For some reason, activists keep bringing up the fact that the Tiverton Taxpayers Association (TTA) sends out “glossy postcards.”  The insinuation is that we’ve got money to burn in our campaign. The thing is, glossy postcards are less expensive.

Their advice would apparently be that we should spend more money in order to seem like we’re being less fancy, like buying $500 ripped jeans.

That mentality is why the Town Council has let employees get away with theft … to avoid lawsuits.  It is why they let buildings fall apart … to renovate or buy new ones on debt.  They spend more money to make it seem like they’re spending less.

Many bad decisions seem like they do their opposites.  For example, the council’s charter proposal on the casino money (#10) doesn’t ask us to vote on how it’s spent.  It would just give four people the power to decide.  This, we’re told, is to prevent it from falling into the hands

of just a few.  Huh?

TTA opposes that power grab. We want the people of Tiverton to have control.  And yet the “glossy postcard” complainers say we just want the power.  Again, the opposite is the truth. Visit www.tta2018.com.

Justin Katz

Candidate for Town Council