It is time to be counted.

I swore I wasn't going to do another piece before the election. I also figured I would be missing the West Island candidate's night last week. Not to mention seeing a few thing written here and there.

I also received several comments that just ain't getting published. Now I have sworn several times I am done commenting on such comments.  Yet, I still can be surprised a bit about what people feel is appropriate to comment on.

Suffice it to say, if you sent a comment, and it didn't get published, you have stepped well beyond the border of any one of the four corners of a topic, or issue.

Enough said.

Today is the day folks.  Election day in Fairhaven.

Well for those of us who still meander down to the polls.  In our version of early voting, there have been a few absentee ballots cast. Let's hope there are more than a few ballots cast today.

For those of you who have haven't jumped over the fence yet, and need info to make a last minute decision, the four candidates each did a spot on WBSM radio.

Again, I will state I will keep the quarter, rather than make some change.

No secret code here by the way, I am voting for the incumbent.

As a commentator to a post expressed, I don't quite understand the burning desire to seek the "change".

Neither do I quite grasp the "vote for me rationale" being put out there by the challengers.

If you are actually paying attention you, you might realize and discover much ado about nothing right at the moment.

But hey, that's an opinion. Yes, it may only be my opinion, but  after actually listening multiple times, I haven't heard anything out there to feel the need to make any change.

I have heard more statements to convince me as to why I am not voting for change than to make change.

Call me undemocratic, but the concept of going to an open town meeting isn't a proposal that I can support.  As poor and sporadic as some Town Meeting members attendance may be, it should be pretty clear to any individual who has spent any time studying local government that open town meeting don't boast attendance on the average, only on the very hot button issues, which of course is often the only time anyone who hasn't bother to become a TMM wants to be a TMM.

Call me whatever you want to on this one, but I do not equate years of well compensated public employment as dedicated public service.

Neither might I add does being the head of any department make you qualified to be a selectmen.

Ditto for service on one or more of the minor league boards in town.

When you talk about keeping taxes as low as possible for the taxpayer, well dang it, you should be telling us just how your are going to do that.

I could go on and on.  I could do a whole lot.

No predictions this year.  I really have been out of the loop lately.  Not enough interaction in enough different settings to get any kind of real vibe.  The crystal ball is just too murky.

The weather today definitely has a chance of being messy and messing up the turnout, so even a prediction on that would be, well ... messed up.

Let's hope it isn't too messy, in any aspect.  Let's hope for me clarity, if not in the weather, at least in your decision on whether to vote and in how you vote.

I am going to simply end it here.

Until next time.