[MassHistPres] Influencing Town Politics

[Dennis De Witt]

Leaving aside the legal constraints this seems a potentially  
politically dangerous thing to do.  Better leave it to an arms length  
group -- can't be a 501c3 either -- perhaps an LHD neighborhood  
association.

Dennis De Witt


On Mar 27, 2008, at 10:02 AM, Maggie Rosa wrote:

> A note of caution.
> When the Gloucester Historical Commission attempted, last fall,  to
> solicit answers to a questionnaire that we generated for candidates
> for city mayor and council we were rapidly informed that this was not
> appropriate as we are beholden to the same rules that city employees
> must abide by and not participate, as a group, in city political
> activity.
>
> Maggie Rosa
> maggierosa at comcast.net
>
> 26 Fort Hill Ave
> Gloucester, MA 01930
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> Home Phone # 978-281-1871
> Cell 978-290-2553
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> On Mar 27, 2008, at 9:15 AM, Jonathan Feist wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> In an attempt to make historical preservation more of a local  
>> campaign
>> issue, I sent a little survey to the five candidates running for
>> selectmen,
>> in Harvard.
>>
>> I posted my results (with my own commentary) on a new blog. It went
>> live
>> yesterday. I announced it to some locals that I know, and it already
>> seems
>> to be getting some traffic beyond that group, which means that there
>> is
>> pretty good interest around here for such things. It will be
>> interesting to
>> see how it actually plays out and whether these issues get more air
>> time as
>> a result. But you might try something similar, if you have similar
>> rabble-rousing tendencies to my own. I also sent “Letters to the
>> Editor” to
>> our local newspapers announcing it, hopefully to come out tomorrow.
>>
>> Here’s the link:
>>
>>> http://harvardpreservation.wordpress.com/
>>
>> --Jonathan
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> ===============================================
>>
>> Jonathan Feist, Chair
>> Harvard Historical Commission
>> 978-772-4864 (home)
>> 617-747-2148 (Berklee office)
>>
>> Preserve Historical Harvard, MA:
>> http://harvard.ma.us/histcomm.htm
>>
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