Viglione to File with MCAD against "Kevin" at MCM and the Lungo-Koehn Administration

Kim Scanlon
Mayor Breanna Lungo-Koehn

85 George P. Hassett Drive
Medford, MA 02155

RE: Mass Commission Against Discrimination


Dear Attorney Scanlon and Honorable Mayor Lungo-Koehn

Be advised I went by the MCAD today with a lawyer.

I chose not to file today so we did not go in the building.

"Kevin," who alleged to be station manager at Medford
Community Media  DENIED my request for an application
for membership.

6:10 pm on Monday, Nov 1, 2021 the station manager
slammed the phone in my ear.

More abuse of a disabled senior citizen.

Didn't you take an oath to uphold the U.S. Constitution?

Public Access is the electronic free speech soap box.

I decided to give you one more opportunity to air my
programming.    I am the one who led the community
effort to remove Medford Community Cablevision, Inc.

My efforts shut down TV3.

My efforts cleaned up the internet with TV3 invective
hurled at Mayor Lungo-Koehn when she was a councilor

I contributed to the Lungo-Koehn campaign and I am
as discriminated against as Aleesha Nunley Benjamin

appears to be.

This journalist deserves to be on the Access TV station.

I will fight vigorously for that right.

Frank Pilleri had to leave because of my efforts.

So too Ron DeLucia and Harvey Alberg.

It took me over a decade and my life's savings

to defeat them.

This is so important to me, and Breanna Lungo-Koehn

fought with us.  Now she has hijacked the station for

her own personal pleasure, and that is just plain wrong.

I need an answer by 4:30 pm on Thursday or I will 

file again with the Mass. Commission Against 

Discrimination.   My case was solid against 

Pilleri and crew.  They didn't have enough

employees for it to be under jurisdiction by 

the M.C.A.D.

We know City Hall won't be able to use that

excuse

I am asking that City Hall stop denying my 

civil rights and that the public accommodation

be just that.   

The absurd policies and procedures in a school

where Jenna Tarabelsi had her way with three

students simply another example of Medford hypocrisy.

Respectfully,

Joe Viglione

Exhibit A
 
Why former Medford CFO is asking mayor to be truthful about 'white male' comment

Kinga BorondyWicked Local

https://www.wickedlocal.com/story/medford-transcript/2021/10/26/medford-cfo-asks-mayor-truthful-white-male-remarks-breanna-lungo-koehn-aleesha-nunley-benjamin/6172291001/

Since her departure from Medford and her position as director of the city’s Finance and Auditing office in July, Aleesha Nunley Benjamin has been silent about the circumstances that prompted her leaving, declining to comment publicly on what she claimed was a hostile work environment created by the mayor and her staff.
In the interim, Nunley Benjamin — who served as the city’s finance director, chief financial officer and auditor since 2016 — has filed a complaint with the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination, which is still pending.

Jackie Piques, a spokeswoman for Mayor Breanna Lungo-Koehn, said she can confirm that Nunley Benjamin filed a Charge of Discrimination with the MCAD, alleging she was discriminated against on the basis of her race, color and sex, and that she was subjected to a racially hostile work environment after she complained about a comment that the mayor made at a meeting on June 2, 2021.

In comments over the course of the three months since Nunley Benjamin’s departure, Mayor Lungo-Koehn has ascribed the issue to the machinations of an unethical lawyer, former city solicitor Mark Rumley. She has also said she did not utter the words that have been attributed to her by Nunley Benjamin: that “a white male should be presenting to City Council, as they will listen to a white male.”

Lungo-Koehn claims the words were crafted by Rumley.

However, in a statement sent to the Transcript, Nunley Benjamin requested “Mayor Lungo-Koehn and her administration to stop maligning my integrity further and be truthful in her public comments on this matter.”

In its entirety, the statement reads: