Your Vote Is Needed!!!!
As Election Day nears for Gilford voters it’s important to remember that elections do have consequences. Over the past couple of years we’ve heard candidates proclaim how conservative they are prior to their elections. Two such candidates, Dale Dormody and Mark Corry are running for the Gilford Budget Committee this year. They can proclaim whatever they wish prior to this election but it’s their voting record you should listen to before you head for the polls. You will see proof positive that both candidates have a solid voting record of liberal spending with your tax dollars.
Mark Corry initially slipped up and actually opposed the Lacrosse Warrant Article. He even tracked me down to tell me that he was not supporting the Lacrosse Warrant Article based on their budget proposal. It wasn’t long before he was told to correct his error. He publically explained his changed vote this way; “people emailed me”. Obviously, the man has no principles or spine because his reasons for not supporting the Lacrosse Warrant Article didn’t change but he voted for it anyway. There is NO question that his vote is completely owned by a special interest group. Even if you support a newly added Lacrosse budget expense, do you really want a puppet elected official with special interest hands in his back on every decision? You can rest assure that it doesn’t matter what he tells you about an issue, he will vote the way “They” tell him to. Coincidentally, Mr. Corry is also a member of the Meadows Committee, appointed by the School Board. It’s no secret that the School Board isn’t happy with the Conservation Commission’s efforts to make sure that any development in the Meadows is environmentally sound. Mr. Corry sought to use his position on the Budget Committee to cut any funds for that effort. It would be perfectly acceptable for him to try to cut money that his constituents “tell him” is not wisely spent. He goes wrong when the Conservation Commission made it abundantly clear to him that NONE of their budget goes toward the Meadows project and then he decides to votes against their entire budget anyway! In fact, the Commission’s budget requests were cut to the previous year’s level in an effort to keep the overall budget low. Mr. Corry voted against the Conservation Commission’s budget in what can only be described as a retaliation vote. In my opinion, politician’s like Mr. Corry who abuses their elected position for retaliation votes do not deserve our vote.
Dale Dormody also ran as a “Fiscal Conservative” three years ago to get elected. During his campaign he promised not to participate in votes concerning his wife’s salary because she is the Director of the Gilford Library. Knowing he didn’t legally have to refrain from voting on ANY budget issues, he ignored that promise just as soon as he was elected. In fact, one of his very first actions was to lobby the Budget Committee to restore a $40,000 request from the library that was denied by the Selectmen. He was unsuccessful in that attempt but gladly voted for the 13% increase to the Library budget that year which contains his wife’s salary. He then successfully pulled out all the stops to request a revote to recommend a Warrant Article that would send the proceeds from the sale of the Potter Hill property to the Library. The following year he pointed the boney finger at the Library sub Committee and accused them of not doing their jobs in assessing the Library budget. Though Mr. Dormody didn’t even attend the meeting, he took issue with the sub committee’s failure to recommend another 13% increase in the Library budget. Do you see a pattern?
Dormody and Corry are running for Budget Committee positions that have real consequences. Whether budgets are high or low, in good times or bad, these two have the voting records to prove that they never met a spending proposal they didn’t like! In fact, they are going out of the way to promote new spending items. Their voting records prove they have some specific agendas. We need some new faces that aren’t personally connected to budget items. Please join me in voting for the other three candidates on the ballot for Budget Committee.
