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1,568,457 @ 4:44 am Wednesday March 11, 2020
Adam Hurtubise
City Clerk
Medford City Hall
Medford MA 02155
To Clerk Hurtubise:
If
I need to file a public records request on this please let me know. I
will be reporting the wrongful conduct alleged by/of a city councilor to
the Inspector General, Governor Baker, Middlesex District Attorney
Marian Ryan, the Elections Division of the Secretary of State and others
in authority if this reporter's investigation finds that an elected
official in Medford misused for personal gain a computer at his or her
place of business.
1)If a city councilor works for the government can they use the government computer to send out campaign literature?
2)The second question is - if such an act occurred - is it in the conflict of interest 3 ring binder at city hall, Medford?
There
are allegations that during campaign time this particular candidate
uses the government owned computer. Please note: I may have a copy of
such an e mail or two or three or four of them, so keep that in mind
regarding this alleged situation
According to the State Ethics Commission website:
2. May Not Do: Political Activities by Public Employees That Generally Are Prohibited by the Conflict of Interest Law
In general, a public employee may not use his public position to engage in political activity. Section 23(b)(2)(ii) of the conflict of interest law prohibits the use of one's public position to engage in political activity, because a public employee who does so is using his official position to secure for himself or others (such as a candidate or a ballot question committee) unwarranted privileges of substantial value that are not properly available to similarly situated persons.
I
am in the process of filing a public records request at the accused
individual's place of business within the government. I am asking that
they use the back-up files as - if this is a conflict or in violation of
the law - the alleged culprit probably attempted to delete the
information.
On another matter- the city
council last evening - I found it offensive the councilors laughing and
joking in the Committee of the Whole meeting on or about 7 pm, March 10,
2020, Tuesday evening. The discussion is about further chilling of
free speech by Councilor Adam
Knight. During the actual
council meeting Mr. Knight let out a howl as a donkey would make,
snorting or a gagging-laughter that was most inappropriate, praising
himself that he's "on a roll."
While the
Coronavirus, police misconduct, broken streets, allegations about
certain aspects of city government are all on the table, most of the
council meeting was taken up by Mr. Knight's skewed ideas that result,
it seems, in the further chilling of speech in Medford.
As
you saw while I was speaking about expanding speech and building an
additional access station for the public, Mr. Knight was misbehaving,
playing with his desk making noises - as he did when Jeanne Martin was
giving a speech on Medford's past.
Knight's juvenile behavior must have the late, great Charlie Shannon spinning in his grave.
We've
had one councilor allegedly pawning off a late sex offender on the
Medford Housing Authority; we've had a city councilor abusing Marian
Ryan's office for false charges on a citizen, that individual losing in
criminal court but wasting Medford and state taxpayer funds on a
vendetta, we have a former city clerk failing to show up in criminal
court under subpoena after he was accused of felonious assault - and the
police confirming he committed the assault by filing the charges which
could ONLY have been filed had a crime been committed by the ex clerk.
Is this how Medford wants to represent itself? Like some episode of HBO's gangster series, The Sopranos? Really?
I
formerly request that you, Diversity Officer Osborne, Attorney Scanlon
and Mayor Lungo-Koehn work with me on cleaning up the reprehensible
behavior that we witnessed last night - Knight and Zac Bears attempting
to chill speech, a violent outburst by the President of the Chevalier
Organ Society, behavior that is bullying and wrong.
Back
to the initial request: if evidence is uncovered that a city councilor
is abusing government property to campaign for himself or herself, if we
find that it is against the law, it is incumbent upon the Chief of
Police, John D. Buckley and the Mayor to remove this pernicious activity
and safeguard the voters from Trumpian attempts to subvert the process
of fairly electing members of the city council.
If
the individual is violating the law and being a sneak during an
election cycle, he or she should be prosecuted to the full extent of the
laws that are in place to protect the citizens.
Respectfully.
Joe Viglione