Call it a Mirobocall.
On Sunday, almost every land line in Burlington will get a pre-recorded call from Mayor Miro Weinberger urging them to vote yes on three ballot items next Tuesday, and inviting them to participate in a “telephone town hall” about the initiatives.
The robocall, which will go out to roughly 10,000 phone numbers, is part of a $17,000 campaign to win support for three ballot questions that go to Burlington voters on Election Day: a $9 million “fiscal stability bond” that requires a difficult-to-achieve two-thirds majority to pass; and two initiatives to improve and repair waterfront instrastructure, which can each pass with simply majorities.
The campaign, organized by a group called the Partnership for Burlington’s Future, is not advocating for passage of a fourth ballot question: a nonbinding referendum on legalizing marijuana and hemp products.
Seven months into his administration, Weinberger is making a strong push for approval of plans that define the direction in which he wants to take the city and that will act as a gauge of his political standing. Weinberger and his supporters have scheduled a rally for passage on Sunday evening at Club Metronome with the Dave Grippo Funk Band and DJ Craig Mitchell providing the tunes.
So who’s bankrolling the Partnership for Burlington’s Future?
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go Miro!!
The same financially unsavvy City Councilors and spend at all costs mindsets until they get it right are still predominantly in charge of the purse strings in Burlington and they certainly should not be trusted with a bailout bond to cover the BT fiasco they illegally and clandestinely brought on to the City that NEVER should have happened in hte first place if the played honestly. The taxpayers would only be enabling them once again. Doing the same thing again and expecting different results out of them is after all the definition of insanity. Wake up people.