LUMPY, KUFFLINKS USING A LIE CALLED “TRUTH” IN INITIAL BUDGET SOFTENING-UP
BY DAN VALENTI
PLANET VALENTI NEWS AND COMMENTARY
(FORTR$ESS OF SOLITUDE, THE WEEKEND EDITION FEB. 21-3, 2025) — When Mayor Lumpy and city treasurer Kufflinks Kerwood soft-shoed their preliminary remarks on Bitchfield’s finances, they claimed that during the most recent five years, the city tax rate had DECREASED 6.8%. The hilarious part of the joke is that they were telling a (not “the”) “truth.”
Cue the dancing girls! Bring on John Kiley on the Hammond organ to play “The Night They Invented Champagne.”
Their statements actually revealed the budget scam that’s been going on now for all that time (and before). THE PLANET refers to assessed values. Yeah, the tax rate “decreased” but in that same time period, tax bills for the “average single-family home” (they’re talking The Kapanskis) leaped 40.8% (rise in a rage from FY21 $3,925 to FY25 $5,298). That’s because valuations increased nearly 50%.
The valuation scam has made homes unaffordable, burdened home owners and small business owners with devastating tax bills, and perpetuated a lie pertaining to civic health (i.e., life in the community must be great or else property values wouldn’t be rising). It even has Kufflinks proposing an override of Prop 2 1/2, as if officials haven’t been routinely jacking up taxes well in excess of 2.5.
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Lumpy and Kufflinks tout 6.8% fake “drop” in taxes … Actually, taxes are up 44.8%
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Lumpy and Kufflinks spoke every word of their presentation to THE PLANET‘s Right Honorable Good Friends on the City Council in code. Councilors have their secret decoder rings, and when they got done with the transcribing, the message to them was clear. They will be expected to approve without question the Administration’s FY26 budget “request.”
You can be sure the council president clearly understood his orders. Consequently, in a few short sunsets, the actual budget farce will be played, a moth-eaten production that promises only one thing for the Kapanskis: More financial pain.
Councilor Earl Persip III tipped the council’s hand. At the presentation, Dumpster Earl said there was no place in the entire budget that could be cut.
Yes, he actually said that. Remember come November.
Welcome to Easy Street, everybody!
THE PLANET invites you to offer feedback to Lumpy, Kufflinks, Dumpster, and all the others who will be sticking it to you once more this year. They and/or their bobos read this blog.
Have a great weekend, everybody.
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“Corruption: A condition highly favored by public officials when dealing with the common treasury” — Sir Donald Turpentine, Knight the Bath.
“OPEN THE WINDOW, AUNT MILLIE.”
LOVE TO ALL.
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And cue the usual Melle psychotic rant from New Hampshire with absolutely no stake in Pittsfield while collecting hos disability checks in 5.4.3.2.
Pittsfield is one of the municipalities in Massachusetts that has NOT spent a majority of its opioid settlement funds.
https://www.wcvb.com/article/opioid-fighting-windfall-sitting-unspent-massachusetts-municipal-coffers/63854693
I wonder where the money is/went to? Answer: FORENSIC AUDIT, please.
Did you click on Pittsfield, Massachusetts, on the map of Massachusetts on the wcvb.com web-page?
It states that Pittsfield received $1,100,815 in the opioid settlement funds, but spent zero-percent of the money. It says that in 2023, Pittsfield had 24 fatal overdoses.
https://www.wcvb.com/article/opioid-fighting-windfall-sitting-unspent-massachusetts-municipal-coffers/63854693
I hope that blogger Dan Valenti publishes a blog post about Pittsfield’s over $1.1 million in unspent opioid settlement funds.
Interactive map shows
Pittsfield spent $0%
of a Total
$1,100,815 received .
2023- 24 Fatal OD’s in
Pittsfield.
I have a feeling the dough isn’t/wasn’t being used for intended purpose.
Letter: Pittsfield should announce trash-pickup delays earlier
The Berkshire Eagle, February 21, 2025
To the editor: Pittsfield and Casella Waste Management should be ashamed of themselves, and I expected better from the two organizations.
On Jan. 16, [2025], The Eagle reported about ”early successes” of the rollout of the new collection system (“Pittsfield’s new trash toter program is seeing early success, but challenges remain“). On Feb. 11, The Eagle reported numerous problems with the rollout during a City Council meeting. I have another issue that needs to be addressed (“Casella, Pittsfield public works chief outline plans to improve the city’s new trash collection program“).
Before this present storm began, the emergency phone message stated that trash collection would not be delayed and the normal schedule would be adhered to. When the new rollout began, as stated in Pittsfield’s online how-to guide, we were instructed to have our toters roadside by 7 a.m. Batting the snow in my driveway on Monday morning, I had my toters out by 7:15. At 8:16, an emergency telephone message stated that trash collection would be canceled today and delayed by one day. (“Pittsfield trash, recycling collection delayed due to storm,” Eagle, Feb. 17.)
Why was the telephone message issued after the 7 a.m. deadline? This needs to be added to the public works chief’s plan to improve the city’s new trash collection program.
Ned Kirchner, Pittsfield
I think the taxpayers of Bitchfield should prepare for the shock factor of progressive democRAT policies are going to hurt them in a huge way financially in the next year or two.
The next time you see the MA illegal aliens rep, Tricia Farley-Country Buffet and/or former failed-mayor Linda “Flat” Tyer-Clairmont, you can thank them for dumping 100+ illegal Haitians in Bitchfield, because it “added to our diversity and inclusion,” Tyer. I included a link of Flat gleefully talking to the media about the illegals.
https://www.berkshireeagle.com/news/local/great-barrington-pittsfield-migrants-immigrants-haiti-emergency-right-to-shelter-families-hotels/article_7efa0840-7a74-11ee-b969-6337e1e074eb.html
President Trump is ending all deportation protections for illegal Haitians on 8/3/25. What does that mean if they stay beyond that date? We, the taxpayers, will pay for them until they get deported. No more federal money, state grants, nothing.
The ER becomes their primary care doctors, so they wait times go up. The “houseless” population will increase, as WILL CRIME.
https://x.com/AntiWuCoalition/status/1892781894468558928
If MA Gov Maura Healey and Mayor Lumpy think President Trump will back down from their defiance of his EO’s, they can take a peek up north to Maine.
President Trump just let the state of ME know that they are losing federal funding, because they allow boys in females sports.
https://x.com/RapidResponse47/status/1892747488638955979
Weren’t democRATS the ones screaming about Trump “taking away women’s rights?”
TSC? Marxist-Melle? You both made numerous posts during election season stating that exact point. Care to comment.
The Democrats in this area are mainly concerned with money and will look the other way regarding the insane policies of the far left. Women being beaten up by men in sports and all of the other insanity you mentioned regarding illegal immigrants is ignored by most locals.
Pat:
The Democrats in this area are mainly concerned with money.
Op: They are only concerned with money that belongs to the taxpayers and how they can pry more from the taxpayers to fund bs that we don’t need or want.
There are always ways to cut expenses taxpayers do it all the time. Remember when the government said they couldn’t cut expenses, but they do it now.
Taxpayers can’t believe a word out of the two useless Pete’s mouths. It’s bad enough they keep “reassessing” our homes to raise taxes, but, we can’t see ONE thing we are getting from these tax increases. Crime out of control, businesses leaving, pothole filled streets, under staffed police department, lack of learning in schools, panhandlers on every corner, could go on and on.
The latest out of Mayor Lumpy’s office made me almost barf my breakfast! In the upcoming City Council meeting it states he is naming Linda Clairmont (alias ex Mayor Linda Do Nothing Tyer) to the Economic Development Authority Board. EXCUSE ME!! She did absolutely NOTHING in 8 years to help the economics of this failing city. Just another butt kissing appointment that will get us no where.
I was just getting used to Marchetti pissing on my shoes but now he just took a full dump.
For a member of the city council to come out and say there was no way to cut City budget is an absolute falsehood. There is always ways to cut. They just don’t wanna do it. They much rather just put a stamp of approval on it and pass the expense off to the taxpayer yet again that’s why these members of the city Council all should be removed ASAP.
We are fucked going forward yah? No help in sight either.
These same people will all be at the common tonight as they set off fireworks celebrating the coming highest ever tax increase in the history of the city. They would love for you all to be there so they can laugh in your helpless faces.
Don’t forget to wear your Marchetti for mayor hat.
And bring some left overs in a doggie bag for White.
People who talk like that would not be able to get a job in the real world that was not politically connected. Would not be welcome on any “can do ” team for sure.
Where’s the beef?
Trump is right. I don’t want some man with a dick taking showers with my daughter in a locker room? What don’t these Governors understand ABOUT THIS.
Trump does not want “another” man taking a shower with his daughter.
On the ppd police log it says breaking and entering? Aren’t they open at night?
Is shot spotter still being paid for. Useless.
It’s concrete. Falling at the Ma. Pike. No injuries.
Sounds like Bitchfield also needs a “chainsaw for democracy!”
Also sounds like Persip is gonna hide behind the DEI policies infecting the city & schools. He’s obviously in denial of the feds scrapping these racist policies.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/elon-musk-given-chainsaw-bureaucracy-javier-milei-cpac
Prolly got a “talkin to” regarding his role on the council. He was not put there to ask questions and now that he has been reminded he will behave better.
CHAIN SAW!
The clowns are just renaming the titles from
“ Didn’t Earn It” to get away with still promoting DIE. Hopefully they are soon brought to heal with funding cuts.
From the article:
Toni Buckley is now Special Assistant to the President for Mission, Values, and Community Impact.Previously, she was Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. She joined BCC in 2017.
https://www.iberkshires.com/story/78124/BCC-Announces-New-Faculty-Staff-Promotions-Title-Changes.html
MA Family Institute is warning parents about the upcoming “National Day of Reading” on Feb. 28th – “a nationwide effort to push transgender ideology on young students. Many MA schools will participate.”
Read more on http://www.mafamily.org
Maine’s woke guv totally humiliated by Trump……
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/02/president-trump-completely-destroys-far-left-maine-governor/
Defense department is cutting 50 million from their budget, but Pittsfield can’t find anything to cut
You cannot even buy a wing for a fighter jet for 50 million. Big whoop.
True – that 50 million may reduce some post its, pens toilet paper
One of the biggest investments any defense department can make is in improving its air capabilities. The F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter program has the dubious accolade of being the most expensive fighter jet project in history, with an estimated lifetime cost of over $1.7 trillion.
But the cost of the defense project doesn’t always equate to the most expensive fighter jets in terms of sticker price. In fact, according to our research, the F-35 is only the fifth most expensive fighter jet on the market, surpassed by several others in terms of what nations are paying to acquire them.
The cost of fighter jets fluctuates between tranches and can be influenced by external pressures. For example, Defense One reported in July 2024 that Lockheed would be ‘challenged’ to keep the costs of the F-35 down amid rising prices for raw materials. The most expensive, the F-35B vertical takeoff and landing variant, currently costs around $109 million, slightly less than it has been in the past, although that could change in future production tranches.
Instead of a Lie Detector, what Pittsfield needs is a Truth Detector.
Ron,
The Truth is you do not have a government. It’s a cult.
So much so that I am not allowed to post certain names here.
Free Speech, but not when I write about certain political hacks & failed leaders in Pittsfield politics.
I proudly support politicians who Dan Valenti opposes, and vice-versa.
Are you trying to post about your heroes and deep admiration for Long Dong Silver or Robert Mapplethorpe and can’t?
Is Maplethorpe still a thing?
He wants to photograph Rhonda with her ski goggles.
Ugh
JM, you are once again stamping feet and throwing your toys out of your stroller, because of you’re supposedly lack of free speech on the Planet again. Please show me where you can find someone who stands up for free speech more than the Planet?
As cults go, even the some detractors of cult leaders here are just cult members howling for abuse. You can see them by their signatures that call out for whipping.
Did lumpy need 90 days to do what he’s done for the last decade?
One that sprays red dye on anyone who lies answering its questions.
Pete White has a pie detector
Who doesn’t?
CQ Brown FIRED!
Christmas in February!
If Mayor Lumpy and the City Clowncil won’t cut Bitchfield’s budget, what’s the next logical step?
Increase taxes for your constituents, but mask it under “public safety,” such as traffic enforcement cameras.
In the latest, Kenny Warren wants to bring speed cameras to Bitchfield to help slow down drivers. This appears to be a decent proposal, until you look into it further.
Does it bring in unaccounted for revenue? Initially it does. But after a while when people get smart and quit paying the fines; or better yet, unless the ticket arrives in the mail as a certified letter, just simply ignore it and never pay for it. “I never got it,” should be the response if asked. It’s the states burden of proof to prove you actually received the citation, not the violator.
This now creates an added burden and/or expense on the Bitchfield Police, because they will either have to take someone off patrol to serve the tickets in-hand to the violator or they will have to hire process servers to find the violators and serve them the ticket.
PPD will now have to store the additional video they accumulate, plus they will have to dedicate an officer or three to review all of the “violations” and get those tickets ready to be mailed out.
Pittsfield to Consider Speeding Cameras / iBerkshires.com – The Berkshires online guide to events, news and Berkshire County community information.
There are already cameras at major intersections, like Allendale. The cameras are all over North St.
Kenny is great at spending other people’s $$.
Again I ask, how much does he owe in back taxes?
How many other city councilors owe back taxes?
Stop the spending! Audit Pittsfield!
Whatcha gonna do about the people who run red lights, or pass school buses or take down telephone poles while on their phones?
And what if these speeders have no license or insurance or registration? They can deny having ever been in the car.
I think the 5000 pot holes are working just fine slowing peeps down. Speeding is not the biggest traffic problem. Assholes are.
Suddenly, in heading to the second half of the 21’st century, Councilor Warren determines the need for new technology and cloud storage to enforce speed.
Where were the camera’s in 1980 and how did we manage to have speed limits then?
Trump just stated everything Sleepy Joe touched turned to shit.He’s right.
Please get out of Pittsfield Politics…Retire
Amused-So
Lumpy
Pee Wee
Persip
Lamyassi
Connate
Nothoin*g
Nylons
Kufflinks
Sloppy K
many many many more…….
Does Stooge know he’s a big Boob?
I hear stupid fireworks?
Awwww……your hero Nancy Pelosi’s building being sold!
Why was a federal building named after a living congresswoman??
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/trump-sells-pelosi/2025/02/22/id/1200078/
Are you sure that fossil is still alive.
There is cave paintings of Pelousey when she was married to Fred Flintstone.
WASHINGTON − The Department of Veterans Affairs has scrambled to reinstate some fired healthcare workers as new hires turn to other work out of fear they could be next to go in a future purge, elected officials and VA staffers said.
More than 1,000 VA employees were fired amid the sweeping layoffs of federal workers across the government, the department announced last week. Those fired included probationary employees – with two years or less on the job, depending on the position.
Over 40% of these Federal employees are veterans, many of them disabled who were given preference for Federal jobs because of their military contribution.
Trump wants a head count. M A G A is in town
February 22, 2025
I have been reflecting on Luciforo’s upcoming 61st birthday on Wednesday, February 26th, 2025, and my thoughts are on my writings, posts, and blogs about his mean-spirited, unusual, conspiratorial, and harmful actions against my family, especially my dad, Bob, and myself.
I want Andrea Francesco Nuciforo Junior to know that his persecution of me since I was 20 years old in the Spring 1996 through present time; I will turn 50 years old this upcoming Summer 2025; will be read online for generations to come, including by his children.
I want Pittsfield’s Pot King (of lawsuits) to know that his legacy of hurting the Have NOT named Jon Melle will be remembered by my writings, postings, and blogs about his cruelty towards me.
Nuciforo may have won a few battles, but I will be the one to win this banal war between us. Nuciforo may be a millionaire who lives in his $950,000 mansion in Pittsfield’s elitist Gated Community west of Berkshire Community College, but I am the one who people respect.
In around 24 years from now, Nuciforo will become a memory – a BAD memory!
Jon Melle
“Hatred is blind; rage carries you away; and he who pours out vengeance runs the risk of tasting a bitter draught.”
―Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
Is dumas pronounced dumb ass ?
JM ): “You’re talking a lot, but you’re not saying anything that we haven’t heard a million times before.”
I don’t like either one of you
When you look at the Dark Side, careful you must be. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering my young padawan.
Hey Jonathan don’t get your mood stuck in the mud.
Shut off the gay porn and quit yanking your pud.
Come on down to Berkshire Roots where we got prerolls brownies and some damn good bud.
Bringing kids to drag shows/drag story hours should be a CRIME…….
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/02/iowa-republicans-advance-bill-make-bringing-children-drag/
Voltaire famously said “ If you can be made to believe in absurdities < you can be made to commit atrocities “.
This appears to be the corner stone of education today.
Absurdities believe all men do.
Can someone please dump a pickup truck load of gravel under the Hubbard ave bridge? Will this be the week the state has to close it off because it is impassable? Has Morales or Marchettis office heard about this from one of the countless city vehicles banging and bumping through there each day?
And have any school children reported injuries from bumping their heads on top of their school bus ceiling as they bounce merrily across high tax Pittsfields primitive road system? Is the school system passing out helmets with the laptops and if so will we need to increase taxes even more?
Forget about removing the Highway Downtown. Let’s try to maintain our roads. Pittsfield roads are the worst I have ever seen them. Time for a change at the DPW.
What’s retirement age?
Good point, Joe Taxpayer. Why are all plows out ruining roads when there’s less than an inch of snow on roads when they are not out repairing the road damage they caused when they are out creating ruts and holes in roads they caused. Do we have anyone on the city council who understands any of this?
Ward Six Dizzy Dina roads are the worst check that out also. Cascade at Churchill is terrible and dangerous.
Maybe lumpy and kufflinks could dump cash from undone projects earmarked money instead? Where is that money anyway,Banks?
The “big storm” was over a week ago, why are the Pittsfield side streets still covered in ice? They asked us to “be patient”, how patient do taxpayers have to be? South Street and Crane Ave. should be closed due to the terrible deep potholes. Also noticed that sidewalks by city owned bridges are yet to be shoveled. Porkchop Pete White post to enter these issues into PITTSmart. Why do we have to report city owned streets and sidewalks that need to be cleared? Is this administration that blind to what their job is?
Also, why is it every time I attend any sort of meeting or speech given by Mayor Lumpy he has to remind us he is gay. We get it, we don’t care what you do in your personal life, just do the job you were voted in to do? The city is a complete mess, take your rose colored glasses off Mayor Lumpy and Porkchop Pete! Do your jobs!
There were several hours when the roads were all slush and mush and this is when they could have been cleaned up a lot more before it all froze into high ruts. Why this opportunity was not taken advantage of is curious.
Ricky Rumpus’s new way to fix the potholes, is to let them fill with ice.
Tyer is coming back to do some further mentoring. Looks like she left a few things out.
(plus they need her motivational speaking for the new ball park)
Tom Homan “I’m coming to Boston, and I’m bringing hell with me.”
Hopefully his ICE agents will also raid western MA.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/02/watch-border-czar-homan-warns-im-coming-boston/
Mayor Wu and Gov Healey in the crowbar hotel would be a good start.
I hear there are plenty of rooms opened up, since 1/20/2025, in the DC Gitmo
Trump has exposed Zelensky – the charade is over…..
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/collapse-zelensky-cult
Dump the Lump
AND ALL THE OTHER DEI HIRES
Jason Street truck rollover. No injuries. Cause.. ICY CONDITIONS.
Why the out of town sewage work on fort hill Ave? The city doesn’t do this type of work?
Any City employee of Pittsfield? They had anything to do with housing illegal immigrants in the hotels or hotels should be fired.
I read that on Tuesday, February 25th, 2025, the Republican Party Members of U.S. Congress in the United States House of Representatives plan on voting to cut federal funding for Medicaid and SNAP benefit for the low-income American people, but I then wondered if they plan on cutting their own federal public pay plus perks too?
Fake news Johnny Rotten.
From Forbes
Key Facts
The fiscal year 2025 spending plan would likely lead to about $800 billion in cuts from Medicaid over the next decade, part of about $2 trillion in overall spending cuts to help pay for $4.5 trillion in tax cuts plus boosts in defense and border spending.
The federal government’s Medicaid program provides health care coverage to more than 72 million Americans.
While the resolution doesn’t explicitly call for cuts to Medicaid, skeptical lawmakers have warned there’s virtually no other way to achieve the $880 billion in cuts the resolution tasks the Energy and Commerce Committee with finding without slashing Medicaid spending.
Moderate Republicans in vulnerable districts and those where significant portions of their constituents are on Medicaid have expressed resistance to any Medicaid spending cuts.
And there is a ton of waste needing to be slashed from CMS . YOu think that they are immune from the bloat and corruption?
“Moderate Republicans in”
Possible those moderates, a suspicious term for any true believer, are in for a hit in their wallet.
CMS is administration. Management. It is overhead in the delivery and billing for health care. Business management and direction wants overhead to be low in proportion to production.
The first place to save money, which no one talks about, is getting rid of the multi-lingo. No one ‘needs’ them. Humans are good at finding someone to explain shit to them. Second, government writing is a separate language anyway which is completely incomprehensible to a non gov person.
Why write what is incomprehensible in other alphabets???
Bingo. EO English as Official language for the Federal Government. Medicare literature will likely be published in english only, meaning great savings in paper, copying expenses, translators, lawyers needed to verify the legality of translations, and editors.
END PROPERTY TAX AT 65
LET SENIORS STAY IN THEIR HOMES. THEY’VE EARNED IT!
Exactly G M.And. F- reparations. My name isn’t Jefferson.
Especially the ones that never had kids in the level 5 s s .
DARN TOOTIN GIMMEE
Sorry but young people weren’t old enough (or alive) to vote for all these politicians that have destroyed this country like Ted Kennedy. You need to continue to have skin in the game for the damage you have done.
That is age discrimination and why should people, including other seniors who rent, subsidize this. Its right up there with Tyers free home improvements and it has socialist undertones.
I have paid taxes in the city for over 50 years. Never had a kid in schools which are major portion of taxes. Now on fixed income.
Why is it that wealthy business owners can get tax breaks for years and years along with taxpayer subsidized utility upgrades when they build something?
City has all these taxpayer funded grants for special interests. Runaway spending for massive projects that benefit a small percentage of the population. Residents in most cities and towns get to vote or voice their opinions on large expenditures. Pittsfield may have a phony poll done by a complicit media outlet saying that most people really do want to pay 30 million dollars for a refurbished ball park. And that is not true at all. Pittsfield no longer does referendums because they know the backlash would be huge. Pittsfield also refuses to do a forensic audit by an independent out of area firm to see if there are better ways to spend and manage taxpayer funds. Ask yourself why.
Just a few years ago the city seemed to have a bundle of money floating around from the Covid situation. Is there a detailed list somewhere where all that money disappeared to? But now the city seems even more broke than ever but lo and behold not one area seems to be able to be cut. We are in a bizzaro world where everything is the opposite of the way it is suppose to be.
Pittsfield’s foremost agenda seems to be to take care of the already well off and sadly, many elderly, who have paid their taxes dutifully all their lives, are deemed unworthy of a break when they need it most. Instead they are actually subsidizing the well off by paying their share of taxes for them. The wealthy folks reduced share has to be made up from somewhere doesn’t it? Can you spell “corporate welfare”?
If you love your children or grand children you might want to discourage them from staying in Pittsfield any longer than they have to. While some of us grampas and grandmas may be unable to leave, it is a sad destiny that our children do not have to endure. Start planning their escape now.
The way Dorchester Ave was plowed and left this past storm was an incredible liability. it wasn’t widened and the edges were two feet off the curb on one side with a slope angled towards the center. If two cars at the same time were passing in opposite directions there was approximately 2 feet between their mirrors.(cased upon street dimensions and width of an average pickup truck including mirrors) When you move over all the way to the edge of the road it kicked you back towards the center and almost caused a head on collision three days after the storm. I witnessed this from the car behind the two trucks. This morning the conditions still exist.
Same with Ontario and plenty of other streets, mate!
MAGA men are uninformed and will go down with the ignorance movement of the stupids.Trump said it.He loves the stupids
^ Off Meds^
There needs to be an administrative house cleaning at the Superintendents office .All his associates are part of the culture of dont report problems.
^ On Meds^
Or, TSC left his Planet post open and a Jones Unit employee posted something rational in TSC’s place to try and fool
us?
This way they can rid themselves of the a$$ache, known here as TSC.
Hmm….
Sounds plausible. I feel for those who have to deal with nutso 24/7.
Nutsoes are the sacred force that drives sanity.
https://www.zerohedge.com/medical/tuberculosis-outbreaks-emerge-illegals-pose-biosecurity-threat-nation
I wanted to share a post with Marxist-Melle about Trump’s team doing REAL work with our nation’s veterans and not just press releases and photo-ops, like MA Gov Maura Healey.
*Trump’s VA has processed over 1,000,000 VA Claims, for FY25 on February 20th.
https://x.com/secvetaffairs/status/1894096219661898181?s=43&t=A4dIfU1zY5Cy5R_zEZP9EQ
**The Planet posters should also take a moment to say Happy Birthday to Andy Nuciforo!!
If Marxist-Melle didn’t post so much about Andy like a scorned lover does, I would have never known today was his BD.
Dump the Council and the Lump.
NOTE: I am posting a reply on the blog named Planet Valenti.
Hello Governor Maura Healey,
As a Veteran, I strongly support you in politics. You have done a lot of good work on behalf of Veterans in Massachusetts.
My enemy #1 named Andrea Francesco Nuciforo Junior turns 61 on Wednesday, February 26th, 2025. Luciforo has persecuted me since I was 20 years old when I unfortunately first met the millionaire political brat during the Spring 1996; I will turn the BIG 5-0 this upcoming Summer 2025.
Down with Donald Trump, MAGA, J.D. Vance, and the extremist movement in the Republican Party in the Swamp (& beyond). I love that you stand up to Trump in politics. I hope that you will run for and are elected U.S. President in 2028.
Best wishes,
Jon Melle
Response. Pro edited with sarcasm…..
Dear Mr Fele.Thank you for the ridiculous dicwad compliments. I don’t believe them nor do I care about your dicwad feud of twenty plus years with this Juciforo character.
Please refrain from sending any of your Ridiculous meanderings in the future. You are obviously and acutely aware you don’t live in Massachusetts…right?
Slobbering you must avoid. My face now I must WASH.
The leftist will find something to bitch about in your post that shows great news from Trump and his team for vet’s. Healey putting illegals before veterans just can’t be forgiven. NH Gov. Ayotte a vet ,would never have done that.
Happy B D Andy!
Wishing you have many more to come.
Who gives a flyby what he thinks about Trump?
Who gives a flying f… about RobertsStreet grass. Fix the Fu…. Roads and Kenny your the last person with hair plop we want trying to save our children online.
Lumpy no show at city clowncil. But Morales is there?..,
Can Amused-So have a change of clothing. That grey sweater has to stink?
The last three City Clownsil meetings have had an empty house. No one in the audience. Evidently taxpayers have thrown in the towel with these useless meetings. Wonder if any of these so called elected brainiacs have even noticed.
Before we know it election season will be upon us. Hope everyone notices that not one of these current elected councilors has done one damn thing to help taxpayers. We need to dump all of them.
Wonder when was the last time these councilors have gotten off their pompous butts and have driven through the Wards they represent and took note of the complete disaster the last snow clearing, or lack of and also encountered the horrendous potholes.
Tonight’s meeting was over in 25 minutes, amazing, especially when taxpayers have to endure the complete mess the City is in.
Maryland Markey will appear at a political rally in Pittsfield on Sunday, 3/9, to oppose President Donald Trump.
https://www.iberkshires.com/story/78143/U.S.-Sen.-Markey-To-Headline-Rally-in-Pittsfield-.html
He will bring his HOT AIR from Maryland to Massachusetts.
Maybe his hot air will melt more of the ice.
Time for a City manager and select board.
It looks like democRATS in MA continue to create positions for unqualified DEI hires, to try and circumvent President Trump’s mandate to end racist (D)idn’t (E)arn (I)t programs.
In the latest, Boston Mayor Michelle Wu-Han-Flu, created a new job for DEI Specialist, Corean Reynolds, making over $100,000 a year, plus benefits.
What is Corean Reynolds new job you ask? She is the “Director of Nightlife Economy.”
https://x.com/AntiWuCoalition/status/1894511046259343508
It makes you wonder how long it will be, before these useless former-DEI jobs are “created” here in Bitchfield.
**I did hear that the Bitchfield Pubic Scohol has a Dean of Students, Lavante Wiggins (aka-Lady’Z Man), who specializes in dancing, and also narcotics sales. He would be the perfect fit for the “new” Director of Nightlife position in Bitchfield, if I say so myself.
Part of the entitlement mentality—not real-world compatible, is it?
February 26, 2025
Re: Luciforo’s 61st birthday today
61 years ago today, my enemy #1 named Andrea Francesco Nuciforo Junior was born. I first met Luciforo when I was 20 years old during the Spring 1996; I will turn 50 years old this upcoming Summer 2025. I wish I never met, nor knew about Pittsfield’s millionaire political brat, who is also known as Pittsfield’s Pot King (of lawsuits).
I am a Have Not who was born and grew up in the distressed small City of Pittsfield (Massachusetts). My dad, Bob, who will turn 81 years old this upcoming Summer 2025, was a Pittsfield politician decades ago. Nuciforo had a vindictive vendetta against my father. Nuciforo conspiratorially bullied and persecuted me over the past a little under 29 years of my adult life to use me as bait to hurt my father, who Nuciforo filed multiple state “ethics” reports against from the Fall 1997 – Spring 1998, but my dad ended up being O.K.
The irony of Nuciforo’s actions is that it was he who disgraced himself by allegedly illegally double dipping as the State Senate Chair of the Finance Committee while at the same time serving as an Attorney for Boston’s big banks and insurance companies from 1999 – 2006, according to a news story published by the Boston Globe in January 2007. Nuciforo was the fox guarding the hen house, but it led to him stepping down as Pittsfield’s State Senator in Boston, Massachusetts.
On the blog named Planet Valenti, several posters wished Nuciforo a Happy Birthday to spite me because I support Governor Maura Healey instead of Donald Trump’s extremism. Although I am being provoked, I am happy that people know about Nuciforo’s mean-spirited and unusual actions against me.
The average human being lives into their mid-80’s, which means that in around 24 years from now, Nuciforo will become a bad memory. I hope that my blog Luciforo and my story of Nuciforo’s abuses against me will be his legacy.
Jonathan A. Melle
it’s time you moved on
A Tariff order by Bond….James Bond p…will be sent to you shortly. Your starting to sound like John Hinckley for crist sakes.
Hopefully JM doesn’t get it in his delusional thinking head that Andy and Jodie Foster are an item.
You need help
Hey man quit worrying about Andy.
Unplug the gay porn and quit giving yourself a handy.
Stop down to Berkshire Roots where the bud is sweet like candy and makes you feel dandy.
Happy birthday to my man Andy. May he toast a nice brandy.
Dump LumpLinks…..
Knock it off, knot head!
Please, please, please stop posting constantly about your past pertaining to Nuciforo. We all get it. This has become a daily post by you. The rest of the group has more important items to post about. Thought this is what this blog was for it’s not the Melle vs. Nuciforo blog. Keep with the subject Dan has written about!
Every living person has had someone in their lives that has done them wrong, but they move on. Get yourself some counseling and move on with your life. Please!!
He stated recently that his purpose is to fill the archives of PV with his complaint to forever commemorate the insult of his past.
He may want to consider the potential longevity of this site. He has his gaze fixed 1,000 years into the future.
I know if I were Andy, I’d certainly watch my back.
Luigi Melle’s posts about Andy, are certainly eyebrow raising.
If I were the target of a 25+ year conflict that only takes place in Luigi Melle’s muddled mind, it would concern me.
Especially the “cementing my legacy after my death,” with screeds.
TIF Proposed for Unistress ExpansionBy Brittany PolitoiBerkshires Staff
05:17AM / Tuesday, February 25, 2025Print Story | Email Story
PITTSFIELD, Mass.— Additional support for a longtime local concrete business is on Tuesday’s City Council Agenda.
Mayor Peter Marchetti has proposed a ten-year tax increment financing agreement for Unistress Corporation’s $4 million expansion, which is expected to create 50 new jobs.
With a TIE, the company would pay about $653,000 in property taxes over the next decade, starting at 100 percent forgiveness in the first year (about $24,000) and ending at 10 percent forgiveness (about $2,750) in 2035.
The property’s base value in fiscal year 2025 is $1,294,700, and the completed market value is $1,920,100. The $625,400 increment will see ten percent less forgiveness each year.
I’m convinced that Unistress would pull up the carpet and quit concrete if they did not get that TIF.
The “communist traitor” Obama, responsible for the near destruction of the U.S…….
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/02/wayne-root-all-roads-lead-obama-he-is/
While we’re at it cutting spending Taxachusetts needs to revoke the pick pocket tax.
To say nothing of the Pocket Pool tax, found only in Bitchfield.
This would be an easy one. The city got by without if for 200 years. 90 percent of it goes to non profits with large endowments or well to do connected business s. Did the golf course on Rte 7 gets its fireplaces and chimneys done on taxpayer dime yet?
I have a serious question for our two uber-left posters, TSC and Marxist-Melle.
Please explain this without the usual TDS or “Luciforo” excuses or reason behind your Marxist beliefs.
***MD democRATS want to put CONDOM MACHINES in ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS.
https://x.com/GrageDustin/status/1894823333134303276
In fu*king elementary schools. Why?
TSC? Marxist-Melle? You two defend every action taken by democRATS, please explain this one.
The students aren’t matriculating until age 16 maybe.
If a 16 year-old is still in elementary school, I think it’s time to cut bait on that person.
As Judge Smails once infamously stated, “the world needs ditch diggers too.”
Y’erp
Great idea! Pay police officers for each migrant they help ICE deport. Bounty to officers paid by taxing international money transfers (illegals sending money to their home countries). Brilliant!
Guv Healey – this would SAVE the state a bundle vs. handouts of ebt cards, housing, etc.!
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/02/arizona-lawmakers-vote-proposal-pay-cops-2500-each/
What happened to the state audit, a.k.a. MA DOGE – which voters approved by a large margin?
Why hasn’t that happened?
Pretty simple,,the Democrats are blocking it. Just like the Democrats approved the nearly 1/2 Billion Dollar shelter fund and blocked Universal background checks for the people who occupy them. Also Democrats blocked giving Ma. Citizens priority over illegals. Marks and Buffet at work.
TFB voted against a recent amendment in the statehouse to allow the state auditor to audit the legislature. Check it out on http://www.massfiscal.org
We need to vote her out of office.
Breaking news: Molly West and Ali Shepherd got away with being inappropriate trash and will be returning to educate your students. At least one will be on the prowl for prom dates…again
School Choice is your friend
Kinda tells ya where the rest of it is going huh? City can’t get sued if nobody did nuttin wrong eh? Raise your hand if you are surprised by this.
The first and second of “nothing to see here, folks” of the “independent” investigation?
Rather nice way to handle a scandal. Close and lock the doors, bring in a cleanup crew to assess risk and dispose of evidence, coerce witnesses, and then open the doors.
They even got a harrassment protection order.
Forget school choice, you need to exercise common sense choice – get out there. It’s a cult running the show.
Spot on, CHAZ, especially your last sentence (which might be more literal than you know).
Thank you Dan
Noted that I am not fond of metaphors.
Get your kids out of the PPS!
Probably need to get them out of Massachusetts.
Healy and her Administration let’s the R M V go Weaponized by suspending drivers Licenses from out of State infractions.In some cases Fifty years plus?……?….? And she’s now worried about Trumps mandates that will actually help the economy by eliminating government dead beat program? We can’t take on programs and d e I by self funding. It must be eliminated. As far as the R M V goes it is the most cruel and unusual punishment law in the history of the United States. The fine part of it is insane.
Double Jeopardy Lawyers where are you? Or are you in on it.
As I predicted, Mary Lou corRupT, concealed more child sexual predatory behavior, so prevalent in Shitsfield’, RUP has experience in this type of contrived ignorance, when her collogues are involved.
She famously gave Healeys & her corrupt prosecutors a pass, by sentencing Drug lab chemist Faruk to probation, for falsifying tens of thousands of drug lab results. In exchange for her lying to corrupt federal prosecutors, Deppeka Shakula was just awarded a superior court judgeship for concealing commonwealth judiciary’s criminal racketeering and child sexual trafficking organization.
Hopefully nobody actually believes the NSA is only den of sexual deviant criminals! Look for Harmeet Dhilon to pluck the low hanging fruit of western Massachusetts courts, shortly after her confirmation this week:) Maura be answering so many questions , it will make Wu’s upcoming inquisition March 5th, look like a birthday party.
– Gov. Maura Healey said the tax breaks that U.S. House Republicans envision in the budget blueprint approved Tuesday night could “devastate” a slew of government programs, and that nearly 2 million Bay Staters are at risk of losing health care coverage under GOP plans for Medicaid.
Can’t believe anything Horrible Healey says. Although illegals will lose their Health care. Americans Medicaid will not be touched.
100% JT. Healey is also probably more concerned that any cuts will effect her precious illegals that taxpayers are footing the bill for that are receiving Medicaid. Snap is also on the line to be cut for illegals.
Trump wants them to lose their Freedom.
They should all be deported ASAP
POTUS Trump and VP Vance just kicked Zelensky out of the WH.
FAFO!!!
You HAVE to see the film. It’s about 10 minutes long, and as long as I have been around and covering politics and politicians, it’s perhaps the most frank, honest exchange I’ve ever seen, at that level, before the cameras. And it was deliberate. Trump wanted the cameras there to record it. He basically called Zelensky onto Rug Row, gave him (along with VP Vance) a come-to-Jesus speech, then a wood shampoo. Amazing.
It certainly made some great TV.
Video of Trump/Zelensky press conference. Gets heated at ~40:00
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSe0ntgfpq4&t=2526s
Audit the billions funneled thru Ukraine!
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/03/after-zelenskys-ungrateful-impertinent-display-oval-office-trump/
Even traitor/war hawk Lindsay Graham, wearing Ukraine blue/yellow, criticized Zelensky’s behavior at the WH – during an impromptu press conference after the Zman was kicked to the curb by Trump & Vance.
Brilliant strategy by Trump to televise the Zman meeting at the WH. The world got to see the disrespectful Zman eye rolls/ face-making while Trump & Vance were speaking.
POTOS Trump has the DOGE Boys on it already.
How much do think made it back into pockets of corrupted politicians here?
It was a money laundering operation robbing from the US Treasury and Military supplies. US weapons have turned up all over the world, on the black market.
The RATS in DC and beyond are in complete meltdown. LEADERLESS, RUDDERLESS and now PENNYLESS. Everywhere they turn, they are being bombarded, and they can’t keep up. Their Golden Goose has been taken away from them. Right now, there is no one who can save them.
Today is Saturday and by Sunday morning PDJT will have them chasing their tails on something else..
‘Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.’
— Frederic Bastiat
DOGE ball is my favorite sport to watch now. ..
After DOGE is finished auditing all of the billions given to Ukraine and our government agencies, perhaps the DOGE team should focus on auditing members of Congress (past and present) and certain political appointees who rocketed to millionaire status during their “careers” in Washington DC. I’m should the results of such an audit would be…..
Enlightening..
Sure looks like Trump and Vance were aware of this quote and it was exactly what happened.
“If you have an important point to make, don’t try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time – a tremendous whack.”
….Winston Churchill.
These bastards pumped up Zman BEFORE his meeting with Trump……
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/03/bipartisan-group-rinos-democrat-senators-met-zelensky-blew/
Anyone know why comments are turned off on this weekends Planet?
TRAP
I should have put a notice up. It was a housekeeping measure so the techies could do some work backstage. Thanks for bringing it up.
We still got this thread for comments, thanks Dan.
I think I speak for a few other fellow posters, when I implore you to see if your techies can filter out any future screeds by JM, towards Andy Nuciforo.
That ship has beyond sailed away at this point.
Gracias for a great service you provide all of us-MA
My hunches are A. Dan had enough of the likes of Melle clogging da blog with his Andy Derangement Syndrome, B. He knew in advance Trump would school What’s His Name in the Oval Office, and didn’t want to deal with the diatribe to follow his column, C. He just needed a break from the monitoring headache, and D, and my theory – by giving us a chance to miss it, we will appreciate it more when he posts the next column allowing them, and he is prepping a doozie, either about all The Shittsfield Shenanigans or perhaps the woodshed moment in the oval, and the comments will be full of spit, vinegar, and gratitude.
TO OMG – earlier in this this comments section you asked the following questions (in italics). I answer them for you, below:
Why is it that wealthy business owners can get tax breaks for years and years along with taxpayer subsidized utility upgrades when they build something?
Because they are either GOBSIGS or connected to them. See how they are now spending over 1.5 mill for an alley improvement to benefit the GOBSIGs.
https://www.iberkshires.com/story/78168/Pittsfield-to-Overhaul-Downtown-Alleyway-with-State-Funds.html
Pittsfield also refuses to do a forensic audit by an independent out of area firm to see if there are better ways to spend and manage taxpayer funds. Ask yourself why.
Because they don’t want the truth. Look what happened in Oklahoma.
https://kfor.com/news/local/lack-of-financial-accountability-state-audit-says-tulsa-public-schools-failed-taxpayers/
Just a few years ago the city seemed to have a bundle of money floating around from the Covid situation. Is there a detailed list somewhere where all that money disappeared to?
First thing up on city website actually. So called detailed accounting, and of course it’s all about DIE BS and people of color, equity, et all. Tyler ought be ashamed, but she be proud!
https://www.cityofpittsfield.org/government/american_rescue_plan_act_(arpa).php
Agree, the system is rigged and developers are playing it for all it’s worth. Allegrone is getting almost 1/3 of there cost paid for by taxpayers. Preservation act Money, 10 years of Tax discounts, Millions in State grants plus Federal money. On top of that they’re using their own construction company to do the work. I don’t blame them, they’re smart and are playing by the rules. Time for a change.
The meeting that took place with all of the Washington insiders before Zelensky met with Trump was really chummy by the look of the pictures. Then Zelensky acts with disrespect toward Trump and Vance before the cameras. Zelensky knew he wouldn’t be getting any more cash from Trump and I don’t believe he ever intended to sign that minerals deal so he felt free to act the way he did. Zelensky will take his chances with Europe now and play them for money and “security guarantees”. England hailed him as a hero yesterday so his plan may be working, but Ukraine is done with America if no more billions are coming from us. Zelensky showed who he really is at his meeting with Trump.