Snail mail: Committee to Elect Tom Miller, P.O. Box 552, Bolton, MA  01740
For further information call:
Kimberly Koopman
978-779-0104
Committee to Elect Tom Miller
P.O. Box 552
Bolton, MA  01740
E-mail: TomM4S@yahoo.com

 INSIDERS CONTROL BOLTON.
THIS ELECTION CAN CHANGE THAT

This election is about insider control.

Just take a look at my opponent's list of supporters. His credo must be safety in numbers. It's peppered with land developers, home builders, construction contractors, and officials that have held the same Bolton government positions for years and years. It's a minefield of vested interests, local insiders and good ole boys. Don't take our word for it. See for yourself.

This is the same cushy clique that has long brought you business as usual in Bolton Town government. Consider a few key highlights from their resume:

Decades of inaction on affordable housing.

A free cash balance of $2.4M that sits idle and unused, benefitting no one.

Continuing drainage problems in Quail Run even though most of the subdivision bond has been released.

The Flatley property tax debacle: expensive ill-advised litigation that was lost in Court and alienated one of the few commercial property owners (and commercial tax payers) we need so desperately.

A town radio tower that's years late, thousands over budget and ringed with barb-wire chain-link fencing that looks like a State prison. On conservation land, yet. Take our photo tour.

And an over-reliance on residential property taxes that has many strapped homeowners now paying the piper to the tune of five figures. Year after year after year.

Perhaps their crowning achievement is the approval of Sunset Ridge. A few years ago, the Town had a tax lien on this land when it was undeveloped. They had a chance to buy it for a bargain price, and they flubbed that opportunity. Now, this condo development will cram 28 households and 67 bedrooms onto just two lots loaded with ledge and areas that flood every year. (The Miller campaign has obtained photos that document this flooding in an area where part of the project's septic system will be placed.) It will allow over 2.6 millions of gallons of raw sewage to be disposed annually on land just upstream from a rare and priceless wetland, conservation parcel and quaking bog – Welch Pond. It's an environmental disaster in the offing. It virtually assures years of expensive litigation.

My opponent's campaign platform sounds sincere. It spouts many high minded and nice sounding platitudes. But if offers few specifics. It's an approach that closely mirrors what Bolton Town Government all-too-often says to its citizens: "Our minds are made up; don't bother us with the facts." It's a philosophy of don't rock the boat. And, trust us, we know best. Anyone who dares to ask too many questions and opposes the status quo is often treated rudely at public meetings and tarred with labels like "NIMBY".

If you like business as usual in Bolton, then vote for my opponent. If you want to enjoy more of the same old cronyism, gentlemens' agreements and Town Government decisions made out of the glare of public spotlight, then he's your man. If you would like to have your future continue to be controlled by this insider's cabal, then cast your vote their way.

But if you would like to inject some fresh air to Bolton's smoke filled rooms, then consider someone outside the little establishment that now runs the Town for its own purposes. If you would like to see a change in the way things happen around here, we offer an intelligent alternative. If you would like to see a Bolton that your children can still afford and enjoy when they grow up, then elect Tom Miller .

Nothing less than our destiny is at stake here. Bolton insiders want to step back and let exponential growth steamroller our Town. If the population triples as they project, that's a monstrous financial windfall looming for development interests. The potential profits on these 2000 new houses could be enormous: $240 million dollars!! Dealing successfully with that kind of pressure is going to require stronger resolve, better skills and deeper understanding than a Town Government fettered by conflicts of interests, hidden agendas and closed-door understandings.

We can follow the same old rut of status-quo that insiders have worn deeply into the Bolton landscape for their own benefit. Or, we can forge a new trail with ideas and approaches that look to the future instead of the past. That looks out for the many instead of the few. That places our identity above petty profit and personal gain. That will let us control our own destiny.


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