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Subject: Law Office: Moral Turpitude
Contracts for Anne Irwin and Jenn Dever Wood
Subject: Law Office: Moral Turpitude
Contracts for Anne Irwin and Jenn Dever Wood
Law Department
85 George P. Hassett Drive
Merdford, MA 02155
Dear City Solicitor,
Thank you for responding to my FOIA/PUBLIC RECORDS request concerning Collector Ann Marie Irwin. I appreciate you, Mr. Rumley, responding to my requests; the unfortunate part in reading this is that it becomes obvious that Mrs. Burke's administrative appointments are nothing more than political paybacks to people who have helped her with her campaign.
You've
done your job, Mr. Rumley, but Mrs. Burke has not done hers. How can
there never be any documents for all the documents that I am seeking?
Jenn
Dever Wood - the new "chief of staff" installed after my investigation
let the staffers know that they had no chief of staff when Teresa Walsh
"resigned." My news site went with the story at 1:07 pm on February
18th; Mrs. Burke let the staff know at 2 pm, 53 minutes after I broke
the story, the Medford Transcript scrambled to get something out by 2:58
pm. No News Nell at the Transcript caught with her knickers down
again because she has to get permission from City Hall before the remote
control allows her to publish.
Now,
you informed me that Jenn Dever Wood has no contract with the city.
What if a clerk's job becomes available at Middlesex Superior Court,
with all its monies and security? Will Dever-Wood get out of Dodge as
so many others have - Annie Sgroi, Teresa Walsh, Karen Rose, Louise
Miller...the list is growing, and we are only 150 days into this year
with 216 remaining. State Rep Christine Barber told me to let Mayor
Burke "get her feet wet." Well, Mr. Rumley, we have and Burke's in the
deep end of the pool, can't swim, and all she is saying is "No comment."
If
Jenn Dever Wood leaves it would say to Mr. and Mrs. Medford - "No sense
of loyalty to Mrs. Burke and/or qualifications for the job,"
Nio
qualifications necessary because in many cases these hires are
political paybacks because they supported someone during the campaign.
Not hired for qualifications.
It
is quite obvious that Mrs. Burke lacks the skills to be mayor by
looking at that aforementioned very first appointment - Teresa Walsh,
That when Mrs. Burke was asked what happened she replied "No comment."
Mrs. Burke's whole administration can be wrapped up in two words "No Comment."
Mr.
and Mrs. Medford are getting the message loud and clear. She has no
comment because Burke herself has no qualifications to be mayor, and
people she has hired have little or no qualifications for the job -
hired only because they helped Mrs,.Burke on the campaign.
I
believe you, Mr. Rumley, need to ask why there are never any documents
and no contracts. It is your duty and obligation to the city of
Medford, Mr. Rumley, to investigate this Administration's rather suspect
activity.
I have posted your response to my Real Medford Mass Politics page on Facebook
or http://tinyurl.com/realmedfordmass
That
Mrs. Brian Callahan (Ann Marie Irwin,) daughter of a retired judge, the
late Honorable John J. Irwin, Jr., would have no contract with our city
is remarkable. But Attorney Callahan, her husband, was the campaign
manager for Mrs. Burke. This smacks of payback.
That
Jenn Dever Wood, formerly employed - allegedly - by embattled Sheriff
James V. DiPaola and the office of Stephanie Muccini-Burke's husband,
Brian S. Burke (who verbally assaulted me in front of women and seniors
on October 15, 2015, at the Great Debate, as you know) is not the
"change" the residents expected when they voted in November. Makes one
wonder if our votes were properly counted, doesn't it?
But
with those rumors, City Solicitor, comes extra responsibility for you
to safeguard our city by having proper contracts with each person hired
by a mayor who has had a multitude of problems on her hands. From
allegations that her golden boy, DPW/Park Dept's Mike Nestor, was asleep
on the job during a blizzard, not wearing proper clothing to work that
meet OSHA standards, or the secrecy surrounding the departure of Teresa
Walsh, barely in office before - as rumor has it - she was frog marched
out of city hall, her 106k salary gone.
And
she's an attorney who lectures on election ethics? Hmmmm.... really
makes one wonder if she stumbled onto something she wasn't supposed to
stumble onto...but again I digress.
What next?
What
if a school superintendent was involved in a cover-up regarding a
teacher sex scandal involving a politically powerful family somewhere in
the U.S.A.? Having a contract with a "moral turpitude" clause could
help us removal such a "repugnant" individual, to utilize your
vernacular, Solicitor Rumley.
Moral turpitude is a legal concept in the
United States and some other countries that refers to "conduct that is
considered contrary to community standards of justice, honesty or good morals. This term appears in U.S. immigration law beginning in the 19th century.
My
request is that you look deeper and see if you can find ANY documents -
e mails, memos, etc. AND that you demand contracts with every single
city employee.
Speaking
of superintendents...does Roy E. Belson have a contract (with a moral
turpitude clause in it?) and, if so, please post it on the city website
for all to read. Along with the City Charter.
Thank you.
Joe Viglione
