Gay bashing on Patch. Minority people at Council bashed on Patch!
Names being used on Patch after four minority people spoke out at the City Council. The cronies from TV3 were supposed to stop harassing and abusing those of us fighting for the new TV station.
Civility and Professionalism were the key elements of the best City Council meeting of the year, presided over by the Honorable Rick Caraviello.
Rick Caraviello is someone our community can be proud of. He knows how to run an open meeting and obeys Robert's Rules of Order, the Rules of the Medford City Council as well as the city council rules and regulations. Who is Rick Caraviello?
He is currently the Acting Executive Director for the Medford Chamber of Commerce. Caraviello is also past president of the Chamber of Commerce, chairman of the Medford Kiwanis Literacy Program for Children and past president of the Medford Recreational Hockey Association.
http://rickcaraviello.com/about.html
Unlike the circus atmosphere we've experienced in previous weeks with someone slamming the gavel down, speaking from the chair in inappropriate fashion, interrupting Dr. Storella, Jeanne Martin, Rob Cappucci, this writer and many others, you could feel the good vibrations in the room as residents got to speak at the People's Forum without badgering and hostility.
This is the best argument for Council President Caraviello to retain that title for the rest of the year, remove the previous "council president" and have Mark Crowley take his rightful seat as the next in line on the City Council of Medford.
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Carl Sciortino gave an eloquent response to my good friend Patricia Doherty. I call it a draw. Patricia got her good points in, Mr. Sciortino responded with his valid reasons. It was nice to see Rep Sean Garballey in the audience along with candidate Rob Cappucci and others. People participating in city government is a good thing.
I was going to the lobby to speak to Ms. Doherty and she was coming back into the chambers to speak to me. It was serendipity! "Patricia, we need you at the cable TV committee!" Ms. Doherty politely declined, but I will continue to press her important voice to participate.
Mayor McGlynn must have been in his glory with two openly homosexual men, a lesbian from the military and an African American woman all speaking up at the council podium. The minorities were the majority tonight! He is the diversity Mayor! Perhaps the fact that the minority people came out in full force will be seen by the Mayor as an invitation to participate with us next week. Mike McGlynn we want to hear from you up at the podium!
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The big news at the Council tonight was, of course, the success of the new Cable TV Committee, the return of Joe Fortunato on Monday night, the discussion of the Chevalier Theater, the invitation to the arts community to join us in creating a new access TV station, and how to get a new station operational within the next month or so.
It was a great night for the First Amendment and a great night for the people of Medford. I brought up Public Records Requests and delivered three different documents to the council tonight. We have about 100 new documents, but it is important to focus on different issues week by week, so as I've discussed previously, we are going to bring this information to the public slowly so that it can be digested, considered and acted upon. The council was shocked by the e mails from the former president of Medford Community Cablevision, Inc, one chastising a minority board member in an angry and unprofessional tone (the same tone viewed in the Rumley Report when Frank Pilleri wrote to Patricia Cappucci and gave her orders that would provide secrecy to Medford Community Cablevision, Inc. while denying the public its right to know what was happening with public monies.) There was another document from a soon-to-be former board member of the station chock full of inaccurate information and self-crafted fiction, and the explosive letter from Pilleri to Mark Rumley talking about some deal where if TV3 cooperates "all this will go away."
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Another huge comment was from Doreen Wade who noted that it was the Mayor of Medford who pushed for the racism case to be investigated by the police against Medford Community Cablevision, Inc., not her. Interesting indeed because of what Mayor McGlynn said in the Medford Transcript. McGlynn appeared to be using a Medford resident for political purposes during a campaign and then let the victim twist in the wind. Then you see the Mayor cutting a deal with the people the allegations are against and it makes you wonder if the very charges the Mayor used for political purposes he also used for a deal? We don't know, but it sure doesn't look kosher.
When you combine that statement with the document Frank Pilleri filed with City Hall about something that TV3 did that they hope will all "go away" well, the math becomes easy to do. Now you know why this writer has been mercilessly attacked, why my late friend who died of cancer has been savaged and brutalized despite having three lovely children that don't want to hear those awful things about their mother, and how if you fight for your community, the guilty parties prove their guilt by throwing mud at the messenger. What did Shakespeare say?
"The lady doth protest too much, methinks"
Be it Queen Gertrude in 1602 or some objectionable comment in 2014, in 412 years not much has changed, has it?
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
Act III, Scene II
http://www.bartleby.com/70/4232.html
Why the "lady " is protesting so much is our investigation into the finances of Medford Community Cablevision, Inc. and that there's a phone call in to the Attorney General's office. When last the AG's office phoned they told me that MCC TV3 was "technically out of compliance." Why are we not surprised?
They can't show meeting minutes to a dissolved corporation? Someone yelling the loudest on the Patch with lies and invective that are just that claims to have been the person to take those invisible meeting minutes. Like Shakespeare said 412 years ago, "the lady doth protest too much."
Now a very simple solution is at hand. All that individual had to do was bring those meeting minutes she was entrusted to take, her name on the front page of the Medford Community Cablevision, Inc. website (which would put her under the jurisdiction of Frank Pilleri's signature with the Medford Police Department not to write egregious and harassing things about someone) - bring those meeting minutes and financial records up to the City Council and show Medford that she is honest with our monies.
Of course if people want to be cowardly and not show up at the City Council, give their name and address, be very forthright with the citizens and show those documents, then you can do the easy, easy math that you are being lied to on the Patch by someone with an agenda.
It was a terrific night at the City Council of Medford. The Chevalier Theater, the TV3 finances, information about the charge of racism against a now-dissolving non-profit and documents were brought to the attention of the 57,000 residents of Medford.
There will be more information from the public records requests made public at the City Council in the coming weeks. The dynamite documents unveiled tonight are only the tip of the iceberg.
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In other news:
Woburn Superior Court does not have a case from Medford Community Cablevision, Inc. to dissolve just yet.
Update on Medford Community Cablevision, Inc. webmaster.
TRIAL BY JURY
9 AM August 15, 2014
Case MICR2013-01473
Alleged violation of law C269S14(c) causing public alarm
False Bomb Threat
1/07 Pre trial 9 am
2/27/14 Hearing for a Motion to Dismiss filing 2 PM
3/13/14 Non Evidentiary 2 PM
4/6/14 Hearing Pretrial 2 PM
5/3/14 DISCOVER motion 2 PM
5/28/14 Evidentiary Suppression Hearing 2 PM
6/11/14 Evidentiary Suppression Hearing 2 PM
7/24/14 Pretrial Conference 2 PM
8/15/14 Trial By Jury the People vs. Gary Zappelli 9 AM
We will be asking the court to be able to videotape the event on a former board member of Medford Community Cablevision, Inc. for the new access TV station in Medford.
The secrecy at MCC TV3 went on for too long while being funded by the public. The public has a right to know all the facts in this case.
We also intend to videotape the dissolution of MCC TV3. It is an historic moment in Medford Public Access TV and it needs to be available in the Medford Library as well as on Made In Medford.com
