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BY DAN VALENTI
PLANET VALENTI NEWS AND COMMENTARY
ADD 1, MAY 3, early evening: Bob Sullivan has ended his bid for Berkshire County district attorney and has endorsed Democrat Tim Shugrue, who will face D.A. Andrea Harrington in September.
Here is the full test of Sullivan’s statement:
ROBERT D. SULLIVAN, JR. CANDIDATE FOR BERKSHIRE DISTRICT ATTORNEY
FOR IMMEDIATE RELASE
As part of my campaign for Berkshire District Attorney, I have attempted to speak with as many residents as possible and have attempted to deliver my message and goals through various speaking engagements and other media. One of the keys to a successful campaign is to be able to use these community interactions to evaluate the climate of the community as it relates to the election. Elected leaders, and those seeking such positions cannot simply dictate their message, they also need to listen to the voice of the community they speak to. This climate can change, and it is therefore important to gauge it as frequently as possible. I have engaged in this analysis and believe that my goals for the community are best served by ending my campaign. From day one, I have made it clear that this campaign is not about me. It isn’t about a headline, my resume, politics, or power. It was about ending the failed experiment that currently exists and restoring skill and training to the chief prosecutor’s office with one goal in mind: public safety. It has become clear to me that the best way to achieve this goal is for me to work with and give my support to Tim Shugrue. Many supporters have recommended finding a way for Tim and I to work together to achieve our common goal. There can only be one District Attorney, and I believe Tim has shown a great ability to gather support for his campaign. I am now pledging my support to him and ask that anyone who has supported me do the same. If the failed experiment can be ended and skilled prosecution restored, I am willing to put myself aside for the common good of Berkshire County. Leadership doesn’t just come from the top; it is also about making the right decision for a common goal. I expect that many of my supporters will not have any problems with supporting Tim. To those that may be hesitant, know that I will be communicating with Tim regularly and am willing to work with his transition team to ensure that your voice is heard. I thank the community for their support, and I thank my team of volunteers for their hard work. You have made me proud to work tirelessly to represent your voice in my campaign. I will not forget your support and will always be grateful. My campaign committee will remain established should the need arise in the future. Fifty-six percent of the county’s registered voters are unenrolled/independent. This means that Ninety-one percent of registered voters in Berkshire County can choose to vote in the September Democratic primary. I believe in democracy, and I am hopeful that those voters will vote for the change we need. Right now, it is time to restore dignity, skill, integrity, and passion to the position of District Attorney. It is time to elect someone who isn’t beholden to a particular political group that tries to jam a national model down on our unique county. It is time to unite and vote for Tim Shugrue as the next District Attorney of Berkshire County.
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(FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, MONDAY MAY 2, 2022) — Pittsfield attorney Tim Shugrue formally began his campaign Friday to oust Berkshire County district attorney Andrea Harrington. Both are Democrats and will face each other in a September preliminary election, assuming Harrington seeks re-election. She has yet to formally declare her intentions.
Shugrue tore into Harrington without mentioning her name, a tactic commonly used in high-stakes elections, particularly when there’s animus involved. THE PLANET has covered countless elections, and our strictly-anecdotal evidence suggests when a candidate doesn’t mention a rival, they intend it as a snub. The thinking is you don’t want to give the other side any mention, not just on the theory that all publicity is good publicity but also to send a message. Translated: “You’re not serious enough for me to use your name.” He called Harrington’s term in office as “an awful experiment.”
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Here are some highlights of Shugrue’s declaration (from Tammy Daniels of iBerkshires):
* “We need to have experience, integrity, and justice for everyone. We need to get law enforcement. And we need to go after the criminals that are destroying our community and destroying our towns.”
* “It’s led us to a bad situation that’s required me to enter this race. After having 36 years of experience, both as prosecution and as defense, and being a businessman in Pittsfield, and being a homeowner in Pittsfield, to see what we’ve seen on our streets, they’re no longer safe. None of us feel that we can go anywhere and feel like we’re protected. And worse than that is how many police officers tell me that they bring charges they get dropped after their thorough and hard investigations … they have cases dismissed and thrown out without them even knowing about it.”
“I want you guys to know that if I’m in that office, I’m going to be prosecuting crimes [,] and I’ll been making sure that crimes are being handled correctly by trained individuals. I’m not afraid to try a case. I’d rather try a case and lose it than dismiss it. I’ll tell you that right now. We have criminals that are taking over our streets and crimes that are not being prosecuted. We’ve got law enforcement that don’t feel they’re being heard or that their cases are being properly handled.“
“When I’m doing my job as a prosecutor, my job is to get the high bail and convince a judge, by doing my job, to say this is why this person should be held, That’s what the judge is there for. But to turn around and say I’m not going to ask for bail is, I think[,] is disrespectful. I want to make sure that my message is loud and clear. You have an illegal gun, you’re going to jail. You’re not getting three years probation so you can kill somebody three months later. That’s not happening in my administration, we will make sure that we’re going to tackle the gun problem.”
“I think we will attract people that want to come and learn, I think will attract people that want to get trained and that will attract people that want to try cases and not be afraid to try cases because they don’t know what they’re doing. I am not a politician. I’m a lawyer. And I want to be your lawyer. I want to be the lawyer for Berkshire County.”
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According to THE PLANET‘s spies at the event, scuttlebutt during the small talk before and after Shugrue took the podium had it that Harrington hasn’t yet announced her re-election because she has decided not to re-up.
Such speculation, though premature and absent a solid foundation, is to be expected in a campaign of this sort. We could be wrong, but THE PLANET thinks Harrington will run. Having won once, and hearing unvarying encouragement from her inner circle, she has little reason to believe she can’t do it again. In fact, based on word from Those Who Know, Andrea’s running, and this is as it should be.
The winner of the Democratic prelim will face independent Bob Sullivan in November.
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All nomination papers are due Tuesday by 5pm. So once the signatures are certified the picture will clear.
The problem I have with all of the critics of Berkshire District Attorney Andrea Harrington’s brief tenure (3 years, 4 months, 1 day) in elected office is that prior to 2019, Pittsfield, as well as North Adams, was/were still in the top 10 cities by population for Violent Crime in Massachusetts, according to their annual reports. I concede the following: It is a fact that violent crime has increased in Pittsfield and North Adams since 2019, it is fact that D.A. Andrea Harrington unprofessionally engages in immature personal attacks against both court officials and her legal opponents and clients, it is a fact that she changed the methods and legal philosophy of prosecuting crime, it is a fact that she is a progressive politician, but it also a fact that she has been subjected to immature personal attacks – that often lack context – from day one. I also wish to say that there are dangerous downtown-area neighborhoods most people avoid, especially after hours, for their personal safety due to violent crime in every distressed city, including in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. Lastly, I have spent decades of my 46-year-old – turning 47 this Summer of 2022 – life hearing Pittsfield politicians (and Wanna-Be’s) promising to take on violent crime, but the results always get worse and worse as the years pass by.
Grow a brain, sir. She is an unmitigated disaster. Hell, I’d vote for you over her!
Please don’t vote for me. Thanks.
Shugrue has 10 times more knowledge, skill, and ability than Sullivan, and 100 times more than Hardly Harrington. And way more experience than both of them put together, should be a cake walk but because Hardly is a woke female, she’ll get tons of votes despite her dipshittedness. So Shugrue better come out swinging and not let up.
Tiny Tim is a dem hack like Andrea but without the nipples.
Regardless, all of the above is true.
He is a well connected hack, but he knows his way around a courtroom
got my vote!
Right now she has more experience than those two put together.People do learn from their mistakes.
Definitely experienced at being a lap dog, stooge. Also excelled at making poor decisions. Time for a change. ABA
Then she should be a genius.
The number of cases she tried is less than the fingers on one hand.
The number of cases she’s won is equal to her brain cells. Zero
People who are not egotistically driven to run for an office that they are not remotely qualified to hold may learn from their mistakes. Harrington has made the same mistakes over and over. How do you explain her insisting on trying cases when she’s a lousy lawyer who can’t win a single case? She’s not running. She’s trying to get a job with Rollins.
I would be shocked if Road Rage Rollins offered her any position. DA Wrong Way is a political liability to RR Rollins.
The DA of Berkshire County lost a simple gun case (LaQuan Johnson) that much junior attorneys would cut their teeth on.
The state trooper found the gun in plain sight. The trooper also found drugs and the vehicle was parked in a closed business, which had made prior complaints to the police about B/E’s. An absolute slam dunk guilty case…..so we thought?
A few weeks after the not guilty verdict, LaQuan, a POC for Helen “Handgun” Moon, returned the favor to DA WW by shooting and killing a guy.
And for the JM’s and TSC’s of the Planet, let me be the first to tell you two, no matter how much malt liquor LaQuan dumped under the cars seats, firearms don’t grow, nor do they magically appear. And I’m sure the trooper didn’t “frame” LaQuan. His track record tells me he is a dangerous individual that belongs behind bars for a very long time.
You forgot the part where Johnson got his previous homicide case dismissed because the DA dragged her feet so long the witnesses disappeared.He would have been locked up in 2019 if the DA had not been so incompetent. She should have resigned then rather than be “disheartened” and allow to have what happened followed. Lack of leadership and incompetence caused this.
https://www.gazettenet.com/Pittsfield-murder-trial-29000312
She got the Krol experience as well. Wonder if that will come up in his bid for Mayor
The Minister of Dipshittedness.
One of the useful things about this blog is that it”s a catalogue of 3+ years of dipshittedness almost every single day on the awful experiement. For today’s example see tweet from the Minister.
DA Andrea Harrington @harringtonforda
22h
A huge step forward for Berkshire County. Leaders are coming together to replace the war on drugs with compassion.
Translation: Get votes by not going after drug dealers who are the economic engine of their communities. Meanwhile our communities of decent folks have experienced more drug overdoses than any other Mass. county. This failed experiment rests on the head of the Minister. Her refusal to enforce laws against drug trafficking, shop lifting, theft, while surrendering the war on drugs has compounded the worst health and public safety crisis in our history. Voters were duped by the Minister. Let’s hope they are the woke ones this time around.
The spread of all of these George Soros backed District Attorneys across the country has been an “Awful Experiment.” Crime has increased in every area that these far left District Attorneys have been elected. Now far left District Attorneys in Albany, New York and in the State of Georgia are on another witch hunt against Donald Trump using illegal recordings of GOP politicians and leaking all over the place that they have huge evidence against Trump regarding January 6th. Also going after Trump in New York for phony charges since Trump is the most investigated person in history and they have found nothing. All of what they are doing is illegal, but that hasn’t stopped these far left Soros backed District Attorneys from their political witch hunt.
Puts law enforcement at risk.
The progressive DA’s enjoy this. It’s their way of “evening the score” with the police for all the “racially biased policing,” they did.
No stats to back this claim up. But make no mistakes, progressive DA’s are no friend to the police or the law abiding public as a whole. It’s all about themselves and their political posturing.
comedy is truly your game Pat…thanks for the chuckle
If they truly investigated the Clinton and Biden crime cartels, they would all be in the crowbar hotel. I’ll add the Soteros too.
Hello, 311? I’d like to report Barack Obama and Eric Holder for running guns to Mexican drug cartels…….
Hey look the Moronic Rube is back. Did Mommy take away your internet privileges Cupcake?
Comrade i am sorry you have returned. Fee free to leave.
Comrades are never free, they have to behave and be quiet as their masters desire or as the lying misinformation guru states
Sorry the truth about Liberal Politicians hurts/sets You off so much.
Ask Mommy for your bottle and get back in the crib with your rainbow colored blanky……
Weather Underground Terrorist and Robber Kathy Boudin has died.
Her daughter is a California district attorney , go figure……….
Son actually
I stand corrected, Son’s name does not allow “gender pronoun” to be easily eulicidated. I’ll be PC, let’s just her foul liberal spawn…….and be gender neutral….
George Soros is pro democracy and is a warrior against the Putins and Trumps of the world.Putin and Trump are tied at the hip.Trump and the Republican party have gone so raddical that they created Marge Green and Qanon.Marge Green is so fn stupid that she’s now called the female Don Trump…..Pat ,Soros is fighting for your right to vote……FOX NEWS will never tell you that.FOX appeals to the STUPIDS
You are brainwashed by the far left radicals. Soros is only interested in world government and using any means necessary to get it which includes weakening our country in every way possible using these far left District Attorneys. President Trump doesn’t go along with their games of global big government so he has to go. Obama wants to indoctrinate your children, but his own will not be told they are trapped in the wrong gender. You need to be wake up (not woke) to how Americans are being manipulated by Soros, Obama, Kerry, Pelosi, Schumer, and all of the far left Marxist globalists.
WOKE is a trigger word give to your thinking by FOX propaganda 45 hours of that nonsense will ruin your life….it makes you hate every non listener.Have guts if you don’t like social programs like police fire education defense social secrity….come out and say we don’t need any funded thing for societies benefit…I know,that would be ridiculously ignorant
Sounds like CNN to me
Stupid to a new level
Stupid is when you support people flying the confederate flag attacking the Capital…
that is bottom of the barrel dumb
It is stupid. And means you are working for Putin.
“Hunter traveled to Moscow for a meeting with an oligarch close to Putin. This wasn’t the first time Hunter mingled with foreigners while raising money for the ‘Big Guy’ while Biden was Obama’s VP. The entire family and Obama Administration were involved in numerous activities around the world raising money. The largest amount to date was the billion Hunter gained with China.”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/05/hunter-biden-took-trip-moscow-meet-russian-oligarch-sanctioned-uk-not-us/
Do not forget that court reform is about using drug laws to put minorities in prison. Alternate punishments make sense with many of those drug crimes.Hell,we can’t get the ex President to even acknowledge that he is supposed to be equal under the law.We have a court system that needs change…..Race is ingrained in everything and for decades whites never had to deal with this issue. Harrington had the guts to try and messed up but she tried.Because she is not your cup of tea does not mean the next white man can ignore the system needs to change……Let’s get the x prez into a courtroom to show hes not above the law…lol he will never answer for his crimes .
On 6/9/2022 there will be public hearings on the Trump insurection……I wonder if the Supreme Court Justices wife will be above the law…..Harrington win or lose should be commended for her intelligence to see a problem and TRY to do something.She was in the arena.Next white DA needs to also do justice differently.
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Black on black violence is even worse now than ever.
And for once I’ll agree with you. You’re right, the next white DA needs to “do justice differently.” He needs to enforce the laws that are on the books and not pick and choose because it fits a political narrative. Gun crimes, shoplifting, and drugs offenses, need to be prosecuted. I don’t give a rat’s a$$ if you’re white, purple, green, or black, you break the law and get caught, you face the consequences. End of story.
Enough with the “victim mentality” and the “victimization” of criminals.
White on white crime is number one…what is your brilliant FOX informed point?
Blaclk on black TSC
Mental illness is issue #1, as you are graciously pointing out.
Is that like Hunter Biden getting get out jail free card for all the times he got caught?
But wait is Hunter a minority?
Low information buffoon
Anyone But Bimbo Andrea
Doesn’t show the three that are down for repair.
We have to really give credit where credit is due – if the biggest social issue on the minds and concerns of the residents of Pittsfield is the newly introduced Bird Scooters available around town, there really isn’t much to complain about, huh?
Sound familiar?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/04/21/rural-colorado-prosecutor-recall/
I absolutely love the progressive statement about shoplifting, “it’s not a crime if a person is stealing to feed their family.”
If you go through all of PPD’s shoplifting reports prior to DA Wrong Way and try and find one example of a person caught shoplifting in Pittsfield, to “field their family,” I’m willing to bet you’ll find none. It’s such a crock of sheet.
The shoplifters are looking to feed their drug habits, not their families.
Christian Center- Food Pantry – EBT – Church – Elizabeth Freeman Center- etc.
Yup!
Stealing to feed the family? I thought those taxpayers funded EBT cards did that? Food banks? Churches? Etc..? I’ve seen people in checkout lines using EBT cards and sometimes multiple EBT cards with items in their carts that people who work don’t.
G-R-E-A-T point, J2S. Spot on!
It was Moon Beam. She uses homeless peoples EBT for the shelters. It’s legit, meals, family style.
MARK
Yes, it’s a crock. It worked great for Victor Hugo when writing Les Miserables but today? It’s “cain’t tuch dis.”
There is a thread on facebook showing the Pittsfield scooter app. It says 21 of 24 have dead batteries and are useless not to mention that they are scattered all over the city Awesome rollout mayor. Continues to outdo herself.
Typical democrat policies and actions.
Congratulations on your release from Jones II. How was the food? Hope you are taking your meds.
Out of the crib?, peed your panties again!
Yeah there’s one abandoned Birdie on Elm St.
Who’s responsible for this venture?
OK. So far, for those keeping score at home: Three Birds in repair. One left abandoned on Elm Street. Two tossed on Housie river bank. And those are the only ones we’ve heard about. Also, kids (under 18) weaving dangerously in and out of traffic. Another Great Attraction for Ricky’s Rumpus.
And most, according to the Bird app, have dead batteries, as reported by FIZZ elsewhere on our discussion board.
These birds are going south fast.
It is kind of symbolic of how the whole city is run isn’t it? I mean this scooter rollout kind of sums up the whole of Mayor Tyer terms. God help us all cuz she ain’t done yet.
(get out if you can)
FIZZ
Yes, the scooters do sum up her terms in office. First one mediocre. Second one, disastrous.
from facebook
Tim Lanfair
hello, my company is one of the fleet managers for Pittsfield, I can assure you we are working as fast as we can to keep the small roll out of scooters charged and ready to ride! The demand has been overwhelming! We are slowly rolling out more scooters to help with the charging issue
TPP
Interesting that when one clicks on “Tim Lanier,” the hot link included in his statement, the page is not available. Sort of like the Bird scooters. And who is “Tim Lanfair.” What is his connection with this failure? What is his connection with Certain Peeple At City Haul … if any?
Apparently you are supposed to be at least 18 years old to use the scooters but there is NO way to stop six kids from grabbing them and wheeling up and down North street in and out of traffic. The tweeners are loving these things.
Today I did witness a young female on ricky’s RUMP-ASS weaving in and out, and directly in front of my vehicle. And on Sunday some death-defying idiot came up from behind me on my passenger side on a SPEEDING wheel and cut me off on the ricky RUMP-ASS tyler street Wall of Death sideshow.
The picture of that hipster doofus Morales reminded me of the SNL skit with Mike Myers’ retard kid where he’s chained to the playground equipment with a bike helmet on.
I had to step over one left abandoned and on its side on the sidewalk near the Common last night.
Pittsfield is the most outdated, unhappening, retarded city on the planet.
The fact that the introduction of Bird Scooter rentals is such a topic of confusion, ire, and complaint is the perfect example of why Pittsfield gets what Pittsfield deserves: Nothing. Bad things. Stupid things. Nothing more.
They’re freaking scooters. It’s 2022. Let’s get with the times people.
Tim will easily win in a landslide.
The primary will be tough. Andreas gynocratic lunatics will be out in full force while many voters skip primaries.
Their lady parts got us Andrea and Linda
Vote with your small head if you got it people
I was glad to see the Gman speak at the city council meeting. Looked a bit older but I’m sure all your readers wish him well.
CHUCK
Yes. THE PLANET joins you in wishing well to the G-Man.
Go G man!
To the thumbs down folk. The Gman cares more about Pittsfield than this mayor or city council president ever has. He is not perfect. You are not perfect. But he cares where many of those who represent you do not.
https://live959.com/5-pittsfield-laws-you-didnt-know-were-a-thing/
Beta Male In Action
This will go down as the biggest joke and failed experiment since the bike lanes.
I notice he has a helmet. Smart move if you are cutting right through the middle of an intersection. Is there a helmet ordinance and if not should there be?
It’s to bad you couldn’t get a PA system to blare: R-i-c-k-y, R-i-c-k-y, when you see him. Just like MLB fans used to do to Darryl Strawberry when he came to bat.
You should use this picture and make it into a sticker like Brandon Xiden has. You can place these stickers on the traffic cones and toilet plungers that decorate Ricky’s Rumpus proclaiming “I did that.”
Love it, MARK. Maybe at the grandstand-less games at Wachconah Park this Suns’ season, Ricky can throw out the first Rumpus.
How about FRM?
I find it hilarious that Rumpass Ricky found the only spot in the city without a pothole nor garbage
Ricardo Pendejo is that you
Si
This picture kind of suggests that these scooters have just as much right to the open road as cars and trucks. Is that the case?
https://youtu.be/rMbATaj7Il8
MoralASS is a fucking idiot!
The saw 5 bird scooters being picked up by a DPW truck and then transferred to a white pickup truck. I guess the DPW is helping with the collection of the scooter.
Wowsers, Did you Really see that? Oh Boy Oh Boy. Alert the media, Stop the presses. You scooped even Danny Boy. I will nominate you for a Pulitzer Prize Rube
Sub-contractor hired by Bird is supposed to deal with all of the wrangling and charging of the Death Scooters. Not our City employees.Chesty your edging out Mele.
Good, because it’s not like the limited DPW crews have anything better to do with the city having perfect streets and all.
and that would be an admission that the Bird company is going to be backed up by the city taxpayers. Whodathunkit?
One of the contractors for the Bird’s is.
POCKET TRUCKING LLC
Company Number
001469854
Status
Active
Incorporation Date
11 November 2020 (over 1 year ago)
Company Type
Domestic Limited Liability Company (LLC)
Jurisdiction
Massachusetts (US)
Registered Address
81 DARTMOUTH STREET APT 305
PITTSFIELD
01201
MA
USA
Agent Name
TIMOTHY LANFAIR
Agent Address
81 DARTMOUTH STREET APT 305, PITTSFIELD, MA, 01201
Directors / Officers
TIMOTHY LANFAIR, agent
TIMOTHY LANFAIR, soc signatory
TIMOTHY LANFAIR, real property
Registry Page
http://corp.sec.state.ma.us/CorpWeb/C…
RSS feed icon
Recent filings for POCKET TRUCKING LLC
11 Nov 2020
CERTIFICATE OF ORGANIZATION
MA Reg: W65-359
Pocket Trucking LLC
81 Dartmouth St Apt 305
Pittsfield, MA 01201
413-662-9342
Great info! Our Z-Agents come through for The Kapanskis once more. You will get this info NOWHERE ELSE. That is why our site is the most heavily trafficked in the region!
What’s the point. Landfairi is also a Veteran and a capitalist like anyone else.
Dan again. I’m think-inking this is some kind of artsy fallout like that sheep arts culture,like a symbol, just sitting in the City for people to gaze at. Like I said before what division of the city is getting they’re palms greased,maybe the Springside bike or north st bike lane designer? I forgot that guy a,
Lready.
What the hell if Tyer is willing to fall for bird that’s on the mayor not the idea.
Dan,this thumbs up is a downer. If I say something in favor of D it’s thumbs down. If I say something R it’s thumbs up. Grow Up.Talk real on here and I’ll give you a thumbs up.Mele gets a thumbs down because he talks repetitively stupid flip flop,otherwise he’s right on.
I’ll gladly tell you I’ll give you a thumbs down for anything a democRAT proposes.
Inflation, gas, supply chain, Ukraine NEVER asks for medical supplies/medicine during a war-only cash and weapons, Afghanistan debacle, Iran/North Korea building nuclear arsenal, southern border crisis, Ministry of truth who is known to pass off “misinformation” about Trump and Russian hoax, VP is an absolute disgrace, Build Back Bankrupt, did I leave anything out?
I’ll give you one chance to change my mind, name one thing Joe Xiden has done to make America better for the working class citizens? No Putin did this, Trump did that, 1/6/21, etc, just what Xiden’s administration has done to better the taxpayer.
And I’ll even add a few of the democRAT highlights locally: highest drug OD rate in state per capita, NON, Ricky’s Rumpus, Bird Scooters, destroying Springside Park to allow a$$hole mountain bikers a place to bike (for the kids too, of course), Waterpark for kids non operable 1+ year and counting, garbage decorating the streets, potholes galore, HS varsity baseball team doesn’t have a home field, violent crimes and shootings at all time highs, gang activity/drug dealing/prostitution in the open, Lazy Linda, Eddie Munster-Kerwood, the two Pete’s, Tricia Farley-Country Buffet (D), Helen “Handgun” Moon, DA Wrong Way, failing school system bleeding taxpayers dry, bleachers at Wahconah Park not useable, $700,000 given to a non-business to “help create” black owned businesses (the first black owned business to open also happens to be the beneficiary of that taxpayer funded gift), just to name a few reasons why I thumb down any democRAT idea or suggestion these days.
Convince me otherwise.
MARK
A “ponderous” list, to borrow a word from Mr. Marley.
It really offers a sense of “Pittsfield Proud,” doesn’t it?
I just wanted Wheels to get a true understanding of what this vibrant, dynamic, and inclusive city looks like through my eyes.
I offered him a chance to counter respond and change my mind. I’m sure I’ll get that response back about the same time Pete White releases his solution to the “houseless” problem.
Don’t forget that King Kone’s ice cream is too cold Rube. How is life when one is so miserable? Your wife must love you, or did she leave you long ago?
So, you have no accomplishments that you can list that the democRATS have achieved.
Just junior high level insults. Let me guess, your dad can beat up my dad?
Bubba, stop eaten hog slop.
You can’t handle the truth!
Joe Biden did not kiss Trumps ass and invite him into the Oval office with his body guards and cameras.
No, he, Sotero, Hillary, and the DNC, were spying on American citizens, to include a sitting President.
An why would Trump invite a Xiden into the WH?
My bad. Trump invited PUTIN into the white house and allowed his security people to photograph top secret documents. Then Trump brought even more to Mara Largo where Putins people copied them and sent them back to Moscow. You know this is true. Tucker Carlson would not lie about that, nor would Hannity.
Remind me again how many wars occurred under Trump? And why does Ukraine only ask for money and weapons? Their healthcare system is that robust in Ukraine that they do not need medicine, medical supplies, or added medical personnel, to assist during war? Just billions of dollars.
If history has taught us anything, it’s to keep your friends close and your enemies closer.
Trump kept North Korea, Russia, China, and Iran, in check during his presidency. Can you say the same about Xiden?
Do you recall when Sotero was in office the Russian migs were buzzing our naval war ships?
Well that is about as shallow a comment as I have seen on here. You might want to diversify your news sources cuz you be coming across like a Hannity Head. And his cult members are not widely revered as anything close to intellectuals.
Just saying
You lamely mixing quotes from The Godfather Part II does nothing to help your anemic and fallacious posts.
Tucker would not lie about that? Of course he would. He and Hannity work for Fox News/Murdoch. I looked deep into Tucker’s eyes and saw a liar.
Dementia Joe invited Putin into Ukraine for a mild incursion.
Biden’s greatest achievement was crushing tRumpy by over 7 MILLION VOTES. Oh please, tell us how it was rigged Rube
Please look up Wisconsin and Georgia to begin with, votes are finally being noted as illegitimate, just like Biden’s presidency. Love the work he isn’t doing on the border, where is the press? Still waiting for the Americans left behind in Afghanistan, where is the press? Loving losing my hard earned wages to the Biden Bump….or inflation if you didn’t understand! What is it that you can’t open your mind and see the corruption of the Democratic Party? I would suggest reading Animal Farm, 1984 and Atlas Shrugged. If reading isn’t your thing watch the Hunger Games to see where we are heading.
As you saw Shirley, I simply asked for ONE accomplishment the Xiden (Tyer) administration has done to better the working class, the taxpayers.
It’s stupid junior high insults, the “Russian hoax,” Trump this or that, etc.
I guess I shouldn’t wonder why the US and Pittsfield are in the sad state that their in. I/we are trying to fight for the taxpayers by pointing out the lunacy the d-RATS are doing to us.
In the meantime, Chesty and Fizzle are fighting to get “pregnant men” emojis on social media. Priorities, you know…..
I would submit to you that D-Rats is on the junior high side.
He printed tons of paper dollars! And he got interests rates up where my mortgage has become my most valuable asset. The dollar value of real estate there’s no gain as all properties essentially underwent a devaluation. And I can’t drive beyond 3 miles which gives me more time. A real plus here: Venezuelans fleeing bidenomics abroad are finally able to escape and enter illegally. They’ll probably be looking for a free nation when they get sorted out. Home gardening is now a true value addition to your backyard.
We will never know. With mail in voting there is no way to determine who cast that vote. That’s the way the D- Bags like it.
Lug nutz, how ya been?
Election officials are a headin’ to prison Chesty. You’re an endangered species so I won’t say anything more that may hurt ya.
He’s wonderful lug nut
Precisely, Marcus. That’s the reason that as an Independent voter, I will vote in the D-Rat primary for Shugrue (just to get Harrington out of the office) then I will vote for non-Democrat Mr. Sullivan in the general election. The Demon-Rats are destroying our city, state and country. You’d have to be a real bird brain to vote D.
I think both partys are destroying our country
I kinda doubt Shoogloo as a dem is a corrupted. just a tag he had to choose one or the other. I’m with you here. Voting for party animals only encourages the critters. Go indy.
Famed Austrian economist F. A. Hayek said it best: “There is all the difference in the world between treating people equally and attempting to make them equal.” Liberals have never seen wealth — except for their own — that they haven’t tried to redistribute to those of lesser means, generally Democrat voters. That brings us to Irish playwright and political activist George Bernard Shaw, who correctly observed: “A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.”
100% spot on.
I love the new “universal” healthcare or childcare. Did you ever notice none of these pols ever list or talk about how their going to pay for it all?
Of course we know, just call me/us “Paul.”
It’s on the tax slave
And why hasn’t she announced? Some say she’s pulling a Capeless.
Retiring after 40 years of service and the highest conviction rate in the state?
She couldn’t carry Capeless’s lunch box.
Why what’s in there!
meet the new boss…
Due to the chaotic scooter rollout Tyer is holding a press conference this morning at 10am. One more damage control effort.
The Bird guy is saying that the dead scooters are the result of overwhelming success and popularity. What he is NOT saying is that the overwhelming use of them is by tweeners fascinated by a new toy and who have actually been creating chaos on North street mixing with cars and buses. Will the mayor explain how the kids got ready access if their is an 18 year age limit? Will she discuss that having these lying all around North street looks trashy? Will she explain why the DPW is helping out? Tune in at 10am somewhere.
I was downtown this weekend (not because I wanted to) and I did notice the scooters zipping all around. But the thing was, they were All kids between 10 and 15 with no helmets. I thought the same as Plummet. Not only are they supposed to be 18, how are they paying? Are parents just giving kids their Debit and Credit Cards? I’m glad kids have something fun to do but it does raise questions and concerns.
Why not pedal bikes? No money in it ?
Wynn has legal concerns about body cams, yeah his department is going to get sued into oblivion when their corruption is recorded.
There’s no two party consent issues with police cams in MA. Departments have them, the entire State Police is outfitted with them, they don’t seem to have a problem. The two party consent is about secret audio recordings in places where you’d expect privacy, not in public or when the police are called. Wynn is as stupid as he is corrupt.
The incompetent Eagle reporter failed on the follow up, if Wynn is so concerned about the legal issues what’s he doing on follow up?
Get a legal opinion. Do your job.
Wynn is afraid cameras will expose how corrupt, under trained and unprofessional his department is. There’s a reason there’s a big drug problem in Pittsfield and it’s not just the DA, it’s the corrupt cops on the payroll of dealers. Some of the cops in Berkshire county are even dealers themselves. Those steroids get sold and trafficked somehow.
The State Troopers get them, cops tip off people before raids.
Cops lying about suspects, cops stalking girlfriends and sleeping on the job, cops dealing steroids, cops beating up little old ladies, cops leaving their guns around, cops sleeping around, cops stealing from dealers and crime scenes, cops dealing drugs, cops sleeping on the job and lying about overtime.
If Wynn was so forward thinking and cared about policing, he’d be the first department with bodycams.
https://www.wwlp.com/news/crime/all-massachusetts-state-police-equipped-with-body-worn-cameras/
https://www.govtech.com/public-safety/massachusetts-city-nets-250k-from-state-for-body-cameras
https://www.wwlp.com/news/local-news/eight-police-departments-in-western-massachusetts-receive-funding-for-body-cameras/
The Baker Administration announced this week that a total of $4 million in funds will be distributed to 64 departments across the state. Locally that includes:
Southwick – $26,189.70
Easthampton – $40,000.00
Great Barrington – $19,817.00
Greenfield – $66,168.63
Hatfield – $5,638.00
Sheffield – $30,843.00
Ware – $25,405.00
Wilbraham – $60,326.00
You sound just like City I Hate does. You have a hard on for the police and yet have zero facts to back up your bullshit. DIE
Here it comes! Watch the demons lose control!!
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/05/democrats-scream-wail-like-demons-news-breaks-scotus-tossing-roe-v-wade/
Whaaaaaa. Watch some Jan 6th 2021 videos while you are at it Rube. Just some tourists, aka Terrorists, visiting My Nations Capital Building. Nothing to see there right…..
Guess again lug nuts
Try harder and don’t spout made up left wing talking points
I woulld think the expense and invasion of personal privacy would be enough for the police unions to be against body cams. There has to be another way to subdue a mentally challenged enraged person physically,shot spotter and tasers don’t work as it is. Killing is the other option? Stop throwing money at it and figure out another way. If a person has another by the throat then subdue at any cost.
Great decision by the Supreme Court. Abortion laws have gone too far. In Virginia, babies just born from the womb can be murdered. The states can still decide so don’t believe the lies you are hearing from the far left and all of the fake drama coming from hysterical women.
Wonderful decision. And keep in mind all these loose women do have a choice. KEEP YOUR LEGS SHUT.
Responsible sexual practices from men are also called for to avoid way too many abortions in this country. It has gone from abortions allowed up to 3 months to abortions being allowed when the baby is already born. This is inhumane. This is the conversation we need to be having in this country and not leaving it up to a group of men and women in robes to decide our conscience for us.
Agreed. Personal responsibility.
SS & PAT
Personal responsibility is the key to nearly all social and cultural ills. It seems to be in short supply these days. That’s an educational issue, one that Pittsfield, the Commonwealth, and the nation has failed to address. Throwing more money at the schools — Pittsfield is slotted for a hike of nearly 8% — is NOT the answer. Same thing over and over, expecting different results. Insanity, I believe it’s called.
More abortions = fewer democrats
Absolutely. Now Dan I need to say this before the left wing crazies go wild. Abortion of course is the answer in case of rape, incest or life of the mother, nobody is arguing that. The real reason people are for mass abortions is, you nailed it, the lack of personal responsibility. On both sides. Should I not wear a condom, or even better, should I not haphazzardly (spelling) spread my legs. Also, big pharma wont like this, if not spreading your legs catches on. Less need for birth control.
I believe you can subcontract PR out.
Men have been knocking up women since the beginning of time. Abstinence is unreasonable. Humans are sexual beings. Decades ago, I read a book about backroom abortions, and the very thought of denying a woman the right to safely abort a fetus is unacceptable. Infanticide was common in every society. In some societies the gender of the child was a death sentence, but any excuse was acceptable. Desperate women are going to do horrible things to themselves and their unborn babies. There are safe reliable birth control options to prevent unwanted pregnancies. These are not the dark ages, those days before birth control. But I’m not surprised that irresponsible women have pushed the limits of reasonability to insanity. And infanticide is back in vogue.
Lizzie Warren was so distraught she needed smelling salts today. Her over the top hysteria was unbelievable. “I knew the Republicans would do this if they had a majority on the Supreme Court” she kept repeating with her entire body shaking. No mention of how abortion has gone to extremes by Lizzie.
BTW, sperm is from a males body.
In Barry’s case it’s from a whale
Pull Out. Ok. It’s on you. Don’t put that s* on everything.
Clearly you and busted are not fans of personal accountability. How typical
There’s things you don’t understand; you don’t understand, understand? Yes, even you.
That was a joke about a TV commercial.
Amy Schumer style
But I will keep all my * contained safely- even if, just for today.
Downside is that thousands of these unwanted babies will grow up uncared for or poorly cared for. And they will become the homeless and the prostitutes and the gang banging street thugs the republicans hate so much. So, in a way, they are shitting in their own bed by preventing abortions.
The answer to unwanted babies isn’t to murder them. Work on finding good homes for unwanted babies. Work on promoting respect and love for unwanted babies and responsible sexual practices so that women aren’t getting pregnant will all of these babies that they supposedly don’t want. Men also need to step up with responsible sexual practices. We need to show some humanity since a society should be judged by the concern shown to the unborn and in some cases, babies already born.
The flaw in your solutions Pat is that they are NOT NEW and HAVE NEVER EVER WORKED BEFORE. Also, no one in their right mind believes they will start to work any time soon.
My personal feeling is that rather than bring a baby into this world, (that even its own mother did not want) has a high percentage chance that it will live a life of misery.
Sorry, that is how I feel. And it is because I do care.
I care too and I think that making abortions too easy encourages bad behavior with no responsibility and nobody can deny that late term abortions are terrible and after the baby is born it’s just plain murder.
Thank god we have none of that now
It’s pretty simple. Don’t kill babies.
Please join us Saturday morning at Park Square for the million Morales march to celebrate Pittsfield infrastructure.
Million what? Potholes? I just missed some crazy scooter drivier, cut in front of my car on west street. Follow the damn traffic rules girlfriend.
DA’s office is finding discrepancies between the reports as filed by officers, time logs, call logs to 911, and dispatch notes and reports.
Two officers claimed they did not know it was a mental health crisis and thought it was an armed person attacking his girlfriend. Dispatch logs tell a very different story.
If that kids family wants a less stylized version of the truth, they should get the DoJ civil rights unit involved.
The DA will come out with a report about miscommunication, a failure to properly contain subject and the area, lack of resources, and needed policy changes. Nothing will rise to criminal conduct.
Recommendations for more training, finding of crisis specialists 24/7, policy changes.
Yup. But because of the amateurish handling by the d a what can acutually be introduced at a R E D O.
Shugrue should glide in as d a.
Take a Hike Ricardo Audobon.
Why vote for a DemonRat?
& Grants.
Did his gun charges come up on the call?
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Distraction used to let fake media ignore the documentary about the 2020 election fraud
Spot on Trapper!
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Hell of a job Democrats. You’ve managed to bring back the 1919 pandemic, the 1929 depression, the 1968 race riots, and the the 1973 gas lines, all at the same time.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/05/angry-upset-elizabeth-warren-meltdown-supreme-court-needs-help-staffer-walk-car-video/
Some fine entertainment watching Elizabeth Warren go bonkers. Bring the white straight jacket!
I lot of PlanetValenti blog posters are against Berkshire County District Attorney Andrea Harrington. She has only been in office since the beginning of the year 2019, which is a little over 3 years & 4 months now. Prior to 2019, Pittsfield & North Adams were always in the top 10 cities by population in Massachusetts for Violent Crime. Since the beginning of 2019, the same unfortunate data still applies. Moreover, I am 46 years old going on 47 this Summer of 2022, and I have heard over many years/decades countless political candidates in and around Pittsfield promise to reduce violent crime in Berkshire County, but the problems keep getting worse and worse as the years go by. Given these set of FACTS, I believe that D.A. Andrea Harrington’s critics are only proverbially shitting on her by blaming her for all that is wrong in the criminal justice system. Also, what is the real backstory about why Robert Sullivan dropped out of the race for Berkshire D.A. today? My view is that it always the bully who points his finger at their victim(s) who has the most to hide. What is Attorney Timothy Shugrue’s real track record as a prosecutor? If he is as great as he says he is, then please tell the people about your successes and failures in the criminal justice system. Lastly, why is O.K. for so many people to use personal attacks against Andrea Harrington, but when she does it, the Dirty Bird (Berkshire Eagle), PlanetValenti, court officials, and so on all go nuts about it. I see it as a double standard!
3 1/2 years a brief tenure? The training wheels shouldn’t take that long before they come off. Your making everyone’s case that feels she just isn’t up for the job. Doesn’t matter how bad things were before taking office as much as it matters with what your going to be doing in the office now. Hopefully get things on the right track and do the job which isn’t happening.
Personal Attacks? Do you even read the shit you write before posting? You have attacked many who you disagree with or don’t like. Shitty Pigpen and many more.
Michael Wynn’s excuse against body cameras for cops sounds a lot like his excuse against drug screening of cops. I especially like the part when wynn lies about how cops aren’t against getting caught violating the civil rights of citizens on their own police department issued body cameras. It’s like Cops aren’t against random drug screening. It’s just that cops aren’t required to be randomly drug screened. This way none of them will get caught with illicit drugs in their systems, as long as they’re not required to be randomly drug screened. As for cops exploiting embarrassing encounters with citizens, you just know cops are going to share those embarrassing encounters with like-minded deviants, including the deviant family members of cops. And when, not if, body cameras on cops capture those embarrassing civil rights violations, e.g., illegal home invasions, terrorizing innocent babies and children, illegally ransacking and vandalizing the homes of innocent citizens, handcuffing and violating innocent citizens, brutalizing and suffocating innocent citizens and even murdering innocent citizens, all of its going into wynn’s mysterious magic disappearing cabinet. It’s not that Wynn has any objections to violating the civil rights or the privacy of innocent citizens, he just doesn’t want any of it caught on police issued body cameras. wynn is of the belief that police officer fabricated narratives are sufficient malicious evidence against the falsely accused innocent. And wynn’s not going to let evidence of the truth fuck with that.
On the issue of boorish cops exposing people to humiliation and ridicule by leaking embarrassing images, decades ago a Pittsfield man hanged himself in his apartment in the middle of a very hot summer, and he wasn’t found for some time. I don’t remember the exact timeframe, but at least one PPD cop took photos of the corpse, maggots and all, and wanted to show them, the offer was declined. But I heard that the cop did show the photos to several people. Shame on all of them. So, count on it, cops are going leak embarrassing images of others, just not of themselves.
Once you’re dead, you don’t give a fuck.
And I hear you sir are an asshole. Does that make it true? You have a hard on for the cops. Enjoy your fantasy tonight with Rosie Palm.
Oh hey ya’ll been on a little Vacay from the Planet However I’m baccccck! So a little pat on the back boys and girls and Dan. I told you the frat boy would be out by the end of May. What an absolute disgrace! Calling the DA late night for debates half cocked riding around in his truck parked in front of the Court House with the Sully swag on it not to mention the most pathetic press conference announcement I have ever seen.
My next prediction is Timmy ain’t gonna make it until September. Dude the Bloody Mary’s and doughnuts holy moly got you ballooned up bigger than the girl on Willy Wonka. Timmy ain’t got the wheels to be campaigning at every chicken Bbq in Berkshire County every Sunday. It will be simpily to Much and with the Mazzeos backing him it’s over.
If Andrea goes for chicken bbq she should concentrate on getting a pair of plump breasts.
Anyone who is thinking of relishing in the Supreme Court decision to overturn RVW, just remember the fate of little baby Kristoff.
Unwanted pregnancies turn into unwanted children sucked into the system.
Dope fiends without access to abortions means a whole lot more babies born addicted and deformed.
Prostitutes without access to abortions means a whole lot of back room abortions and abandoned infants.
Rape victims without access to abortions will probably just want to kill themselves and the baby.
Abortion is not cut and dry and not simply about personal responsibility. There are real valid reasons why women should NOT continue with pregnancies.
Sullivan for Mayor