Boothbay's Repeat School Rerendum: Is the System Broken?

Let's look through the lens of constitutional and statutory laws and Supreme Court rulings.

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The Boothbay school budget was voted in by a hand vote.

Tom Perkins took the mike and said that the entire system is broken, as such he would vote no on all the articles.

The system that is broken is the Rule of Law.

If Maine constitutional law is applied to the questions about our local educational system, it clarifies that local municipalities cannot operate industrial functions. The municipality can rent or sell buildings to be used for industrial purposes to a responsible corporation. more clearly so if the buildings are newly constructed as that mirrors the exact wording in the Maine Constitution.

Article VIII.

Part Second.

Municipal Home Rule.

;Section 2.  Construction of buildings for industrial use.   For the purposes of fostering, encouraging and assisting the physical location, settlement and resettlement of industrial and manufacturing enterprises within the physical boundaries of any municipality, the registered voters of that municipality may, by…