During the Mendon selectman meeting last night Mendon resident Kevin Rudden threatened Upton voters.
According to committee member Chris Burke if Mendon fails to support the override vote scheduled for June 30 the school committee has two options; re-certify at a level funded budget or move forward to a joint town meeting.
Rudden is not willing to accept the responsibility of what Mendon decides; instead he puts it at the feet of Upton voters. “I”ll go to a joint town meeting and I’ll look every Upton voter in the eye as I ask under the freedom of information act for the list of which Upton voters attended that meeting,” he said.
“The first Mendon person who dies because of non prompt EMT services I will file a law suit against each and every one of those Upton voters charging them to be responsible,” said Rudden.
“I will file that lawsuit against each and every one of those voters. Because it’s their voters that will make that decision because they outnumber us, not the town,” he said.
Upton voters wonder why Rudden places this at their feet?
Whatever the people of Mendon decide on June 30 at the ballot will decide what happens to Mendon.
Rudden’s comments begin at minute 11 in the video below.
UPTON DAILY 
If it passes in a joint meeting, you can go move to a town with low taxes that don’t care as much about their education. As for your suing threat, you may have names of people who are there, but you won’t have which way they voted…laughing your way mr. ” freedom of information act.”
This is the most ignorant, misguided and unprofessional threat I have ever heard from a citizen and appointed board or committee member who has a lot of experience as an active participant in the Mendon Town Meeting process. If this is an example of the majority consensus of the Mendon voters and citizens then bring on the Joint Town Meeting to settle this long standing challenge in school funding priorities. This will be a time to decide if operating a regional school system together is still the correct path forward. As an Upton citizen who voted to increase school funding, this is such a harsh opinion and misguided statement that cannot be ignored. I cannot believe the Town Crier allows this gentleman to be a contributor to it’s paper.
History has shown that Upton voters have predominantly had to endure the will of Mendon voters on school/education funding because of their regular unwillingness to support increases in spending or investments in schools. More importantly the majority of Mendon voters do not participate or appear to refuse to acknowledge that Beacon Hill/State Government revisions to the Chapter 70 funding formula is the root cause of this increased local tax burden and the prime culprit to this fiscal challenge. The MURSD is in a group of the most fiscally lean school districts in the entire Commonwealth. To reference the quote Mr. Rudden blurted out “the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result”; it is the Upton voters/citizens who continue to endure this insanity in this recurring struggle to agree and align fiscal priorities for education spending.
Lastly, please stop with the ill informed and ignorant public safety threats; if the Town of Mendon cannot field an ambulance then a private commercial ambulance service, such as Community Ambulance from Milford, would likely be put in place to assume these important and necessary services required by State Law. How much has Town spending on Public Safety services grown in Mendon in the past decade in comparison to schools? Is spending in Public Safety in Mendon consistent with peer communities or is this something that is being inappropriately thrown out as a scare tactic to get John Q Public who does not have all the facts? These are tough questions and an example of creating unhealthy conflict, NOT civil discourse in the debate, by pitting public safety funding against schools instead of facing or solving the challenge or problem at hand.
you are the most uniformed ignorant person to comment ever.
Appears to be a thoughtful response.
He can sue Upton voters, but suing someone for exercising their constitutional right to vote probably won’t go very far. It’s a bizarre way to threaten a whole town.
And if he proceeds, doesn’t this open the door for Upton voters to sue Mendon “no” voters for having degraded the quality of their children’s education?
It’s unfortunate that the structure of the district is such that even though the majority of the total number of people who voted did vote in favor of the override it still didn’t pass. The votes of the “no” voters in Mendon simply counted for more than the Upton “yes” votes.
It’s too bad that there are so many in Mendon who don’t value education and would rather see the district and students suffer to make a point that they don’t want to pay more taxes. Yet they don’t feel the same way towards BVT, where they spend twice as much per student.
It’s hard to imagine that Mendon voters feel that BVT students are worth more than MURSD students, but they obviously do. It’s hard to believe that Mendon values a new library more than educating our kids, but that’s the way it is.
57 minutes in is when the real truth hits home…
I love the “Einstein” quote. Well, I have a quote as well. From a man named Garth.
It goes, “When did you turn into a nutbar?”
Wow, I’ve heard some crazy stuff in my time.