2?½ overrides are being exposed

Proposition 2?½ overrides are being exposed for the scams we've asserted most have become -- and better yet, the Massachusetts Teachers Association is being more revealed by the day for its scurrilous tactics and greedy motivation; the teachers union is finally recognized as an insatiable fraud.

And the deceitful tactics it advocates as the lead proponent of overrides around the state are being exposed from every corner and have begun to backfire. All the dire threats that ''the sky is falling'' are losing credibility when, as in Pembroke, an override fails and the doom-and-gloom scenarios are ... revised ... and don't happen as predicted.

We may one day thank the teachers union's unrepentant greed for devastating any chance of further local tax hikes. Just as the Boy Who Cried Wolf learned the hard way, when the wolf finally arrives nobody is listening.

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They didn't want any taxes rais

The election turnout broke a record, and the town meeting a short time later attracted almost double the usual crowd. In no uncertain terms, Abington voters, who were being asked to raise taxes, were telling local leaders to read their lips about the town's cash problems.

''The message was loud and clear: They didn't want any taxes raised. Period,'' Abington Selectmen Chairman Kevin Donovan said....

Why can't Fair Braintree find a few selectman who can HEAR WELL?


By 'The message was loud and clear