An Open Letter to Michael Marks - PUBLIC RECORDS REQUEST RESPONSE by CITY HALL

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Councilor Michael Marks

Room 207

85 George P. "We Hatchet Free Speech" Drive 

Medford MA 02155

Dear Councilor Marks:

Remember when Judge Jackson-Thompson (retired) said these words on the GATV (Government-access television) channel in Medford around 2008 -

"I'm here to make sure that this TV station is the best it can be for ourselves and for our children" 

Well, it's sad to say that the judge, paid $3900.00, failed in her mission.

Enclosed is the city's response to a public records request regarding free speech at the private access TV facility the mayor has stashed over at the high school, courtesy of ex Mayor Michael J. McGlynn.

Bad enough the city lawyer harasses you, his own alleged client! at the city council!! 

At a meeting of the cable advisory board with Patrick Gordon present I asked Mr. Rumley about the CORI waiver form.  See Exhibit A, Mr. Rumley's malarkey about embracing free speech, which is required by his oath of office (attached,) Exhibit F. 


EXHIBIT A
City Solicitor Mark E. Rumley / Medford Daily Mercury on or about Nov. 16, 2008 (quoted from the 2nd Judge Jackson-Thompson hearing) saying:

“The one sentiment that I have heard that I take great exception to is that the city is trying to limit speech,” said Rumley. “The notion the city would censor or squelch free speech is baseless and as city solicitor I would find any such effort repugnant.”

In that oath it says something about being "impartial," which he fractured on 2-14-17 when sparring with you, yet again:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdIBJlksJJA

What a jerk.

Were you, Mr. Marks, required to file a CORI check?  Why?  Notice how in Exhibit B Mr. Paul Donato, your friend and mine...well, maybe not mine anymore ...states

Donato said. “This is free speech. It’s the public’s right to listen to political speech. It’s the most protected right. I was just flabbergasted.”

My question is why a Representative of the Commonwealth ...or of Malden and Medford...or both...or all three...didn't say "It's the public's right to speak on political issues" rather than just listen?    Paul's still flabbergasted to this day... oh those photo ops on October 15, 2017 at the "grand opening" of the private access station, yet I digress ...as usual. 

Now deceptive Mr. Rumley passes the buck and blames the former station manager, Ben Brown, for the CORI WAIVER.  The kid couldn't facilitate programming, you telling me that ol' Benjy wrote a CORI waiver that makes an innocent person look like a child rapist?  "...thereby eliminating any possibility that the undersigned will  have direct and unmonitored contact with children," - it's got your lawyer's....I mean your solicitor's fingerprints all over it, proving the trademark Rumley histrionics to Judge Jackson-Thompson were just that...THEATRICS, and a possible violation of Rumley's oath of office.

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It's an election season.  Here is Medford City Hall's response to my request for what Mr. Rumley promised us: a CORI waiver that a professional, an adult, would put together to SERVE the public, not rip them off.

So Rumley said to me that it was "in flux" at a meeting of the cable advisory committee.  Would you buy a used car from Mark Rumley?  Why is he the lawyer for the city of Medford with all this evidence on the table?  Oh, that's right, because a mayor or two may have swept a sex crime under the rug, allegedly, in order to steal the 2015 election, and the enabler-in-chief, the city lawyer, is either (allegedly) protecting them, or allegedly was in on it.

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Read over the usual failure to perform, Medford government less transparent than Sgt. Schultz of Hogan's Heroes   "I have no documents, Nothing, I know nothing, I see nothing...I hear nothing...I have no documents...Send Michael Marks to his room and keep his TV show off the air come September and October, I - Stephanie - want the podium.

Why am I doing all the heavy lifting?

To be continued

Joe Viglione  

P.O. Box 2392

Woburn MA 01888

EXHIBIT A
City Solicitor Mark E. Rumley / Medford Daily Mercury on or about Nov. 16, 2008 (quoted from the 2nd Judge Jackson-Thompson hearing) saying:

“The one sentiment that I have heard that I take great exception to is that the city is trying to limit speech,” said Rumley. “The notion the city would censor or squelch free speech is baseless and as city solicitor I would find any such effort repugnant.”

EXHIBIT B 

• Donato said. “This is free speech. It’s the public’s right to listen to political speech. It’s the most protected right. I was just flabbergasted.”

  http://medford.wickedlocal.com/x187558589

  
  

  Exhibit C

  Medford Community Media
  Waiver of Requirement for Criminal Offender Record Information
  
  In consideration of the agreement of the undersigned to refrain completely in his capacity as a 
  Producer (defined below) from entering upon the Medford High School premiseslocated at 489 Winthrop 
  Street, Medford, Massachusetts (the "Premises"), which are utilized by Medford Community Media
  ("MCM")as its principal place of business, thereby eliminating any possibility that the undersigned will 
  have direct and unmonitored contact with children, MCM hereby waives the requirement set forth in 
  Paragraph 5 of the Producer Agreement and Indemnification Form required to be completed by each 
  person, organization or other entity (the "Producer")that requests that MCM carry its programming (the 
  "Producer Agreement").   
  
  Paragraph 5 of the Producer Agreement requires as a condition to the Producer  participating in public access offered by MCM that the Producerpermit and consent to the City of  Medford conducting a criminal background check with respect to the Producer. The undersigned 
  Producer agrees that all programming submitted to MCM by the Producer shall be submitted utilizing the 
  United States Postal Service, any nationally recognized overnight courier service or anyother third party 
  delivery service, but under no circumstances shall the Producer be permitted to enter the Premises for any 
  purpose whatsoever, including without limitation the submission by the Producer of proposed 
  programming to MCM. The Producer further agrees that while this Waiver is in effect the Producer shall 
  not be permitted to enter the Premises for the purpose of removing any equipment from the MCM facility 
  as provided in Paragraph 8 of the Producer Agreement. While this Waiver is in effect the undersigned 
  shall, however, be permitted to enter Medford High School as a visitor in accordance with all of the 
  requirements of Medford High School that are applicable to visitors. Such right of access shall not 
  include that portion of the Premises occupied by MCM. The Producer shall be entitled at anytime to 
  terminate this Waiver through the execution and provision to MCM of the Criminal Offender Record 
  Information Acknowledgement Form required by the Medford Public Schools, and subject only to the
  results of any such criminal offender record information search, the Producer shall thereafter be permitted 
  to enter upon the Premisesin his capacity as a Producer. 
  Signed as a sealed instrument this ____ day of October, 2017.
      MEDFORD COMMUNITY MEDIA
      By____________________________ 
      Ben Brown, Station Manager 
  I hereby agree to the foregoing:
  

  
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