http://medford.patch.com/groups/joe-vigliones-blog/p/111913-city-council-notes--goodbye-nick-iovinoNick, you're a good guy, but in the city of Medford you were not proactive and did not give the citizens of this municipality the facts on the politicians and behind-the-scenes situations happening in and around the McGlynn Administration. Of course in one hand you have a paycheck, in the other a responsibility to the readers and the commercial advertisers (read: not the political advertisers) who support the publication and deserved better for their dollar.
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Poor Adam McKnight. There he was sitting at the reporter's table, and don't let the irony of it escape you (Nick Iovino not at the reporter's table, Adam McGknight not sitting at the council quite yet.) The "o"s of Medford were schooling the cub councilor on the same knight (sic) that the cub reporter was making his exit. You see, in Medford, if your name ends in o - Camuso, Maiocco, Caraviello and Dello Russo, it means you are "O"wned (owned) by the mayor. Rick Caraviello used to couch it, but tonight he was flagrant leaving the room with Camuso and Dello Russo, with Maiocco right behind, and Adam McGknight-0 following like a puppy dog. Sheesh, schooled by Maiocco makes the demonic wizardry that invaded Hogwarts look benevolent by comparison. File under: Adam and Rick follow the three blind mice into the dark side.
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BETTE DAVIS EYES or EBONY EYES
City Solicitor Mark E. Rumley, he who hath thin skin, gave me that stare you find in the Heart song "If Looks Could Kill"
This one is multiple choice, class. Tell me what got to the sanctimonious solicitor:
1)I went to an attorney at a government oversight agency and initiated an investigation into the bank records of TV3?
2)Called his negligence of detailing the accurate accounting of cable TV subscriber funds comparable to "Mickey the Dunce"
3)Keep filing pertinent and very necessary public records requests to find out what Michael J. McGlynn doesn't want the citizens to know about their money?
4)All of the above
If you picked #4 you get a free chocolate candy available from the Solicitor's office because chances are he won't be offering me one anymore like he did a month or two ago.
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Here's what really going to bake your internet cookies before Kaspersky gets to 'em, we didn't publish a ridiculous "Chumley Report" as TV3 did to humiliate the solicitor. Nope, and we haven't ever said that the solicitor was working in concert with TV3. He's not. What we've pointed out is how Mr. Rumley, like Stephanie Muccini Burke, has had to endure slings and arrows from a group of clowns on the verge of expulsion because Mike McGlynn says so.
So, in his heart, (notice how I conveniently used the word "so" twice, as in so/so) Solicitor Rumley wishes he could be nice to everyone, but unfortunately, he drifted off to the dark side long, long ago (Adam McGknight take notice) and is beholden to the McGlynn Machine. The title should be the Mayor's Solicitor for this city has no "city" solicitor, not when you have to file public records request after public records request to find out information you would have if ninety percent of the local press wasn't in McGlynn's back pocket like wholly owned subsidiaries of Tony Soprano.
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So how did the City Council go? It's a forum where issues are discussed but very little is made available to the public. It was actually quite tiresome tonight. Did the residents get their $3700.00 worth of city council? I don't think so. I do not believe so.
Camuso, Dello Russo and Caraviello will school McGknight to vote the McGlynn way. It's 4 against 3 again. But with Robert A Maiocco gone it is my thought that we will have change. Camuso will be rudderless. His filibustering over the past few weeks makes him look as ridiculous as he is. If he keeps that up it will make for great comedy on my blog here. But the sin in that is that we are paying $27,000 plus for an individual who could give a damn about your life and your city. It's all about Camuso and how much money he can accrue sitting on a council in a city in desperate need of charter change and term limits.
