Kevin Hayes versus the Budget Committee?
Budcom reviewing the budget-- the job they're elected to do.
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I am somewhat perplexed by the comments by Kevin Hayes regarding his run for Selectman as published in today's Laconia Daily Sun.
"I have no agenda," Hayes declared..However, he suggested that "it appears that decisions are not being made and when they are, it is with a look over the shoulder to the Budget Committtee.."The Budget Committee doesn't run the town," he said.
Allow me to translate Mr. Hayes' words for the layperson:
The Selectmen, in Mr. Hayes' opinion, have spent too much time actually worrying about the impact of their decisions on the taxpayers instead of just getting on with the business of increasing both taxes and spending.
Somebody ought to remind Mr. Hayes about the results of last year's election-- you know, where the budget committee was overwhelmingly supported by the voters who were asked to disband the important monetary oversight group. Also, ahem, a certain conservative and supposed bad guy garnered the second highest number of votes and was elected to a three year term on that same committee. Couple this with the lack of any real controversy with the performance of this year's Budget Committee, and one has to wonder at the rationale of Kevin Hayes running against its record.
Could it simply be that he's still sore because that body didn't pick him to fill an open seat when he applied two years ago?
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