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

Last night, a significant number of my signs for Selectman were stolen off private property. 
This crime is a serious violation of my own as well as my neighbors and supporters property rights. Beyond petty trespassing, it disturbingly indicates that the perpetrators have no tolerance for any other point of view but their own. 

Think of the lesson this teaches our children, that your parents will not allow anybody with a different viewpoint to express that view.  This action strikes at the heart of what supposedly makes this country great, that everybody has the right to free speech and expression.  Apparently there are those in Bolton who don't subscribe to these principles.I am directing my supporters to do nothing in return. 

The Heaton campaign has every right to put campaign signs wherever they can. Good luck to them. We find it interesting that the Heaton campaign has remained totally silent on these crimes that clearly defy the free speech protected by our Bill of Rights. We will continue to work aggressively to give people a choice, based on ideas, and will not be drawn into a campaign that engages in dirty  tactics that essentially demean the intelligence of the voters. 

In the end, signs don't vote, people do. 

I will win this campaign based on hard work and good ideas.  If I have one sign remaining at the end of the campaign, then so be it.  But I will have the personal satisfaction of knowing that I didn't engage in this type of behavior.

April 17, 2002
Tom Miller

An update....

Miller Campaign signs were restolen on West Berlin Road on Friday night April 19. Additional signs on Quail Run were stolen on Saturday April 20. It would seem that those opposed to dissent find a friendly home in Bolton. Sign removal from private property is larceny and trespass. The police have been alerted.