I will admit there are flaws in the town meeting style, but there are more in SB2. The uninformed voter assumes that you just go to the polls to vote once SB is in place. Not true, what the supporters of SB2 aren't telling you is that it is more prone to corruption. There is a 2 part system, there is a deliberative session, and then a voting session. What happens in most of these towns that are new to SB2 is that the special interest groups that everyone so nicely points to at town meeting, now can go to the deliberative session, that the uninformed don't know exists. The facts show the turnout at these sessions is dramatically low. Then by the end of the session they have turned an article to restore the fire station into an article to improve the fire station by $1.00 !!! You want to see crooked politics at their best vote for SB2!
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