Adam Knight's Cockamamie Ideas Hurt the City of Medford

Keep in mind, people, the mayhem that Adam Knight attempted to cause in December when considering his cockamamie plan for 3/10/2020 at the council Read Neil Zolot's article in the Transcript: Will they meet on Wednesdays? The answer is no.

The Medford City Council last week rejected a proposal by Councilor Adam Knight to move its regularly schedule Tuesday meetings to Wednesdays.

“I applaud your goals,” Councilor Isaac Bears told Knight at the first meeting of the year on Jan. 7. “This is a chance to look at ways to adjust procedures so people can look at what we do and an opportunity to discuss suspension.”

The reference was to Knight’s point that, as of Dec.12, 22 percent of the body’s resolutions were filed under suspension of the rules and did not appear on meeting agendas. https://medford.wickedlocal.com/news/20191227/adam-knight-urges-medford-city-council-to-change-meeting-nights-to-wednesdays


Keep in Mind We Filed an Open Meeting Law Complaint on Knight

http://medfordinformationcentral.blogspot.com/2017/10/open-meeting-law-complaint-filed-on.html

The City Council of Medford, Massachusetts

Date of alleged violation: Tuesday October 3, 2017

Specific person(s), if any, you allege committed the violation: City Councilor Adam Knight (in concert with Fred Dello Russo, Jr. and Richard F. Caraviello)

Name of Public Body (including city/town, county or region, if applicable): Medford City Council

At 23 minutes and 37 seconds into the meeting, the council presented my petition on Tuesday, October 3, 2017. With little space to breathe, at 33:17 into the meeting, right after my ten allotted minutes to speak, Mr. Knight - not caring about the other residents – multiple – who wanted to speak on a subject of great public interest, willfully and maliciously jumps in “Mr. President, motion to receive and place on file.” Knight’s partner in this disruptive activity, Councilor Frederick N. Dello Russo Jr., immediately seconds it, (which means Dello Russo should also be included in this complaint, another city councilor who serves himself and not the public, that’s their game and it violates the very purpose of the open meeting law: continuous harassment of residents, senior citizens, an ex member of the city council, all for the enjoyment of Knight, Dello Russo (and Council President Caraviello) and for censorship purposes.

 

The city solicitor, who often brags about the city not censoring people, allowed it to happen right before his very eyes on October 3, 2017. At 33 minutes and 30 seconds in on the subject a woman wanted to speak on the matter, but Knight’s swift assault on free speech DENIED a citizen to speak on a matter of GREAT public interest. So the rules had to be suspended by Councilor Breanna Lungo Koehn so that the resident could speak. The Attorney General’s office should study the tape of the 10/3/17 council meeting and see if Mr. Knight was annoying Councilor Lungo-Koehn by making noises or shredding paper while another councilor or citizen is speaking. It is another tactic that is vulgar, does not serve the public, and is sophomoric behavior not fit for a civil society which has a First Amendment, a right for the public to speak freely without interruption. http://medfordinformationcentral.blogspot.com/2017/10/open-meeting-law-complaint-filed-on.html

What action do you want the public body to take in response to your complaint?

Adam Knight must be sanctioned and removed from the Medford City Council.  Mr. Dello Russo and Mr. Caraviello should be sanctioned for participating in Knight’s flagrant censorship tactics.

Adam Knight’s ongoing abuse of the public, his use of parliamentary procedure to stifle discussion of topics of great public interest, voting on his own pay raise allegedly within three weeks of taking office, using the city council to promote himself during elections with excessive “congratulations” to people that are his friends (which takes up precious city council time though those individuals appear noteworthy only to Mr. Knight,) even having a campaign worker put his campaign signs against a bus stop, allegations that he uses his government computer at work to campaign for himself, allegations that he puts his campaign signs too close to polling places indicate an individual who makes up his own rules, maliciously harasses residents from the bully pulpit and is, clearly, by the evidence provided above, not a servant of the public but an individual who takes public monies to promote himself and the agenda of other politicians who have the same self-serving mission.  Mr. Knight is a detriment to progress and must be publicly sanctioned and removed from the Medford City Council.