Southport voters shouldn’t be fooled

Boothbay Register
Tom Myette
Southport

Dear Editor:

Southport Selectmen have sent yet another flyer – this time via email – to a select list of taxpayers and voters about the Town Owned Broadband Project and the “unprecedented challenge(s)” it faces.

They accuse the opponents on this project of “spreading misinformation.” They threaten the voters with a “loss of the moneys already spent” (to the tune of some $640k). Moneys spent by the Selectmen without authorization as required by law.

And yet, in our meetings, many citizens have stood up to counter what the Selectmen have said. Questions including the fact that insurance policies can be cancelled, and equipment, if it truly has been purchased (there is no evidence), sold in a market tight on demand and short on supply are lost on deaf ears.