[Rich, 01:21]
Musings on poor happy doomed motion night...

• Is there some strange force field that prevents otherwise very competent people from being able to talk into a microphone? If nothing else helps, consider emulating Mr. Kohl and remove the mike from the gooseneck.
• I knew my amendments were doomed but I had to try, if only to make what I still think is an important point. I also thank the people who expressed their support to me personally before and after.
• I note sardonically that Mr. Maher did not answer Ms. Fiore's question at all, but made a big, theatrical show about how the BoS vote would not aid Mugar at all.
• If the ConComm cannot be trusted (which apparently a significant number of people believe, judging from remarks made during the debate), why do we not replace the allegedly untrustworthy people instead of making unfair, hypocritical, one-off exceptions to the rules?
• Related to that, just what is wrong with our ConComm that makes people feel they are incompetent to wield a power that almost every other ConComm has?
• Speaking of Mugar, I can appreciate some of the fears of people in that part of Town, but I do not think that it is right to hold the rest of the Town hostage to that fear by denying ConComm a meaningful variance power.
• I wonder why the Moderator referred to my amendments as Mr. Tully's amendments when calling the vote, before being corrected by Mr. Maher. I was amused.
• If I manage to remember, I will at least be going after the sunset clause at next year's TM. If there are nine+ of you out there willing to sign a petition to insert an article into the warrant, get in touch.
• Even though PAYT was doomed, I wish more of the proponents could have gotten on the list to counter some of the more particularly shoddy arguments put up against them.
• I voted against the LEEDS proposal. Mr. Foskett was right on. And why not simply ask the PTBC to try the LEEDS process for a couple of buildings instead of writing it into the bylaw, if LEEDS is so great? Is this another one of these "well, we don't really trust the committee" things?
• I was unhappy with Ms. Rowe's motion to adjourn with fifteen minutes left. If the CPA crowd was not ready, they could have tabled or postponed their articles and let us move on.