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The town has already collected $4 million of a possible $13 million in extra money hidden from the budget process.
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The Outrage Machine and Political Payback
For most of the day, during a thirteen-hour stint standing outside the polling place on Saturday, budget #2 supporter and Town Council member Joseph Sousa left an obviously fake rifle with a military-style helmet hanging on the top of it leaning against a replica military motorcycle, causing nobody any alarm (including the town’s police chief). A number of people did stop and admire the display, some taking pictures of it, and a few even asking for and receiving permission to sit on the bike. Late in the day, somebody called the police, who came and asked Sousa to put the prop — a dummy gun for drills — away. He complied, and that was that. Now an officer of the local big-government progressive PAC Tiverton 1st is trying to make an issue of it, and (once again) reporter Tom Killin Dalglish has obliged in making Tiverton 1st outrage a front-page story, titled “Sousa slammed for bringing gun replica to high school” (not online). The episode is reminiscent of the campaign in 2012, during which I was running for school committee and, with the help of the Sakonnet Times, Tiverton 1st treasurer Deborah Janick made a show of taking offense at something I’d written on Twitter. This time, it’s Tiverton …
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