Hancock County appears to be the hotbed of the rebellion against the new consolidation law. This week yet another editorial blasting the plan from the Ellsworth American:
"Just say ‘no.’� For years, in public service messages heard throughout the country, that’s been the advice given our young people about how to respond when offered a cigarette or drug. We suggest that voters across the state give the same response when it comes to a vote on the formation of new school administrative districts as required by an ill-conceived new Maine law.
“We all have an obligation to make it work,� attorney Dick Spencer told the audience at a recent legal seminar on the new school consolidation law. He said local voters should be allowed to decide if they want to approve the new districts in referendum votes to be held next year.
We do not share Spencer’s view that we have an obligation to make a bad law work, and we would like nothing better than to see voters across the state repudiate the mistake made by a cowed Legislature.
Read the full editorial here.
