Speech Limited in Medford by Mark Rumley - Public Access Station DENIED residents

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WHERE IS YOUR ACCESS tv?

An Editorial by Joe Viglione on Mark Rumley's squelching of our civil rights granted by the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution

Mark Rumley's Linked In:

Summary

In my position as Chief legal counsel to the City my fundamental tasks are to be accurate in legal analysis, able in argument and clear in rendering opinions. It is my hope that I tend to these tasks diligently and with conscience as my guide.
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What conscience?  As Public Access TV producers are slapped around and denigrated by a vindictive, petty, arrogant city lawyer.

The Public Accommodation law and the First Amendment are anathema to Mark E. Rumley, Medford's long-time city solicitor and arbiter of taste.  It's disgusting when you think about it.



In early 2003 I met with Mr. Rumley and Diane McLeod, who had Neil Osborne's job as Human Rights Commissioner, and Ms. McLeod had some cockamamie excuse for not doing her job, that she was "educational" leaving it up to the overworked MCAD to do what the city should have as its own investigative department.


Of course when city officials like the chief of police, city clerk, city solicitor, mayor, school superintendent etc. are the ones being investigated, your ability to "petition the Government for a redress of grievances" goes promptly into the toilet.



In Medford  they "squelch" freedom of the press, they "buy off" the Medford Transcript with legal notices or whatever else the weekly paper gets in revenues from city hall, paid for by the taxpayers that are being denied transparency.



And when someone protests as much as Rumley does, and gets petty and vindictive with a blogger, logic tells you that whatever they are doing, it is so bad, so ugly, much worse than what we already know, that it cries out for a full investigation, an outside audit, and to hold those accountable - be it a rogue police chief whose son never got a breathalyzer ...or an arrest...or a city lawyer allegedly moonlighting on Thursdays at Somerville District Court collecting bills - allegedly - for credit card companies instead of serving the public paying him at Medford City Hall...that's when he's not using a taxpayer funded e mail for the Immaculate Conception church



Let's look at the U.S. Constitution, a quote from Mr. Rumley to a retired judge, and his "Linked in" to get a clue as to why Medford residents are DENIED full and open access to the public access TV station



Amendment 1

Constitution of United States of America 1789 (rev. 1992)

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.


MARK RUMLEY LINKED IN
https://www.linkedin.com/in/mark-rumley-827903ba