You lack integrity.

And just who was responsible for the 2011 school funding debacle? Oh yes, that was you and your TCC. You don't fool anyone with your attempts to twist the facts in your favor Mr. Nelson.

What 2008 FTM debacle? If you do respond please provide facts to support your claim.

and you Mr. Nelson are the architect of the 22% increase lie and the letter from Jim Lipe that you wrote and had him sign as well as the support for Dan the Sham Gordon.

Mr Burke has Bunny Gate hanging over his head (FREE THE EASTER BUNNY!), Mr Cotta has FTR-Gate to answer for.

As you may recall, after the voters approved the FTR last year by a 3-1 margin, Mr Cotta went back channel to his pals in the General Assembly to try and have its implementation over ridden, using deceitful and dishonest tactics to deny the will of Tiverton voters. He failed.

Now here is the same guy whose underhanded scheming tried to overturn the will of the people after a fair election trying to mislead the same voters he holds in such distain with this. Don't fall for it.

Mr Cotta thinks you're pretty stupic, and suddenly he's completely reasonable, quick to appeal to the same people he tried to disenfranchise only last November. I urge you to consider the source, and reject what he says.

Don't fall for it. Cotta is aligned with the local demos, the $67,000/year local teachers (how much do you make?), CURB and T-1. His goal is to raise your taxes and pass the proceed along to his pals in the local unions (how much do you make?). He don't care if you're already taxed to the max, and struggling to make ends meet.
As least Nelson is trying to restore fiscal sanity to town undoing some 30 years of demo incompetence and misrule.
As someone said: if we can keep the tax rates down like the last couple of years, we might even be able to afford to live here.

Vote for those TCC people, I am.

WIlly the B-man

Bingo! The system worked , in spite of the claptrap spewed by the chris cottas of the world to the contrary. No phoney votes at the ftm; will of the people. That's what it's all about.

Mr. Nelson you know full well that the School Committee "requested" approximately $975,000 in new revenue. Had your FTR budget been passed then the School Committee would have been forced to close a school or reduce programming in order to balance their budget. In other words your budget proposal forced the School Committee to put these options in play. Thankfully, residents saw through your plan to decimate the School Department. Finally, you are a member of the Town Council.

Regarding pledges, why haven't you and your fellow TCCer's pledged not support a FTR budget that will decimate the schools? Mr. Nelson you have no legal authority over the School Committee and School Department. Your blatant hatred of the School Department is quite evident by your actions over the past few years.

It was literally "unjustified" because despite numerous taxpayers asking you for details, you refused to justify the cuts. What am I missing?

Smart budgeting? Mr. Nelson your budget also ADDED $630K to the municipal side. That is - they got everything they got the prior year plus an additional $630,000. And then you attacked the budget committee for doing it with your own "predictions" of doom and gloom. Please.

Renee, I don't recall such a letter,wait I do but only faintly, if i signed it I must believe in it 100% how about posting it so everyone knows what it says seems only fair doesn't it, we must show such items I believe

Renee - for the final time: No, l did not write that letter. claims to the contrary are not accurate

Well, this is interesting. Ummm....Jim said you wrote it, and he signed it because he believed in it 100%. Now you're here saying you never wrote it. Seems someone is not telling the truth? Thank you for answering Mr. Nelson.

Jim, feel free to repost it yourself. I don't really find it necessary. We've all seen it. Thank you for your response though.

Hey Nelson, I know you're playing cute. You asked Jim L to sign his name and submit the letter. You gave it to Jim L to submit which we know because we saw the e-mail and Jim L. has admitted getting it from you. So who gave you the letter to give to Jim L?

Like a said, the TCC true believers will start posting.

My concern wasn't with the content of the letter. Only the author.

Mantell, you have absolutely no credibility following your hateful and repeated personal attacks against a member of this community who has done nothing more to earn your attention than run for public office. Begone. You have no place here.

Chris Cotta a "tax and spender" are you kidding me!

HOLY PERSONAL VENDETTA BATMAN! Totally inappropriate!

RD, I have never questioned Joe Sousa about his past, nor would I, unless some type of criminal or unethical activity was known to me. You are attacking a candidate for office, leveling serious charges in a flippant manner. I find your comments discusting and slanderous. I hope Patch bans you for this behavior.

Rug doctor i think you should mello out on your comments. Seems to me that you are full of venom and bluster. How about you just allow the attacks to peter out.

So?? How does that invalidate any of his facts Mr. Katz??

Mr. Katz why is it "unusual" for a citizen to exercise their right to speak on behalf of a bill that is before the General Assembly. Maybe if your fellow TCC/Town Council members had taken time out of their busy schedules to speak out against the toll when the General Assembly was discussing implementing them then the toll legislation might have been stopped.

Your opinion, regarding what Mr. Cotta said at this hearing is prejudiced at best.

It is unusual for members of a community to appear to testify at the state level in order to disenfranchise their neighbors.

Regarding tolls, I was at the committee hearing where they were introduced, and I was on the floor of both chambers of the General Assembly when it was discussed. I have published a list of the legislators who voted for and against it.

From what I saw, the only other people in the entire region who spoke against the tolls, at the time, were elected representatives who were at the State House in that capacity. Shame on you for trying to score political points on a rare issue of community agreement.

Typical of the Tiverton 1st tactics.

Again Mr. Katz so?? What does one thing have to do with the other? His testimony has nothing to do with Mr. Cotta's facts above about why he feels TCC is the not right group for the town.

And what do you mean "typical of the Tiverton 1st attacks." It is an anonymous poster (allowed by Patch). Are you now saying that anonymous posters speak for certain groups in town, which would mean then that you are acknowledging that people like rug doctor and billy barton are speaking on behalf of the TCC?

Observation persuades me that this commenter is, at the very least, sympathetic with Tiverton 1st. Similarly, his or her behavior is in line with comments from people who are more overtly involved with the group, notably group coordinator Gloria Crist. That is my opinion.

With regard to opinions in the opposite direction, such assertions are made on a daily basis around here.

Well, Justin, how do you feel about the Town Council ignoring the will of the people and spending taxpayer money on a pump out boat and sewer study? Seems to me that consistency would require you to criticize Nelson et al for this action "to invalidate the votes of his own neighbors in Tiverton."

Mr Burke has Bunny Gate hanging over his head (FREE THE EASTER BUNNY!), Mr Cotta has FTR-Gate to answer for.

As you may recall, after the voters approved the FTR last year by a 3-1 margin, Mr Cotta went back channel to his pals in the General Assembly to try and have its implementation over ridden, using deceitful and dishonest tactics to deny the will of Tiverton voters. He failed.

Now here is the same guy whose underhanded scheming tried to overturn the will of the people after a fair election trying to mislead the same voters he holds in such distain with this. Don't fall for it.

Mr Cotta thinks you're pretty stupid, and suddenly he's completely reasonable, quick to appeal to the same people he tried to disenfranchise only last November. I urge you to consider the source, and reject what he says.

Don't fall for it. Cotta is aligned with the local demos, the $67,000/year local teachers (how much do you make?), CURB and T-1. His goal is to raise your taxes and pass the proceed along to his pals in the local unions (how much do you make?). He don't care if you're already taxed to the max, and struggling to make ends meet.
As least Nelson is trying to restore fiscal sanity to town undoing some 30 years of demo incompetence and misrule.
As someone said: if we can keep the tax rates down like the last couple of years, we might even be able to afford to live here.

Vote for those TCC people, I am.

WIlly the B-man

Good for them! You'll recall the town council then refused to obey the law regarding exceeding the tax cap. That's why there was/is a law suit, and why TCC tookover the town council...how soon you union....people forget. Good thing billy's here to keep you straight.
W. J. Barton, of the tiverton bartons

The person in the best position to stop the Tolls was Jay Edwards, period, the GA isn't going to listen to any town council, They are elected to aerve the towns, Mr Edwards was elected to serve US, HIs district , If he had voted no on the budget all the other island reps would have had to do the same to saw face with their voters, With all of the 7 saying no along with 15 others the budget would not have passed, and they could have held the budget hostage until they and Piava Weed removed the right to TOLL our new bridge, If tese tolls are put in place remember that , once in they will never be removed To try and place this at anyona feet but THE GA and the failure of the DOT to maintainthe bridge is a great falsehood at best, Local politics has nothing to be argued about in or on here To just bounce this back and forth to creat bad feeling is bull from anybody on here who does so

jiml, are you for real? Since when does your rep go from member to super rep? And why do you give the TCC and PCC lead councils a pass? It seems that they could have done a lot more to stop the tolls but instead, like you, they sat on their hands and did nothing unti it was too late. How you can blame one person for this is astonishing. Maybe you should look at the real culprit, Gov Chaffee. He still has the power to make this go away but then I guess you're giving him a pass too. Maybe we should al blame you. If you had started the petitions sooner, maybe this would never have happened. So, jiml, it looks like YOU are to blame, here.

I have done a lot of thinking on who I believe will bring our town forward in the next two years. While I haven't always agreed with the TCC members of the council. They have done far more to move the town in the right direction than previous councils. No one agrees on every thing .
You can please some of the people most of the time.
You can please most of the people some of the time.
You can never please all of the people all of the time.
When you weigh the good and the bad where do you come out. Do we go back to over spending and huge tax increases or stay the course with growth of our tax base and reasonable budgets ?

bigfanny lets not start rumors. The boat was put out to bid. The council gave permission at the last meeting to send out RFP's .

The vote for the pump out boat to go to bid Joan Chabot against all the rest for it

Failure of leadership? Mikr Burk endorses Cilline who bagged Providence, is considered a joke in Washington, will never get enough respect to get anything done good for RI and Mr Burke endorses him solely on the fact that he is a deomcrat? This town Must continue to move forward and to go back to the old elect an entire slate of people because of who says so is just to move back. I belive eve]ry party/pac in town has a few really good folks running and everyone should be voting the person who will be good for this town,All this silly , paving nonsence, trashbag bull, is pointless just tactica to sully folks

Lets not start rumors
HARBOR DEPARTMENT PUMP-OUT BOAT

The Town of Tiverton, Rhode Island is soliciting bids from qualified vendors for the furnishing of a pump-out boat for the Tiverton Harbor Department.

Specifications for the pump-out boat may be obtained at the Office of the Town Clerk, Town Hall, 343 Highland Road, Tiverton, Rhode Island 02878 between 8:30 AM and 4:00 PM., Monday through Friday or on the Town website at www.tiverton.ri.gov

Sealed envelopes containing Bids must be marked “Pump-out Boat” on the out- side and received at the office of the Town Clerk on or before 2:00 PM Friday, November 2, 2012 at which time they will be publicly opened and read aloud by the

Town Administrator or his representative

in the Town Council Chambers.

The Town of Tiverton reserves the right to reject any and all bids, to waive minor informalities or irregularities in any bid, and to make an award in any manner consistent with law and deemed to be in the best interest of the Town of Tiverton.

The Town of Tiverton is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EEO/AA).

Nancy L. Mello, Town Clerk October 18, 2012

"Truer words were never spoke"

Tell me again about unions lining their pockets at tax payer's expense.

Willy b

billy-bob, it's called their job. It's the equivalent of saying you are lining your pockets at your client's expense. It's pretty juvenile and foolish to think otherwise, but then again we wasn't the ones banned as Fred Floon either.

Can't find any reference to "fred floon" when i do a search of the site...who/what is that?
Petty stupid ananymous nome de plume, neh?

BB

Pretty soon, black helicopters will be circling the Town.

Maybe, Mr. Nelson will be more prone to answer questions at tonight's candidate forum that is being sponsored by the Newport Daily News. I can't wait to watch this on local cable. It will certainly be "Must See T.V."

Mr Nelson shows alot of sense...the tone of the comments on this site are....low. "Never wrestle with a pig, you get dirty, and the pig loves it."
It comes from the teacher/union hacks who are paid by their masters to assume multiple identities--make it look like there are alot of people who support their leftest ways, when there are not--and bash and lambast anyone who come up on the Patch who opposes their leftist propaganda. Take this post, for example: if it were not for me, old Billy B, it would have long since devolved into childish name calling and rancor.
Thank God I'm here to keep you straight!!

Willy B, moral paragon and defender of the public

Let's see, your posts are always pro-TCC and anti-Democratic Party. So much for "vote the person, not the party."

Big manny you once stated everyone knows big manny, still think thats true?

Thats true Jim L but i guess that means you support Dan Gordon a drunk driving, woman beating lier. good to hear that Jim L Tcc member and Dave Nelson brown noser

Tought to feel sorry for a group of employees, 85 percent of whom pull down over $85k in salary and benefits, who work six hours/day, nine month out of 12.
"Good work if you can get it."
Average tiverton salary $55k...lowest paid teachers in the state. highest paid individuals in Tiverton.
Billy's perplexed; explain it to him...use big words.

Ignorance is nothing to be proud of!

I guess he also needs to spell his first name correctly. Like I said, ignorance is nothing to be proud of!

Can't believe I'm actually responding to your statement, but I just can't let it go by. Do you honestly believe that teacher salaries should be kept to the town average or less? Do you not see how very wrong that is? Would you say the same for doctors who treat the poor? Does the fact that teachers are educated professionals escape you?