West Hartford folks, there’s a budget referendum today. You can read the cases for voting yes or no as presented by WH FIRST and by the WHTA, respectively, over at WHForums.

As I seem to do every year, now, I’m voting yes for two reasons. First, I have issues with the way the WHTA presents their case. Too often, it has involved pure dishonesty, and that makes it difficult to evaluate their claims (not that they present much evidence) without extensive fact checking. I have more trust in the town council at this point.

Second, and much more significant, is that I think the idea of budgets being cut in response to referenda to be a flawed idea. These conversations should be happening over the year, and should be handled through elections. I would also love to see specific cuts people would make that are actually possible. If enough folks really care about this, there should be primary challengers to the council Democrats, as well as folks running as Republicans. We never see that, though, so it’s hard for me to take this seriously.

I actually forgot to vote this AM, so I’ll see you at the polls this evening.