Solicitor Rumley UNQUALIFIED to make ACCESS TV DECISIONS

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Meet the new boss, same as the old boss....

For Immediate Release

The citizens of Medford want a free and open access TV station; not a station that is the mayor's personal playpen with horrific requirements that fly in the face of free speech and the First Amendment.  

We want management that is professional, management that would have had the station up and running last January - even with a truck and two cameras and few computers, as I requested of the school committee and city council.

There are no Partners in Progress with a selfish mayor who lies, hires her own cronies, and tells the taxpayers and cable tv ratepayers they can go to hell.   Mayor Burke was exposed last night at the school committee by teachers, by David McKillop and by her own failure to act.

CIty Solicitor Mark Rumley admitted that he put the CORI demand inside a public access television producer's agreement.

Mr. Rumley then threw the novice station manager Ben Brown under the bus saying Mr. Brown concocted the complex legal maneuvers that are absolutely above the young station manager's pay grade.

Mr. Rumley must recuse himself.  His error in judgment - which comes on the heels of the Attorney General Office's 9/19/17 determination of violation(s) of the OPEN MEETING LAW by the Chapter 74 board for vocational television or whatever it's name is.

Mr. Rumley needs to pay back the citizens of Medford for his fumbling of the access television issue over the past 15 years. Be it out of stupidity or intentional, Rumley has to go.

Mr. Rumley needs to tell the public if he ever moonlighted at Somerville District Court on Thursdays to allegedly profit for his own personal law business, and why he had an office with State Rep Paul Donato.

Mr. Rumley removed a taxpayer-funded e mail account from the website of the Immaculate Conception Church. What was he thinking?   There MUST be a separation of church and state, there MUST be accountability when it comes to the horrendous access television issue, and the public has a right to know if a Mark Rumley was not honest about working for the city and working to profit as an attorney while on the public payroll.   Is it true, Mark?  You are oh so eloquent when you are at the city council, and not so eloquent when you are having a hissing contest with a councilor or besmirching a citizen.

So here we are cable TV subscribers, Ben Brown knows very little to nothing about running a station.  He lied to me last night in regards to being a station manager at other facilities.  A look at his Linked In is in direct conflict to what he was bragging about.  When this veteran of public access pressed Ben Brown like a third grader he mumbled "I'm not telling you."

Ben Brown is a public servant.  To not be truthful, to then not be upfront about what he was bragging about, to have incredibly bad answers to simple questions about microphones feeding back and producer agreements and his admissions that he didn't know why my microphone DIDN'T feed back when everyone else's did; admission that he didn't know how to draw up a producer agreement for a Verizon cablecast public access station is the fruit of the poisonous tree, what you get when the mayor has a quasi-public access television board and young Ben Brown in attendance at a meeting.

Young Ben Brown has on his resume that he was a lighting person for a national Jimmy Buffet tribute band.    For two months.  Should you laugh or cry over the incompetence of Mayor Stephanie Muccini-Burke, a woman who couldn't even look me in the eye last night when I announced to the teachers the Chapter 74 violation of the open meeting law.

Mrs. Burke's incompetence breeds incompetence. We now have an immature station manager, not ready for prime time, with a producer agreement from hell, only two hours for open house at 10 am on a Sunday (October 15th) when a REAL access station with REAL veterans operating it would have an OPEN HOUSE WEEK from 9 - 5 and from 5-10 pm for seven days doing what is required of Ben Brown - what he has failed to do: Facilitate programming and proper OUTREACH

You can blame the censorship master, Mark E. Rumley for all that after my little discussion with an irate and bullish Mark Rumley - always a sign of being ultra-offensive because he has no defense for his wrongful conduct.

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We need REAL access television and we need it now.

Ben Brown said "I doubt it" when I told him I could have the website, the station hours, the outreach, all of it, done instantly. 

Well, Ben Brown, you talk a lot but you don't have any proof for your egregious statement.    

There are many veteran biographies one hundred times stronger than yours, Mr. Brown, so if you want to be as defensive as Mr. Rumley for the incredible stumbling blocks you put in front of Medford residents, it proves my point.  You don't know Medford, you don't know about feedback and audio, you don't know about facilitation of programming, you don't know about outreach, and why can't citizens borrow cameras.

Look at this embarrassing moment on the web.  Why hasn't Ben Brown removed the nonsense and put a new Wikipedia up? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medford_Community_Cablevision,_Inc.

How ugly for the city of Medford to have that cheap and hideous Wikipedia page....

The citizens want television NOW, Mr. Donato.  What are you going to do about it?

 

Joe Viglione  

6:20 pm 10-3-17

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