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Bush's Last Day
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Tue Jul 18, 2006 at 14:24:56 PM EDT
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| Recently arrested Plymouth Selectman Sean Dodgson beat former Selectman Ken Tavares by a little over 100 votes. I know both men and I voted for Ken. He is a dedicated town official who did his homework and served the town well for many years. In their thirst for change, the town's voters decided to elect a newbie. Even Dodgson attributed his win to a public tired of the old rather than for any particular policy stand he had taken.
Sean Dodgson, 45, who had never held public office, shocked the Plymouth political world when he toppled Tavares by more than 100 votes two weeks ago.
‘‘In this case it was the devil that you don’t know instead of the devil that you do,’’ Dodgson said.
Tavares, who had been involved in town government since 1971 and had been chairman of the selectmen since 1998, said it wasn’t any one thing that added up to his ouster.
‘‘The longer you’re there, sometimes you displease people,’’ Tavares said. ‘‘It was a combination of things.’’
Dodgson, a West Point graduate who runs his own computer company, said he spent $500 of his own money to win the campaign.
‘‘It wasn’t so much me, it was the hot emotional topics,’’ Dodgson said.
Patriot Ledger - May 27, 2006 |
| Jan A :: The devil you know |
| Now Dodgson has been arrested in a sting for soliciting sex on the computer with two girls he thought were underage. Dodgson claims he knew that it was a sting and was just "testing" its effectiveness. Some of the details released by police make that claim seem pretty unbelievable. But let's just pretend it's true. Do we need this kind of cowboy as our selectman? Someone who, instead of studying issues that are vital to the town's future, spends his time sending sexually explicit emails and going to Burger King to supposedly "check up" on the police.
Dodgson says he will not resign. There are no provisions for an immediate recall. Plymouth is truly stuck with the devil it didn't know.
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