This Saturday, May 6, will be a critical moment for the Town voters who will elect a new mayor and two council persons to lead the town for the next two years. More than ever, the town voters must cast aside political jargon and candidates’ self-serving exaggerations, or that the candidate is a neighbor or a friend of a friend. Saturday can be a turning point for the town if the voters demand that the newly elected officials end the secretive decisions being made by the present administration that have hindered the progress of the town. The Gazette respectfully appeals to the Anthony voters to carefully consider each candidate’s past personal and professional credentials to establish whether they possess unquestionable integrity, higher education, or sufficient experience to lead and restart the town’s financial solvency and progress.
Last August Mayor Romero, in wanting to extract more personal income for himself from the town, conned the council into hiring him to be the town manager at $36,000 a year. The next month when the council realized that they had erred on the illegal side by having the elected Mayor serve simultaneously as the town manager, with a $36,000 a year salary, the council passed a new resolution to give the mayor a $1200 a month stipend. Over the years the council has also given themselves hefty stipend increases by tripling their stipend from some $100 a month to $350 a month and $450 a month for the mayor protern. Romero, who in his interview with the Gazette stated that he does not need a college education, or liaisons (councilmembers?) and he feels that he is perfectly capable of going to the department heads to make sure that everything is functioning properly. What we at the Gazette have observed about Romero is that his modus operandi has consistently been ”You scratch my back, and I will scratch yours or, I’ll do you a favor, if do me a favor.”
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