So Right Now it’s Just a Rumor… Confirmed

Mr. Neil Moriarty is no longer chairman of the Monadnock Regional School District Budget Committee.

The information is scuttlebutt via a quick phone call from a friend,[confirmed @7am] so I’ll correct if needed, but that’s the word right now.

Apparently at tonight’s meeting, none of the Monadnock Taxpayer’s Association were present, but there was a quorum. In the absence of bullying diatribes and misleading statistics from the former chair, the members present voted to support both the teacher’s contract and the support staff contract.

Oh. They also removed Mr. Moriarty as chairman, replacing him with Jim Ells.

There’s going to be a backlash, of course. I’m no fan of Mr. Moriarty, but the Monadnock Taxpayer’s Association is going to scream bloody murder, and they’re going to accuse everyone they can lay hands on of underhanded tactics. ¹ There’s going to be an angry editorial, probably a bit more shouting than usual, and I wouldn’t be at all surprised is there was a full-blown temper tantrum.

Oh well.

Rain falls on the just—and it eventually falls on the unjust as well. Given the Monadnock Taxpayer’s Association’s actions in Sullivan, the repeated bullying of committee members, community members, and everyone else, I’m not at all surprised at this ending.

It’s going to make meetings much more exciting. I hope the chairs keep their gavels handy. They’re going to need them.

Further thoughts on this issue.

1 Personally, I think this was just amazingly gutsy carpe diem. Although the part of me which revels in dramatic endings would have preferred a Western-style showdown, in real life, a confrontation avoided is the best kind. I applaud the quick thinking. ↺

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