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The signs for City Councilor Michael Marks are up in full force. Marks gets the award for most visible signs to this writer's eyes as of September 23, 2013.
The big news is a reported letter from Anthony D'Antonio to Michael J. McGlynn regarding the lack of public access in the city of Medford. In the 2011 campaign McGlynn got all the airtime, the other candidates got crumbs. Prior to the station going off the air on or about April Fools Day, 2013, McGlynn was - again - getting airtime with nothing from his potential opponents.
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The seven council candidates that are not incumbents - seven new faces outnumbering the sitting councilors - all need access television. The nonsense from anonymous posters and from the alleged "write-in" candidate that YouTube and Project Open Voice can fill the void is just that: nonsense. Tell that to Channel 4, 5 and 7. Have their board members say they want all the advertising money to go into the "general fund." The audacity of some people - including the weekly newspaper for printing just lunacy. Big news for that individual, there are 57,000 potential write-in candidates who, in my opinion, all have a better chance of winning than someone with multiple conflicts. "Vote for me, I'll set you free" - the Temptations - "Ball of Confusion."
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Isn't it interesting that the one individual proclaiming he is the "second best choice" next to the incumbent is also on what the weekly paper called an "embattled board" of directors and that, gosh - golly - gee, that board has only one person to answer to: their first best choice.
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The fact that there is that problematic little rule governing 501c3 non-profits and the making of political statements. Does anyone thing a "write-in" candidate can just proclaim he is running for office and can run around promoting one candidate while slamming the other?
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What a novel way of attempting to get around the rules governing a 501c3 non-profit. Why don't ALL the board members (there aren't many of them) say they are running for office? Then they can proclaim they don't have to abide by the rules that other 501c3's have to abide by.
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Cable TV subscribers are the ones being cheated by this insanity. Turn on your TV and see what you are funding. The board member who is desperate to keep Mike McGlynn from shutting the power off runs around in a McGlynn T shirt, according to the weekly paper, promoting a candidate.
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Attorney General Martha Coakley showed up in Winchester a couple of months ago to be on a show hosted by someone who has directed my TV program. The "write in" candidate (you have 57,001 to choose from) claims that because the Winchester station rents space from the school. The "write-in" candidate claims no hosts at a station on school property can talk politics. He really needs to write a manual on his perception of rules and of the law and hand it out. The problem is, that "candidate" changes his position like the price of gas: pretty much on a daily basis.
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These are serious times and the residents of Medford need to get serious about this election. On September 24, 2013 I will be speaking to the citizens on the Government channel about exercising their right to vote. Tune in to the Government channel on Verizon and/or Comcast.
Get the vote out.
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