Democracy in Medford: Why Stephanie Muccini-Burke and her Husband Allegedly Want me Dead

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 democracy still has some fight in it.

By Zack Beauchamp@zackbeauchampzack@vox.com  Mar 1, 2019, 11:20am EST

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/3/1/18244776/trump-news-michael-cohen-benjamin-netanyahu

If  you think that you have democracy in Medford then you are blind and stupid.

1)Mayor Burke, a clueless individual, has complete control of the school committee and the city council

2)There are ZERO checks and balances for that daffodil who calls herself mayor, except for this online magazine

3)The varsity coach sex scandal at Medford High school was hushed up

Allegations of an allegedly promiscuous 17 year old girl back in 2014/2015 - a daughter of a powerful politician - allegedly getting it on with a teacher / varsity coach.

This is a serious matter.

If the mayor of Medford hushed up a sex crime, how safe are your kids?

You going to listen to Leo A. Sacco, Jr., the ex-chief of police with forked tongue?

You think Mark Rumley has any credibility after being on the board of TV3 Medford and investigating TV3 and getting zero results, intentionally.

Did Mark Rumley cover something up that might have implicated him?

There is NO EXCUSE for a city lawyer to wear as many hats as the duplicitous and deceitful Mark E. Rumley.

Rumley is as dangerous as he is despicable, and he is a rogue element, a despicable and traitorous individual with his own selfish ends at heart, not what he took an oath of office for.

He's a sick twist in that he actually believes he is a good human being.  He is a bastard, a dirty individual with unclean hands

Only this blog has had the integrity to investigate Rumley and expose him for what he really is.

The handmaiden to Darth Stephanie's evil deeds.

Orchestrated by Rumley's buddy, the insidious Michael J. McGlynn

But you all knew that already, you are all just too afraid to open your mouths and remove the toxic crew from Medford life.

Shame on every reader that doesn't file a complaint on each and ever dirty rat infiltrating Medford city government.

Dictators and Democrats, a book by scholars Stephan Haggard and Robert Kaufman, looked at a large data set on modern democracy to analyze the best predictors of democratic survival. A key feature, they find, is a sort of alliance between formal institutions and groups with actual political power.

“Institutions are likely to be effective [in stopping authoritarian backsliding] only if they are accompanied by strong social checks on political power: Through opposition parties, interest groups, NGOs, and the threat of contentious politics and mass mobilization,” Haggard and Kaufman write.

That is why the Cohen hearing was so noteworthy. It was an example of an “opposition party” using “contentious politics” to put a brake on Trump’s ability to get away with wrongdoing.

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/3/1/18244776/trump-news-michael-cohen-benjamin-netanyahu