I’d like to report to you the complete results from Merrimack’s Town Election yesterday, but I’m having one of those "If a tree falls in the forest…" moments. Neither the Union Leader nor the Nashua Telegraph had any mention of the event. It is as if it never happened.
I do know that turnout was dismal, which is a vote all its own. The issues were…what, spending and taxes? Arguably, there was nothing controversial. The budgets were mostly level or close to it. The Town Council thinking "Pay to Throw" was a good idea turned out to be a bad idea; the voters didn’t like it. This despite signs all over town that said "lower taxes, vote no on 8." A yes vote was to revisit the idea–a message to the Council that we don’t want pay to throw.
At least two of the candidates I supported Won. My good friend Bill Boyd is now one of my Town Councilors, and in the race for the one open School Board seat, George Markwell–the guy whose signs were not cropping up on the lawns of known Obama supporters–appears to have won as well.
No word on the finer questions, but I can tell you this. I and many others were informed no voters, except for Town Article 8, pay to throw, which as written (an mentioned above) was a yes vote to tell the current council to trash the idea of pay to throw.
I’m sure the results are out there. I bet I have readers who have them. So feel free to share. I have to go find some more coffee.
