Kim Scanlon
Medford City Hall Law Office
85 George P. Hassett Drive
Medford, MA 02155
RE: Next Public Records Request on CORI check prescribed by Attorney Rumley
Dear Attorney Scanlon:
If Mr. Rumley wants a CORI check on every candidate who wants to use access television, doesn't that give Mrs. Burke and her Administration an unfair advantage in any election? Equally chilling - by Rumley's standard(s) - is the fact that EVERY patron of the Chevalier would need a CORI CHECK because the Boy and Girl's Club is in the same building as a public theater.
We know Mr. Rumley enjoys diving into his thesaurus to come up with fancy words for his double talk, his "self-crafted fiction" and his rants and nonsense (utilizing the solicitor's own vernacular to describe his less-than-honest demands on the citizens who pay his bloated salary) - but what about what is right, what is fair, what is legal, according to the Constitution of the United States of America.
We know Mr. Rumley enjoys diving into his thesaurus to come up with fancy words for his double talk, his "self-crafted fiction" and his rants and nonsense (utilizing the solicitor's own vernacular to describe his less-than-honest demands on the citizens who pay his bloated salary) - but what about what is right, what is fair, what is legal, according to the Constitution of the United States of America.
Mr. Rumley forced his pal David Skerry to call Frank Pilleri un-American, and even went so far as to tell this writer he believed the access TV board acted as if they were in Havana, not Massachusetts, yet Rumley is every bit as abusive as Frank Pilleri ever was.
If TV producers need a CORI CHECK because a school is attached to the new station, why shouldn't every patron of the Chevalier be required to have a CORI CHECK when children are around at the Boys and Girls Club????
Has Muccini-Burke got his tongue on this one? As usual?
So if Ben Brown is hired for $67,500.00 a year to supervise access, no member should have to be concerned about unsupervised contact with children. In Rumley's twisted anti-First Amendment world, he and the school superintendent want access to every person who goes into a SUPERVISED area, supervised by station manager Ben Brown.
Candidates DENIED access TV prior to the 9/12/17 primary enabled Mrs. Burke to get her cronies into the city council again (see my video of last night's preposterous "caucus" where Councilor Michael Marks alleged that his colleagues took a vote "on the phone" prior to the Room 207 vote.)
I will be filing a public records request on:
a)Mark Rumley's reasons for a CORI check when no other access station in the Commonwealth based in a high school has such an invasive anti-free speech tactic
(Mayor Burke's paranoia, and not even allowing candidates to tape at the station prior to the 9/12/17 election is a big ripoff in this community. It's Exhibit A in the wrongful conduct of Rumley and Burke vis-a-vis access television in the city)
b)allegations that Mr. Rumley used his private law office to collect bills at Somerville court on Thursdays when Medford residents have paid his bloated salary for years.
c)Mr. Rumley's reasons for DENYING the wonderful idea of having the access based at both the Chevalier Theater and the Medford Public Library, which would have satisfied the determination of Allison Goldsberry, Rev Chip Hines and Fred Laskey to put access TV in a location that benefits the most residents
Read this nonsense:
Rumley said because the property was a gift, accepted unanimously by the city at the time, it doesn’t fall under the same time constraints and is, therefore, still in effect.
The solicitor pointed out the restriction has been challenged not once, but twice in the 141 years it’s been in effect. The first time, in 1898, was by Magoun’s heirs.
Rumley said a complaint was made to Medford’s Common Council that a social club was being allowed to use the library. Little else is known about the issue, other than the library remained in the city’s possession.
Watch for my public records request to get to the bottom of this.
Thank you.
Joe Viglione
