A large packet of legal directives and general legal information printed out from the internet on lawyer-client privilege - one for each of the other 4 on the selectboard at the meeting with town attorney Hole on 6-15-10....
Is this part of the preparation for his letter to the editor from one selectman to the Advertiser Democrat 6-17-10 with his personal views of the town attorney handling the current lawsuit before the town?
As well as an explanation for an article in the Sun Journal 6-10-10, Kurtz Criticizes Town's Legal Representation ?
As well as laying the groundwork for being thought more capable than the current town attorney?
As well as building a case for being better prepared and more knowledgeable and all around smarter person than the current lawyer?
And what have the other 4 to say about this singular representation? Everybody agrees with him? It's ok for him to speak for everyone? He's the official spokesman?
It's ok for personal legal opinions to come through Selectman Kurtz? This is how the people in this town will be educated? Do the other 4 have any opinion on that? Any frustration at all? Any worry that they are being managed?
Consider the fact that we elected 5 selectpersons, not 4 selectpersons and one lawyer - a lawyer who appears to have a personal interest in how this case is conducted... against the individual who was town manager when this particular lawyer's law firm was officially not asked after 2006 to handle any new legal business for the town of Paris ...in favor of the current town attorney.
Didn't we elect five of them to work as a team? Where's the rest of the team? If voters in this town had wanted someone to tell us - and the rest of our elected officials - what we all should do because he knows best, we wouldn't have gone to all the trouble of recalling 2 of the crew who tried to do that exact thing to us last year.
Where is the rest of this board? Can they talk? Do they think? Can they not say "Enough!" if it's necessary? Why ever not?
