City Hall Responds, I respond... 2:02 pm June 12

1,356,070 @ 4:05 pm June 12, 2019

This letter to be amended.  It was sent about an hour ago, but the final draft included more information

Dear Attorney Scanlon:

No, the language is accurate. 

Here's the lengthy explanation and,  as you have responded to my request, I am also putting in the CC the Public records division.   I am also putting in the TO: the elections division of the Secretary of State's office as, if the allegation is true, I believe Mrs. Burke is messing with the election (again) and - possibly - violating her oath of office.

I trust you, I simply do not and cannot trust the mayor and her accomplice, City Solicitor Mark E. Rumley, who has - in the past - played tricks with the public records law and stalled things intentionally and, I believe, maliciously. 

I believe my language to be accurate - there are allegations that the mayor is currently, present time, having Patrick Gordon - TV MCM station manager - alert access producers that she - the issuing authority - wants absolutely no talk of politics prior to the November 5th election.  We know Mrs. Burke is a coward and hides behind her desk, cannot speak at the council, cannot speak to citizens (May 17, 2017 I believe was the date, the Mayor invited EVERYONE to La Cascia Bakery, but only spoke to people she knew would vote for her and insulted a citizen who voted for her opponent in the 2015 election. The city is rife with such cowardly acts - that one in public - by Mrs. Burke. Shame on her, she was so open as a city councilor, what is she hiding?)

With only 145 days to the election (there's a countdown on my popular blog, now at 1,356,003 page views @ 1:18 pm today,) and new candidates unable to  have their own TV show without a Rumley CORI check,

Mayor Burke has an unfair advantage.  She DENIES candidates the right to speak on TV with their own show, without first dipping into their CORI, ostensibly to see how she can gossip and undermine their efforts.  It's cheap, it is sleazy, and it is anti-American.  It is un-American.

And given the reprehensible homophobic "robo calls" Mrs. Burke issued in the 2015 election to attack her gay-friendly opponent, I submit that seniors are not the only "minority" under attack in the city of Medford.  Mrs. Burke's claims of being gay friendly are as phony as her promise of being tree friendly!

As a same sex person, I believe that Mrs. Burke, Stephanie Muccini-Burke, uses gay people as a trophy hunter would, but absolutely spits on gay rights in Medford; I'm Exhibit A in that regard...  With an election only 145 days away, time is of the essence.  

I may want to litigate, file that Class Action suit that we should have filed years ago, and finally open up the access channel to people from ALL walks of life, not just the friends and anointed ones of Stephanie Muccini-Burke.   I do not know if you saw your boss, Mark Rumley, the champion of free speech, trying to shut me up when I was at the City Council calling for a CLASS ACTION SUIT. It's on camera, Rumley's hypocrisy naked as the Emperor's New Clothes.   Or Mr. Rumley, in a room where he had no jurisdiction according to his lying lips, the Medford Housing Authority, jumping up to allegedly object to my question!   My question got the Mayor's uncle to admit that Deval Patrick had appointed him. I went to the office of Deval Patrick and - voila - 2 weeks later Uncle Gene McGillicuddy was removed from the board of the Medford Housing Authority, allegedly lessening McGlynn (and by extension, Rumley) from having as bad a grip on the Authority that they secretly held.

I have spent SEVENTEEN YEARS on fixing Access in the city of Medford; without my efforts an MCC TV3  member of the board of directors would still be charging candidates for  "commercials" on a non-profit station,  and allegedly profiting from the access station in an ugly way (the candidates who didn't pay up were smeared on his Friday night television program, that's when he wasn't violently attacking an image of this professional host/director/producer) - are we getting the picture?

Basically, I need ALL THE DOCUMENTS, MEMOS, SMOKE SIGNALS, HAND SIGNALS, Burke Administration Hocus Pocus, regarding more squelching of free speech in Medford - the allegation that there is to be NO POLITICAL SPEECH. 

To reiterate:  I heard through the grapevine that the manager of the TV station, Patrick Gordon, told a city councilor - specifically, Michael Marks (though Mr. Marks was not the source,) that Mayor Stephanie Muccini Burke does not want any political speech prior to the November 5 election, which, if correct, would be:

September 24-October 1

October  1-8

October  8-15

October 15-22

October  22-29

October 29-Nov 5

The word on the street is that they are chilling the free speech of Michael Marks and that Marks' show is not going to be able to air during those dates.

As I have discussed with the law office via e mail and in person, and to Mr. Rumley personally at a meeting of the Cable TV Advisory board, the sneaky CORI check is a violation of Mr Rumley's oath which states "...according to the best of my ability and understanding, agreeable to the rules and regulations of The Constitution...So help me God."

Stephanie M. Burke, regarding limited speech in Medford – these specifics include but are not limited to

Documents, memos, e-mails, texts regarding an embargo on political speech for six weeks prior to the November 5, 2019 election…”,

 

Joe Viglione  

P.O. Box 2392

Woburn MA 01888

tel 617 899 5926  

i am not publishing Attorney Scanlon's response as she has a disclaimer on it;  here is my response to her (above)

  

From: Joe Viglione <joeviglione@yahoo.com>
Sent: Wednesday, June 12, 2019 12:43 PM
To: Kim Scanlon <kscanlon@medford-ma.gov>; Public Records <mpspublicrecords@medford.k12.ma.us>; Ago AGO <ago@state.ma.us>; Charities (AGO) <charities@state.ma.us>
Cc: Mark Rumley <markrumley@medford-ma.gov>; Lungo-Koehn , Breanna <blungo2001@yahoo.com>; Paul Donato <repdonato38@aol.com>; thomas.farragher@globe.com; medford@wickedlocal.com; Marks, Michael J. <michael@marksformedford.com>
Subject: Public Records request: Limiting Political Speech: 6 week censorship of politics on MCM

Kim Scanlon

Public Records Officer

85 George P. Hassett Drive

Medford MA 02155

 

Public Records Officer

Medford High School

Medford Vocational Technical High School

489 Winthrop Street

Medford, MA 02155

Re: Massachusetts Public Records Request
Dear Attorney Scanlon and High School Records Officer

 

This is a request under the Massachusetts Public Records Law (M.G.L. Chapter 66, S. 10).
I am requesting that I be provided a copy of the following records:

1)All correspondence between the law office and the mayor, Stephanie Muccini-Burke, regarding limiting speech in Medford - these specifics include but are not limited to

 

a)documents, memos, e mails, texts regarding an embargo on political speech for six weeks prior to the

November 5, 2019 election

 

b)Solicitor Mark E. Rumley's alleged new waiver for the CORI document - where is it?; it was supposed to be updated a year or two ago, but the city lawyer intentionally and flagrantly violates his oath of office by dragging his feet on promises - (i.e. the promised MCC TV3 board election in 2009; the demand for financial records in 2013, the CORI waiver that doesn't make an access TV producer look like a child molester, which Rumley's current Waiver does, etc.)

 

I realize that you may charge a fee for paper and time etc; I request that the fee be waived as this is of great public interest.  Though I am published in six or more books, have written for dozens and dozens of publications, have been quoted in the New York Times and Boston Globe, have written for the Boston Globe, Medford Transcript, Medford Mercury, Billboard Magazine, time and time again I have been maliciously defamed by Mark E. Rumley, Paul Camuso, Richard F. Caraviello, Adam Knight and other individuals involved in city government.  Clearly, Medford City Hall loathes transparency, the First Amendment, free speech, and Mr. Rumley, who holds citizens to the highest of standards, and has disgustingly low standards for himself, lies to a retired judge and the public about freedom of the press when the evidence proves that Mr. Rumley is the author and architect of censorship in the city of Medford. I editorialize in this public records request to get these facts on the record, that Rumley has violated his oath of office in a very transparent attempt to have a negative effect on the election and a positive effect on his paycheck and those of his accomplices in this hijacking of and chilling of speech in Medford.   Rumley has lied to the public, Rumley DENIES the public an opportunity to get on the electronic soap box that they pay for via franchise fees to Verizon and Comcast, and Rumley laughs all the way to the bank - when he's not, allegedly, moonlighting at Somerville District Court on Thursdays as a bill collector, or using his taxpayer funded e mail on the Immaculate Conception church website, or bashing councilor Michael Marks at the council or Joe Viglione from the witness stand when Rumley was found by the court to have testimony that was "irrelevant."

 

It should be noted that Mayor Stephanie Muccini-Burke dragged her feet in 2017 opening the TV station on October 15, 2017 to thwart new candidates from getting exposure on access TV in time for the election (Exhibit A see attached photo of state rep putting his hand on the private parts of then city council vice president in front of two children and a 15 year old student) and Mark Rumley's oath of office that he has clearly fractured: the proof?  This public records request.   The only public records request that I know of which provides documents in order to get documents.

 

As you know, the Public Records Law requires you to provide me with a written response within 10 business days. If you cannot comply with my request, you are statutorily required to provide an explanation in writing.

 

Joe Viglione  

P.O. Box 2392
Woburn MA 01888