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For those of us who pay a cable TV bill, and do not have the opportunity to learn computers, borrow a camera, edit our shows, get them on MadeinMedford and other sites, we are cheated.
Is it - allegedly - Grand Larceny committed by City Hall to deprive the citizens of what they have paid for?
How can a mayor, smug and snooty, tell you she has only been in "six weeks" when she was Budget Director and Director of Personnel for years AND on the city council before that?
You see, the excuses don't hold up.
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Six weeks into Stephanie Burke's "administration," excuses from State Rep Christine Barber such as "She has to get her feet wet," are preposterous. A Mayor should be able to work for the people on day 1, ESPECIALLY having worked at city hall as Budget Director and Director of Personnel. Especially having been on the city council. So where is the Access TV Muccini-Burke worked so hard for as a city councilor? Two months in and still...nothing. Burke is enjoying McGlynn's Media Blackout and continuing the practice, despite our monthly fees for the cable franchise fee.
Shame on Rep Barber for making up excuses, and out of the other end of her mouth denigrating a citizen Barber isn't fit to shine the shoes of. Here's a photo my iPhone snapped of Mrs. Muccini-Burke sitting on her hands instead of applauding at Alden Chambers when her gracious opponent who endured Muccini-Burke's smear campaign spoke eloquently to benefit the citizens. Muccini-Burke is wrong for this city, eight weeks have been marred by the alleged firing of her chief of staff and a "campaign fund" breakfast - far more important than doing the "people's business." The excuses that she needs to prepare for the next election or that she "has to get her feet wet" or that she didn't know the woman she allegedly fired -when that woman was key on her election campaign - all ring hollow. They are still EXCUSES. Yesterday George "Chip" Hines piped in on the other political page saying "the election wasn't stolen.'
You know, when someone is protesting too much, and that someone was on a committee that had PROMISED us access TV prior to the election (Fred Laskey made me an absolute promise; I told him don't make promises you can't keep (paraphrased) and...lo and behold, no access for the election,) how can Chip Hines say the election wasn't stolen when not having access TV that we pay for was a HUGE component of McGlynn not being fair to Muccini-Burke's opponent. Chip Hines was part of the problem.
He didn't deliver public access for an election, and now he has the audacity to say "the election wasn't stolen" when the argument that I had (and people told me to stay quiet and let the process happen,) was, basically, that Laskey, Hines and Allison Goldsberry were as qualified to investigate access TV as they were to run the MBTA. There are MANY qualified people in and around Medford who should have been on the panel. My argument was based on "The Parking Commission" (or whatever its proper name was,) and how Michael Marks had been ignored by McGlynn despite being on that commission. That was McGlynn's M.O. I was told to keep quiet, and the result: the individual not qualified to be on the TV commission, George "Chip" Hines, didn't work hard enough to influence the mayor to do the right thing. No access TV that gave an UNFAIR advantage to Mrs. Burke's sloppy and unfocused campaign. Now George Hines tells you to your face that the election wasn't stolen when he should have recused himself from the commission and left it to people with a passion for access, with knowledge about access, and the opportunity to call McGlynn out for putting a barrier up to mitigate the voices of the people McGlynn took so much salary money from year after year after year. To be continued.
