Many thanks to all those who turned out last week for Kennebunk’s referendum election and Town Meeting. Significant progress was made in the name of fiscal conservatism, between the selectmen who were chosen, and results on various warrant articles.

However, if you think the vote on one particular article was taken seriously by some, and that your voice was truly heard, you’re mistaken.

The voters said “no thanks” to the Downtown Enhancement Project last Tuesday, by a two-to-one vote against the bonding and renovation work. You’d think that would be the end of the discussion, right? Wrong.

Just like the Park Street project, there are already some saying the voters “just didn’t understand” last Tuesday, when they defeated the downtown project by a landslide.

This attitude is not only elitist, it’s hypocritical, to boot. How is it possible that on the Downtown Project, Mr. Bob Georgitis, head of the Economic Development Committee, says we were “confused,” but on two articles that did pass (the sewer and drainage bonds) he says our approval showed that the voters “... were paying attention.” 

So, which is it? Were we “paying attention,” or were we “confused?”

Here’s something that I can clearly understand – Mr. Georgitis didn’t like the results of the downtown project vote, and like the Park Street proponents before him, he’s refusing to listen to the clear, undeniable will of the voters.

Do we need yet another electoral Frankenstein project in this town? How many times is this one going to rise from the balloting dead, clanking its expensive chains, to reappear on another election warrant? This project has already sucked up untold thousands of tax dollars for planning and marketing efforts, and one election. How many more?

What’s it going to take, before some at town hall figure out that we are tired of them wasting tax dollars on stupid spending proposals, and endless votes whenever they don’t get their way?

If, like me, you are fed up with the spending “monsters” coming back from the electoral grave, please write to  Kennebunk selectmen, and Mr. Georgitis, and tell them so.

Naran Row-Spaulding

Kennebunk