SHERIFF’S SHOWDOWN MONDAY … ‘RIGHT WING?” Yeah, RIGHT … THE WRONG-WAY LIMBO … ALF KEEPS POURING IT ON … HOW DUMB IS PELOSI? … NEWSPEAK
BY DAN VALENTI
PLANET VALENTI NEWS AND COMMENTARY
(FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, THE WEEKEND EDITION AUG. 5-7, 2022) — The skewers are out, the sewers are full, and we have the following items for The Weekend Edition smorgasbord:
Showdown for Sheriff — On Monday (Aug. 8) THE PLANET will sponsor, moderate, and broadcast a debate between sheriff Tom Bowler and challenger Alf Barbalunga. We will tape in the afternoon. The plan now, barring production or post-production glitches, will be to broadcast the one-hour event on multiple social media platforms Monday evening, without edits, save for opening and closing credits. We call the event “Showdown for Sheriff: Bowler v. Barbalunga.” This will be the first time the two square off in person. No phony Zoom! This will be live and look-me-in-the-eye high drama. To maximize that effect, we will begin the hour giving both B-men a chance to lob a live grenade at the other in the form of a direct question. Both men will respond to the Q. It will be revealing what each throws at the other, given that each will be looking to inflict the fatal wound.
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Right On — Add the League of Women Voters to the number of debates D.A. Andrea Harrington is ducking. Living up to her new campaign slogan, “Duck and Cover,” Harrington said she won’t participate in forums conducted by “right-wing” organizations: tte LWV, the Berkshire Eagle, and THE PLANET. With or without her, THE PLANET will proceed with our debate, slated for Aug. 17. It will likely be an hour with attorney Tim Shugrue and, standing in for Wrong Way, a potted plant. Our tipsters in the D.A.’s camp tell us that privately, she is under tremendous pressure to change her stance and participate in the LWV and Eagle events. Does she cave or hold her ground?
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How Low Can She Go? — The district attorney’s report on the shooting death of Miguel Estrella at the hands of Pittsfield police will be released to the public Friday afternoon at an invitation only press conference (of course, her archenemy, THE PLANET, isn’t among the invitees; no sweat. The room will be crawling with our spies!). Wrong Way faces quite the pickle. If she finds for the police, she’ll lose her white, Loon Left, female, LBGTQ, POC, woke core, essentially North and South counties. If she throws the police under the bus to save her political hide, she will admit what her critics contend, that she’s only in it for herself. Either way, she cooked her own goose by launching this probe. Maybe she should just concede the election tomorrow.
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Alf Keeps Pouring It On — Candidate for sheriff Alf Barbalunga continues to flog incumbent Tom Bowler’s management of the Berkshire House of Corrections. After zeroing in on the compensation of retired “special sheriff” Jack Quinn, Barbalunga blasted Bowler’s “executive empire,” pointing out how the HOC budget has increased by millions, even as the number of inmates has plummeted. Bowler, again caught on the ropes, covered up and pressed with defense. He said Barbalunga doesn’t understand budgets and that he’s telling on half truths. How did Alf respond? With another salvo yesterday. He accused Bowler of “fuzzy math” and administrative “bloat.” Canons roar, and the rockets emit their red glare.
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Dumb Is As Dumb Does — How dumb is Nancy Pelosi? She’s the highest ranking U.S. official to visit Taiwan in 25 years. China president Xi Jin-ping, the ablest world leader on the planet, made it clear last week in a call to Biden that he would not think well of a Pelosi tourist stop. China has a one-China policy, which the U.S. technically honors but in reality doesn’t. America needs to let China govern itself. Pelosi’s quixotic odyssey has perilously set back U.S.-China relations. Typical, though, how her pink-suited ego comes first over America’s best interests. She is the Wrong Way of national politics.
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Newspeak — In George Orwell’s prophetic novel 1984, Newspeak defines war as peace, hate as love, and so forth. Guess what they’ve called the Democrat-led measure to inject $1 trillion more in new spending (mostly on “green” fluff) during the worst inflation in four decades? “The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022.” Welcome to the United States of Dystopia.
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LOVE TO ALL.
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Dan, thank you for hosting the DA debate . Wish it were 3 hours. Lots of important questions to be asked.
GRANTS
You’re welcome. As I wrote, we will forge ahead, irrespective of Andrea’s decision. I hope she attends. She has not said no, and I will welcome her participation as I will Tim. If she doesn’t show, it will be Tim, Yours Truly, and, instead of an empty chair, a potted plant.
Many important questions to ask the candidates for sheriff too, such as how long is too long to serve, why they really want the job, why is there really even a “special sheriff”, why us taxpayers are still paying for the Second Street jail, who really “leaked” about Carm, and at what point do they believe the budget should be cut, and layoffs happen, based on dwindling inmate population, how much grant money has been spent over past several years, and who specifically (name names) got a piece of the pie, and lastly, what is the real story behind all the allegations and inuendo around Barbalunga and his work ethic and problem with women?
Great questions. Don’t be surprised is some of them are asked. Appreciate your input to this board, G.
How many reports of sexual harassment have been filed against you, Alf?
Carm was nuts and Alf admired his crazy.Thank you Tom for getting rid of that problem.
free and fair elections …….same crap as Nov 2020 we are a banana republic
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/08/detroit-republican-poll-worker-thrown-counting-center-challenging-ballots-internet-connection-computer-demands-detroit-police-officer-arrests-men-broke-law-video/
…..”In addition, after I made my first challenge, Democrat Party challengers began shadowing me at any table I went to, as well. They appeared not to care what was happening at the tables, only what I was doing. Then, large men dressed in black would show up and shadow me as well. I was not breaking any laws and was following all legal protocols as defined by the law and not being at all rude or meanspirited to the poll workers. I was never belligerent or abusive to anyone and wasn’t initiating conversation intentionally with anyone at the table except the supervisor. Sometimes, workers would ask what I was doing, and I would always say something like, “I am just observing, not trying to be a pest, but I can’t talk to you.” Things seemed to be fine. It wasn’t until men in black showed up that any table seemed to begin to have a problem with me. These men always demanded my credentials and information but refused to give me any information. When I would ask who they were (they had no lanyards or name tags), most of them would scoff and then get another one of them to try to intimidate me further and make accusations and threats toward me about being kicked out or how I needed to be 6 feet away from the table. None of them had any problem standing within 2 or 3 feet of me in order to try and raise my blood pressure. When it didn’t work, they would continue to dis………..
Lol
The fact that Harrington won’t shake the hand of her opponent is all you need to know. The woman is raised by wolves. Try getting her to talk about something other than her trip to Portugal. Why does she call every thing a “piece?” Treatment piece, resource piece, expungement piece… She sounds like a 10 year old uptalking Valley Girl.
“The woman is raised by wolves.”
Raised by rats , D-rats?, and same lineages. Vermin.
“Piece” is a replacement word for social service. Harrington has replaced trials with social service. The trouble with Harrington trying to apply the progressive prosecutor platform playbook she dragged us into is that we do not have an overincarceration problem in Massachusetts. Massachusetts has the lowest in the county, at 0.16%!!! It is a logical fallacy, the kind of flawed argument that would get thrown out in any court.
Do you really blame Berkshire County D.A. for avoiding the Dirty Bird (Berkshire Eagle) and blogger Dan Valenti? The Dirty Bird and Dan Valenti have unfavorably and unfairly criticized her over and over again. Do you really believe that Tim Shugrue’s legal career is without failures? Babe Ruth had many more Strike Outs than Home Runs during his legendary baseball career. But according to Tim Shugrue, he only hits proverbial Home Runs, while Andrea Harrington only Strikes Out. Speaking of George Orwell …. Pittsfield’s Level 5 public schools, violent crime-filled inner-city, distressed economy and economic inequality, high municipal taxes, fees, debts and other liabilities in return for substandard public services, political corruption, heavily indebted PEDA debacle, and so on, are all “Vibrant & Dynamic”…. just like Jimmy Ruberto’s Rolodex that can be found at the bottom of Silver Lake.
Yeah, Jon I do blame her.
Explain to me why Tim Shugrue participated in the NAACP zoom debate? Moderator and proven liar, Helen “Handgun” Moon, has made racial posts calling white people “YT.” It is a derogatory term, geared towards white people Jon. No different than if I called Handgun an “egg roll.” Didn’t stop Tim though.
Tim knew probably 90-100% of those participating in this “debate” were not going to vote for him in the first place. Like the leader that he is, he went and performed any way. He didn’t run and avoid it, like your hero Andrea “Wrong Way” Harrington has been doing.
As far as your “proverbial” crime infested city, yes the DA plays a huge part in this. The DA is supposed to represent the state in criminal matters, regardless of race. She has not done this. She has proven that she is very lenient to black men arrested and accused of crimes. All you have to do Jonathan is make a quick google search of three names and the crimes and punishments of each: Lonnie Durfee, LaQuan Johnson, and David Moody. After doing this search, tell me I’m wrong. Then do a quick search on the Simon’s Rock racial-kidnapping hoax. Explain to me why the black female was not charged with a crime?
As the DA, Wrong Way is expected to handle the problems Linda “Flat” Tyer and Tricia Farley-Country Buffet (D-illegal immigrants), have created and made exponentially worse, by accepting all the state grant money and the problems that come with it. You know, “vibrant and dynamic” recovering addicts from half-way houses in the Boston area. Sprinkle in a few “houseless” with drug dependency and medical issues, also from the Boston area, an low and behold, you have out of control crime. And of course, Ricky’s Rumpus on NON, but we’ll save that for another day. So again Jon, your excuse for her is invalid. After 3+ years in office, when does the buck stop with her and nobody else?
So, unless you are going to start posting FACTS that DA Wrong Way has done to better improve the quality of life for people in the Berkshires, stop posting this nonsense. We all saw it and read it yesterday.
Unlike the DA’s race the contested Sheriff’s race is an actual race. I can’t wait to see how the debate goes, you may want to get some body builders in there to keep the peace in case things get out of hand. I don’t think these two like each other and I see fireworks!! I am glad they both agreed to this forum, unfortunately the same can not be said of the other “race”. How is the electorate suppose to educate themselves if they can’t see the candidates respond on their feet to questions they don’t know are coming, unlike the Presidential debates where the Dems received the questions ahead of time. Sorry for digressing. Another aside would be a read an interesting article on Pelosi’s trip stating it was to help Xi remain in power. I guess there is a real estate bubble and supply chain issue so people aren’t paying their mortgage. Seems the middle class isn’t happy in China. We know Pelosi and the CA delegates are cozy with the spies from China so this is as good a guess as others as to why she went to Taiwan.
Shugrue should do an Ask me anything on Reddit. It’s an easy way for people to get to the points they want or would have gotten from the debates she doesnt have the guts to turn up for.
Yeah because so many of actual voters in Berkshire county will go on Reddit
Post it on the Community sites on Facebook and they will. People are pissed!
This will make democrats day!!!!
Dirtbag Chris Wray Corfirms that Same FBI Supervisor Behind Failed Whitmer Entrapment Scheme Is Leading Jan. 6 Investigation in Washington DCAugust 4, 2022, 5:00pmby Jim Hoft
Way past time to disband the FBI. Ted Cruz did an outstanding job of questioning Wray.
Will these people in the FBI & Injustice Dept. ever be held accountable for their crimes?
Ted Cruz?? Isn’t he the guy who took off to sunny Mexico when his state lost power last winter, leaving his constituents to figure out the problem themselves? That Ted Cruz?
The same Ted Cruz whose wife was called ugly by Trump but now kisses Trumps hemmorodial ass? That Ted Cruz?
Whenever a liberal has no argument, its TDS time
have a banana, next time You vote
Sure Fizze…2022 , now primaries…..
……….”I recall that a ballot at the scanning station did not register in the poll book. So, I stepped in to see if I could note anything unique about the envelope and monitor the process. I was immediately told I had to stand 6 feet back. The men in black appeared and started telling me falsehoods about how I wasn’t allowed to do anything but look at the monitor because everything was on the monitor. I said to them that isn’t true and that, in this specific case, the ballot literally was not showing up on the monitor, and that was the specific reason for the challenge. I also told them it wasn’t even me that initiated the challenge. They didn’t care. They just kept trying to distract me from my job by insisting that I was trying to intimidate the workers at the table by trying to see the election materials, as is my duty under the law as a challenger.”…………………………..
-TGWP
Trump was impeached TWICE (and may spend the rest of his life in prison) and many of the people he chose to surround himself with have been indicted for federal crimes. And I mention that just to keep things in perspective.
I have an idea of what the d a will decide today but will hold the thought. As far as the debate for d a she could care less about your debate.Tim will get the hour alone.She’s already made her own little info segments.She’s been interviewed extensively on pctv alone.
Trump Derangement Syndrome. Rest assured any slows news day on fake CNN and all it is is…..yea well Trump did this. Na na.
Ppd with the help of the neighborhood nabbed a catalytic converter thief in the act this morning.
Why do thieves want catalytic converters?
Money
Catalytic converters are made with precious metals that can be stripped, smelted and cashed in
Scrap
https://www.caranddriver.com/features/g40288617/cars-truck-catalytic-converter-theft/
According to the National Insurance Crime Bureau (NICB), catalytic converter theft has spiked dramatically due to three precious metals found inside them: palladium, rhodium, and platinum. How precious are we talking about here? At the time of this writing, an ounce of rhodium costs about $15,000. For comparison, an ounce of gold costs a measly $1800.
PO’D
Thanks. That solves it. Apparently, it’s out of control in Pittsfield. More good news from the “progressive” politics of the D.A. type.
The average catalytic converter ranges between $800 and $1,200, depending on the vehicle’s make and model. In general, the larger the engine, the more expensive the converter. Keep in mind that these prices only include the cost of the converter unit itself.Mar 3, 2021
Cpoy and post
U are full of bullshit, once againl
YOU. posted a copy. Try to get $1200 for a used conveter any where. Try Perlmans or Apkins.
YOU are a certified FOOL!!
So you think there are people crawling under vehicles in the middle of the night with a sawzall to steal a 12 inch section of scrap metal?
Can’t fix stupit.
Your ignorance knows not bounds,
Yes, they did it to my cousins trucks.
If they had been caught my cousins would have fed them to the pigs.
platinum in particular, but in general, thieves are attracted to things that they haven’t stolen.
Stealing in the pitt, beats work
Platinum is big bucks
They like trucks as the converters are bigger and they don’t have to jack the truck up.
If I caught one of those SOBs under my car, I’d let the jack down and walk away.
Let the rats files and maggots have at them.
Sounds pretty scary being eaten by a file.
Typo and lack of sleep.
Feral pigs, can have You.
Large kudos to the PPD for the hard work they are doing. Hope the guy “bumped” his head getting into the cruiser.
APMRF has lost many CC’s resulting in delayed operations. These incidents have come to a halt since we implemented destructive devices sensitive to sawzalls in the fuel lines to handle these pests. As fizzles said, cost of catalytic converter can easily match value of old vehicle.
Trump was illegally investigated, slandered, and spied on for 6 years now. NOTHING was found on POTUS Trump, nothing. Get over it. The crooks are the RINOs and liberals.
The people who did this: H-Beast, DNC, Wray ,FBI, DOJ, RINOs, should all be in prison
And FJB!!!!
GOD BLESS AMERICA!!
And how are the crooked preliminary elections going fizze?
Same crap is going on in liberal controled voting places as Nov 2020. Fraud was rampant in Detroit.
Isn’t fraud rampant in Detroit as a matter of fact? I think the point is that fraud should be contained to Detroit.
Price of gasoline, is coming down just in time for primaries.
Coincidence? NOT!!!
I agree. Like you, I wish it was ten dollars a gallon so the elections would be fair.
That would not fit the liberal/progressive agendas.
I am laying in the cordwood for this winter. I’ll be warm and cozy no matter what FJB does!!!
Don’t forget that chunk on your shoulders. Although, soft pine should only be used for outdoor fires.
I’ve sold hardwood when it was $35/cord 128 cuft.
You, couldn’t heft an axe then or now.
But my kitty has a word for YOU, pussy.
Uh huh. And I used to shovel coal into a locomotive steam boiler when I was twelve years old. Came out of the Cascade mountain range in British Columbia all the way to Lake Erie on the Wabash run. Took thirty five days with only one stop to pick up some more coal in Idaho. Not too proud to admit my arms did get tired. Nowadays the woke folk use diesel fuel and play on their IPads most of the way. But, I digress.
You can’t shovel all that shit, fizze.
I still have receipts dated 1975, YOU Fizzeled?
Your eyes are brown as YOU, are FULL of shit.
double post
It probably already is. When we run out of reserves which will be soon (we can’t empty ALL of them, just not much more than we already have) the exporters will make a giant bowl of popcorn, gather their kegs and teas, and watch the fireworks over the Atlantic Sea as they correct the market.
And You are a repubilcan, Banana REPUBLICAN
Alf respond? With another salvo yesterday. He accused Shugrue of “fuzzy math” and administrative “bloat.”
DAN, I know you do not mean Shugrue. Alf cannot take on everyone!
Ooops. Will fix. Thanks, N.
Whether she is pushing small children out of the way to ham it up in front of the camera or creating an international incident with China to leave a legacy behind and/or to hide her husband’s DUI charges, Pelosi is a person that most Americans will be very glad to see heading off into retirement. She’s been part of the swamp for her entire career and has definitely been a political hack as well.
Speaking of political hacks, will you vote for Mike Pence if he runs against Trump?
I’d vote for a dead dried out TURD, before Mike Pence.
Seriously? Is there one on the ballot? Is Majorie Taylor Green really running for president?
YOU voted/Selected for JOE and the HO.
Happy with that? What you pay for burger this week? Gasoline? ROFL!!!!!
you guys….my feet hurt now
How far left and out of touch with reality do you have to be to consider the Eagle and League of Women Voters “right wing”?!?!
The moonbeam wrongway and NAACP forums were actually PAID for!
A contribution was made by a third party to the NAACP prior to WrongWay being involved with the clear expectation that it would be a forum for wrong way to spew her nonsensical word salad.
She’s basically violated campaign laws and equal time laws by buying time for a forum. The discussion points were carefully orchestrated and negotiated in advance.
Wrong way is deathly afraid of live extemporaneous forums. Very telling about someone who is supposed the top prosecutor in the county and who can’t argue the merits of their “accomplishments”.
She’s also whining in the office about how Healey has left her high and dry. She wanted a job in her office. She still thinks she could be the AG of MA. She’s also pissed because Hinds walked away when he knew she was in an election cycle. The background on that is Wrong Way was told, the party has done enough for her and if she can’t hold onto her job, that’s her problem. She will NEVER (the emphasis was clear in the call) be elected to the senate.
Wrong Way is freaking out! It’s nearly impossible to work and yes, half her day is spent on campaigning and on the phone with her consultant.
THE PLANET also has a credible report of a recent phone call she made to a previous supporter who now is backing Tim Shugrue. According to inside sources, her desperate and panicked plea fell on deaf ears, and she ended the call sobbing like a school girl. We’d like to ask the D.A. for comment, but since she doesn’t talk to THE PLANET, we get it from second and third bananas.
Are Tyer and Andrea bedfellows?
That is an ugly image either one. Which Andrea? Harrington or Nuciforo?
Interesting. I’m curious who this supporter was that had her in tears? Based on these two posts above, I’m wondering if it was Tricia Farley-Country Buffet (D-illegal immigrants) who is now backing Shugrue?
Normally when there’s a photo-op for Tricia, she smears herself in it, like feces on toilet paper. She was noticeably missing when Maura and WW had their selfie together recently.
Nope. It’s worse. Campaign ending career tanking get on the next flyer out of town bad.
So why the Healy/Warren endorsements? Because she’s the Democratic incumbent?
I don’t get it.
Don’t overthink it. If it’s a woman and Dem they are going to support her.
Some sort of settlement. Sort of like the end of Goodfellas.
Tyer seems to like those photo ops as well. Is she going to channel the Civic Authority and tear down historic Waconah Park? No more marble train stations so go for the next iconic landmark?
Report the campaigning from the office.
Transparency needs to not only happen in office, but also in ones personal life. Someone running for any political office needs to have a clean record and clearly define someone of good moral character professionally and personally. Alf has asked the community if they have any questions for Sheriff Bowler to let him know. I have questions for Bowler to ask Alf if time allows..
1. Is Alf willing to discuss the restraining order he had or has and how he thinks that it’s ok to go after a female superior court clerk ordering her to make it disappear?
2. Is Alf willing to discuss he recent affair with a female who is 30 years old and why photos of his private parts were sent to her phone and her roommates phone?
3. Is Alf willing to discuss why he was kicked out of a recent Probation Conference for displaying his private parts to a group of female probation officers?
Nothing will happen if people don’t speak up. Anyone in the courts or law enforcement who has information like this needs to do the right thing and inform the public. This is how we ended up with Clarence Thomas and Brett Kavanaugh. This is how the world ends.
Thank God we have Clarence and Brett, on the SCOTUS.
How has Alf been slinging his wiily, if so? This should be a matter with the court. If this is valid he should be fired from his position
Then there is the alleged missing report that he forced two women to perform oral sex on him in exchange for allowing their spouse/boyfriend to get “no show” probation meetings.
We know that part of this is true because there was an investigation, the rampant abuse was cited in a report that got the probation commissioner fired. There were three lines in that draft report.
“The investigation into sexual assault by a Southern Berkshire District Court probation officer has been confirmed by this investigation. Two women, unknown to each other, both reported a very similar pattern of behavior by (redacted). The expectation was that, in exchange for sexual favors (redacted) would give favorable post release and re-entry reports.
That was in the report, and then it disappeared from the final draft.
Alf had already had a history of sexual harassment, sending dick pics and making unwanted sexual advances, and this came up and got swept under the rug.
Not sure most woman would want someone like that investigating sexual assault stuff. Hope it is not true because it would be real ballsy to run if it is.
He’s never suffered any consequences for his repeated offenses. No one can touch him because of who he is. He will continue to misbehave because he can.
Cumo got busted for that stuff.
YOU love Andea! The one from the Bank too…
Looks like you polished off that whole sixpack already huh?
Hit! Point for originality on a cliche.
typo, but YOU , are up Andrea’s skirt and down on Mr. Stracuzzi’s pants
And Ex NY govs pants …..Mario!
Is Alf ready to discuss his no show record in North Adams; how he received a suspension as a result yet did not serve one day of his suspension, how he had probationers detailing his car, how last fiscal year he earned 8k in overtime?
Just got my morning assignments for today.
5 catalytic converters stolen in Pittsfield, six vandalism reports (break in car window). Four catalytic converters stolen in West Stockbridge and Richmond (2 and 2)
Three catalytic converters stolen in Great Barrington and seven car vandalism reports.
Yes. Harmless incidents the D.A. will not prosecute. So why should cops arrest them. Why, even should these incidents generate reports and investigations? Why should victim even report such incidents. Why, then, should criminals think twice before going on their sprees? That’s the sequence of events that hits ground level, which in turn destroys public safety. Thank you, Andrea Harrington, District Attorney.
…and then why shouldn’t property owners resort to vigilante justice? And why shouldn’t that justice be disproportionately severe in order to send a message? Perhaps neighborhood crime watch groups would cooperate to disappear the bodies of thieves. Is that the direction we want?
I’m designing a hack where you cut the CC while car rests on tires and the hydraulics deflates instantly leaving chassis 4 inches from ground.Nothing like a compression of lungs by catalytic converter to make a journalist happy.
Starbucks is closing stores in Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Portland, and its hometown of Seattle. Each of these cities has a radical prosecutor dedicated to non-prosecution of even serious crimes, such as the Andrea Harrington’s friends George Gascon in L.A. and Larry Krasner in Philly. Property crimes are up in all these cities. The next time you can’t get a good cup of coffee in one of these places, consider who you voted for in the district attorney’s race.
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/07/14/starbucks-is-set-to-close-these-16-us-stores-over-safety-concerns.html
Good riddance. Stale pastries and coffee. That’s one thing those DA’s can be proud of.
I think you are my adjuster! Geico? I have an appointment with you tomorrow at 9:30 am. I live in West Stockbridge on the line between Richmond and NY on Cross Road. Went to dinner in my wife’s car, came home. Got in my truck this morning. Engine light was on and it sounded like a canon. I knew instantly they took my CC.
Lazy West Stockbridge police took the report over the phone and said I have to pay for the report that will be ready in a week?
Thank the D.A. Local police are thoroughly demoralized. If they arrest and charge, she won’t bring it to trial … unless the perpetrator is the wrong demographic, particularly white, male, middle aged or older.
Maybe it is an insurance scandal
Sounds like a professional organization. Wait till the bank robbers find out about free ride Pittsfield.
Some are and some aren’t. They caught one guy today. He’s a pan handler lives in Pittsfield.
and probably back out on his favorite corner right now with his hand out
What’s his corner? This is good tip.
He works the Big Y parking lot looking for “gas” money and sometimes down by the banks.
Probably should have saved the answer more discreetly,, but got a description? What shoes and belt does he wear? Tats – what and where?
Probably looking for money for new sawzall blades…
Once the word gets out the DA is pro criminal it’s open season.
In speaking with some acquaintances, most do not seem to know that the SEPT. primary election will determine the winner of the DA contest! Dan please mention that before your debate, to help inform the disconnected public!
That’s it, Fritz. People need to tell their friends and neighbors and get people to mail in those ballots.
Don’t know if it was put forward But the DA press conference is at 2 o’clock on PC TV channel 1303
Hell no, show up in person to vote!
A shorter chain of custody/ Mail in ballots are handled by more steps, and more corruption or loss is possible.
For example: go to a booth, and fill ballot, stuff into the counter/box. Next step is collection of ballots to counting site. Short time, few hands.
Mail in: mail ballot in to be handled and stored. What happens if a clumsy Mr. Smith spills his coca cola on a pile of ballots? Does it become tossed? Just can’t get no satisfaction with the idea.
Dan,
how in the world do you keep up with all you do? Sponsor and moderate debates, writing books, the Planet writings and personal life ,etc…? My wife and I are amazed at how you do it all! She calls you the Bionic Planet.
Across our country this is what the real definition of justice reform is. For those who claim it is working they are the ones who haven’t experienced the results of it.
https://nypost.com/2022/08/04/meet-the-shoplifter-with-101-arrests-and-let-go-almost-every-time/
According to this account the officers wanted to use less than lethal means to subdue Miggy. All cruisers are equipped with bola wrap devices. Miggy was walking according to this report, not running. Apparently the officers aren’t trained to even think of using the bola wrap. Why did PPD buy them?
Maybe they are a scam and don’t work but are marketed by unscrupulous vendors who are taking advantage of disarming police trends.
Maybe, Wynn got suckered and bought them and then discovered they only work against cadavers and people under 100 pounds so stuck them in cruisers with a do not use postit on them to save face?
Ah! you have videos that they work! And who makes those videos? That is the simplest solution.
They don’t work 100% of the time they’re not used.
But if they do not work 100% of the time when deployed, what’s the point of using them?
https://www.wamc.org/news/2022-08-05/releasing-long-awaited-report-berkshire-da-harrington-will-not-press-charges-in-march-pittsfield-police-shooting-of-miguel-estrella
Shugrue will beat her two to one.
AH announced the killing of Miggy was justified. Interesting political move.
When Harrington got elected she asked if DA’s were expected to review things like appeals. I’m guessing if it took her an hour to present the report rather than summarize it it’s because she just read it off.
Karen Bell led the investigation and wrote the report.
She’s a real prosecutor.
Then why not quit in protest like their counterparts in other cities? I have no respect for her either.
How would we know that? Almost 4 years since Karen Bell joined the Berkshire DAs office and she’s NEVER tried a case!!
So we have both the first assistant DA and the DA who never try cases and then we have Dumboney railroading foster parents. No wonder it’s such a clusterfu&*
Bell hasn’t tried a single case to jury verdict in 3 1/2 years.
True. But she knows the law and how to analyze the facts of a case. AH does not. That’s why the conclusion legal, not political.
The top three people don’t try cases in superior court. They plea everything down and away. It’s a sham operation we are paying for.
Bullshit. A cop wrote the effing report and always does.
NAMASTE
The pressure got to her. She caved as far as her woke base is concerned. She knew going in she will lose on Sept. 6 to Tim Shugrue, and she figured there was no way she could legitimately deny overwhelming evidence showing the police acted properly. I’m getting much more about the behind-the-scenes stuff that led to this outcome. Bottom line: She just conceded the race!
She brought in the deceased’s sister and will somehow use that to help in her campaign. Why was Tyer there? She’ll be the next fake endorsement. They give good women a bad name.
@Been there, I agree. She is trying to appeal to her woke base by having the sister give her side from the DA’s office. She holds on to dome resemblance of being in law enforcement by finding no fault with police while simultaneously throws a block of tofu to her woke base by using the sister to lay blame on “the system” where there are insufficient services for the mentally ill.
Love the “block of tofu” line!
Glad the sister took the time to change out of her pajamas before speaking at the podium. On another note, glad the podium was still standing after Andrea tried to leap frog over it knocking off half the microphones.
Anyone who actually listens to her speak and still votes for her as as mentally unstable as Miggy was.
She loses a few people who would have never voted for either of them (illegals and no turn out bums) and hopefully pics up some who actually vote and are on the fence. Like the guilty rich elite of Williamstown and Great Barrington.
Hooters is going to open a restaurant in Pittsfield!
Application for a permit just came into City Hall today. Pad site 4 at Berkshire Crossing!
Maybe nipples can get a job doing dishes there
People in Pittsfield are so old I thought Hangers was a topless place featuring women of Linda’s vintage.
Perfect for Pottersville
Pretty sure they will be getting tax breaks from the mayor. Barry will put in a good word for them. Whose liquor license are they going to be getting? Will the girl from the First street bridge be there for the opening ceremony? Will Andrea be offered a position if she loses her erection? I mean election?
First I would like to say that if watching Andrea’s Famous Press Release today didn’t prove she is unfit for the job, nothing will. She calls a press conference then shows up almost 15 minutes late. You had to turn the volume way up on your TV to hear her, the spread sheet presentation was unreadable and she was having trouble reading her own notes, kept losing her place, kept talking about Bartlett Avenue instead of Bartlett apartments. While playing the video from the hairdresser’s business which showed the whole event, she offered no explanation as to what was going on. Did she even know?
Thankfully, I am pleased that the PPD was found not guilty of this shooting. Would suggest to all, listen to a scanner for just a couple of hours and you will completely understand what these officers go though on every shift. The PPD department spends their days being social workers, baby sitters, marriage therapist, constant well being checkers, helping parents with uncontrolled children and I could go on and on. These men and women are really not doing the job they applied for. On any given day, drive down Vibrant and Dynamic North Street and you will find police cruisers pulled over dealing with drug over doses and intoxicated folks. It seems that our PPD works more for the Brien Center than the City. Does the Brien Center reimburse the City for this service? Changes need to be made by the City Administration to alleviate our PPD from these social services and let them get back to controlling crime and enforcing traffic violations, that is suppose to be their job and that is what taxpayers are paying for.
Ppd was awesome this morning apprehending a catalytic converter thief. Aldo a neighbor was also helpful in spotting the perps. One got away.
just let the jack down.
Did you her knock the podium into near oblivion,it was close,then she’s merged?
Yes, and she giggled like Kamela. Another highlight was our illustrious Mayor Flat Tyer wrapped in a big shawl on a 95 degree day. Evidently her ex-boyfriend Mikey Wynn was giving her the chills.
Go reel to reel on the shooting. Miggy got hosed.
She’s just remembering that it’s not to buku. It’s just a fine specimen of Alabama black snake.
Channeling Dorian Harewood in Kubrick’s FMJ, I see.
Indeed Dan-great movie.
Mayor Linda Tyer’s radio interview about the future of Wahconah Park.
As Wahconah Park Restoration Committee re-imagines the historic ballpark’s future, Pittsfield Mayor Linda Tyer outlines goals | WAMC
Follow the Money.
Seriously, with all that is going on in this city right now she has time to think about a new ball park? Ask for an upfront accounting of where the money is going. Who will the contractors be? Why is this being rushed like it was a life depending emergency? Why can’t this wait till construction material costs subside? Why can’t this be put on a referendum for citizens to vote up or down? Why is she spending taxpayer money like she has gone out of her freaking mind? Has she had a mental health check up lately?
Why can’t city fix water and sewer? Roads, most all are FKUED? Holmes rd bridge, it’s been 3-4 years now?
I think the stadium provides a distraction from 1) the skyrocketing taxes & crime rate and 2) her failure at maintaining essential city services such as roads and schools. She wants to be known for a stadium not unlike a previous mayor who invested public funds in the Colonial.
BTW I am so sick of hearing Miggy’s family whine – if only our officials would enforce existing federal immigration laws and ship these lawbreakers out of our country! Front page news? Not!
Just like pushing lots of pot on the people of the country is to distract them from getting upset about all of the chaos in the country. It seems like one out of every 4 or 5 cars that I pass in Pittsfield is loaded up with skunk pot. Now the Berkshire Mall will be under new ownership and naturally more pot for the people will be a big chunk of what the mall will be selling. People want variety in their stores. Supermarkets are packed in Pittsfield so a nearby supermarket would have been great, pharmacies are mob scenes in Pittsfield so that is needed, but the only thing they can think of is pot.
Lenny, I agree with you. ALL Pittsfield parks have been and still are being neglected by this Administration. Parks are filled with garbage, needles, addicts and drunks. The City never took care of Wahconah Park, they couldn’t take care of the Softball Complex. The Colonial Theater is closed more than opened. MacHayden Theater puts on more events in their short summer season than Colonial does in a year for half the price. I want the park to survive, yet like the bike lanes, it is not in use year round due to our climate. There are so many other major issues in this City that funding could be used for. Tyer’s slogan should be Neglect Then Rebuild. She wants to build a new Wahconah Park yet she has been unable to renovate a shelter for the homeless, you seldom hear anything about this renovation. Most entry ways at City Hall are in disrepair with yellow crime tape around them. Are they really broken or does the Queen not want people to enter her palace? As usual the thought process is one sided by this Administration.
Wonder why Miggy’s girlfriend did not speak yesterday at the famous press conference, especially since she was present and vocal during the incident and was also constantly standing in front of the officer trying to do his job and help Miggy. Oh gee, forgot she got arrested a couple days ago for resisting arrest and disorderly conduct.
When was the last time the cops murdered someone you love right in front of your eyes? When was the first time or the last time the cops put their loaded gun to your head or to the heads of your loved ones? The girl is 19 years old, and she called 911 to get help for her mentally ill self-harming sick boyfriend, not to have the cops murder him right in front of her eyes. As for resisting arrest and disorderly conduct charges those along with assault and battery on a cop are usual suspect charges when the cops don’t have any legitimate charges to arrest you on. That said, I do believe there is great concern for yet another 18-year-old in possession of an illegal loaded weapon loose on the streets. I hope the court locked him up before he murders someone, and/or before the PPD recruits him for their gang of armed and deadly thugs.
Hey buddy, if Miggy didn’t assault cop with deadly weapon he would not have been shot. Grow a brain. He brought this on himself. He is responsible not “the system” or “systemic racism” or other such bs.
Law enforcement is probably the only racket where the court has ruled that barring smart people from becoming cops is not only rational, but necessary to reduce job turnover. Those with below average IQ are more suited for long careers in law enforcement. Career cops who steal from their own police unions and married with kids cops who molest young girls and sexually harass young female employees, and cops who harass civilians with impunity, that’s who’s attracted to careers in law enforcement and what police departments recruit.
CITY
Show me the court ruling that says that. Your blanket generalization is “not only rational” but [un]necessary.
There’s nothing I like better than proving that law enforcement prefers their recruits’ to be dummies.
Jordan v. The City of New London, Policing Hiring and IQ
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE SECOND CIRCUIT
SUMMARY ORDER
August 2000
Robert Jordan, Plaintiff-Appellant,
“The city could rationally have relied upon the guide to interpreting test results provided by the test maker as justification for reducing the size of the applicant pool with both a low and a high cut off. Even if unwise, the upper cut was a rational policy instituted to reduce job turnover and thereby lessen the economic cost involved in hiring and training police officers who do not remain long enough to justify the expense.”
“We have considered the appellant’s remaining arguments and find them without merit.”
PRESS RELEASE
Baker-Polito Administration Awards $11.2 Million in Shannon Grants to Address Youth Violence
2/10/2022
Pittsfield $396,034.80
STOP
The PPD/wynn will oversee this grant money allegedly awarded to combat gang/youth violence in Pittsfield.
The City of Pittsfield also received a $95,000 Award from the Shannon Grant Program
Wynn and Tyer attended the press conference at the State House to combat gang youth violence.
Tyer said the Shannon Grant and resources like it are essential to the city’s
work.
In 2014 Mayor Bianchi was pleased to announce that the city of Pittsfield had been awarded $133,000.00 from the Shannon Community Safety Initiative program. That was $33,000 more than the City of Pittsfield received the year before. Program Coordinator Adam Hinds said “The allocation is one-third larger than last year, reflecting continued growth. Hinds obviously meant continued growth in Youth/gang/gun violence in the City of Pittsfield.
In 2013 the City of Pittsfield reeled in a $100,000 grant to combat youth violence.
I can’t find the amounts of money the City of Pittsfield received for the years 2015, 2016, 2017,2018, 2019, 2020, and 2021. But based on anecdotal evidence and the police logs, there are more youths with illegal guns on the streets of Pittsfield now than there were 10 years ago. Two young females, both the daughters of cops, one a minor, the other an 18-year-old had no trouble getting their hands on loaded guns. The 18-year-old daughter of a Pittsfield cop took her loaded handgun with her on her shoplifting spree for alcohol, which led to a high-speed chase through the city. While the other minor female daughter of another Pittsfield cop allegedly shot herself with her cop father’s unsecured handgun after he tormented her.
The politicians are also all for pushing lots of pot on the people of the country I think to distract them from getting upset about all of the chaos in the country. It seems like one out of every 4 or 5 cars that I pass in Pittsfield is loaded up with skunk pot.
We smoked lots of pot growing up, it never caused us harm. Booze/beer got you in trouble, smaked up cars, and killed people, it still does.
It’s really the skunk pot that has become the major problem. It takes pot to a whole new level that is an obnoxious skunk smell instead of the sickly sweet odor of the pot we have all come to know and somewhat tolerate. Women who use a lot of regular pot have issues with it that I have seen such as depression, lack of energy, weight gain from having the munchies all the time, and lung problems. Maybe men tolerate it better.
Skunk pot is not the same as the sickly sweet odor of normal pot that we have come to know and somewhat tolerate. Skunk pot takes obnoxious to a whole new level.
Brother Ephraim sold his cow
And bought him a commission
And then he went to Canada
To fight for the nation;
But when Ephraim,
he came home
He proved an arrant coward,
He wouldn’t fight the
Frenchmen there
For fear of being devoured.
Sheep’s head and vinegar
Buttermilk and tansy
Boston Is a Yankee town,
Sing “Hey, doodle dandy!”
There is indeed a kind of animal, neither male nor female, a thing of the neuter gender, lately started up among us. It is called a macaroni. It talks without meaning, it smiles without pleasantry, it eats without appetite, it rides without exercise, it wenches without passion.
This is the historical depiction of a Macaroni returning home from his gap year in Italy and dad who does not believe his eyes. Not much has changed with gauges, piercings, inappropriate appropriations of tribal tattoos, and other mendacious shows of sophistication.
It’s gonna be a long summer for both.
“Hope, in reality, is the worst of evils because it prolongs the torment of man.” – Nietzsche
Cops are cold blooded killers, they’re reptiles, they kill with impunity. wynn, tyer and harrington are stained with the blood of Daniel Gillis and Miguel Estrella.
Watch the tape of the shooting clearly something other than what happened should’ve been done I didn’t have to answer abruptly he was more aggressive in the early stages before he was shot didn’t see anything near the end it should’ve provoke the officer to do that I agree city why you got people on here disagreement comes down beyond me
“Cops are cold blooded killers, they’re reptiles, they kill with impunity. wynn, tyer and harrington are stained with the blood of Daniel Gillis and Miguel Estrella”
Most cops are good moral people, and I assume the same as those involved in the ME event. You know this to be true because you are a logical person. Therefore, your point seems to be that the organization of officers leads to abuse. Isn’t that the nature of all organizations that is endowed with power?
Bolas, tasers, sticks, bag guns, social workers (“I’ll take it from here but please don’t go far which at minimum acknowledges that they may be no more effective as the low-powered taser”) are not the problem in this event. Officers are not expected to retreat and bolt under threat. I wonder first what command structure was present that evening? Was there a lieutenant or other higher rank present to direct and coordinate, summon more officers?
I agree Dan that up is down and evil is good with the far left fanatics. Michelle Obama said they wanted to change everything about our country and our culture including our language and its meaning so that it becomes meaningless and communication isn’t really about communicating. It’s about brainwashing. This infusion of another huge chunk of cash will mean even more misery for Americans unless they work for the school system or are very wealthy. Lives will be destroyed all in the name of saving the climate which is a deceptive term for giving lots of power to the politicians. This is a tiny bit scaled down Build Back Better bill and the garbage about bringing down the inflation is just to fool the public.
You know what gives power to politicians? Insurrections. Insurrections by power mad authoritarians who build shitty walls and lie about who is going to pay for them. Insurrectionists whose own family wants nothing to do with him anymore.
Another thing I would say Fizz, is illegally spying on American citizens. This also includes a sitting president.
Hate to burst your bubble, but this took place LONG before 1/6 and was orchestrated by the usual suspects: Barry, Xiden, Hillary, and the DNC.
Much like TSC, when you don’t respond back, we all know why.
So why did Trump have the secret service destroy all their phone records?
Can’t hear you……
Let’s hear the other side of the story and not this one sided circus with these two RINO Republicans who hate Trump and the Democrats who lied to us about Russia/Trump collusion for 4 years.
Why do you assume it’s Trump and not Pelosi? One guy said he handed his in without doing a thing to it so it seems to be an inside job…btw this was after Trump left office
Please explain Trumps treason one more time…lol
TDS alert
Name one person tried and convicted of treason from 1/6?
Remember when Pelosi and the other democoRATs had the national guard, who was “protecting them” after the fact, sleeping in parking garages in DC, while illegal immigrants got hotel vouchers.
Remember that TSC?
What female politician got pulled over for a DUI last night in Great Barrington and was released into the custody of her husband? No charges filed, and the report tossed. It was a long day for that poor little “lady”. Position has privileges.
No harm. No foul. “Do you know who I am?”
Is it the 47-year-old one with fetal alcohol syndrome features?
Report tossed? There are recordings of the stop so someone is in for it. Come clean now. It’s always the cover up.
GB police do not have car or body cameras.
Running a plate is recorded but plates are run all the time. A cop calling on a personal cell for to the watch commander on his personal cell, then the watch commander calling the belligerent politicians husband on a personal cell phone are events that aren’t recorded.
Well it’s gonna be real obvious who was on duty. Hope someone takes the opportunity to do the right thing now.
Who?
Who is right?
I’m curious too Lenny. With the new rules of MA POST, that cop could have just lost his/her police certification.
Honesty and Integrity are big issues with MA POST and a police officer’s certification. Letting a OUI (criminal offense) off is a violation of both. This isn’t the 1980’s were cops just “tossed your keys in a field” as punishment or a speeding ticket that gets “taken care of.” Its a criminal offense.
If this is true, maybe let the local chapter of MADD and SADD in on it. See how they feel about letting a drunk driver off. Many of them have lost loved ones to OUI drivers.
Unfortunately there are no local chapters anymore. I can’t imagine any local or state police being loyal to her. Not that it should matter, if she did it, she should be held accountable.
Not exactly. There is no mandatory arrest provision for OUI.
Is this being denied by Harrington?
People should try and find information on current campaign schedules to see if anyone we might know was at any campaign functions up that way at the time.
I’m sure they have all closed ranks and got their stories straight by now.
Why leave us hanging
I’m taking bets on whose going to break it.
That release will get the cop fired.
No….it won’t. That would result in a story, which as we are told, we know that we do not want a story.
Why couldn’t this outcome happen for me out in Napa? I went through much more for my episode.This person must be more important. Nance is so upset with me that she left the country.
Throw the sult in jail. Take her driver license two years.
Chicpoee. Tou years
Our current DA says she has issues with removing violent criminals in any circumstances. Why would she want to keep them here? Once again criminals get a pass from her.
Berkshire Eagle:
DA Harrington questions
Shugrue’s stance on cooperating with ICE; DA and sheriff’s candidates to meet in upcoming debates:
Berkshire District Attorney Andrea Harrington is challenging DA candidate Timothy Shugrue’s statements on the potential of collaboration between the office under his leadership and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), following a mid-week candidate forum that featured both attorneys.
During the forum, co-hosted by the NAACP, the ACLU and local branch of the League of Women Voters, candidates were asked about whether the office would communicate with ICE if they encountered someone with an administrative warrant from the federal agency. Shugrue said that he would not create blanket policies and would treat each case individually.
“It depends on the severity of the particular crime,” Shugrue said. “If someone is charged with a minor drug offense and ICE wants to come and take them, then I don’t think it’s appropriate for us to do that.”
Shugrue said that if the person is “a very serious violent felon and a conviction can happen” that he felt he would have “an obligation” to notify the agency. Harrington issued a statement late this week calling Shugrue’s response “disturbing,” and called on him to change his thinking on the matter.
Wading into federal immigration policy, Harrington said, is “not the job of the District Attorney and sets a dangerous precedent that erodes trust of our immigrant communities and makes it less likely victims will report other crimes like domestic violence.” “Berkshire County embraces the diversity of our immigrant communities, and it’s unfortunate that my opponent supports prosecution methods that hurt these communities,” she added.
It was the most bizarre exchange. Violent armed criminal illegal immigrants deserve your respect, understanding and protection according to Harrington. Whut?
So much for support from the Black community
Michael Hitchcock
@MeHitchc0ck
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Andrea Harrington is a cynical social climber with no courage or convictions beyond the courage to step on people she considers beneath her and the conviction that she deserves great success. She is absolutely the worst type of person.
The dude is white
She said violent criminal illegals deserve your respect…this is a lie.
Diversity trumps law & order, Andrea?
This Estrella sister isn’t to bright.Yeah your brother needed mental health intervention.But after reviewing the tape by reel,he was shot like a dog.Don’t forget Ms Estrella,the PPD D A and State Police represent the Commonwealth. Do you think the assertions coming from this D A would find for Miggy? God rest his soul.
If my daughter were raped, I’d want justice here, not send the guy back to his native country were he could rape again. Lock him up, not turn over to ICE. I’d want justice.
Hey moron, first he serves time here, then he’s deported. That way if he rapes again, hopefully it’s not in the USA.
They would face prison time here and then be deported for that violent crime if illegally here. If illegally here person shouldn’t have been here in order to commit any crime at all because the person is illegally here to begin with. If a immigrant legal citizen of USA when sentenced is served back on our streets. Harrington is weak on all criminals.
I’d do an 06 in his nuts, two times.
Good point. I say keep the head and torso for justice here, sent the rest home. The criminal can collect his parts on release.
Metaphor, don’t freak out. how about deport his stuff and illegal associates, illegal family member who are not allowed to live North of Mexico and South of Canada and let him reconnect post-release in those much more civilized nations that sent him here?
Suddenly she discovers what the job of the DA is?
What’s also disturbing is Harrington saying that she takes into consideration someone’s immigration status in sentencing. How is that ethical to go easier on someone who is undocumented vs a citizen.
She is hoping those mail in ballot’s get mailed in from those she won’t uphold the law against.
She’s also trying to score brownie points with the local state rep who represents illegal immigrants. That rep being Tricia Farley-Country Buffet (D-illegal immigrants).
She knows Tricia provided the platform by giving illegals DL’s and on every DL is an address. This way when Pedro Sanchez-Gomez Rodriguez, from Venezuela, gets a soft, mitigated, sentence that normally would have resulted in jail time, DA Wrong Way knows the 6 or 7 ballots mailed to Pedro’s address, will come back with votes for her.
Remember everyone what Tricia told us about giving illegals DL’s, “it’s safe, even Chief Wynn thinks so.”
Read the following and then remember this when voting in the da’s race that Harrington has an issue removing people like this which she states in the post I’m replying to from OP.
Shugrue said that if the person is “a very serious violent felon and a conviction can happen” that he felt he would have “an obligation” to notify the agency. Harrington issued a statement late this week calling Shugrue’s response “disturbing,” and called on him to change his thinking on the matter.
https://hotair.com/john-s-2/2022/08/05/this-kidnapping-and-murder-story-out-of-alabama-is-
awful-n487777
She’s really not one to jump in a conversation about properly licensed drivers.
AlienLifeForm= “work ethic issues.”
https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2010/05/23/agency-where-patronage-job-one/kZnzE9G3FFjO6RrkCSbuWP/story.html
“That was underscored by the case of Alfred E. “Alf’’ Barbalunga, the son of a Pittsfield judge said to be friendly with O’Brien. In 1999, Barbalunga came under fire for poor job performance as a probation officer in the district court in North Adams, according to several sources with direct knowledge of the situation. Among the complaints against the younger Barbalunga was that he wasn’t always showing up for work, the sources said.
One judge recommended Barbalunga be fired, but the judge overseeing an investigation recommended a severe sanction short of dismissal, according to the sources who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the personnel proceedings were confidential.
In the end, Barbalunga received no discipline at all. And when a slot opened in 2002 for chief probation officer at the district court in Great Barrington, O’Brien gave him the promotion. Today, he makes $102,946 a year, more than twice the income he earned when he was investigated.
In an interview, Barbalunga denied that his work ethic was the central focus of the investigation. He gave the Globe a list of court references, including a former judge who said he is a solid worker.
“That was a very unfortunate time,’’ Barbalunga said. “I think I’ve done an outstanding job.’’
This was also about the time Alf was allegedly sodomizing probationers wives and girlfriends for “no show probation reports”.
One day there was a report that went into great detail about the alleged sex for no show probation” and then another day there wasn’t.
Alf’s right about one thing, his not showing up to work wasn’t the main focus of the investigation, his alleged sexual assaults were. His alleged requesting money from probationers, his alleged stealing of and using cocaine from probationers was more the focus.
Hey Alfie, if you’ve got nothing to hide, ask for the report to be released. If you don’t do it someone will, to the Boston Globe and the Eagle and not only will you not be sheriff, you’ll end up in jail. Those alleged sexually assaults, you’ve got years on the statute of limitations.
All you need to know above his campaign.
Barbalunga’s campaign communications director is Katherine Yon
Re-connect Center Kathy Yon. A grant funded program.
Simply fix to roundabout, raise asphalt 4 inches to match inside curb, allowing bigger vehicles to jump the curb. Problem solved!
Wahconah park grandstand can be restored. They are going to tell us it can’t, but it definitely can. Every steel beam and footing can be replaced. Every board can be replaced. Miss mayor do not bull doze our park.
Joetaxpayer, of course you are correct. Thia is a 100 year old park that was renovated 60 years ago. It was and remains a wooden structure that is no longer used by Pittsfield kids, and now they are talking renovation for a minimum of 10 million dollars. It sure is nice to be a big shot when you are spending taxpayer dollars. Have we gone crazy to even consider this? Pittsfield youngsters don’t use the park.
Mr. Garivaltis: I would be interested in talking to you about this.
Charles, Thank you for your interest in my posts but I no longer have interviews or meetings. Periodically I have breakfast with Dan (we’re overdue now) and that’s about it. It was nice hearing from you, and I want to tell you I admire your political courage and ability to articulate pertinent issues .Again, I am appreciative of your interest in meeting with me.
That’s perfectly fine, Chuck. I’ll be content digging into your insights as you share them.
If there was ever a man for insights–politics, sports, life–it’s Chuck Garivaltis.
I say level in and put up a parking lot
Dan,
Please ask Alf to release his discipline report from his time as a probation office employee in North County. It would clear up a lot of things.
Since he is the subject of the report he can release it or authorize it’s release.
The sexual assault allegations are very disturbing.
From her white privileged upbringing, to her life removed from reality in Richmond, Andrea Harrington is, at her core, an incompetent racist.
Behind closed doors, and in places she feels comfortable, she calls people of color; thugs, dirtbags, and she uses the N-word. I have heard it first hand. When she was working part time in Great Barrington, if you didn’t have money and weren’t white, she’d not return your call.
She looks at minority communities as communities she can use to further her political ambition; tokenism is her method of manipulation. Unfortunately there are some in the minority communities that go along because supporting her enhances their bank accounts.
If she cared about the minorities in the community, she would put those commuting crimes in jail. She would punish repeat offenders, why? Because in the end those criminals are stealing from, hurting, raping, and killing the most vulnerable in our communities. Those here illegally have little trust in law enforcement, often due to the corruption they have seen in their home countries. I deal with hundreds of immigrants a year some here legally, and some not. When we talk about police and law enforcement and when I try to get them to report rapes or theft with violence, they shrug their shoulders and say, “no one will do anything because the prosecutor is corrupt.”
They see her misdeeds and incompetence as corruption. The police don’t arrest her, she lets violent criminals and murderers go free. From their perspective she is just like the prosecutors from their home country, the criminals go free because of corruption. When I try and explain she’s not corrupt but incompetent, they laugh and say “Nadie puede ser tan tonta” or “ ¿Cómo puede ser tan tonta?
“Nobody could be that dumb”or “How can she be so dumb?”
By her incompetence and pursuit of her white privileged idea of justice reform she is failing POC and the community at large.
Please voter her out of office and make Berkshire County safer.
Because of my position in the community and the pressure within my organization to support her, I post this here anonymously but I implore you to vote for Tim Shugrue and save Berkshire County from the criminally incompetent Andrea Harrington.
AGB
I would invite you to contact us privately. I would like to talk to you further about this. You can email me at danvalenti@verizon.net in absolute and strict confidence.
Maybe Dan, look into the OUI in GB last night?
What news organization would not be dogging it down?
Uh gee, I dunno. Maybe the ones in Pittsfield? The ones who are not allowed to print anything without permission? The ones that make a mockery of the 4th amendment?
Trap, do you know if it was a GB pol? Or was it one of Pittsfield’s infamous as$-clown pols?
I’m just trying to put some pieces of this puzzle together, as I know NOTHING about it.
What Pittsfield pol works in GB as a nurse? What Pittsfield pol hates cops? So much so, she even posted a lie about being arrested at gunpoint by cops…..
Thank you. As I was saying, she is not supported by minorities. They largely dislike her and her lawlessness. She is a product of the self-congratulatory suits that subsist upon those who think voting for her gives the minority street cred. I doubt it.
Andrea you idiot, your free paychecks are coming to an end!
https://youtu.be/rH41HRrZNyg
Does Caitlin Shugrue work with the DA’s office as an ADA?
BE
I think so, in the eastern part of the state, Suffolk County (or Essex).
Yes
But, previously for Berkshire correct?
Yes, she did, before Harrington was unfortunately elected.
She Mrs. handled my case in Berkshire
Switched Ticket per Quigley
3 long fuxking years awaiting trial on CJIS crimes destroyed our future
I’m ya nagga
I voted for Andrea support group is at 7 p.m. on Wednesday at South Egremont 1st Congi
Paulie Piece
Hey hey last summer
On my case, correct
Ask Jacoub about sex violations
it’s Miggys family attorney.
The Senate is getting ready to pass the massive spending bill that will make the IRS the enforcement arm of the politicians and they will be going after regular income people including small businesses because there is no way that the wealthy will be able to pay enough of the massive taxes needed for the agenda of the far left radicals. Gas prices will skyrocket even more as the push toward electric cars, which nobody can afford and for which the charging stations aren’t readily available, to make the wealthy Democrats even wealthier and impoverish the lower classes and destroy the middle class will heat up even more.
Pat,
Just read about Sen. Crapo‘s amendment to insure that the IRS didn’t go after middle class and low income people. It was shot down by all 50 democrats. So much for Biden’s no one making under $400 G’s won’t face any taxes.
Of course it was. You don’t hire 3 times as many IRS agents as we already have and think they are just going after the wealthy. Oh no. The IRS will now squeeze every penny they can out of you on top of the high inflation making us pay more for everything.
Did Trump release his taxes yet? Its about 6 years now since he said he would.
Old Bernie Sanders wanted to create a Civilian Climate Corps. and add it to the massive Reduce Inflation Bill (God knows what a Civilian Climate Corps is, but it sounds ominous). That was rejected by the Senate but so was Bernie’s proposals to help the working class which there is none of that in this bill, except reductions in medicine to hook more people on drugs. The plans for the working class in Joe Biden’s America is to get them dependent on big government and a much reduced standard of living so they don’t want to prop up the working class with any actual help.
550,000 Americans went to work in July.We are at 3.5 unemployment which is considered FULL employment. All 22,000,000 who were not working 20 months ago are back statistically.Spin that Trump /FOX clan….This board is 90% believers in the stolen election conspiracy
Thousands being re-employed and many taking 2 nd & 3 rd jobs to cover 9.1 % inflation costs. Oh, most are part time jobs.
Yea, just great.
FJB! Yea
‘Twas heard in metro during Clinton’s full employment. “Yeah, I got a job. Got two in fact” Ain’t nuthin like a fully employed people to make them happy.
Now you have to work 3 jobs to make ends meet. Isn’t it great?
Inflation is still out of control which means your weekly paycheck doesn’t go as far as it used to unless you work for the school department where they magically find lots of money to give to their employees to help them through these difficult times while the majority of Americans are suffering.
You are full of it . The stat does not count the millions of bums who are not looking for a job.
Some stores are only open 3 days because of employee shortages. They said no one even applies for the job.
Who arrived @ Penn Central first for $1,000 DD Whoop Whoop
Pat,
Deep into Bernie’s Climate Corp’s proposal bs, is he wants it to be a union organization also.
I’m sure he does. Just like the school unions which have become so corrupt. Thankfully Bernie didn’t get that crazy idea put into law. Not yet anyway. There is enough craziness as it is in the so-called Reduce Inflation bill which is really a tiny bit scaled down Build Back Better bill. They want to get it passed before November to try and lock it into place in case they get kicked out in November. Just like Obamacare, they know it’s hard to get rid of once its been passed.
I don’t know what’s more far-fetched Trump won the election or Miggy wasn’t murdered. Sure looks that way to me?
Miggy prolly ain’t even a real person
Civilian Green Corp is joke to APMRF. Hahaha – we laugh at you before you even get your first paycheck! Good luck on your first home energy assessment! I can’t wait to show you my 10,000WT lamps replicating the Platonic Sun lighting my home. You shall weep when I toss you and your dimbulb LED’s out the window with a hail of insults to follow. “Begone you arrogant trilobite, you harlequin, you macaroni!”
You like that macaroni piece quite a bit.
Was Ephram Williams white or black ?
A most impertinent and inappropriate question.
Berkshire Eagle:
Friends of Miguel Estrella react to District Attorney’s report:
PITTSFIELD — A day after the release of the District Attorney Andrea Harrington’s investigation, those who knew Miguel Estrella struggle to place their feelings.
On Friday, the District Attorney’s office released the findings of their four-month investigation into Miguel Estrella’s death. Harrington said Officer Nicholas Sondrini used legal authority and acted in self-defense. Carolyn Valli, CEO of Central Berkshire Habitat for Humanity, where Estrella worked, said the family and many of the Habitat staff who knew him were traumatized again by the news.
“[We were] contacted by the family because it’s too much for [them]. They’re not over [it]. The more things go on, they are retriggered over and over and over,” she said. “They’re trying so hard to bounce back and recover and it’s just very challenging.”
Valli decided not to read the report herself after another staff member reacted to it.
“One of our staff reached out to everybody and actually suggested that we don’t [read it] because she’s been retraumatized by the video,” she said.
Valli said that mental health should be dealt in a different way. I think the goals that we set off after this happened to Miguel still stand true [and] that we need to have a better response when people have [a] mental health crisis,” she said. “I think people that are not experiencing [this] themselves have to really understand the magnitude of what COVID has done to people and the mental health crisis that we’re experiencing in Berkshire County,” said Valli.
Dr Jon Schnauber, who had known Estrella for seven years had harsher words.
“I am not surprised by the DA’s conclusion. Her job was to investigate and determine if the officers involved had committed a crime. This situation was determined to be justifiable homicide, identified and accepted as a systemic issue from day one. We’ve heard that ‘the system failed him.’ There are faces to these systems, gatekeepers right here in the community. Let’s look there for the answers, for the change. Look around, this is [the] zeitgeist. We’re not alone in this struggle.”The collective Invest in Pittsfield released a statement saying the police should not have been involved at all in the response.
“We know the truth in our hearts: this was a young man experiencing a mental [health] crisis, and instead of getting assistance from an unarmed mental-health professional who is trained in de-escalation, he met his death at the hands of the police. This tells us that the solution to tragedies such as this is not a co-responder model. The police, by virtue of their training, saw him as a threat that had to be neutralized. Miguel, by virtue of his previous interactions with police, saw two men in uniform who were armed to the teeth.”
The statement was also signed by the Maggie Sadoway Immigrant Cooperative, Manos Unidas, Roots & Dreams and Mustard Seeds Inc. and Westside Legends Inc.
Anyone see Alf’s latest claim that women are being help in pre-trial detention because they can’t afford the $50 bail fee. Actually, it is illegal in Massachusetts to hold anyone because they can’t afford the bail fee. Bail and bail fee are two separate things. Bail fee is the fee for the clerk to come out at night.
How many members of the Wayconah Park Stadium oversight commission have a background in civil or mechanical engineering? I say not a one,. plenty of Jocks and buffoons but no tax technical expertise whatsoeve. How did these people get appointed to this committee?
Some of the same people connected to the museum heist. The Colonial theater heist and the Beacon theater heist. The Springside park heist, dog park heist, Pontoosuc lake heist as well as a dozen other local heists.
They use a lot of chapstick and wear knee pads
Perfect example of a mind fu@k. Same, not same
Lots of Timothy Shugrue signs in the Allendale area.