D'Antonio Letter to his opponent, McGlynn

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20 September, 2013



Honorable Michael J. McGlynn, Mayor                      
85 George P. Hassett Drive
Medford, MA 02155

Dear Mayor McGlynn,

Since December 18th of 2012, the city of Medford has been without Public Access Television/ Medford Community Cablevision, also known as TV3. On December 17th, the last live show aired (the Ziggy show) and after this date, until or about March 31st of 2013, all that was available on MCC were rebroadcast shows and many where you were appearing, and in an election year. Since that time, all that has been shown is a muted color bar!

In Judge Marie O. Jackson Thompson’s, “Hearing Results, Findings and Recommendations”, dated 5 August, 2009, it states, on page 11, paragraph 1…Whether the City can make a substantial case to remove the MCC remains a decision for the city of Medford. However, for these reasons, set forth above, a preliminary notice of “no confidence” should be filed with the Board as a formal notice of deficiencies in their contractual responsibilities. Should the Board continue to be noncompliant, the City may wish to take additional actions to terminate the MCC contract.

At this time or anytime in the near future, the City may wish to request that the Office of the Attorney General and/or the Secretary of State investigate MCC.
 
Mr. Mayor you are the issuing authority and sole responsible party, and correct this problem. You have allowed Comcast and Verizon to continue taking monies from the subscribers/ratepayers every month without consideration thereby allowing no public access without penalty to the tv-3 management who oversees public access cablecasting.

Recently you withheld a quarterly payment of $39,000 to MCC after receiving subscriber’s monies from Comcast and Verizon. You gave the impression that if tv-3 did not shape up and adhere to their contract responsibilities, you were to take further action.

You are well aware of tv-3's president, station manager and paid computer consultant/former board member and their ongoing internet blogs and disgusting commentaries. They have besmirched, humiliated, hijacked personal proprietary pictures and denigrated not only you, but also your budget director, the city solicitor, particular city council members and Medford citizens who dare question them about their financials, spending, minutes of their meetings and the makeup of the board of directors.

With special congressional and city elections just six weeks away and by your inaction to have a public access station up and running as the subscribers have been paying for, you have precluded all aspiring candidates for elective office in the city of Medford. You are, in essence, denying the paying public access to that which is ours. The viewing public has, for many years, looked forward to seeing the political ads as well as the interviews and forums associated with running for elected office here in Medford.

The city council on two separate occasions has asked you by way of their votes to resolve this ongoing problem at tv-3. You have still done nothing for the cable subscribers of Medford.

And the problem continues to get worse with the recent arrest of tv-3's paid computer consultant and former board member who is charged with making a recent bomb threat.

The recent arrest of a board associate due to his bomb threat, has again sullied the image of Medford. The face of the city of Medford is represented in how we are perceived within and outside our city. The medium is the Public Access Station.

This individual, along with the station manager, who was present at the time of this arrest, but, not arrested, have been allowed by your inaction to do whatever they please.

As a taxpayer, cable subscriber and ratepayer, a candidate for Mayor of Medford, and, on behalf of the citizens of Medford, I demand that you, Mayor McGlynn, immediately resolve this matter by terminating this board and start anew.

The ratepayers deserve better action than that for which you have yet to deliver.

Sincerely,
Anthony J. D’Antonio…Candidate for Mayor, city of Medford
12 Yale Street