Welcome to TIVERTON 1st!

Tiverton 1st is a grassroots community organization open to all who support preserving our quality of life in Tiverton by maintaining both our community and school services in a fiscally-responsible way, and promoting cooperation, compromise and community pride.
Membership is open to all Tiverton residents who are at least 18 years old & support Tiverton 1st's principles & goals (non-residents or those under 18 years old are welcome to join as non-voting members). There's no membership fee.Just email your name, address, phone # and email address to: Tiverton1st@cox.net.
You can also request to become a "Tiverton 1st Friend"& join our confidential email list.

Thursday, June 26, 2014

CANDIDATE DECLARATIONS COMPLETE

The candidate declaration period ended yesterday. The full list of declared candidates is available at this link (search "Tiverton"). 

http://sos.ri.gov/candidates/

The next step is for declared candidates to gather and return 50 signatures to qualify for the November ballot (town offices are non-partisan, and there are no primaries).

Tiverton 1st will begin the endorsement process this summer, to determine which candidates who seek an endorsement would be best for Tiverton. The goal is to put forth a slate of T1-endorsed candidates that we can work to get elected in November to continue the forward progress of our community.

Once a Tiverton 1st slate of endorsed candidates has been determined, Tiverton 1st will spend the fall informing voters of the issues facing the town, and the candidates' views and track records. In addition to the T1 blog, Facebook page and email list, we'll reach out to voters through candidates' forums, videos, letters to newspapers, yard signs and mailer-cards listing the T1 slate of candidates. 

There will no doubt be the usual misinformation and negativity put forth by those with self-serving agendas, backed by big money for robocalls and mailers. We'll need everyone's help to make sure voters know the facts and turn out to vote. Together, as a community, we can continue the hard-won progress of the past two years, and keep Tiverton 1st, Tiverton Proud!

Brian Medeiros

Tiverton, RI

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