DIE OFFICE WILL PERPETUATE THE SOCIAL ILLS IT SEEKS TO CORRECT … CITY OFFICE IS A WASTE OF TAXPAYER MONEY
BY DAN VALENTI
PLANET VALENTI NEWS AND COMMENTARY
(FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, THE WEEKEND EDITION MARCH 10-2, 2023) — Dei, Latin for “God.”
THE PLANET, therefore, refers to Pittsfield’s DIE office, not its DEI office. You know, the acronym stands for Diversity (actually, Exclusivity), Inclusion (Exclusion), and Equity (Injustice). This takes care of two things at once:
- It prevents us from taking God’s name in vain.
- It refers to a meaning more fitting for this deathly unnecessary office.
The presence of a fully staffed (well, sort of … it has a head-count of warm bodies), fully functioning (well, sort of … it serves its mistress well) HR office, headed by the fired grocery bagger Michael Taylor, makes the services of a DIE office redundant. The other, even bigger problem with the city’s DIE office lies in this type of “sensitivity brainwashing.” Social engineering initiatives of DIE’s sort boomerang, aggravating the issues they ostensibly are supposed to remedy.
The social inside track already exists via countless such initiatives, for example, affirmative action. As a result, more and more cities, colleges, institutions, and companies are ditching the DIE approach, which essentially is to police speech, contain freedom, and enforce (punish) through cancellation anyone who dares call DIE what it is — racist, sexist, agist, and whatever other “list” is currently Flavor of the [pick one] Day, Month, Year, Decade, Generation.
Yes, small rays of hope have been emerging to see that DIE dies — but not in Pittsfield, of course.
The fix is in via Mayor Flat to our Right Honorable Good Friends on the 8-3 city council to
- Create a DIE Ambassador Program. Purpose: “to create a welcoming and inclusive work environment for all City departments and employees.” The scheme pays the ambassadors, all city employees, $200 a month, $2400 a year on top of salary. They will hand-appointed by Mayor Flat. No muck there, eh?
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Official city language tells us that “[t]he purpose of a [DIE] Ambassador is to assist the Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in creating a welcoming and inclusive work environment for City departments. ‘Ambassadors’ are city employees who will serve as a resource for their colleagues and department while also serving as a community builder for peers with underrepresented and historically excluded identities. Ambassadors will help identify harmful structures and increase knowledge and awareness about inclusive leadership and communication.”
Do these words give you a chill, especially the part where these thought police “will help identify harmful structures?” What exactly does that mean?
And how dismal that one Alisa Costa says she’s running for lame-duck Kevin Sherman’s Ward 3 seat. From the Berkshire Eagle announcement:
“I can’t wait to get started doing what I’m most passionate about: creating a conversation between government and people,” Costa said in the statement. “I think that’s when we’re at our best.”
In 2021, Costa left Berkshire Bridges to start a private consulting firm called Engaged Communities Consulting. In a press release, Costa said her firm works mainly on community engagement and diversity, equity and inclusion efforts.
Leaves one with a lump in the throat.
Is there a doctor in the house? Anyone know the Heimlich maneuver? This is precisely the type of candidate Pittsfield does NOT need, and the preservation of the current Big Government city council and corner office will lead to the city’s destruction.
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Here’s what the city’s website says about the DIE office:
The City of Pittsfield recognizes its position of power and privilege and the influence of its actions on the community. The City is committed to recognizing, valuing, and responding to the needs of a wide range of individuals who look to us for assistance, such as language, sexual orientation, race, class, gender, ability, etc. In order to provide effective service, every City employee must understand how to respectfully interact with every community member.
By constantly learning about our community, evaluating our work, and adapting our approach to ensure that we continue to deliver quality services, we will create an inclusive and safe community where all people are empowered to live, work, and play—where individuals are respected and valued for their unique contributions.
Welcome to the Department of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion.
Our office, established in 2021, reflects the City of Pittsfield’s core values and ongoing commitment to equity and inclusion. We foster a welcoming community by encouraging respectful dialogue among all city employees and those with our community partners. Our work includes advocacy for human and civil rights by eradicating barriers that perpetuate inequality and injustice. Additionally, through our initiatives, we promote community awareness, understanding, and the celebration of cultural differences.
Achieving these objectives with an equity lens requires leadership, collaboration, time, resources, and a commitment to unlearning biases and creating space to learn from others who are different. We help city departments build and support an environment that continually reflects the diversity of the people the city serves.
In conjunction with the Office of Human Resources, we prioritize recruitment of marginalized and underrepresented backgrounds through intentional planning and retention in city departments. The Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion will also deepen community engagement to further strengthen and build new relationships throughout the city.
We are truly excited to be a part of this amazing and meaningful journey that will serve, benefit, and uplift the City of Pittsfield.
To learn more about diversity, equity, and inclusion, we’ve provided a host of information and resources for your reference. Please feel free to contact our office if you need additional assistance.
In Solidarity,
Michael Obasohan
Chief Diversity Officer
Chief Diversity Officer
Michael Obasohan
He/him/his (why this matters)
mobasohan@cityofpittsfield.org
DEI Administrative Coordinator
Noe Gonzalez Ortiz
He/him/his (why this matters)
ngonzalez@cityofpittsfield.org
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THE PLANET will meet with anyone — Obasohan, Costa, anyone — who might want to explain why we are wrong.
THE PLANET knows as all people of good heart know that the root of all human “isms” lies within the human heart.
Good people also know the only solution: An inner conversion of that heart toward LOVE. There is no other way.
The “cure” lies within the power of each of us but out of reach of social engineering. The creation of artificial substitutes in governmental institutions to police our inner personal mysteries and force feed a proscribed “inclusive” agenda worsens a sickness that has plagued humankind since Moonwatcher threw that bone into the sky.
LOVE IS THE ONLY ANSWER.
Have a great weekend, everybody.
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“I hope I never get old enough to think people need to agree with me” — paraphrase, T.S. Eliot.
“OPEN THE WINDOW, AUNT MILLIE.”
LOVE TO ALL.CLOSE
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Orwell captured reality with his typical genius, explaining: “Some ideas are so stupid that only
intellectuals believe them.”
I prefer PT Barnum.
I would agree. And I would agree with “so called intellectuals.”
For what reason
I come from the school of Human Rights. I believe that we are all equal and free to live, work and play in a tolerant society. I also know all about Human Nature and Human Behavior – especially GREED. When it comes to the government, the only things that matter are MONEY, POWER, Career Politicians, and the agenda-driven news media outlets. Most career politicians look at me like they are annoyed with me for always communicating with them, writing endless political emails, blogging about them, and so on. I feel that if I was a “PAC Man” who filled the Career Politicians’ campaign coffers with lots of MONEY, then they would look at me like I mattered to them. I believe that it doesn’t matter if you are black, white, green or orange, if you are a man, woman, or transgendered, if you are rich, middle-class or poor, and so on, to the Financial, Corporate and Ruling Elites who run the system of big government and big business, but rather, it only matters if you have MONEY, POWER, and you are willing to kiss the dirty behinds of the Career Politicians who do mostly DISSERVICES to the Have-Nots. To illustrate, I – Jon Melle – instead of writing and blogging about politics and career politicians, would (disingenuously) thank them for using our limited tax dollars to run TV ads marketing the 50-year-old Massachusetts State Lottery’s new $50 dollar scratch ticket, despite the fact that I understand that it is nothing more than a (voluntary) regressive taxation scheme to screw me and all of the Have-Nots like me over to further enrich the Financial, Corporate and Ruling elites at the public trough. Lastly, I am sick and tired of watching the $50 scratch ticket TV commercial! It is a SCAM!
JM:
I also know all about Human Nature and
Human Behavior.
Then you should know,
Anything forced is not natural and anything not natural will not survive.
Don’t listen to Jon. Two glasses of wine and beating me three times in the board game candyland last nite and now writes like he’s a tough guy like hulk hogan is.
It is a free choice to buy a lottery ticket.
Julianne Nassif
The lab scandal/the COVID-19.
Five million hours later… … … … … … … …. ……………………
…………
https://thecrimereport.org/2023/02/13/state-hid-criminal-referrals-of-other-chemists-supervisors-at-hinton-drug-lab-for-years/
Both left the attorney’s office for other government posts, according to “How to Fix a Drug Scandal.” Foster is now working as general counsel for Massachusetts’ alcoholic beverage commission
Kaczmarek was working as an assistant clerk magistrate for the Suffolk Superior Criminal Clerk’s Office until 2018
I am sure this office is not paying administrative expenses out of its own pocket. Any idea how much the taxpayer pony of for paper, office equipment and utilities? Good luck tracking that number down.
It’s a very large number for paper specifically.
14 million dollars was awarded to the victims of the “lab scandal” can anyone come forward with an exoneration? CPCS is not assisting the victims of the wrongful conviction, from what i can see. Where is that $14 million dollars, baby needs new shoes and a haircut.
How Orwellian of you to publish the city descriptions and show how the words they use are actually defined by the government in the opposite way webster dictionary defines them. I will believe the DIE office will fulfill their mission of eradicating inequalities and injustice when they throw out the Affirmative Actions or follow it. Only 5% of Pittsfield’s population are described by the government as being black, so what is the percentage of workers in the work force? Can the government be transparent? How many white candidates have been looked over for jobs even if they had a better resume/work history then other ethnic applicants??? Will the government ever tell the people the truth??
As far back as the 80’s minorities were given preferential treatment over whites on civil service exams.
Yes, and we are now seeing the fruits, that is, what is has done (in conjunction with social media) to civil rights and race relations. Sent then back decades.
Name one exoneree –
https://www.wbur.org/news/2022/08/26/massachusetts-drug-convictions-tampering-settlement-disbursement
Pittsfield has a history of hiring relatives and friends for all jobs so all of this diversity propaganda is just another scheme to put people into jobs who are not qualified, but meet certain criteria like gender and race.
Proponents for the Lanesborough police station five point million dollar project we’re on the stooge show promoting it. Unfortunately voters have shot it down, never go on The stooge show if you want something.
They just love to spend tax payer dollars here in the Berkshire.
The left’s definition of progress is not elevating people to a standard, it is lowering the standard and then hustling society into believing we just
witnessed progress.
Most expensive traffick issue, to date.
Does Costa know anything about cutting budgets and consolidation of school building for more services under one roof.Will Costa agree that we are forcing elderly home owners out of their homes.Will she do the work of ward councilors in ward 3 or continue to use these seats as an avenue to the Mayor’s office.Deborah Ave is sinking right in the middle of the street.Does she believe FOX media tells Pittsfield cable viewers the truth.LOL this question is a softball.Sorry Trumpers who watch FOX lol
If she excepts the good old boy campaign financing and expertise she will be expected to perform like the other trained monkeys on the council. It is in the charter and the oath of office.
I hear there is someone who is going to run and win so that person can back up Sir Charles and Karen K.
Does the council know the FED is aiming to raise our unemployment to 6% and make money more scarce and more expensive. They want to put 3 to 5 million out of work to get inflation now from 6% to 2.5%.Our councilors can’t handle their own checkbook.
DEI is also the Mandarin word for ‘must’ as in we must encurage diversity because it doesn’t happen automaticaly. When that bone got thrown into the sky, the ensuing evolution left out women and people of color.
Thanks for that quota queen
My plesure, Angie.
Latin translation for DEI:
Dei. deus Noun = god, supreme being, statue of god. dĕus Noun = god.
Capeless taught me, not to speak in Pronouns.
S/He went downstairs.
Vs
Sally went downstairs.
It’s nothing to do with gender speak. It’s proper Englaiì
Yea, Englaiì is real proper. Proper Russian. You better stick to Pronouns.
But did you DIE
Exactly!
All DEI offices are useless.
(unless you be getting the gravy)
Let DEI die!
Here’s the formula or typographic shorthand: LDie2 or LD2.
Hopefully the mayoral candidates will weigh in on DEI.
They already have. Marchetti an Kroll both own that novelty.
Was Kroll on the Council when they voted for DIE? If so, he supports it.
Alisa Costa will focus on her own agenda not on the needs of ward three’s residents.
Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccata mundi…
I tend to side with THE PLANET on this one; one DEI staff member in an HR office is plenty. Of course, Mass. tends to be over-the-top on these matters.
miserere nobis … or, if you prefer … donna nobis pacem.
I prefer dona nobis pacem.
Tommy nobis sachum
Great player
The racist democrat party’s we want fewer white people policy. The democrat party doing to white people for the last 15 or so years what they did to black people for the previous hundred years. liberal/civil rights america
approves.
Exactly.
What percentage of Pittsfield’s immigrant population actually filled out and returned the recent city census? What motivation do they have for filling out a census? What motivation do they have for NOT filling out a census?
My guess is that there could be as many as five thousand people living in Pittsfield that are off record. Does this seem high? Or low?
Not sure of the population numbers, but 5 G seems a little high for just Pittsfield. For all of BC I would say 5 G is low.
You think you know what is white, until you found out what white is, is.
You loved listening to Rush Limbaugh
I agree with Dan’s comments. DIE offices are redundant – federal guidelines prohibit discrimination in hiring. It is a waste of taxpayer money.
Someone please tell me WHY Springside House HAS to be fixed up? What is the “planned purpose” of this dilapidated structure that the city wants to plow $3.5 million into it? The Eagle and iBerkshires both reported that there is a possible tenant. Who? And for what purpose? Why isn’t that being discussed? What is the plan?
Has absolutely NOTHING to do with giving lucrative contracts to friendly contractors so we need not worry about that such stuff going on. Too much oversight in Pittsfield for that to happen. Our city council deeply vets all such expenditures and all contracts go out to bid so as to be fair and balanced.
I don’t understand about this in Alisa Costa. Can she be any worse than what we have?
Yes!
She won’t be worse since she will be nothing more (nor less) than a rubber stamp for Krolchetti. But she will be more irritating to listen to as she promises to do a lot of jabbering.
Yes
Much worse!
In 2021, Costa left Berkshire Bridges to start a private consulting firm called Engaged Communities Consulting. In a press release, Costa said her firm works mainly on community engagement and diversity, equity and inclusion efforts
Costa’s professional background includes 25 years of public policy and community organizing, primarily with organizations in New York focused on public health, hunger and food systems, and civil liberties.
https://engaged-communities.com/about
This Narcan warrior is as dangerous as a heart attack.
Imagine Pete White without the toys.
Helen Moon, dina dunce and squeaky rolled into one package
That’s messed up.
A huge phony
My point!
I say rip it down and sell the land and put the money to good use. But the word money to be used for the good of all doesnt happen here.
Milltown would love a place like that if the city fixes it up.
I will not support any business that identifies ITS self as Negro, Queer, Lesbian, Woman, Transgender, Tutti Frutti, bisexual, intersexed, anal-sexed, pansexual, assexual, onocentaur, kinky, dyke, BDSM, non-binary/non-conforming, transsexual, hermaphroditic, monoclinous, gynandrous, gynandromorphic, hippocentaur, satyr, minotaur, or LGBTIQCAPGNGFNBA+ owned. I will avoid them-they-it like the degenerate deviant bedeviled plague that they are. I’ve attempted to be as inclusive as possible, without being offensive, so I hope to DEI that none of my comment is rejected.
So Martinez lampylousy is out?
I can’t stomach the sight of that braindead glen and glenda pseudohermaphrodite dino squeal lampeeasi . But that goes for both PEE PEE twins, gasbag blowhard marchetti and short bus simpleton white, and dopey coNUT, the angry he’s not white BIG BROWN DUMP persip, rip the door off the hinges god’s gift to hard-up women, warren, lost, confused and bewildered about which way to schitty hall, pompadour queen kavey, angry he not negro and he’ll be home for christmas, family man sherman, not missed, and glad he’s gone, maffucio, box of rocks foster kop-mom-kop- kalinowsky, kooky spastic chronic, the 3 am night stalker creeper dirty scary barry, et al………
Really?
City. You have hit the nail right on the head. Wow Wow Wow
All City is saying is that anyone who gets elected sucks. Sounds like Jon Melle. An insult for every one but what’s the point?
Maybe kalinowski should quit (so much for the Kapanski’s support) so City hate can take her place. But what’s the point, city would simply call herself vulgarities and think she’s spouting Longfellow.
The Rainy Day
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The day is cold, and dark, and dreary;
It rains, and the wind is never weary;
The vine still clings to the moldering wall,
But at every gust the dead leaves fall,
And the day is dark and dreary.
My life is cold, and dark and dready;
It rains, and the wind is never weary;
My thoughts still cling to the mouldering Past,
But the hopes of youth fall think in the blast,
And the days are dark and dreary
Be still, sad heart! and cease repining;
Behind the clouds is the sun still shining;
Thy fate is the common fate of all,
Into each life some rain must fall,
Some days must be dark and dreary.
I know when I’m spouting Longfellow, and I know shit when I see. I don’t know about you, but I don’t deserve to be insulted or assaulted by corrupt allegedly elected shit that calls itself Pittsfield’s mayor/city council. That’s the vulgarity! Only an idiot would condone the unrelenting crap we get from these corrupt lowbred lowlife city officials.
Bravo! More Longfellow. Less CIH!
Let me say, I was just enjoying reading a poem by Longfellow when suddenly you chirped in. Spoiled the whole thing.
Planet from he’ll, city is telling it as she sees it. Nothing wrong with that
“Nothing wrong with that”
So does Jon Melle for that matter.
History proves it over and over again, Politics attracts deadwood! Once in a blue moon a person of substance comes forward. And predictable so, they’re summarily rejected.
“History proves it over and over again”
>>A meaningless statement.
“Politics attracts deadwood!”
>>Ditto to that.
“Once in a blue moon a person of substance comes forward”
>>Cute.
” And predictable so, they’re summarily rejected.”
>>By you. That’s predictable.
Sounds like you are trying to write poetry with silly metaphors.
Naw, it’s just that the talented ones don’t stick around.
Why would they?
Right.
A bunch of thumbs down and what a disincentive for those who would step forward. You say, ‘Please, someone please please please run for office. We want new people to slander.’
I think CIH is a gobsig stooge.
CITY’s comment to which you refer was pertaining acerbic and acidic. Human moderation allowed it as protected speech. Free speech, however ruthlessly strident, demands that such views, harsh as they are, must find sunlight as well. It sometimes works as the Founders designed it, such that reasonable, rational evaluation within the free (wild and crazy) marketplace of ideas, will issue a correcting judgment. Doesn’t always work that way, of course, and what’s allowable under the Constitutional right has been a matter of debate in America since the 18th century.
Dan, I am not expecting a response from CIH. It’s not CIH’s free speech that is protected – it’s yours. You have the right to freely publish anyone’s stuff and its appreciated too.
How many times can CIH repeat an insult and say something new. CIH is a vulgar version of Melle. Those two prophylactic pups both need a good strong hot bath of permangate carbolated soap.
Then, “They froze it in a freezer that was cold as Banished Hope”
That’s CIH! Frozen in a freezer.
I’ve never been one to see life through rose-coloured glasses. But rather I see life/things as they actually are. I’ve never considered my way of seeing life, truth, justice, everyday mundane things, apple pie and America as it used to be, before it became ameriKa, as the wrong way of seeing the world and everything in it. I see life as it really is. I don’t sugarcoat it and I reject anyone’s else attempt to sugarcoat it for me. I proud to say I was an anarchist before I even knew what an anarchist was. I wouldn’t have it any other way. The world needs more anarchists, not more WOKE PLANUTS FROM HELL.
If you’ve noticed, the PLANUT FROM HELL doth protest too much too much to my every comment. PLANUT FROM HELL manifest his compulsive obsessive disorder with his need to critique my every comment. So, I’m not going to respond to any attacks from the PLANUT FROM HELL. I’m not even poking him with sticks and stones, or rattling his cage, and yet my every comment elicits from him an unnatural hard-on for me. And that’s funny!
Dan, please don’t alter my spelling. In the case of the PLANUT FROM HELL, it’s spelled correctly.
CITY
I shall, only at your request, keep the spelling as is. I will also point out that while you may think you see things as they actually are, your email offers an exhibit that you don’t. You only THINK you do. PFH might be a lot of thing, but one thing h/she is NOT is woke! As for not responding to “any attacks from PFH,” your message does that very thing. Just because someone disagrees with you doesn’t necessitate a defensive attack. It does prompt one, though, when the message from the other party, in this case PFH, strikes a nerve, as it obviously has done with you. Thanks for your readership and activist response to THE PLANET. Same goes too PFH.
Good work Dan.
“The moment that confidence is gone, the empire is doomed.”
— Rich Cohen
What’s a ‘planut’?
“The men the American people admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth.”
“The majority of men prefer delusion to truth. It soothes. It is easy to grasp. Above all, it fits more snugly than the truth into a universe of false appearances – of complex and irrational phenomena, defectively grasped. But though an idea that is true is thus not likely to prevail, an idea that is attacked enjoys a great advantage. The evidence behind it is now supported by sympathy, the sporting instinct, sentimentality – and sentimentality is as powerful as an army with banners. One never hears of a martyr in history whose notions are seriously disputed today. The forgotten ideas are those of the men who put them forward soberly and quietly, hoping fatuously that they would conquer by the force of their truth; these are the ideas that we now struggle to rediscover.” – H.L. Mencken
Mencken! Now you’re talking! My literary hero and the greatest prose stylist of the 20th century. The T.S. Eliot of prose.
April is the cruelest month. 30 days proving life is crap is coming upon us.
“That corpse you planted last year in your garden,
Has it begun to sprout? Will it bloom this year?
Or has the sudden frost disturbed its bed?” The Waste Land – T.S. Eliot
Annuals,
Better to have Loved and lost
Well, I got you to quote Mencken, so I claim victory.
Off to bed with you!
“The majority of men prefer delusion to truth.”
This, unless I’m mistaken, is THE PLANET’s manttra.
Everything can be rainbows and unicorns in Pittsfield sounds like a utopia. However there are no good paying jobs, empty storefronts, drugs crime and high taxes.
I really want to hear a Mayoral candidate sell the idea that this tailspin will end. forget the bike lanes and Pot holes this is just a diversion from the bigger problems that will continue to plague this city.
Here’s the winning plan, offered for free (street value: $125,000) to either Krol or Marchetti. At the official announcement, you say:
1. Bike lanes? Gone.
2. DIE office. History
3. Taxes? Cuts for homeowners and businesses
4. Bureaucracy, duplication, and waste: Don’t let it his you in the ass on the way out.
That wins for either guy. #2 will be key. Marchetti for sure will keep DIE, praising it. If Krol does the same, it negates a huge political advantage he might otherwise have. In a close race, that wins for Peter.
Well said – I personally won’t vote for anyone who doesn’t promise to cancel the DEI office.
Then you’ll need more favorites.
Plus their is no housing for lower income folk. Where are all the workers supposed to live? And just what the hell is this term “gentrification” everyone is talking about in Pittsfield? Huh? What is that? Does Pete know? Is the mayor really going to bring in affordable housing like she said she was? I dunno what she meant by that do you? Did it happen and I just missed it? And is her definition of “affordable” different than the janitor that works at the hospital?
Aren’t there at least 30 low income projects in Pittsfield ?
Probably closer to 40.
Dan, there is a huge segment of the population that does not make a lot of money but does make too much for section eight assistance. These are the people who cannot afford to live in Pittsfield but Pittsfield’s workforce desperately needs them. Stockbridge by the way, has the same problem.
Yes, this is the essence of the problem.
Costa will win because she’s a serious candidate who will work hard.
She not a likable person. She’ll turn voters off.
But nobody will be running against her so not to worry for her
Not true hold on you will see
As someone said. She’ll work for her own agenda not the interests of ward 3. Another Dina.she’s got a lot to learn.
Most of these people who run these so called nonprofit organizations and seek office are high on my alert list to scrutinize. Most have agendas that are usually not beneficial to the taxpayers wallets.
A broken leg is serious but not desirable.
?????
I believe he is saying: a broken leg is also serious. A serious candidate is not necessarily desirable
I like a post that makes me think – not all is wasted
Good distinction. A “serious” candidate is one who will organize, advertise, and actively campaign. It does not necessarily mean that such a person is a good candidate. A “good” candidate who simply goes it alone as a name on a ballot–i.e., a token or pseudo campaign–is not a “serious” candidate.
Karl Marx was serious
Yes but Marx was too theoretical and intellectual to make it as a politician. He had to borrow $ to get by.
Like Costa……she gonna costa da city too mucha
Not ‘borrow’, but steal $$$. Mostly from his wife and other family. Most famous moocher
Pittsfield voters really need to clean house – this is all so degrading and demoralizing.
Unfortunately not going to happen. To quote Rick Pitno Pete Arlos, Terry Kinnas , Chuck Vincelett are not going to be walking through that door. Pittsfield politics are set for the same as its always was. There will be no change. Time for a town government, with a town manager. Then maybe we will have a say in a new school or a new police station. Dalton and Lanesborough voters both got to decide.
Lanesboro voted it down
Yes they did, they had a voice in the decision. Pittsfield residents rarely get to make a decision on a lot of expenses .
Yup. You can kick em out but if clones take their place you gots the same shit different day. Pittsfield city council has the Russian Doll curse and the grip is tight. Your odds are much better if you pack up your stuff and move on. Seriously. You can’t beat this crowd.
Can we have a city manager without a mayor? Who would hire him or her ?. would city residents get the chance to vote in a city manager? I think the city should hire a city manager..That would correct the gob sig form of government
It’ll be hired by the gobsig council and the manager would be some recycled creature from some other town he mucked up. It’s the situation with the Public School Superintendent – hired by the School Committee from a preselected pool of local interersts. Never a new face is interviewed it’s a always a recycled ‘Super On Discount”. That was Kinnas’ ongoing dispute with the Committee.
Do you want to give City Council the power to essentially choose your Mayor?
Didn’t Kerwood do the town manager thing? And cocomo too?
If we go TM, we’ll have Kerwood. Most definitely.
SVB shuttered – 2nd largest bank failure in U.S. history! Had $173 billion in deposits, with branches in MA.
Wells Fargo customers reporting missing deposits – “technical glitches”?
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/expect-mass-layoffs-real-world-impact-svbs-failure
Plus a foot and a half of heavy wet snow coming. Make sure you have plenty of gas for your generator.
Pittsfield politics’ 2023 Academy Awards go to….
Best Picture: “Pittsfield: A City in Decay”, which were art exhibits that were shown in upscale art galleries and museums in London, NYC, & L.A.
Best SCAM: Pittsfield’s Pickleball Budget that symbolizes everything that is wrong with Pittsfield politics
Best supporting SCAM: The 50-year-old state lottery’s new $50 scratch ticket that symbolizes everything that is wrong with state and local government in Massachusetts
Best politician: Tricia Farley-Bouvier for working to decriminalize sex work to make “Happy Endings” Massage Parlors legal in Massachusetts, which is her stated number one and only legislative priority in Boston
Best supporting politician: Linda Tyer for living in a Gated Community, while “Rome is burning”
Best Big Baby: Linda Tyer’s third husband Barry Clairmont, who is suing Melissa Mazzeo for accusing him of corruption in Pittsfield politics
Best Stinker: Luciforo’s Pot Kingdom on Dalton Avenue that stinks up nearby residential neighborhoods with his pot growing odors
Best Debacle: The soon to be 25-year-old polluted and heavily indebted PEDA disaster zone
Best Failure: Pittsfield’s public schools rated as Level 5 by the state
Best Underclass: Pittsfield’s main economic growth metric – social services agencies for all of the love Mommas and deadbeat Daddies out there
Best Horror: Pittsfield always being in the top 10 cities for violent crime, according to the FBI’s annual reports
Best sound effects: Daily shootings by the over 1,000 gang members who live in inner-city Pittsfield
Best visual effects: The two dozen or so empty storefronts on North Street that symbolizes Jimmy Ruberto’s Renaissance that was supposed to rival Paris, London, NYC, & L.A., but ended up like what happened to his Rolodex
Best Prop: Jimmy Ruberto’s Rolodex that can be found at the bottom of Silver Lake
Best Greed-ball: K Street’s “PAC Man” Richie Neal, who loves insurance companies and is loved by greedy lobbyist Dan Bosley
Best Phony: Creative Public Accountant “Kufflinks”, who notoriously “Cooks the Books” to perfection
Best Career Politician: The fictional Massachusetts State Representative Sellout Shakedown
Best Suckers: The fictional Mary Jane and Joe Kapanski family
Biden showered with his teen daughter
Some advice for Jonathan: logorrhea alienates your audience. Pick + push one issue at a time.
Don Trumps affair with porn star Stormy Daniel’s cost him 150,000 in hush money.Don Trumps daughter received 17 trademarks from CHINER.Don Trumps daughter received 2 billion dollars from the murder prince of Saudi Arabia and Don went on TV to vouch for the Prince.Republicansare very crooked .
AIrlines are now prioritizing their DEI policies over safety policies. Scary stuff!
Yeah, I always wanted to have a diversity hire operate on me or fly me in a jet somewhere.
Said nobody ever. How come the solution is always to lower standards instead of trying to help people rise to excellence?
Thanks democrats
Pittsfield Councilors Vote No on Springside House Grant Match
See iBerkshires story.
But as this goes against the mayors wishes I think we need to find a way around this vote. This vote should be declared illegal and be done over until an acceptable result is attained..I am hereby asking Pete to find a way to make this happen.
DEI = symbolism over substance.
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The biggest controversy to me not withstanding Krols wife’s job at the schools, is the current school administration who currently have former school administrators, former teachers and this has been going on for years. These types being elected,there’s no conflict of interest there, really?
How do you think Stooge got that ridiculous morning show? And what does that green. VAn logo mean?
He must have lost a bet.
That van has been all over the world.
I know of nobody in the history of owning vans that has a green colored van and if they do I’m sorry.
The Silicon Valley Bank collapse is not good news for this country.
There’s a lot of jitters in the market because of this. Best advice if you’re in the stock market: Sit tight. If you have the stomach, there may be some buying opportunities.
Whatever you do – don’t take investing advice from Jim Cramer at Mad Money!
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/03/jim-cramer-urged-investors-to-buy-silicon-valley-bank-stock-one-month-before-regulators-shut-it-down-video/
Keep a close eye on your bank, and don’t put all your eggs in one basket!
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/03/the-employees-of-silicon-valley-bank-were-given-annual-bonuses-hours-before-the-bank-was-taken-over-by-regulators/
Cramers’ advise was spot-on at the time, as long as you sold 2 weeks later.
Kramarica is coming to Pittsfield. Thanks linduh.
Is that like “Krammar’s Mystery Delicious Appetizer” … er … I mean, “Krammar’s Delicious Mystery Appetizer?”
The Silicon Valley Bank collapse is not good news for this country. Silicon Valley Bank has six locations in Massachusetts. With our federal government spending and printing money like there’s no tomorrow, we will never get rid of inflation. Biden’s new plan to increase government spending even more is a disgrace. Also too many people have left the labor market and are living off the government which makes it appear that the labor market is strong because there aren’t enough people to fill job openings, but it’s all smoke and mirrors.
Thanks uncle Joe and the democrats
Joes been known to have conversations with starriest.
SVB were a bunch of idiots. To run a bank you have to keep enough liquidity to pay in the event of a run. Also, you have to deversify your holdings, which they didn’t do. It was a one-off.
It was a highly regulated public S&P 500 company, so apparently idiocy is normal in the banking industry.
Damn you are one small cranky bitter old man in life. I feel sorry for you.
Does anyone know if the planet can install a breathalyzer for certain posters?
Ludacris
No need to make fun of his height
Donald Trump wants retribution against those that don’t believe the FOX network of lies perpetrated for the violent Coup to overthrow America.MAGAs want to leave America behind per Marge Taylor Green and start a new country called The land of idiots.
I nominate you to be president
“Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.” – H.L. Mencken
“Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.” – Thomas Paine
“If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they’ll kill you.”
“All great truths begin as blasphemy.”
“If there was twenty ways of telling the truth and only one way of telling a lie, the Government would find it out. It’s in the nature of governments to tell lies.” – George Bernard Shaw
If you think about it, all politicians pretty much have to be equivocal and two-faced, because talking out of both sides of their mouths is their stock-in-trade. Politicians have to appeal to multiple constituencies or they don’t get elected. So being a two-faced hypocrite is almost a requirement of the job.
Lizzie Warren wants to change the Massachusetts state flag because it’s racist and evidence of white supremacy. Is Lizzie thinking about maybe a LGBT flag instead to represent Massachusetts? Lizzie is so far left that she is capable of doing just that.
Take the sword out of the guy’s hand. Replace the Indian with a taxpayer and put the hand in the taxpayer’s pocket….. that I could get behind.
What puzzles me is how many times has she already appeared along side the supposedly racist Mass flag throughout her long career as a senator and now it’s racist to her? Tells you it is nothing more than political posturing for the cause.
Aw. The hurt feelings of cis white men. So oppressed!
Planet Weather Warning!!!! Don’t wait for RumpASS. Starting tommorow night from 5 p m to Tuesday morning major snow storm.
That’s all they had to do last time give you a little phone call
Sissssssssssssssssssss
Booooooooooooom
Baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
Trans is the FOX trigger for conservatives.President Biden keeps on creating jobs…it’s crazy how great he’s been. America now is at 3.5% a record for job creation.Racist can not create jobs with hate.
Over the years whites have been discriminated with hiring with simple who do you know in politics here gets the job. How many jobs in Pittsfield alone have people got because they knew somebody? Including Mayor!
The exchange or lack of between Warren and Pagnotta looked like something out of My Cousin Vinny.
Council Math:
0 + 0 = -0
Is it really job creation or just the fact that so many people are not working which is keeping the job numbers high, but unemployment numbers are at record levels. It’s all an illusion by Biden and his globalists to trick people into thinking the economy is great, but it’s not true. With so many jobs available, unemployment should be extremely low, but that’s not the case because so many are refusing to work and want to live off of big daddy government.
Just heard the Dumpster at city clowncil the dumbest speech in history of the city council. And check out Pete Whites shirt collar, it’s turned up,doesn’t anybody know how to starch your shirts pee wee
I just saw some videos of Miguel and Danny being gunned down by police. I am convinced that if the cops had body cams these two would be alive today. The cops had a chance to get body cams in2015 for free but chief and mayor were busy spewing their yarns. What a tragedy. The fault lies with tyer and Wynn. Rest in Peace Danny and Miguel you are missed
Must have gotten viagra on his shirt
I had a nun who was trans. She was a trans sister.
Fidelity was off the charts.