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.

Wednesday, November 5, 2014

COMMUNITY OVER FEAR: 14 OUT OF 16 TIVERTON 1st-RECOMMENDED CANDIDATES ELECTED

The absentee ballots have been counted, and there was no change in the order of Town Council candidates.

Assuming there are no changes in the order of finish (a recount is likely, and there may be provisional ballots still to be looked at by the Board of Canvassers), we can feel good about the success of our Tiverton 1st-recommended candidates. 

All but two of our sixteen candidates were elected, and those two each came within 28 votes. The new Town Council will have five of seven members recommended by T1, the Budget Committee seven of eleven (with one to be appointed by the TC to replace Dave Perry), and the School Cmte 4 of 5. All our recommended State Representative and Senate candidates were elected. 

It's a tribute to the people of Tiverton that they again got informed, turned out, and voted for community and not fear and divisiveness.

Brian Medeiros
Tiverton, RI

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