Not offended by ad, offended by action

Now taking both sides of the recent flurry of activity surrounding the running of an ad in the Boston Herald and examining which side is actually more offensive the ad, or the action voted by the Selectboard and I for one will take the action of the Selectboard. So now let's look at this from outside the box. Why is it necessary to take a board vote on the subject matter of the personal feelings of one member? Shouldn't votes be taken that positively reflect the town's best interests? Now we are the town that can't take a joke. Now we are now longer the "Tool Town" , we are the "Johnny was picking on me at recess, Miss Crabtree" town.

Personally I would prefer the board to be working on economic development, looking at how town by-laws serve the community and working on things that matter to the community as a whole. Again while I respect every man or woman's right to their opinion and their freedom to voice their opinion I just don't think personal opinion should be voted policy of the town. I for one like many, many others was not offended by the ad and ComCast had no reason to apologize.