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Medford Residents Need to Remove Bad Apples
from City Government
An Editorial
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I believe in Breanna Lungo-Koehn. Breanna doesn't have a magic wand and - just like with the election - she didn't have a majestic launch out of the starting gate - indeed, she made many an error, but she won, and that's the key. Breanna succeeded because Breanna is a winner.
Look at this writer's dedication to this news site to alert you, to enlighten you - dear reader. This is not only the work of a journalist, this is a work of a tenacious individual persevering while the most powerful levers of local government have attacked me non-stop for the better part of two decades, almost a third of my life.
Change is inevitable, but positive change takes a good captain to steer the ship.
When I criticized McGlynn or Muccini-Burke it was to expose how unethical and bad they were as politicians.
When you see me criticize Breanna Lungo-Koehn, it is to help her get to the next level.
It is now 12:01 am, Saturday, 1/25/2020, so let me note that it was on Friday that I spoke with a colleague who has a brilliant legal mind. The question was very simple:
Who would you rather have representing you in open court speaking to a judge? Attorney Breanna Lungo-Koehn or writer Joe Viglione?
The very smart individual was clear - he would prefer me. (Though I am not a lawyer.)
This isn't being said out of ego, it is being stated to give Breanna a little nudge to, perhaps, actually take a public speaking class.
Public speaking is an art. When those individuals were getting feedback because negligent ex TV3 station manager Ben Brown was in over his head, why was it that Joe Viglione could be heard clearly with no feedback?
Ben said "I couldn't run back to the studio to turn the volume down." Incompetent idiot.
"Ben...all I did was stand six inches from the microphone." Duh!
All the inefficient and out-of-his-depth station manager had to do was tell the audience to stand back six inches from the microphone. He didn't have to confess that his stupidity had created the feedback. But that's what Stephanie Muccini-Burke hired because she was clueless as to the needs of access television.
Knowing how to handle a microphone is part of public speaking. Sure, in concert with my rock band I throw it in the air, use the wire to wrap myself up in during a Lou Reed song, hold it out for the audience to sing along with - and use it as a prop. You won't find an intelligent public speaker hitting the table like Zac Bears did unknowingly, another not-ready-for-prime-time baggage handler dragging the useless city council down as one more anchor not needed in Medford.
Michael Marks knows how to speak, as does Mark E. Rumley. Too bad they both abused their eloquence to having hissing contests in public, but that goes to my point, doesn't it, that we have people in office with varying degrees of talent and most without a sense of logic that actually serves the public.
Rumley and Marks fighting did expose them at their worst. Articulate speakers reducing themselves to the lowest common denominator in public rather than working together to serve the public. This will go right over their heads because they can't take justified constructive criticism.
Former city lawyer Mark E. Rumley was one of the most powerful people in city government. A great speaker albeit mediocre attorney with a large, unwarranted ego. It was like having a mini-Napolean or...dare I say it...a mini-Trump bullying his way around Medford posing in pseudo-drag as some sort of Nelson Mandela. What a travesty - the public image Rumley crafted was hardly the reality of the cold-hearted and cruel henchman to Medford's very own Tony Soprano, Michael J. McGlynn.
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Rumley's hands are always moving for show, exhibiting his perceived authority. Note this writer's hand movements on my TV show or at the city council or school committee. When I speak my hands work to express the carefully positioned words to get the point across! The point that we need an army to cleanse the city of ignorant politicians who have their own best interest at the top of the list, not yours, the public that they took an oath to serve.
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I believe in Breanna Lungo-Koehn. Suddenly thrust in the spotlight she has intelligence, beauty, youth, charm and the sensitivity of a good mother. Her public speaking skills are lacking. Yes, she is superior to Adam Knight, Rick Caraviello, Zac Bears, motor-mouth John Falco (he was good enough, but is backsliding lately) and though some disagree with me, lazy George Scarpelli can at least get his point across. Scarpelli, Marks, Nicole Morell and sometimes Falco at least are coherent. As is city clerk Adam Hurtubise.
Breanna Lungo-Koehn was above the average Medford city councilor in terms of public speaking but now she's Mayor. Her voice isn't the Stephanie-broken-glass-on-chalkboard, Thank God, but Breanna can be indecisive when authority is the call of the day.
Watch Perry Mason. Raymond Burr was brilliant in that role and Ironsides...and in Godzilla. My strategy with attorney David Skerry (who a lawyer friend of mine Mr. Skerry does NOT know called (Skerry) a good strategist himself) was to act like I didn't know what I was doing and then - BAM - zing him when he didn't expect it. It worked. Methinks Skerry misses our chess matches in the courtroom. I don't. He got too much of our access TV money for my liking, but in court papers he called me a "seasoned veteran of the court room" or something and to Judge Daniel Wrenn Skerry exploded "Joe knows Rule 9(a) Better Than Most Attorneys!" The judge simply smiled and explained Rule 9(a) to me. Which, of course, I was familiar enough with.
Again, I'm not a lawyer so I may not have a full grasp of the ins and the outs of any rules - but am able to hold my own better than most lay people.
Rule 9(a)
https://www.mass.gov/superior-court-rules/superior-court-rule-9a-civil-motions#-a-motion-practice-and-format-of-papers
(a) Motion Practice and Format of Papers
(1) Motions
A
moving party must serve with the motion, which shall contain a request
for a hearing (if desired), (1) a separate memorandum stating the
reasons, including supporting authorities, that the motion should be
granted and (2) affidavits or other exhibits evidencing facts on which
the motion is based. These papers are referred to below as the “Motion
Papers.” The moving party shall initiate a conference with the other
parties for all dispositive and discovery motions subject to Rule 9C. Motions for summary judgment must also comply with section (b)(5), below.
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Yes, I knew something about 9(a) but also expressed to the judge that I couldn't get a restraining order on an S.R. (S.R. - one of
"Skerry's Reprobates") in another courtroom because we had the case up there in Superior Court. I wanted immediate action, not the waiting period for Mr. Skerry to consider the motion.
"Skerry's Reprobates") in another courtroom because we had the case up there in Superior Court. I wanted immediate action, not the waiting period for Mr. Skerry to consider the motion.
My logic was precise: this was an urgent matter, I don't think I could have gone to a different court when we had this case already in motion. Rather than throw it out, which is what Skerry wanted, the judge took it "under advisement."
Which was terrific.
It was a warning shot to stop the creepy juvenile from driving around my street at 2 am blasting his horn and disturbing the neighbors night after night after night. Yes, a TV3 station manager envious and angry.
Uggggh
So why didn't Mr. Rumley stop the nonsense?
Because Mr. Rumley was delighted by the harassment of the multiple stalkers (juvenile station manager, juvenile Julie the Jarhead, juvenile Art Deluca, Rick Caraviello, Ed Finn, Detective Mackowski, Paul Covino and more... the list is long and ugly ...and by virtue of being a bit of an alleged instigator, Rumley himself.)
With a new mayor we have an opportunity to remove this kind of abuse from city government. But Breanna can't be giving her blessing to Caraviello, Maiocco, Knight, Scarpelli and the other deleterious ingrates.
Breanna needs to keep the levers of power close... and right the ship.
Breanna and I have something in common: we are both targets of Michael J. McGlynn.
Can you believe McGlynn is fixated on small potatoes like me? That was part of my confidential letter to Breanna the other day - that McGlynn is still bothering me.
Why?
Is this blog so powerful that the devil McGlynn is still focused on it? Some tiny blog on the universe known as the internet?? McGlynn is THAT petty? I have the evidence that he is. And maybe the ghost that is Michael J. McGlynn will take the hint and simply grow up.
Teaching old dogs new tricks is most difficult, and the best way to get to Mike McGlynn, Breanna, is to hit him in the purse.
Enabling Mike McGlynn is walking on thin ice...and McGlynn is the type to throw hot water on that thin ice just to take you down for sport.
You know I'm 100 percent correct on this.
Beware...McGlynn is the enraged and jealous tiger waiting in the bushes to pounce on you. Bob Maiocco allegedly said that you have a target on your back, and that target was placed on you by McGlynn.
One solution is to mobilize 200 people to speak at the council and give a good piece of their mind. Anything is possible and with a new mayor I believe that 200 or more outraged villagers may actually materialize this time around. And then it will snowball, if I'm correct.
To be continued.
Which was terrific.
It was a warning shot to stop the creepy juvenile from driving around my street at 2 am blasting his horn and disturbing the neighbors night after night after night. Yes, a TV3 station manager envious and angry.
Uggggh
So why didn't Mr. Rumley stop the nonsense?
Because Mr. Rumley was delighted by the harassment of the multiple stalkers (juvenile station manager, juvenile Julie the Jarhead, juvenile Art Deluca, Rick Caraviello, Ed Finn, Detective Mackowski, Paul Covino and more... the list is long and ugly ...and by virtue of being a bit of an alleged instigator, Rumley himself.)
With a new mayor we have an opportunity to remove this kind of abuse from city government. But Breanna can't be giving her blessing to Caraviello, Maiocco, Knight, Scarpelli and the other deleterious ingrates.
Breanna needs to keep the levers of power close... and right the ship.
Breanna and I have something in common: we are both targets of Michael J. McGlynn.
Can you believe McGlynn is fixated on small potatoes like me? That was part of my confidential letter to Breanna the other day - that McGlynn is still bothering me.
Why?
Is this blog so powerful that the devil McGlynn is still focused on it? Some tiny blog on the universe known as the internet?? McGlynn is THAT petty? I have the evidence that he is. And maybe the ghost that is Michael J. McGlynn will take the hint and simply grow up.
Teaching old dogs new tricks is most difficult, and the best way to get to Mike McGlynn, Breanna, is to hit him in the purse.
Enabling Mike McGlynn is walking on thin ice...and McGlynn is the type to throw hot water on that thin ice just to take you down for sport.
You know I'm 100 percent correct on this.
Beware...McGlynn is the enraged and jealous tiger waiting in the bushes to pounce on you. Bob Maiocco allegedly said that you have a target on your back, and that target was placed on you by McGlynn.
One solution is to mobilize 200 people to speak at the council and give a good piece of their mind. Anything is possible and with a new mayor I believe that 200 or more outraged villagers may actually materialize this time around. And then it will snowball, if I'm correct.
To be continued.