354,014 Demand that Solicitor Suspend City Clerk for alleged assault

City Council President
City Solicitor
Medford City Hall
85 Geo P. Hassett Drive
Medford, MA 02155

RE: Alleged felony assault of a person over 60
by the City Clerk in the Michael J. McGlynn Administration 



Dear City Solicitor and Council President Dello Russo:

A public servant cannot commit an alleged felony assault (screaming within an inch of a senior citizen's face, bumping that person with his chest) because a citizen of Medford asks a simple question about the cameras not being focused on city councilors who are speaking.

City Clerk Edward P. Finn MUST be suspended until an investigation, and possible court case (which I am VERY serious about filing) takes place.

Mr. Finn's explosive outburst in my face is unacceptable. IF a public figure cannot listen to the concerns about a camera, or the council president or the city clerk's failure to ensure that cameras are on all speakers, and the response is to allegedly commit assault and battery (I use "alleged" only because a court of law has not heard the case yet.  My testimony is that Ed Finn touched my person in an inappropriate and violent manner, and was yelling in my face.)


For Mr. Finn to behave that way was appalling and is a threat to any individual who wants to speak at the city council without fear of reprisals.  Mr. Finn appears to censor petitions citizens write.  He doesn't allow petitions to be published the way they are written.  He's a clerk, not an editor.  Does he tell people applying for a marriage license how to spell their names?  Does the temperamental city clerk tell police officers who take an oath in front of him that they need his editing first?

It is DOUBLE STANDARDS in this city.

IF the situation were reversed and a small guy like me yelled up into the face of a larger, heavier (a term used to show the uneven playing field the bully used, not meant to demean) person, as Mr. Finn did, there would have been repercussions.

Paul Camuso has attempted to phone the police on a city councilor and on this resident for asking simple questions, perhaps like about Camuso's pay raise. Camuso, as council president, would slam the gavel and threaten to phone the police.

Imagine if I yelled in Camuso's face as Ed Finn did to a victim that the Mayor, his boss, dislikes?


Or imagine if Ed Finn did that to a woman?  He may have spent the night in jail.  He should have spent the night in jail, in this victim's opinion.

Mr. Finn should NOT be in his office or at City Council when this victim of his wrongful conduct is in attendance. He needs to be suspended, the way a police officer is suspended for not using good judgment.  I demand the suspension of City Clerk Edward P. Finn for assault and battery on my person on June 17, 2015.
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I would like to discuss the first one of these two items at the Council next week, the second item at the following council meeting.


CITY COUNCIL MOTIONS / PETITIONS


#14-548 Solicitor's Information Channel 3 July 15, 2014


#15-424 April 28, 2015 Support Community Access Television


Could you kindly put it on the agenda as I am NOT going to go into the clerk's office today.  Mr. Finn used his bullying tactics as a way of keeping me out of his office.   XXXXXXXXX   XXXXXXXXXXX   (redacted)


Not only that, I filed for two businesses, paid for them last week (Sixty Dollars) while politicians give monies to another local magazine that ISN'T a Medford business (or wasn't as of last week) yet the publisher is paid from our P/E/G monies and works at the high school, yet the double-standards of Medford don't apply to her. 


Mark Rumley said about TV3  that they behaved like "Havana."  Mark Rumley also told me he got attorney Skerry to tell his client, Frank Pilleri, that what they did was "Un-American."  Mark Rumley also said he would find the city limiting free speech "repugnant."

Solicitor Rumley, if you were telling the truth to Judge Jackson-Thompson and the citizens of Medford who pay you handsomely, in the quote noted below, you will suspend Ed Finn or demand the Mayor do it, and you will comply with this request, AND you will give the citizens an updated on Medford Community Cablevision, Inc., as you appear to have promised us with the language noted below:

City Solicitor Mark E. Rumley / Medford Daily Mercuryon or about Nov. 16, 2008 (quoted from the 2nd Judge Jackson-Thompson hearing) saying:

“The one sentiment that I have heard that I take great exception to is that the city is trying to limit speech,” said Rumley. “The notion the city would censor or squelch free speech is baseless and as city solicitor I would find any such effort repugnant.”

Go back into the city clerk files and see my complaint on Ed Finn allegedly trying to censor me from filing petitions.

Enough is enough.  Paul Camuso harasses me behind city hall; Adam Knight's buffoonery is uncivil and not expected of a public servant, Bob Maiocco threatening to hit me with a pipe, and now Ed Finn's outburst and assault.

This will NOT happen in the community where I live, so help me God.  If I have to bring this into a court of law to get relief and protection, so be it.

Sincerely,
  
The Editor