Don’t Touch

My Vote!

To the Editor:

As last week’s editorial states, in 2001, I voted for the purchase of Fairfield Hills without a defined plan. That vote counted then and it counts now. It was binding and legal. No one has the right, authority, or business to speak for me or decide that my vote did not count. The Board of Selectmen and an act by the state legislature charged the Fairfield Hills Authority to decide what is best for the property. They should work on this carefully and slowly to make sure they do what is right for all of us and I trust them to do so. They, as volunteers, have spent years formulating a defined plan are doing the job they were assigned.

Once a vote is taken, whether in a Presidential or local election or in a town meeting, it is binding and no one can change that. If that is not honored we have a much bigger problem. Unless you are on the Fairfield Hills Authority or at the very least attend their meetings, you have no right to complain about how, when or what is done to that property.

My vote counted! Did you vote? Were you there?

Sincerely,

Carole M. Ross

22 Fern Lane, Newtown                                              February 9, 2007