McGlynn Fatigue in the City Of Medford
Monday, May 30, 2011
24 Years is Too Many Years of the Swamp known as McGlynnville, formerly Medford Massachusetts
24 Years of Mayor Michael J. McGlynn - reading this is your inoculation against McGlynn Fatigue!
by Joe Viglione
recordreview2001@yahoo.com
According to Wikipedia, Mayor Thomas Menino assumed office on July 12, 1993 and is Boston's first Italian-American Mayor. He is also the longest-serving mayor in the history of the city with this July marking his 18th - going on 19th - year. According to that same website, Mayor McGlynn of Medford assumed office on January 3, 1988, which means he's been in office twenty-three years five months this week. He is said to be the "Dean" of Mayors in Massachusetts, in office longer than any other Mayor.
And Medford residents are probably ready to quote Ricardo Montalban as Khan on Star Trek's Space Seed episode saying " I find myself growing fatigued, Doctor. May we continue this questioning at some other time?
M.F. no longer stands for "futher mucker" - it describes how Medford citizens feel...McGlynn fatigue!
McGlynn Fatigue has certainly set in. Our Mayor needs to listen to a Dan Hicks song, "How Can I Miss You When You Won't Go Away"...because what has happened in this city is that the residents I've spoken to believe they are not heard at City Hall. Two dozen years is a very long time. About 1/3rd of the time McGlynn has held the corner office has been spent fielding problems about TV 3, the public access station, with the complaints really heating up in 2005...six full years ago.
Now while the Mayor is hearing so much criticism of TV 3 that the City Solicitor told me the complaints had reached a "crescendo", we see the smiling, cherubic face of Mike McGlynn on TV 3 at 8:30 AM Monday morning, Memorial Day, May 30, 2011. The Mayor has the "Government Channel", the "G" of P/E/G Access television (Public / Educational / Governmental). He doesn't need Channel 3 when he has Government Access Programming on Channel 16 and the Educational Channel on 15. Why is the Mayor - in an election year - engaging in censorship practices so that his face and image can be broadcast on the cablespace paid for and created for the residents of Medford, paid for directly from the Comcast bill when each subscriber pays the rate, the "franchise fee", attached to their bill.
Mayor McGlynn is the sole power - the Issuing Authority - who has enough evidence that the alleged "private" non-profit has behaved in a non-public access way. The Issuing Authority, Mike McGlynn, could have removed the Board of Directors of Medford Community Cablevision, Inc. after they reneged on a promise to hold a public election in January of 2008; after they failed to comply with auditors that the City hired from Melanson Heath & Co PC, and after they twice refused to attend an Evaluation Hearing at City Hall in October and November of 2008. They have utterly failed to be held accountable to the citizens who fund the television station, and the winner is Michael J. McGlynn, who sees little or no criticism of his policies, who has effectively squelched Free Speech and First Amendment Rights via his own City Solicitor (who parades around the Council chambers as the biggest supporter of the First Amendment - standing up for the right of the access TV manager to broadcast a squirrel with an erect penis, but not working just as hard to ensure a hockey game of Medford High School vs. Winthrop High School get the same 1st Amendment right as the squiirel with an aroused sex organ.
That's what is happening at TV 3 Medford...and why. It's an election year...not an erection year...while Mayor McGlynn is busy promoting viagra for squirrels, you, dear reader, are shut out of the electronic soapbox. you aren't allowed to criticize the practices of a Mayor who gives what appear to be sweetheart deals to the sole cable provider, Comcast, the sole trash pick-up company - Waste Management, or the fiasco known as "River's Edge". Those situations don't get scrutiny when the Issuing Authority has a media blackout in the city of Medford. But try holding back your franchise fee and see if you get your cable tv.
McGlynn Fatigue has set in. Absolute power corrupts absolutely. Residents can't get answers when the Issuing Authority, the power over the public access station, refuses to allow those funding the station onto the airwaves - especially in an election year - especially during the pivotal time other potential candidates need to get some parity, some kind of "equal footing", to fight an entrenched Mayor at election time when he's counting on bread and circuses to keep the masses happy.
by Joe Viglione
recordreview2001@yahoo.com
According to Wikipedia, Mayor Thomas Menino assumed office on July 12, 1993 and is Boston's first Italian-American Mayor. He is also the longest-serving mayor in the history of the city with this July marking his 18th - going on 19th - year. According to that same website, Mayor McGlynn of Medford assumed office on January 3, 1988, which means he's been in office twenty-three years five months this week. He is said to be the "Dean" of Mayors in Massachusetts, in office longer than any other Mayor.
And Medford residents are probably ready to quote Ricardo Montalban as Khan on Star Trek's Space Seed episode saying " I find myself growing fatigued, Doctor. May we continue this questioning at some other time?
M.F. no longer stands for "futher mucker" - it describes how Medford citizens feel...McGlynn fatigue!
McGlynn Fatigue has certainly set in. Our Mayor needs to listen to a Dan Hicks song, "How Can I Miss You When You Won't Go Away"...because what has happened in this city is that the residents I've spoken to believe they are not heard at City Hall. Two dozen years is a very long time. About 1/3rd of the time McGlynn has held the corner office has been spent fielding problems about TV 3, the public access station, with the complaints really heating up in 2005...six full years ago.
Now while the Mayor is hearing so much criticism of TV 3 that the City Solicitor told me the complaints had reached a "crescendo", we see the smiling, cherubic face of Mike McGlynn on TV 3 at 8:30 AM Monday morning, Memorial Day, May 30, 2011. The Mayor has the "Government Channel", the "G" of P/E/G Access television (Public / Educational / Governmental). He doesn't need Channel 3 when he has Government Access Programming on Channel 16 and the Educational Channel on 15. Why is the Mayor - in an election year - engaging in censorship practices so that his face and image can be broadcast on the cablespace paid for and created for the residents of Medford, paid for directly from the Comcast bill when each subscriber pays the rate, the "franchise fee", attached to their bill.
Mayor McGlynn is the sole power - the Issuing Authority - who has enough evidence that the alleged "private" non-profit has behaved in a non-public access way. The Issuing Authority, Mike McGlynn, could have removed the Board of Directors of Medford Community Cablevision, Inc. after they reneged on a promise to hold a public election in January of 2008; after they failed to comply with auditors that the City hired from Melanson Heath & Co PC, and after they twice refused to attend an Evaluation Hearing at City Hall in October and November of 2008. They have utterly failed to be held accountable to the citizens who fund the television station, and the winner is Michael J. McGlynn, who sees little or no criticism of his policies, who has effectively squelched Free Speech and First Amendment Rights via his own City Solicitor (who parades around the Council chambers as the biggest supporter of the First Amendment - standing up for the right of the access TV manager to broadcast a squirrel with an erect penis, but not working just as hard to ensure a hockey game of Medford High School vs. Winthrop High School get the same 1st Amendment right as the squiirel with an aroused sex organ.
That's what is happening at TV 3 Medford...and why. It's an election year...not an erection year...while Mayor McGlynn is busy promoting viagra for squirrels, you, dear reader, are shut out of the electronic soapbox. you aren't allowed to criticize the practices of a Mayor who gives what appear to be sweetheart deals to the sole cable provider, Comcast, the sole trash pick-up company - Waste Management, or the fiasco known as "River's Edge". Those situations don't get scrutiny when the Issuing Authority has a media blackout in the city of Medford. But try holding back your franchise fee and see if you get your cable tv.
McGlynn Fatigue has set in. Absolute power corrupts absolutely. Residents can't get answers when the Issuing Authority, the power over the public access station, refuses to allow those funding the station onto the airwaves - especially in an election year - especially during the pivotal time other potential candidates need to get some parity, some kind of "equal footing", to fight an entrenched Mayor at election time when he's counting on bread and circuses to keep the masses happy.
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