For a town government that talks a good game of providing an “open” government, the majority of Rumford Selectmen have played just the opposite. It seems the “good old boy” method of selecting town leaders combined with a “bait and switch tactic” is how the game is really played.
Look at what happened with our current Town Manager. Len Greaney was pushed into place by 3 of our selectmen by selling him to us as an “interim” town manager. Now that he’s in place, those same 3 selectmen have voted to remove the term “interim” from his title. That sure makes it seem to have been their plan as soon as they did their quick 180 degree turn away from John Madigan. They didn’t tell the people in the community what their plan was. They just snuck him in the back door.
What are Len’s qualifications to be town manager? Know one really seems to know. People have made a big deal out of his experience as an executive for a fortune five hundred company. What exactly did he do for which fortune five hundred company? Someone asked him directly which company he worked for and he refused to answer. If his major qualification is working for this company, why the big secret about it?
Fact is, it seems there really isn’t a lot we do know about Greaney. Did he ever have to supply the town a resume? How about go through an interview process and answer questions about his work experience and qualifications? Were there any background checks done? Based on what we know about him, his major qualifications as a town manager seem to be that he’s buddies with at least 3 of our current selectmen.
This man has an awful lot of responsibility in our town for us to know so little about his background.
If you can get past what appears to be the deception of the “select three” in the way they went about this whole thing, you still have to know they did a great disservice to the town. They robbed us from having the chance to have the best possible candidate leading our town, chosen from a field of qualified applicants.
Our community deserves that, even if it means the town may end up hiring someone that isn’t one of the buddies of these three selectmen.
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The reality about any casino coming to either Oxford County or East Afghanistan is this. Seth Carey is running a money making scam where he and a few others that want to share some money will do all the footwork, get all the permissions, permits, and hopefully the support of the majority. If they are successful at this, then they(EverGREEN), sells their interest for a huge profit to an out of state outfit that has the financial ability to build and support such a facility. Ultimately what Seth and Evergreen has been telling us is that the advantages for Rumford and the state are at that point not in Evergreen's hands and ultimately the money would not stay in Maine.
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