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Michael and Paul on WCAP Tomorrow

5 Responses to “Michael and Paul on WCAP Tomorrow”

1. JC Says:
   May 8th, 2010 at 12:10 pm

   I listened to them this morning. They did quite an effective job! Mr. Shaw controlled the questions/agenda, but gave ample opportunity for the message to emerge. He clearly agrees that the polluted process which just unfolded was terribly wrong.

   Sidekick, Tom, said that the public has only one redress, elections. His take was - the voters put them into office, now put up with whatever they do, just shut up, grin and bear it, and take the abuse until the next election.

   Is Tom for real? Is he sincere? Or is he just a shill for the GOB’s?

2. Lynne Says:
   May 8th, 2010 at 12:18 pm

   Got it in three, JC…

3. Paul@01852 Says:
   May 8th, 2010 at 12:42 pm

   My thanks to Warren and the staff at WCAP for their hospitality. I felt that Michael and I were given ample opportunity to express ourselves. The problem was, as Michael and I discussed after the show, that we could have filled 2 hours more to completely cover all points we wanted to make. Going forward we have to hold Ms Santoro’s and the school committee’s feet to the fire to make sure that this decision to appoint her Superintendent benefits the school! I suspect that this is not the *end* of the story, but the BEGINNING!

4. Michael S. Ready Says:
   May 8th, 2010 at 3:11 pm

   I was told, or rather warned, to expect that from Tom Byrne so I was not at all surprised or intimidated. It actually worked out well, as it offered me the leverage to move in a direction that I wanted to from the beginning. As such, he ended up providing me with the opportunity to address the glaring variance between Greater Lowell’s three interview candidates versus Greater Lawrence’s sixteen! I was thus able to emphasize the fact that this disparity alone more then justified a termination and reinitiation of the selection process irregardless of one’s personal opinion of the process itself.

   Mr. Byrne is a businessman and his take might be fine for a private sector executive hire, but it doesn’t hold water for a public sector position of any kind. Especially one of such critical stature and long-term financial commitment as that of Superintendent Director of our Regional Technical High School! Tom obviously has trouble distinguishing between shareholders and taxpayers.

   The fact that the position of Superintendent Director of Greater Lowell Tech. is a publicly funded position relegates our School Committee members to agents of the citizenry. Something the majority of these board members obviously don’t understand. We, the citizens of each of the four communities, Lowell, Dracut, Tyngsboro and Dunstable, elect these people to represent our respective best interests with the expectation that they keep us fully apprised of their efforts. This is known as accountability and transparency! Something for which they have repeatedly failed us on all counts!

   We have to work hard to bring to this board a group of like-minded “citizens first” Committee members to work in concert with Lowell’s Fred Bahou. Mr. Bahou’s lone dissenting vote is the strongest indicator that he is not going to be the ‘go-along to get-along’ malleable newcomer that they would like him to be.

5. Shawn Says:
   May 9th, 2010 at 9:44 am

   The interview clip is available on the Dracut Forum.

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