Just because other cities and counties are doing it doesn't make it right.
Unethical Stephanie Muccini-Burke should be setting a good example; instead, her court-clerk allegedly drunk husband has an alleged "hit list," and allegedly said "Payback begins tomorrow" on November 3.
But here's the punchline: It was Brian S. Burke's wife who ran the dirty, filthy campaign.
What kind of parents are Stephanie Muccini-Burke and Brian S. Burke to make such a public display in front of their three children?
This kind of bad parenting makes one wonder what else that married couple has done (or not done,) and what repercussions... how their offspring may have acted out because of their mommy and daddy's lust for power?
Maybe someone at the DPW knows and has them over a barrel the way TV3 Medford appeared to have Mike McGlynn over a barrel.
VIOLATIONS OF THE PUBLIC TRUST
You know the District Attorney's office reads this blog on an hourly basis. Why hasn't anyone in that office investigated the Mayor? By not investigating Mrs. Blurke the D.A. and the A.G.'s office allegedly are complicit in all the alleged scandals.
GRAFT
Public trust violated in Trial Court parking scandal: Editorial
http://www.masslive.com/opinion/index.ssf/2016/04/public_trust_violated_in_trial.html
An investigation by Massachusetts Trial Court found at least $36,000 in scam parking discounts, primarily by court officers at the Hampden County Hall of Justice, and determined the Springfield Parking Authority must be reimbursed for the abuse.
Violaters were paying jurors' rates of $3 per day, which reduced their monthly rate from $95 to $60. This level of graft may seem like small beans next to high-profile scandals that involves huge sums of money, but it feeds the public distrust to where many citizens think that nobody can be trusted anymore.
That attitude is as damaging in its own way as the loss of revenue. As the breakdown of public trust accelerates and spreads, the entire system of government weakens because the chasm between the public and those who serve the public deepens.