STATE HOUSE ‘PROFILES IN COURAGE’ GIVE THE KAPANSKIS A DOUBLE-DOSE OF ‘SCREW YOU’
BY DAN VALENTI
PLANET VALENTI NEWS AND COMMENTARY
(FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, WEDNESDAY FEB. 16, 2022) — Today on THE PLANET, the latest chapter of our “Profiles in Courage,” aka your state reps.
C’mon down, state reps Adam Hines, John Barrett III, Paul Mark, Tricia-Farley-Bouvier, and Smitty Pignatelli
Granted, they aren’t personally responsible for the following State House developments; nonetheless, their fingerprints are all over it. Guilt by association.
Besides, when is taking responsibility for “representing” every poor soul in Berkshire County something they take seriously?
The two matters at hand, both COVID-related:
- Overpayments to people who filed for relief funds
- The reopening of the State House
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OVERPAYMENTS
Seems the federal Department of Unemployment Assistance discovered it had overpaid the Commonwealth $2.7 billion. For those keeping score at home, that’s two thousand seven hundred (2,700) million millions. You know, what the bums in politics consider chump change. Massachusetts received the overpayments in 2020 and 2021 as the feds’ response to the state’s 719,000 individual claims by those who either lost their jobs or claimed they lost their jobs (not that THE PLANET believes that corruption is rampant on Beacon Hill). The Feds want the money back. They changed their rules for the money.
The state reps have a problem with that.
The legislature’s Labor Committee, through reps Pat Jehan (D-Cambridge) and Josh Cutler (D-Pembroke and not Pittsfield’s Josh Cutler), told Rosalin Acosta, secretary of Labor and Workforce Department, no dice. We want to keep the money. “Pause the collections.”
Who is this going to hurt?
- Small businesses, whose forced contributions to the unemployment insurance guarantees have increased at the same time they have either suspended service, cut back service because of staffing issues, or gone out of business entirely.
- Second, it hurts the honest, keep-your-nose-clean, obey-the-law American taxpayers, locally known as Mary Jane and Joe Kapanski.
You think our “Profiles in Courage” care about those two constituencies here in Massachusetts, a state run by ultra-liberals and parts of the loon left that are eroding the very foundations of freedom upon which we thought this country was built?
THE PLANET wonders how Hines, Barrett, Mark, Farley-Bouvier, and Pignatelli feel about the extra $2.7 billion the state didn’t deserve and doesn’t need?
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REOPENING OF THE STATE HOUSE
There are 50 states in the United States of America. In 49, state legislatures have been open to conduct The People’s business. Can you guess which state has the only state house closed off to the public?
You guessed correctly!
The Golden Dome on Beacon Hill.
It’s been closed now for more than 700 consecutive days. In all that time, your “Profiles in Courage” have been collecting full pay, pocketing full committee bonuses, full benefits, and (you’re gonna love this!), their per diem, even though those 50 miles or more outside of Boston have not had to drive there for official business in all that time. Now, after pressure from Mass Fiscal Alliance and on constituents such as yourself, the chambers will open up next Tuesday, 2-22-22.
Nice racket if you can get it.
When asked about the embarrassing siege, Gov. Baker blamed the state legislators.
“It’s their house. It’s their call,” the lame-duck governor said.
Let that sink in.
Here’s the guy who runs state government from the position of chief executive officer, telling the press that he doesn’t care (same thing) and that the legislature belongs not to We the People but to the hacks and deadbeats we “elect” to “represent” us.
That all-day sucker they keep licking is you yourself.
In making the announcement about the reopening, Senate president Karen Spilka (yes, we have a “Karen” in that job) and House speaker Ronald Mariano (wonder if he gives driving lessons?), said they “look forward” to seeing citizens back in the House.
Sure, and they also love gargling with razor blades.
Cheer up, folks.
It can only get worse.
Ladies and gentleman, you have a state government that fears you.
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LOVE TO ALL.
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Mary Jane & Joe Kapanski’s elected government officials:
* Joe Biden: 40-year high U.S. inflation, spent well over $10 trillion federal dollars in his first year in the Oval Office, killed thousands of American energy jobs, called Putin a “KILLER”, threatened China with WW3 for threatening to invade Taiwan, and his bad boy son Hunter Biden ran an alleged money laundering business that brought home many millions of dollars from Russia and China.
* Kamala Harris: Called Joe Biden a racist on national television, but she is now his loyal Veep.
* Ed Markey: Lives in a wealthy suburb in Chevy Chase Maryland, but won reelection in 2020 by telling Massachusetts voters he is going to save the world with his would be $100 trillion Green New Deal propaganda that the world’s youth roll their eyes at.
* Elizabeth Warren: Says she is a fighter for Main Street, but she supports Joe Biden who took in more money from Wall Street and K Street than any other candidate in 2020.
* PAC Man Richie Neal: Rakes in millions of dollars from K Street corporate lobbyist firms, especially insurance companies.
* Governor Charlie Baker: Took no responsibility for the Covid-19 debacles at the Holyoke and Chelsea Soldier’s Homes that tragically took over 80 Veterans’ lives. If he had any decency, he would have apologized to the families for his administration’s mismanagement of the state’s Soldier’s Homes.
* Chrome Dome Adam Hinds: Lives in a $690,000 home in Amherst, Massachusetts. I thought Jo Comerford represented Amherst, Massachusetts in the State Senate!
* Trippy Country Buffet: Accomplished nothing in her first decade in Boston, but she is going bananas for the vote on her bill this week to give undocumented immigrants Massachusetts driver’s licenses.
* Smitty Pignatelli (Shitty Pigpen): Writes the loftiest op-eds in the Dirty Bird (Berkshire Eagle), but his nearly 20-year public record in Boston is anything but lofty.
* Paul Marxism: Votes for his political masters’ wishes and always supports his politically connected unions in Boston.
* The career Mayor John Barrett III: Made being a career politician into a fine art that will someday be an art exhibit at MASS MoCA.
* The Lovely Linda Tyer (Jimmy Ruberto): Continues Pittsfield politics’ “Business as usual” of raising municipal taxes (and fees and debts/liabilities) to record high levels that is crushing the city’s shrinking working class, shuts out the public from her administration’s secretive spending of over $41 million in Biden Buck$, did nothing during the 2018 Berkshire Museum’s controversial selling of tens of millions of dollars in donated historic artwork, including two paintings from Norman Rockwell, called North Street a work in progress, and lives in an $800,000 mansion in a Gated Community within feet of the Hancock border.
* The Pittsfield City Council: Infighting, tax hikers, rubber stampers, a few dissenters, and a lot of retribution.
* The Pittsfield School Committee: Level 5 inner city schools, Hill 78’s capped PCBs abutting Allendale Elementary School, over 650 students per academic year opting out to neighboring public school districts, Dr. Bill Cameron’s incredible academic and professional background that gives the city’s public school district a glimmer of hope for the future.
Jonathan A. Melle
You write the same old and put it in a different order every post. Give us something new at least!!!!!
Pigs and Pignatellis have wings and fly around the Golden Dome in Boston.
How many jobs besides his has smithy brought to Pittsfield ma? People expect nothing from him and he delivers.
0 and 0 more
Does Hinds have a golden dome?
Do something positive with your life instead of being a chronic complainer.
Why are your responses always longer than Dan’s well thought out column of the day? Are you trying to take over Planet Valenti? Dan you had better watch out.
Just as long as nobody says OCD.
Kind of correct but Dan is way more diversie where the other guy spews the same old same old. Mele has a curve, the Planet has more than one pitch.
And watch out when Dan throws a Bob Gibson like fastball a little high and inside to brush you off the plate to get your attention.
Well, FIDO, “chin music” is indeed in my repertoire. The same song pitching coach Sal Maglie impressed upon Jim Lonborg in the ’67 season. Lonnie led the majors in HBP, won 22 games, led the league in strikeouts, and won the Cy Young. As Early Wynn used to say, “The mound is my office, and I own the plate. The SOB who crowds it is going to taste some dirt.”
I can’t help it but when I see “67” the “Impossible Dream Season “ With Tony C comes to mind.
I thought it was a screwball not a curve?
Tyer,Cameron and Curtis will talk about school safety but will block out the 400 students and staff trying to learn on top of the GE toxic dump swamp of cancer.They are now responsible to change that fact.The sin of General Electric is now Mayor Tyers.Hope she explains how it is cheaper to keep these kids in that swamp and explains to other Mayor’s that it was is a huge money saver.Pittsfield is a green city except Allendale elementary toxic school
Bubba, I done seen deer with three antlers there. No
Son, you bin drinkin’ Billy Beer agin?
With goobers
I thought this was brilliant. Shitty Pigpen is my favorite.
The Kapanskis have been screwed is right, and we got an extra screwing these last couple of years with all the Corona nonsense and all the money pissed away in the name of it – which we are all paying for, one way or another – inflation 40 year high, average price of home through the roof – and while Tyer brags about that, Far-away Farley pushes drivers licenses for illegals. They are all class A Massholes!
Trumps accountants publicly stated that anyone doing business with Trump using their financial statements to lend him money could not trust their assessment as everything Trump gave them could not be TRUSTED.These people have the right to call in his loans and again he will go bankrupt…..Trump has taken 15 boxed with top secret material to his house in Florida….Trump has also destroyed much of our personal property flushing info down the toilet……My God what will it take to arrest this disgusting pile of ____.His insurection,his bribe of the Ukrainian President….Trump is also in charge of the racist civil war which is ramping up big as Putin threaten democracy in the Ukraine and Trump/FOX in America
The Hildebeast, DNC, and FBI…illegally spied on a presidential candidate, and later the sitting POTUS. This was continued in 2020 under the Biden campaign. Durham report is finally bringing this to light, 5 years after the facts. These people all belong in prison.
Traitor Joseph Stolen already admitted on video tape of illegal quid pro quo with Ukraine when he was Barry’s VP, and while crackhead son #1 along with Kerry Pelousey and Romney offspring were involved in shady/bribed energy deals in Ukraine. He threatened Ukraine concerning a special prosecutor who was investigating Brumisa along with Hunter. These people all need prosecution.
The faux “Russian invasion” contrived by Biden is to take heat off his total failure as a “leader”, for over a year now; “he cares” about Ukraines border (ROFL!!!).
If that POS cared about Americans he would have closed the southern border to any and all criminal elements, and not undo the progress stopping the criminal hordes in place from 2016-2020.
The FISA warrant was real. 100 % unconstitutional use of nebulous anti terrorism backdoor snooping rules to spy on a political opponent. It sounds like crazy talk but its true and the fake dossier was the evidence they used to get the wire on Trump campaign person carter page, who was also surprisingly either ex NSA or CIA. The LA times covered this a bit. I think it is generally illegal to confirm a fisa as they are so secretive so this is why trump had all those weird ‘microwave’ comments in one of his press conferences when asked about spying. This is covered in LA Times, National Review etc. Hilary just as dangerous or more to democracy as Trump. Do we have a democracy – who know?
Wondering if those15 boxes of top secret materials were Hillary’s 33,0000 e mails and other dirt our own government was hiding on what they were up to ?
H-Beast about pooped her diaper when she thought Assange had her emails.
That email bleach bot was another H-Beast crime in itself. Then there is the creatures work when she was Barry’s SOS. Insider trading stuff with her little Cheesy spawn and her hubby……Benghazi…….
Satan was upset and jealous that she was better at deceiving people than himself.
Here TSC, and yes FOX reported it, my spies at TGP alerted me.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/02/maria-bartiromo-hysteria-russia-ruse-take-attention-away-hillary-clinton-video/
“During their discussion the topic turned to the recent Russia-Ukraine hysteria by the Biden regime. Maria Bartiromo suggested it might be to take attention away from the greatest political scandal in American history — the Democrat Party and Intel Community’s spying on the Trump Campaign and then later the Trump White House.”
“Maria Bartiromo: Was this a ruse? Was this whole thing an effort to take attention away from what Hillary Clinton did and what we know to be a complete hoax over this Russia investigation? What are your thoughts? Because I know Jake Sullivan worked for Hillary Clinton and he was one of the people who was pedaling this Russia collusion lie for 4 years. And there he is now with NSA coming up with this hysteria over Russia.”
“Senator Tommy Tuberville: They’re scrambling. There’s no doubt about it. I wouldn’t trust Jake Sullivan or Mayorkas or Secretary Blinkin as far as I can throw them.”
Jake the Snake Sullivan works for Biden’s NSA
The NSA. Now there’s a bunch you can trust with the mortgage to the ranch.
As usual, Faux news is lying its tail off about this. Where are the charges of illegal surveillance? Hmmm? Nowhere.
They comin Bubba
Sure they are. And O.J. is still looking for the real killers.
Just ignore bleak he is a card carrying convicted thief
Sure Bill.
Who is Bill. Again, i believe he asked you go ahead and call him out by name, but you wont because you dont know.
LOCK HER UP!
Dan tread carefully because I believe you are putting misinformation in your blog and the powers to be may come down to slap your wrist( aka shut you down) like they have been doing with all the other writers/speakers that have opposing views. But don’t worry TDS will let us know it is Trump who is behind all this wokeness and he will be going to prison soon. Just remember to keep your head low, keep moving and change your name often so the have trouble figuring out where you will be….or just start singing the looney liberal limerick, St Pat’s is just around the corner!
SHIRL
Thanks. Head is high, name’s the same, and they know where to find me. I’ll ride the First Amendment until that, too, is blown up.
Wake up call for the excessive woke folk. San Francisco yanks chain of school board and yanks it hard. Will other similar wokers chill their jets or get their own personal bitch slapping?
(attn Andrea)
Small businesses have been intentionally hurt from the start of this pandemic. Large chain stores allowed to stay open while smaller shops were forced to close. It’s understandable now when we see the cozy relationship between big corporations and government.
PAT
Great point about the chains vs. the Mom & Pops.
Sedgwick
The $$ flowing to the politicians from the big corporations brings about the cozy relationship you mention. And most of the politicians own stock in those biggies thus a personal financial interest to keep it cozy.
Pelousy has been doing illegal insider trading using her information as a legislator since she’s been in congress (about when Fred Flintstone was born).
She skated on her bilking consumers for her stanky tuna too. That would be Star Kist, where they underfilled the cans for many years. Consumers were supposed to get reimbursed, Stanky Nancy fleeced them.
I am going to go out on a limb and guess that you do not do too well with the ladies. And I think it is a tad to late for charm school.
I’ll bet the chicks dig your man bun
It is legal and it should be illegal.Its wrong and there is no way to justify it.
Squeaky is prosecuting her first case ever and it’s not going so well for her.
Is it being live streamed? Is this for the campaign roll out?
What high crime is she planning on screwing up the prosecution on?
It’s a very simple charge that he originally admitted to. Tough to screw up.
Andrea won’t let us down
Please keep us updated…I wish I could watch that clown show!
The defendant was acquitted.
Andrea got him acquitted?
No, Andrea failed to convince the jury beyond a reasonable doubt that this defendant possessed the gun.
Truck Joe Biden.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/02/watch-peoples-convoy-1000-us-truckers-reportedly-getting-ready-head-dc/
They are supported by ? And their cause is? 94% of truckers are vaccinate.The 6% read Qanon news
Off Topic – Just read about Mayor Tyrant giving ARPA monies to the owners of the White Terrace apartment building! Excuse me, but what in the hell did the owners do with all the insurance payments they received from ALL the many previous fires that occurred? This is a big crock of crap from this Administration! If ARPA monies can be use for this, then why can’t it be used for the increasing taxes, water bill or pot filled roads? These funds should be used to benefit ALL taxpayers not just a certain few of Tyrant’s friends. This is crooked at is comes!
And why is the Mayor so obsessed with bringing in layabouts? In addition to the Afghan refugees, she’s courting the low/no income crowd by supporting shelters and low income housing. That along with Harrington’s drug zones and non-persecution of criminals , it doesn’t bode well for Pittsfield.
Gimme crack whores and I don’t care……
Gimme crack whores and I don’t care……
Gimme crack whores and I don’t care……
The Pitt has turned to shit!
My god I thought that place had been condemned by the city. Do we have a name and lineage of the owner? Did Milltown just take ownership of it?
What has she done for senior citizens who have lived here and paid taxes for over 50 year of their lives?
Believe the owner is John Culpo. Culpo family has owned it for years.
Well the good news for John is that it may be all restored at no expense to him and then he will get tax breaks as well. Maybe a new sewer line to boot. And when it is all done his rents can triple.
That’s why the Culpo’s live in that nice big house off of South St. Family have been slum lords for generations
Vote on issuance of drivers licenses to illegals scheduled for this afternoon at statehouse. Will Baker veto it if it passes? Hopefully so.
And after they get their licenses they are going to need a car. Can we please give them each a car and pay for insurance and excise taxes and child care and food stamps and housing assistance and medical care?
And we wonder why people are storming our borders.
Excellent ideas. Why not pay for their housing, food and fuel, phones and TVS? It will be “good for the Commonwealth.”
An economic engine
Dude down the road drives a shiny black escalade & lives in a developer owned luxury apartment you know, Pedro, he renovates structures for the developer, this how it works. Free housing, vehicle, meals, etc – in exchange/ its not slavery though, its different. That same place with no certificate of occupancy. Pedro don’t mind no sanitary code violations he just wanna work 29 hours a day.
“Give everyone free stuff as if they worked for it.. we will get ALL of their votes then”
— Progressive woke politicians everywhere!
TFBilvot ought to resign over aiding and abetting criminal aliens, that’s still a federal felony, RINO Baker won’t enforce that any more than Biden. In fact Biden is the biggest enabler.
Annual shots?
https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/recurring-fountain-revenue-fda-exec-admits-biden-planning-annual-shots-and-vaxxing
Breaking news….Andrea Harrington BOMBED an easy prosecution…which will have further implications to related more serious cases. Berkshire County is not safe, people.
Shall we discuss the recent arrest and charging of Michael Rose for Murder. Released on PR after his dangerous detention ran out. So much for her Sexual Assault and Domestic Violence Task Force taking on these cases in the name of public safety. They haven’t even ironed out a policy for bail on Domestic A&B charges. Who the hell is on this taskforce anyway?
Nobody’s there just an empty promise
She lost a layup case. Sad and embarrassing.
Every knucklehead in the Berkshires is going to feel emboldened about carrying an illegal gun. Because of her we are not safe.
Any way but Wrong Way.
She thought it was a “positive experience” for her. What the actual f@$!? It was not positive for the people of Berkshire county. What an idiot. She did not prepare the case properly because she is incompetent. Resign.
Do you think boy toy Andy will weigh in on this?
It’s always about her, never about being a public servant and doing your job competently.
Common sense a rule of evidence ?
Wait, she lost the case?
They were in a car dealership, after hours. MSP stopped them and subsequently found the gun in plain view. The defendant admitted that the gun was his under his Miranda Rights.
You have to wonder if “the fix was in.” I’m curious who the defendant is related to or friends with in Pittsfield?
This almost seems like point shaving in basketball.
“I believe Carmine Lupertazzi in 1951, CCNY vs Kentucky, invented point shaving.”
More details please.
Well, there is going to be a huge gang banger party to celebrate low expectations and freedom. Yer not invited but they will be high toasting local legal folk and making plans to operate as usual. Cuz they ain’t no reason not to.
Trippy Country Buffet’s bill to give undocumented immigrants Massachusetts driver’s licenses passed the Massachusetts State House of Representatives today, 2/16/2022. She accomplished nothing in one decade, and this will be her first success on Beacon Hill. The Governor, Charlie Baker, said that the undocumented immigrants will be difficult to verify who they say they are, but what does that matter to the career politicians in Boston?
Jonathan A. Melle
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“In historic vote, Mass. House passes bill to allow driver’s licenses for residents without legal immigration status”
By Samantha J. Gross, Boston Globe Staff, February 16, 2022
The Massachusetts House of Representatives approved a bill on Wednesday that would allow residents without legal immigration status to get driver’s licenses. Buoyed by support from law enforcement, the measure won enough support in the heavily Democratic chamber to overcome a potential veto from Republican Governor Charlie Baker.
The tally was 120-36 and came after a 2-hour debate on the bill, which would allow residents to prove their identity with documents such as a foreign passport, birth certificate, and marriage or divorce records from any state or territory.
There was applause in the chamber after the roll call’s tally was announced.
The legislation explicitly says that people without legal immigration status will not be registered to vote as a result of getting a driver’s license — language that supporters say has helped bring more members on board.
The House voted down a handful of amendments. Other amendments were withdrawn before they were presented.
Now the bill goes to the Senate for a vote. If the Senate passes the bill, it goes to Baker, who has opposed versions of such legislation in the past.
If the measure becomes law, the legislation would make Massachusetts the 17th state to allow such driver’s licenses. The bill is backed by the majority of the state’s sheriffs and district attorneys, as well as the Massachusetts Major City Chiefs of Police. Advocates say the support from law enforcement was paramount for a proposal that never had a vote in the House, seen as the more conservative chamber.
The 160-seat House currently has 157 members, 156 of whom were present Wednesday.
The coalition of police chiefs helped supporters meet with lawmakers and weighed in on language that would affect not only the roughly 250,000 unauthorized immigrants who live in the state but also the law enforcement officers tasked with identifying drivers.
Samantha J. Gross can be reached at samantha.gross@globe.com. Follow her on Twitter @samanthajgross.
Letter to editor B Eagle.
Sorry about the long post part.
Robert Sullivan: What I believe the District Attorney’s Office owes the Berkshires
I write to commend The Eagle’s recent editorial titled “Our Opinion: District attorney’s sense of ‘responsibility’ raises serious questions.”
To the article’s “entreaty that Ms. Harrington focus on her deadly serious duties, we must add that it is time for her to forthrightly answer questions raised by her behavior,” I submit that such answers will not be forthcoming or will be hidden behind the false jargon of a non-answer. Therefore, I will take the opportunity to share my beliefs about how the serious responsibilities of the Berkshire district attorney should be handled.
I came to the Berkshires because the Berkshire District Attorney’s Office, which at the time was filled with experienced prosecutors, gave me my first chance as a lawyer. I wasn’t new to prosecution, after spending the majority of law school interning in both the Essex County District Attorney’s Office and the Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office, but I was new to the Berkshires. I am proud to say that I have maintained a presence in the Berkshires ever since, initially with the District Attorney’s Office, and then in private practice, with a primary office in Pittsfield.
The Berkshires are now my home, and I speak out because of the tremendous amount of care I have for my community. Over the almost decade and a half of my time in the Berkshires, I have come across all walks of life and have enjoyed every moment of it. Now my county needs a change. It needs a chief prosecutor that doesn’t follow the trends of politics that reach far beyond our county, but rather focuses on the needs of the residents of Berkshire County. It needs a chief law enforcement officer who puts community safety and accountability over the false rhetoric of a certain political caucus or movement. Crime is on the rise, including gang and gun violence, drug trafficking and its impact on overuse and overdose, and the county needs a prosecutor that isn’t a politician. The district attorney is ignorant to this fact and I will not stand for it and its resulting increase in crime and its impact on our community, family and friends. Left or right, red or blue, the obligation of the district attorney is to be the chief prosecutor for the county, and that means doing everything possible to create a safe community.
The current administration has not and will not address these issues.
Why are shootings and stabbings on the rise? Why is the opioid epidemic on the rise at a higher rate than almost any other county in Massachusetts? I submit to you that it is the result of a lack of competence, aptitude and awareness on the part of the current district attorney. She has run her office like an endless campaign and lacks the awareness and experience to address these problems. Her priorities are political, her cases are mishandled and, when pressed as to why, she has no legitimate answer. She has next to no trial experience and therefore cannot lead and train her staff on an essential and fundamental prosecutorial skill. She wants to be involved in national political issues. She wants to spend her time tweeting from her official page about politicians that have nothing to do with Berkshire County. She even wanted to bring one in for her “celebrity” birthday fundraiser.
I don’t. I want safe streets, safe homes and a community that represents the best of what Massachusetts has to offer. I want an end to illegal firearms. I want an end to shootings and stabbings and the injuries and deaths they cause. I want an end to the dealing and trafficking of deadly drugs that so dangerously position our community for overdose. I want an end to the campaign culture in the District Attorney’s Office. I want an end to corruption.
I am prepared to do anything that is proper and necessary to achieve these results. Berkshire County does not need policies that pretend to tout progress and reform yet come at the expense of public safety and effective prosecution. The county needs a district attorney that can understand and adapt to the progress of our society, consider changes that may be reformative, but be dynamic and intelligent enough to make such decisions only when it is consistent with the safety of our community. I’m ready. Are you?
Robert D. Sullivan Jr. is an attorney and independent candidate for
Berkshire district attorney.
He’s got my vote!
Mine as well.
He better be ready to fight with the gloves off. Wrong Way Harrington has the progressive money, people with no morals, who will dig up every piece of dirt on Robert Sullivan.
Harrington has made herself into a punchline much like Yuki Choen did to herself. It’s going to be obvious to the voters.
Did she intentionally throw the game?
February 16, 2022
I clicked on the Massachusetts State House of Representatives webpage:
https://malegislature.gov/Bills/192/H4461
and I scrolled down to the bottom of the webpage, and I clicked on the .pdf link to see how the Berkshire legislative delegation – Trippy Country Buffet, Shitty Pigpen, Paul Marxism, and the career Mayor – voted. The 4 Berkshire-based State Representatives all voted to give undocumented immigrants driver’s licenses on and after July 1, 2023.
Jonathan A. Melle
The op-ed in The Boston Herald by Lou Murray against Beacon Hill lawmakers giving undocumented immigrants Massachusetts driver’s licenses points out the following facts:
* There was/were NO public hearing(s) this year of 2022 prior to today’s vote in the Massachusetts State House of Representatives
* There will be more highway deaths and hit-and-runs in Massachusetts way above the number of new illegal immigrant motorists with Massachusetts driver’s licenses
* There are an estimated 275,000 illegal immigrants living in Massachusetts
* Illegal immigrants will demand more and more state government benefits in Massachusetts, which has one of the highest growth rates of illegal immigration in the country compounded by the Biden administration’s open border immigration policies
* The already overtaxed Massachusetts taxpayers will be paying for it all
Jonathan A. Melle
What do you think about the fact that the Massachusetts State Representatives who voted for the bill today (2/16/2022) to give illegal immigrants Massachusetts driver’s licenses did not hold a public hearing on the legislation this year of 2022? What do you think about the data from the over one dozen other states that gave illegal immigrants state driver’s licenses had automobile fatalities and hit-and-runs go up much higher than the number of undocumented immigrant new drivers? Shouldn’t have Trippy Country Buffet, Shitty Pigpen, Paul Marxism, and the career Mayor John Barrett III have heard from the experts and the people who opposed the bill before voting in favor of the legislation? What about Governor Charlie Baker’s statement that illegal immigrants are very difficult to verify who they say they are? Shouldn’t any and/or all of these issues mattered to these banal rubber stamp career politicians in Boston?
Jonathan A. Melle
There should have been a clause in this bill that if anyone gets hit by one of these illegal immigrants with one of these gifted drivers licenses the state has to pay all their medical and repair bills as well as pain and suffering. Seriously!
On that we can agree, Fizz.
This is the best suggestion I’ve heard in a long time!
Which means it is going absolutely nowhere.
If I ever get in trouble all I ask is that I’m treated like an illegal alien
And of course the illegals will get to skip the road test……..?
https://www.masslive.com/news/2022/02/four-rmv-workers-fired-after-2100-drivers-were-granted-licenses-without-taking-road-test-all-customers-required-to-test-within-10-days.html
Hunter Biden has no memory of fathering a love child with a stripper that was half his age.
Mother of Hunter Biden’s child testifies in financial investigation (yahoo.com)
Two workers could operate the water facility and it needs minimal upgrades. You guys are going to be slaughtered on the water increases.
Spot on, TWO.
Consultants make more with the more work at the plants not counting millions in contingencies. AGAIN. There has been no need to build new at the water plant,it will be fine for the next 200 years. Dum dum C C.
Wait till ya see what they are cooking up with the garbage collection. The company is bailing and the wheels of ineptitude at city hall are spinning wildly. There is a pot of gold behind every municipal failure in Pittsfield, Ma.
I want to add a few comments to the post above regarding Robert Sullivan for DA. His lengthy editorial is lengthy, but it’s fruitless.
If Mr. Sullivan has only lived in Berkshire County for about 15 years, he definitely does not have a clear understanding of the history of drugs and crimes in this community.
These troubles are not the result of Andrea Harrington’s tenor as DA. These issues are almost 4 decades in the making now. And the increases are not locally exclusive. We are looking at rising crime rates and an intensified opioid epidemic across the country.
The current DA’s office may have a litany of valid complaints against it, absolutely. But we are looking at generations of social and economic malaise that has never been solved or redirected. This is not a feel-good community. There is nothing to look forward to or hope for. Any young person who wishes for a bright, modern and successful future gets the hell out of dodge.
A change in leadership at the DA’s office is not going to cure the disease that Pittsfield is suffering from. The city needs a lot more help than that.
BS, Phil.
Getting Harrington out of office is a great start to improving life in the Berkshires.
She can’t prosecute and has radical ideas about incarcerating lawbreakers.
Vote Sullivan!
Agree! Agree! Agree!
Whataboutism ie “what about all the other people failing at their jobs” is a flawed argument that will get you kicked off the high school debate team. Sorry Phil, Harrington can’t be allowed to hide behind that.
She campaigned on making things better. She has made things worse.
Excellent analysis, PHIL. The city never had a plan after GE left. In fact, it openly rejected attempts to reinvigorate the economy (Spalding’s mfg. plant, for example) and welcomed a stream of shysters, con men, and grifters (EV Worldwide, anyone?). That’s a full generation of economic implosion that subsequent election cycles and wave after wave of “usual suspect” politicians have deliberately ignored.
No one with half a brain believes Pittsfield, Ma. is going to become a nice place to live any time soon. You do have the well paid PR people trying to paint roses over the ever rising decadence but it is not working. It is what it is.
The city is however awash in government cash, much of it sucked from the pockets of middle income people who just cannot escape. And then there are those who are hanging around to feed on that cash and they will tell you things are just peachy. They are the ones taking that cash and spending it on vacations far away from here. They are the ones who have zero intention of being stuck here when they retire..
The buzzards are here and there are more coming. Just watch the skies. When the mayor was elected she immediately moved as far from the inner city as she could possibly go, and that my friends spoke louder than anything I could ever tell you. It was a clear and concise message, though she was hoping you missed it.
Well, besides Sullivan calling the DA at 3:00am challenging her to late night debates . My research indicates he had never tried any case in Superior court. He worked in the DA’s office and was let go because he couldn’t hack it. Now he is the Republican nominee.
Boy Andy, you do like to make stuff up. You’ve earned that mangina little boy.
Andy how did Squeaky do in her first ever court case. Is she an intern in her own office. The gun was in the car but it didn’t belong to anybody. Every should check their car to see if it came with a free loaded Glock.
Can he raise the correct hand to be sworn in? Drive the right direction on a one way street and maintain a drivers license? Not attack a sitting judge without evidence? Pay his taxes?
Wrong, wrong, wrong.
Here starts the misinformation about Sully.
He was not let go for poor performance.
He is not the Republican nominee.
He’s a trained criminal litigator.
Stop lying, Andrea.
Calling opponents a Republican is a common Soros prosecutor tactic. Be afraid of a DA who lies.
The state senate will probably vote on dl for illegals next week.
Write your senators and guv and express your outrage over giving drivers licenses to illegals – you know, people who are breaking the law by being in this country ILLEGALLY!
These Dems like TFB argue against voter ID, but want to give dls to illegals. Talk about a screwing over of the American people! Vote TFB OUT next election!
How about the Massachusetts State Senate chamber holding a Public Hearing on this issue of giving undocumented immigrants Massachusetts driver’s licenses? The State House of Representatives didn’t bother with a public hearing in the year of 2022 p0rior to yesterday’s vote. It is always rubber stamp votes on Beacon Hill!
Canadian Dictator Justin Trudeau is giving us a preview of what will soon happen in America. Trudeau is seizing bank accounts and even property of protesters in Canada and even anyone associated with these protestors, to show that he is in charge. Trudeau has said he admires the Chinese dictator because, oh boy, does he get a lot done. Biden is cheering on the fascist actions of Trudeau which should frighten all Americans into realizing what we are up against with this Marxist/globalist movement.
Look what they’ve done to Mike Lindell of “My Pillow” fame. They’ve shut down his bank accounts.
Unless Americans wake up & start protesting against this crap, like the Canadian truckers, kiss freedom goodbye!
The sad thing is that many Americans don’t care. They’ve been brainwashed by the Marxist nonsense and they think big government lording over them will be a good thing. They have no idea what fascism really is and how everyone will become peasants under a oppressive system. They think because they aren’t working now and government is paying for it that it will always be that way. Only if they bow down to every demand of big government and the demands will only increase over time.
Trump and family are in full collaspe.FOX and Putin are doing all they can so I would expect Trump tries another crazy ass civil war takeover with him telling his private militias to save him.He will have every moron in the country on his side.It is his only chance to stay out of prison and not be broke.To all you brilliant MAGA hat buyers and confederate Trump face flagers….flavors…. sending Trump “Americas Punk ” money.Get out you wallet and save a punk today
Cuckoo
MAGA …Only Trump can fix it..LOL LOL
Trump isn’t the dictator that your Marxists portrayed him as for 4 years. We are seeing the real dictators now.
Bubba you sound like Earl Quagens right after he tried to milk that bull.
Guv Baker should do the same as DeSantis…….
https://thefederalist.com/2022/02/16/desantis-blocks-biden-admins-international-child-trafficking-scheme-in-florida/
Elon Musk Causes A Furor With Tweet Comparing Justin Trudeau To Hitler
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Treudeau is to Canada what Tyer and Harrington are to us here. All dangerous Buffoons.
Hello Alan Chartock,
I was wrong when I wrote to you that Hillary Clinton may run for Governor of New York State in 2022. In fact, Hillary Clinton backs Kathy Hochul for Governor, who is the first woman Governor of New York and would be the first elected woman Governor of New York.
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/02/17/hillary-clinton-backs-hochul-00009922
Hillary Clinton is right that she is being unfairly persecuted in politics during this ugly time of conspiratorial politics.
Best wishes,
Jonathan A. Melle
Maybe you can visit her in prison.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/02/lock-angry-protesters-shout-hillary-clinton-arrives-sheraton-hotel-new-york-city-video/
Hillary treated unfairly? Wasn’t she down with equal rights for women? Equal to be treated unfairly like anyone else caught up in nefarious acts like her.
What drug are you on?
Hillary has blamed every problem that she ever created on right wing conspiracies. She takes no responsibility for any of her actions and is the typical politician…spoiled and thinking they can do no wrong, preachy, and corrupt.
Happy 86th birthday to the great Jim Brown