of the misleading comparison of Portsmouth’s larger reserve fund to Tiverton’s (still very large) one.
- An explanation of the utter falsehood pushed by Tiverton 1st in a mailer that went out to some residents.