We all know that the city budget is fully funded through the end of this fiscal year. Yet the city is pulling out all the stops in removing and slowing services to put the fear of lost services or ‘gun-to-the-head approach’ as the Yes group has stated in the past is needed for an Override to win.

“The default vote is ‘No,”” said Jen McAndrew, who ran the Yes for Melrose campaign. “As a result, you really have to make an extremely compelling case for why ‘Yes.’ That is why, more often than not, it is ‘gun-to-the-head’ overrides that pass. We tried to do the opposite, clearly, there’s not the appetite for that here”