1,246,873 SEPT 5 4:03 PM
Jay Campbell, Chair
Cable Advisory Board
85 Geo P Hassett Dr
Medford MA 02155
RE: Speaking @ Thurs Sept 20 or 27 Cable Advisory Board Meeting or correct date
To the Cable Advisory Board:
I would like to speak at the next meeting of the Cable Advisory Board on the ultra important topic of the cover up of racism at the old access station
Mark Rumley's liberal abuse of the CORI system is - I believe - a violation of the Public Accommodation law
The Attorney General's Office enforces state and federal laws prohibiting discrimination in places of public accommodation. The Massachusetts Public Accommodation Law (M.G.L c. 272, §§ 92A, 98 and 98A) prohibits, among other things, making any distinction, discrimination, or restriction in admission to or treatment in a place of public accommodation based on race, color, religious creed, national origin, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, deafness, blindness, or any physical or mental disability, or ancestry.
Also, with the disturbing information in the Medford Transcript that Patrick Gordon, Yvette Wilks, Gabby Follett-Sumney and Jay Campbell refuse to talk about Medford Community Cablevision, Inc., the entity shut down purportedly for front page news charges of RACISM against the 501c3, it is my belief that those four individuals and the city solicitor need to be removed from ANY contact with the new TV station in the same fashion that Urban Meyer allegedly knew of the domestic violence charges against Zach Smith.
So Meyer was removed
https://www.star-telegram.com/sports/college/big-12/texas-christian-university/article217038010.html
When Mark E. Rumley called his fellow board members "equal opportunity slappers" in his office in conversation with me, he admitted he knew THE TRUTH OF my testimony to him and to Diane McLeod early in 2003 regarding ex station manager and ex board member Steve Marra laughing loudly "An (n-word) is an (n-word,) a fag is a fag, a spade is a spade."
Fast forward to 2013, 10 years later the station is shut down for, you guessed it, allegations of racism and an alleged death threat against an African American woman on the board of directors...who they allegedly also told to go fetch coffee !
Yvette Wilks, Jay Campbell, Pat Gordon, Neil Osborne, Gabby Follett-Sumney don't want to talk about the old TV3; Osborne throws my complaints in the circular file in Muccini-Burke's office (harassment of senior citizens complaint)
If Urban Meyer is under suspicion for not reporting what he allegedly knew of Zach Smith's domestic violence issue, how can Rumley get off free and clear when he has multiple complaints from the late Pat Fiorello, the late Dr. William Wood, Carolyn Rosen, Matt Haberstroh, Allison Goldsberry, Chrissie Barthelette, John Byers, Joe Viglione, the list goes on and on THAT RUMLEY FAILED TO APPROPRIATELY ACT ON!
And Patrick Gordon sweeps it under the rug along with his bosses at city hall. That is just so wrong.
It is censoring the media, it is censoring the information flow to the residents paying Gordon's salary and footing the bill.
Urban Meyer suspended too late, Medford an ongoing mess and set of problems...which is why they have cockamamie excuses to keep prolific producers away from the studio. DO NOT LET THE PUBLIC KNOW THE TRUTH, censor and lie about it to a retired judge, Mr. Rumley
COMPLAINT ON OHIO STATE'S URBAN MEYER
The Buckeyes’ coach was put on paid administrative leave as an independent committee created by the university investigates what Meyer knew about the domestic violence situation involving former assistant coach Zach Smith, as well as when he knew it.
Here are some FACTS:
1)At least $38,000.00 is still unaccounted for since 2013. Five years later when the school is purportedly begging parents for monies for paper and pencils (take the pension Roy Belson allegedly gave alleged sexual harasser retired teacher M.S.! There's the money!!!)
2)Removing city lawyer Mark Rumley from having anything to do with Medford Community Media as:
a)he's totally conflicted having been a member, possibly twice, of the board and station Patrick Gordon and the Advisory board refuse to discuss
b)Rumley claimed he would hold his colleagues accountable, gave them an extension, then threw the hot potato to the public charities division of the Attorney General's office
c)Rumley's changed his tune multiple times when caught being disingenuous - for example, when chastised that we are paying a Ben Brown or a Patrick Gordon 64k or so to supervise children, realizing that he screwed up, Rumley then states "the possibility of unsupervised contact with children."
Yeah, if a 5 year old on a tricycle runs into Rumley - by the city solicitor's standard - Rumley should be arrested for that possibility of unsupervised contact with children.
By Rumley's standard every access producer is a potential child molester. It flies in the face of the First Amendment
Now Rumley appears to what CORI checks for a satellite station at the senior center. The senior center is as inappropriate as the high school, but when a mayor doesn't even allow candidates for elected office to have TV for a primary election (2015,) you see the Burke Administration intentionally censoring people
3)When Mayor McGlynn sent multiple people to "legal" to talk about TV3, it said to the logical mind that something not very kosher was up.
Indeed, the ferocity of Rumley's vindictiveness on behalf of Muccini-Burke and McGlynn is all the proof that you need to see the veracity of this claim and the multiple allegations
Rumley is "the great pacifier" when McGlynn ran and hide from access TV issues.
Rumley is the "investigator" of a board that he sat on
Rumley is Mr. CORI Check to keep the public afraid to go to access TV
Rumley sat on the board of directors of a station that once included Arthur Deluca (under investigation currently by the AG's office Public Charities Division,) Steve Bertorelli - a producer who was vicious to at least one local generator of access programming, Paul Gerety - on a Chapter 74 board found by the OML Division of the AG's office to have violated the Open Meeting Law - and who was on the board of MCC TV3
That these four individuals are lurking around the new station terrorizes the citizens harassed and harmed by TV3.
Rumley's statement at the August Cable Advisory Board that his ideas for access are "in flux" is an admission that he has no forward thinking, that he's perplexed and incapable of understanding the First Amendment, free speech and public access TV
It's like my late girlfriend at the gay bar with me and others about 2 decades ago. Our limo arrived and she threw two different shoes on. A pretty lady walked up to her at Club Cafe and said "I love your shoes." Jo Jo looked down at the pink one on one foot, the green one on the other, looked at the charming female talking to her and said "Yes, daahhhling, it's like my sexual preference...I can't make up my mind."
Neither can Mark Rumley
In regards to Rumley's ridiculous CORI checks and his four pages of mumbo jumbo I refer you to the Public Accommodations law and Demarest vs. Athol Orange
1)Public Accommodations
Public Accommodation
The Attorney General's Office enforces state and federal laws prohibiting discrimination in places of public accommodation. The Massachusetts Public Accommodation Law (M.G.L c. 272, §§ 92A, 98 and 98A) prohibits, among other things, making any distinction, discrimination, or restriction in admission to or treatment in a place of public accommodation based on race, color, religious creed, national origin, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, deafness, blindness, or any physical or mental disability, or ancestry.
Laws
M.G.L. c. 272, § 92A, defines a place of public accommodation as "any place, whether licensed or unlicensed, which is open to and accepts or solicits the patronage of the general public."
Places of public accommodation can include (but are not limited to):
- Hotels, inns, and motels;
- Restaurants, bars, and other establishments serving food or drink;
- Theaters, concert halls, sports stadiums, and other places of entertainment;
- Auditoriums, convention centers, lecture halls, and other places of public gathering;
- Sales and rental establishments, including stores, shopping centers, automobile rental agencies, and other retail establishments;
- Service establishments, including laundromats, dry-clean
Judge finds public access channel’s rules unconstitutional
- A federal court ruled that several rules of a Massachusetts public access channel unnecessarily restricted free speech rights and interfered with the newsgathering ability of two people who used the public access channel.
A federal judge on Feb. 28 granted two producers of a public access television show aired in Athol, Mass., a preliminary injunction against the cable television station, which had barred them from production for breaking three of its rules.
The court said application of those rules violated the First and 14th amendments to the U.S. Constitution.
The court's decision "opens up more doors to the common citizen to be granted the same rights as a professional journalist," said Patricia Demarest, a plaintiff in the case and co-producer of "Think Tank 2000."
Demarest's attorney, Bill Newman of the American Civil Liberties Union, agreed, saying the ruling "empowers citizens as publishers to gather information."
Demarest said she began "Think Tank 2000" to inform and involve Athol's citizens in local politics by giving them the "whole picture" on a wide range of issues.
Demarest and co-producer Vicki Dunn brought the case against the station after AOTV's board of directors suspended Demarest for airing an interview she conducted with a local official in July 2000. The official claimed that he was unaware Demarest was recording their conversation, a violation of one of the station's rules that requires
Judge finds public access channel’s rules unconstitutional
Content Regulation | Feature | March 13, 2002
| NMU | MASSACHUSETTS | Broadcasting | Mar 13, 2002 |
Judge finds public access channel’s rules unconstitutional
- A federal court ruled that several rules of a Massachusetts public access channel unnecessarily restricted free speech rights and interfered with the newsgathering ability of two people who used the public access channel.
A federal judge on Feb. 28 granted two producers of a public access television show aired in Athol, Mass., a preliminary injunction against the cable television station, which had barred them from production for breaking three of its rules.
The court said application of those rules violated the First and 14th amendments to the U.S. Constitution.
The court's decision "opens up more doors to the common citizen to be granted the same rights as a professional journalist," said Patricia Demarest, a plaintiff in the case and co-producer of "Think Tank 2000."
Demarest's attorney, Bill Newman of the American Civil Liberties Union, agreed, saying the ruling "empowers citizens as publishers to gather information."
And you need to post the Advisory meetings for the TV station WAY IN ADVANCE
On a roll...with lots more information to follow
Joe Viglione
