BY DAN VALENTI

I loved your weekend column, blogger Dan Valenti. I love the Berkshire delegations nicknames, too. Adams Hinds is known as “Chrome Dome”, who purchased a $690,000 home in Amherst, Massachusetts, which is outside of his State Senate legislative district. Could the average Western Massachusetts resident spend nearly $700,000 on a new home? Adam Hinds votes to raise state taxes on Beacon Hill, but he also votes himself huge legislative pay raises, too. Tricia Farley Bouvier is “Trippy Country Buffet” because she defends the Berkshire Museum selling off tens of millions of dollars in historic artwork, but got upset that the Old Country Buffet in Pittsfield (Massachusetts) closed its doors. Pittsfield Representative Trippy Country Buffet represents Pittsfield on Beacon Hill, but sent her own children to upper class Lenox public schools. She also publishes op-eds from Boston to Pittsfield arguing to raise state taxes, especially on the wealthy, while voting herself huge legislative pay raises. William Smitty Pignatelli is “Smitten” with being a 2-decade-long and counting career politician in Boston. Pignatelli voted for two Speakers (Tom Finneran and Sal DiMasi) of the Boston State House who are now convicted Felons! Pignatelli openly supports and votes for closed door state government that shuts out the people he supposedly represents from knowing about Beacon Hill legislative business negotiations. Of course, Pignatelli voted himself huge pay raises like the rest of the corrupt Salons in Boston. Paul Mark is “Paul Marx” because he only wants big government for his own personal benefit. Of course, “Paul Marx” voted himself huge legislative pay raises like the rest of the parasites in Boston. John Barrett III is known as “the Mayor”, and he tells it like it is about state government budgets, public finances, taxes, and the flawed public education funding formula that screws low to moderate income public school districts in Massachusetts out of millions of dollars in state education funding dollars. Barrett is the only state delegate to Boston who did not vote himself a huge legislative pay raise, but that may only be because he wasn’t in office yet in early-2017 like the rest of them. Barrett knows what it is like to be shafted by Boston’s top down politicians and bureaucrats, but my dad says that he fights the good fights on Beacon Hill. Let us not forget about Western Massachusetts Congressional delegates! 1,000-year-long U.S. House of Representative Richard Neal is known as “the PAC Man” because he is too closely connected to K Street corporate lobbyist groups, especially in the financial sector, who donate millions of dollars into his campaign coffers every year for the past 1,000 years! Then there is U.S. Senator Ed Markey, who really lives in an upper class suburb in Chevy Chase, Maryland where he blows a lot of hot air about saving the world from global warming and the utopian $100 trillion Green New Deal that will never happen down in the Swamp in our lifetimes. Then there is U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren or “the Professor”, who has been on both sides of the Haves versus the Have Nots class warfare phony debate where the billionaires always win no matter what happens in the U.S. economy, while the rest of us fall farther behind while hoping to win the proverbial lottery jackpot. Then there is Vice President Kamala Harris, who is called “Chameleon Harris” because she changes her political positions more that Mitt Romney and John Kerry combined. She called Joe Biden a racist to his face on national TV, but now she is his loyal Vice President. Then there is President Joe Biden, who spends trillions of U.S. taxpayers like it is Monopoly money, while inflation is at decades high (1992 for core inflation, and 2008 for overall inflation). Joe Biden’s son Hunter Biden published a book this year of 2021 where he wrote that he used to smoke crack cocaine every 15 minutes and would drown himself in alcohol while spending his money on strippers and sex workers. Hunter Biden has at least 5 children by at least 3 women. Hunter Biden is being investigated for money laundering from his past business dealings with adversarial countries that include both Russia and China when his old man was the Vice President under President Barack Obama. The Biden “Crime” Family are all worth tens of millions of dollars each, but no one really knows how they all became so fabulously wealthy. I don’t believe the Biden “Crime” Family worries about rising inflation, and/or Hunter Biden’s published book detailing all of his “bad boy behaviors” that put millions of dollars more into his bank account.

I have always wondered why Massachusetts doesn’t make the voters show a valid picture ID when voting. The arguments I hear are nonsensical and only are ones given by people who I feel are rigging the system. I think after this past election and the fraud that is being discovered voters should have to put their finger print on the paper ballot they use as well as a signature. Let’s make sure our voting system is the safest and one that accurately reflects the voters wishes.

So smart of Texas Governor Abbott to strengthen gun laws and continuing the building of the wall in Texas since Biden/Harris have no concern for the safety of the people of Texas as they flood it with gang members.

Was listening about downtown today on the local radio station and I think it now makes even less sense then it did before. Apparently North St has been a thru way lately? Now they want to make it a destination? Can someone explain to me what on North St is a destination that warrants one confusing lane of traffic? Back when North St actually was somewhat of a destination they managed with multiple lanes of traffic.

Then it was stated that if it didn’t work they could always go back to the way it was. What kind of brilliant transportation planning is that?