CHARTER COMMISSION ‘REVIEW’ SET TO FURTHER WEAKEN WHATEVER’s LEFT OF ‘HONEST’ POLITICS IN BITCHFIELD
BY DAN VALENTI
PLANET VALENTI NEWS AND COMMENTARY
(FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, MONDAY APRIL 7, 2025) — Now that Bitchfield officially stands without a representative city council, school committee, or mayor, the mannequins occupying those offices feel fully free to act unencumbered by Mary Jane and Joe Kapanski.
Sure, this has been the case somewhat in previous years, but there were always true public servants–guys like Peter Arlos, Rob Tuttle, Terry Kinnas, Chris Connell, and, most recently, Charles Kronick. Today, not a one like them can be found. For The Suits, it’s the clean sweep, the perfect game, they’ve been setting up since a citizen’s uprising sent the Civic Authority coup down in flames.
The Suits learned well.
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Eleven councilors + six school committeemen + a mayor = 18 self-absorbed, self-obsessed, self-seeking, self-serving dipsticks put into place by their handlers through a “legal” but fraudulent electoral process. They come a dime-a-dozen. In a city “government” that has gone pussy-hatted Loon Liberal with no private-sector economy, such sycophants are easily found for the slop in the public trough.
They are characterized by how cheaply they sell themselves, ready to obey “Their Master’s Voices” and not rock the boat. Corruption abounds, and The Suits have their dupes to keep it that way. What decent, hard-working, honest person would want to enter the same cage as these animals?
Which is why “Election Day” has turned into a farce.
The greatest act of citizenship in such a camp is NOT to vote and NOT to run for office. At least NOT participating in the travesty allows a measure of self-respect.
Ah, but THE PLANET digresses.
Such miscreants explain how a Frankensteinian monstrosity as the Charter Review Commission can come into being. This document is the “poor man’s” version of the Civic Authority legislation in the sense that the purpose of each was to weaken the democratic electoral process and transfer administrative power to unelected persons appointed and controlled by The Suits.
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The shorthand, Reader’s Digest version of the most recent “fast one” is that The Suits will be killing the charter objection (CO), that token last resource of The Kapanskis.
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Such appointees provide the perfect complement to “elected” dupes such as the current mayor, council, and school committee, whose strings have needed replacement once a month from all the pulling by the puppet masters/ventriloquists.
The charter review commission was put in place two years ago for one purpose: to dump the charter objection (CO) provision, made famous Kronick–yes, Sir Chaz himself. The charter objection (CO) allows a single councilor to pull the emergency brake on taking policy votes.
In an honest government, the CO allows more time for thoughtful deliberation. In a rigged game such as the one operating in Bitchfield, it’s merely a token. A measure will be shut down until the next meeting, when the rubber stamp comes out of the ink pad. Even that minuscule measure, however, soon will be crushed.
Here is the charter review commission’s firing squad:
- Heather Grunin, Clerk, (413) 499-9361, hgrunin@cityofpittsfield.org;
- Yamila Badui;
- Michael J. McCarthy;
- Leah W. Reed;
- Brendon D. Sheran;
- William Travis;
- Catherine VanBramer;
- Dina G. Lampiasi.
Yeah–usual suspects, all.
The Kapanskis don’t stand a chance.
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“It’s over” — Sir Donald Turpentine, Knight of the Bath.
“OPEN THE WINDOW, AUNT MILLIE.”
LOVE TO ALL.
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If someone will organize a Hands Off protest at Marchettis house I will be there. In spite of all the other obvious financial burdens life is throwing at people, Marchetti, along with his absolutely useless Pet Pete White, are planning massive tax hikes to drain what very little money people, especially elderly on fixed incomes, will have.
This is especially cruel and even mean spirited when one considers that much of their massive tax hikes will be going for totally unnecessary feel good projects like a 28 million dollar renovation of Waconah park and several others just as unneeded and unwanted by 95 percent of the population. An honest broke type mayor and council president would be doing due diligence and slashing the budget.
Pittsfield taxpayers have every right to be as angry as the national Hands Off demonstrators are because the mistreatment and lack of diligent representation is glaring.
What else is new when it comes to predictable Pittsfield politics past over 40 some odd years of the same old at least 5-percent per fiscal year spending increases, excessive municipal tax increases, huge fee hikes, and public debts and unfunded liabilities that total a little less than $1 billion?
“A government that robs Peter to pay Paul will always have the support of Paul.”
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/rob_Peter_to_pay_Paul
Pot permits settlements in 2024 that gave city FREE CASH in the amount of $341,000 to Pittsfield’s marijuana millionaire who lives in a $950,000 mansion in Pittsfield’s elitist Gated Community west of Berkshire Community College, and he is a disgraced Pittsfield State Senator (1997 -2006) for allegedly illegally double dipping as the Chairman of the State Senate Finance Committee while at the same time serving as legal counsel of Boston’s big banks and insurance companies from 1999 – 2006, according to a Boston Globe news story published in January 2007; “Luciforo”.
Large municipal tax breaks for Petricca, while the average residential household city taxpayer pays somewhere around $6,300 per fiscal year to Pittsfield City Hall.
On July 01, 2025, Pittsfield’s fiscal year 2026 municipal operating budget will begin. The 2-Pete’s Pittsfield politics will continue their spending spree in less than 3-months from now. The aforementioned millionaires who are politically connected to the 2-Pete’s will be cashing in, while the fictional Kapanski’s will be cashing out.
How about a hands off our children and adolescents in Pittsfield’s public schools? We need to protect Pittsfield’s kids.
Good ‘ol Brendan Sheran… his knee scabs will never heal
Give them another ninety more Dan. Maybe the sun will shine.
Brown nose brigade
A done deal in Pittsfield politics is in spades!
Hey Melle I got a good job for you so you can quit posting about having your government benefits cut. A buddy of mine runs a farm near you in NH. He needs someone to feed the animals and clean up their sh*t after. What do you say?
The sheep are nervous now!
He’d just pick up the shit and post it here
Did anyone notice the LACK OF DIVERSITY at this weekends “Hands Off,” rally held in Park Square and elsewhere?
I found a post on Twitter (X) over the weekend that fully illustrates the typical democRAT.
Locally, we have the MA State Illegal Aliens Rep. Tricia Farley-Country Buffet (d-illegal aliens) and former failed Picklefield Mayor Linda “Flat” Tyer-Clairmont, to thank for all of our “diversity,” if it doesn’t remind you or beg from you first.
NIMBY-right ladies?
Dumping illegal aliens and drug addicts in poor POC neighborhoods, should be the democRAT mantra.
Francesco™️ on X: “Look at me. I’m a Cape Cod liberal. I don’t have to chain my bikes to cement or lock my doors at night—because diversity is something I vote for, not something I live near. I support open borders from the comfort of my historically preserved colonial. My kids attend “inclusive” https://t.co/AfM826JS5t” / X
*This above post almost reminds us of “social justice warrior” Andrea “Wrong Way” Harrington’s “exclusive YT Lenox party.”
Photos: Andrea Harrington campaign | | berkshireeagle.com
**JM, remember after scrolling through these photos a few hundred times, come up for some fresh air. Maybe take your dog for a walk.
Racist always notice diversity
Not voting not running is the quintessential Patriot protest. It’s like refusing to serve on juries of corrupt courts. But also, you need to form your own Council.
Council in Exile.
I don’t need odo anything is what you really mean.
No taxes here for senior citizens.
I was wondering if anyone had stayed in a motel/hotel in Bitchfield lately and if they are doing the infamous democRAT (taxes) shakedown?
I ask, because this poster on Twitter (X), recently spent the night in a Boston hotel for a weekend getaway with his wife.
**He was stunned when he got his bill and saw 9 separate taxes in one day, ADDED to his room expense.
I’m curious to see if Mayor Lumpy and CC Prez Wimpy White are following in the same footsteps of Michelle Wu-Han-Flu and taxing everyone and everything possible.
Fall River Reporter on X: “”The taxes in Boston for visitors is ridiculous. My wife and I decided to spend a night in Boston and here is my hotel bill. For one over night they charge you EACH day a state and city occupancy tax, a convention center tax, and a tourism tax and a one time Urban fee. In less https://t.co/fnvSr3VZau” / X
Hands off Pittsfield’s children.
CC: Berkshire Pride and their afterscohol program for trans “teens and tweens”.
Sick SOBS!
Hands off my wallet.
Exactly because:
“Once you allow someone’s hand into your pocket that holds your wallet their hand will always be in the pocket that holds your. wallet.”
I was taking a look at:
https://usdebtclock.org/
The U.S. Government has been deficit spending for around the past 45 years.
Trump’s tariffs debacle and would-be 2025 tax cuts lead to trillions of additional dollars in deficit spending.
Unlike the Swamp, I was taught that the politicians we elect in our government are supposed to use our tax dollars to invest in people and the communities that we live in.
Instead, the 2-Pete’s Pittsfield politics pounds peoples purses, while Trump is deficit spending our economy into oblivion. It is the WORST of 2 worlds for the fictional Kapanski’s.
Melle, DOGE
And maybe you’ll have to get a job!
The democrats are going berserk because when this is all done and President Trump’s policies create so many jobs (like last time) that there will be no excuse not to be working. This is very embarrassing for much of the dem’s voter base that have long depended on government hand outs and are now going into their 3rd generation of never working.
Trump’s tariffs are designed to level the trading field, made necessary by the years of those fees charged by other countries on US goods. The markets have reacted as markets do, since they dislike uncertainty. This is a strategic move, not a tactical one.
The strategy is to also drop the market, reduce interest rates and then restructure the national debt so we can actually pay down the principal and not be bankrupt in 5 years.
Plus bringing work back to USA.
That fixes government spending.
Seems to be working out just great. There was no other way to do this except to slash the aorta and hope it clogs up on its own.
It’s more like stitching the aorta. The outflow is under the old way. This is how you fix it: cut government spending (economic growth is measured by gov employment.) We know economies look good when you are at war with everyone building tanks for the army. That is current reality. Looks good, debt is huge.
Lucky for us war is on the horizon.
Speaker at open Mike wants to abolish the police department. Also,driving down center street yesterday a pan handler lost his sign and was almost clipped by a driving as he went to pick it up?…it was close..
Currently watching the totally useless Clowncil meeting. There have been several open mic speakers that brought forward very legitimate issues only to have Pete White shut them down. I find this totally disgusting. These useless city councilors can spend hours grandstanding but the public is only allowed 3 minutes, same should hold true for a Councilor!!! Pete White even shut down the Chief Of Police’s assistant who was suggesting a remedy to the over crowding of the current dilapidated station. This rudeness by Pete White shows the City Clowncil could care less about the City. Do any of these useless elected officials ever contact these speakers after the meeting? Does the Mayor ever approach the speakers? This is the second meeting that Pete White has tried to shut down Councilor Warren that was clarifying some information. Taxpayers have to clean house this election, this current Administration is pitiful. Don’t know how these jerks can show their faces in public. I would say their bloated egos have taken over. We need to break their egos.
And Pete White is in training to be the next gosib backed mayor. He is proving himself to be the ultimate lapdog which is a Pittsfield mayoral candidate dream for the special interest peeps. Word is that he has already designed his own nameplate carved into a polymer helmet.
Pete White is a can’t do guy. If you need someone to tell you why it can’t be done, he is your man. Unfortunately more Pete Whites will be voted in. Pittsfield was 14.5 thousand votes for Kamala-Waltz. Probably the worst Democratic ticket since Mondale-Ferraro, Trump garnered 5.5 thousand votes. His platform is close the border, reign in Government waste and corruption, fix our horrible trade agreements, lower energy costs, by producing more in our Country. Still got crushed in Pittsfield. Really is know hope here , leave if you can, only going to get worse. Side note our local paper, The Berkshire Eagle, SUCKS! They wouldn’t know a true story, if it punched them in the face. Keep asking for hand outs, you South County losers!
Yes. Trump really comes off as mainstream. Kamalawaltz as weird shit. They remind me of the libertarian nonsense conman who ran during the 1980’s. Spoke a great deal of bs and basically ran to make legal his crimes.
I would love to hear what else the assistant had to say about their move to Old Town Hall. Something about a 70,000 gallon water leak and mold. What is that about? What else is being covered up?
I agree, White shut her right down. Wondered if the Mayor was sitting there motioning to him to stop her. To think she has worked for the City through 3 Mayors and was just trying to get a response from the Administration. It sounded like Marchetti has never responded back to the police department, Why? As you stated what are they covering up now?
It could be a coverup M&B, but more than likely, the GOBSIGS don’t want to lose out on the democRAT money grift, by building a police department.
Building a police department takes actual work and needed supplies-less to skim from.
Now, a new “Wahconah Park,” with the Lumpy and Wimpy White “overseeing” that project, it makes it much easier to “cook the books,” as JM likes to say about Kufflinks Kerwood, and his bookkeeping craftsmanship.
he only reason the Two Petes want to spend $28M on Wahconah Park is so they can get a new beer tent.
Maybe they want 1% of 28M?
But the big guy got 10%
Who wouldn’t mind a Christmas card stuffed with $280,000 for doing nothing, other than wasting other people’s (tax) money.
Can you imagine what the real take will be from the GOBSIG’s, truly overseeing the expenses and completion of this project.
As the late, great, Keith Jackson, used to state, “Whoa Nellie.”
Mayor Lumpy and Wimpy White will get their pictures at the red cutting ceremony, plus their names on the stadium “who built” this financial monstrosity for years to come.
What do the Kapanski’s get?
College players hanging on by a thread, before they have to realize their playing days are over and it’s time to seek employment/career.
Most of us high school athletes had to make this decision much earlier, so I do tip my hat that they were able to keep their dream alive longer than most do.
Bud Light?
Don’t forget the free food for wimpy
Bill Murry and Dave Veeck want to ruin history at the swamp
I’m not saying that the current police building is adequate for present day needs, but why don’t other structures built around the same time seem to be fine. Could it be that the city doesn’t take care of its own infrastructure?
Isn’t that where the city councilors have their own personal gymnasium/workout place? Perhaps the hot tub sprung a leak.
President Voltron Porkchop has to shut down Horny Warren from drooling and spitting all over the dais.
Kuckoo Kenny was getting ready to have a TDS meltdown. His viagra must have been wearing off.
The mayor did address fats Hitchcock who can’t afford to live in Pittsfield but seems to be able to afford food.
And pulllennteee of it.
Sounds like Noto doesn’t want to keep pedophiles out of city government
Great response to all those “Hands Off” protesters.
https://x.com/Sassafrass_84/status/1909276071746281820
That’s a brilliant rebuttal to the morons supporting these protests!
Thanks for posting that – I will also forward it to some other outlets where libtards gather.
Glad I was able to share. The link was sent to me from my son.
Massachusetts ranks third in “most criminals still at-large”…..
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/these-are-us-states-most-criminals-still-large
Are they the career politicians?
Cuz most of them are in government and untouchable?
They are in the White House
I’m curious what our left-leaning posters, TSC and JM, think about this one?
To cliff note it:
*3,920.028 Illegal Aliens were given Social Security and Medicaid, during the Xiden administration.
*If each illegal alien got the maximum, or close to the maximum amount, the US Taxpayers (Kapanski’s), shelled out $1,931,281,856 dollars EVERY MONTH, for this illegal, criminal enterprise, run by the democRATS.
**Stop posting about Trump and DOGE, “cutting the DOE,” or “cutting benefits for seniors or veterans,” or whatever batsh!t crazy talking point MSM is passing off this week.
Notice you hear nada about Ukraine anymore? The grift ended.
Trump and DOGE are stopping the fraud, so our seniors and veterans have benefits and NOT ILLEGAL ALIENS.
Mila Joy on X: “This should PISS YOU OFF! 3,920,028 illegals were given Social Security and Medicaid in 4 years. If each one of them was receiving $2k/mo that’s $1,931,281,856 EVERY MONTH. Whoever set this up needs to go to PRISON. THEY RISKED OUR SENIORS PROGRAMS.” / X
Worse than spending money for some of the nonsense exposed by DOGE, is borrowing the money for such unbelievable nonsense.
Or giving huge tax breaks to billionaires?
Are you talking about all the dark money the Soro’s are funneling Illegally through the DNC and other left-leaning NGO’s?
Or how Obama, Schumer, Pelosi, and Pocahontas, are all worth more than $50,000,000+ in net worth, despite working a career making $300k at most?
If your talking about Trump and Musk, may I suggest you take your “hands off” yourself long enough to shut down the computer and take a walk and get fresh air.
The amount of taxpayer money DOGE has saved me/us….
The amount of fake news you fall prey to is mind boggling. You are a nonsense sponge as they say in academia. Please reread the story about the frog simmering in the hot water.
Camoron and Lumpy are getting an earful tonight at psd meeting. Almost brutal.
I agree with you. 100% correct that U.S. Citizens and U.S. Veterans earned their benefits, while the illegal immigrants and other fraudsters did not.
Then why do YOU vote for the DEMOCRATS, who have squandered BILLIONS on these criminals, and purposely imported MILLIONS of CRIMINAL ALIENS?
Currently they are fighting all efforts to deport even the ones who have committed serious felonies.
Tell us JM? Maura Healey for one.
Why do you keep voting democRAT then?
No MSM talking points. You stated before you go to your local VA often, how about a hearing a story from a Vet than Trump/Vance”wronged.”
Quite the opposite from my times at my VA. A lot of red tape slashed by Trump to help Vets and not illegal aliens.
So do you feel that vets who fought for our country should have their benefits taken away. If so why and if not why not?
And the DEMOCRATS, want the CRIMINAL ALIENS to be able to VOTE too!
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/04/watch-live-house-vote-save-act-require-proof/
WATCH LIVE: House to Vote on SAVE Act to Require Proof of Citizenship for Voting – UPDATE: Bill Passes with 208 Democrats Voting to Allow Illegal Voting in Elections
You voted for these traitors JM
Amen
China is tarif-fire.
I would also love to see that social security list of the millions of illegals who are receiving or have received SS and Medicaid benefits cross referenced with voter lists from every state that DOGE produced on the fraud.You know many of those illegals voted. .
I wanted to let the Planet posters know that while President Trump and DOGE are cutting fraud, waste, and abuse, the Berkshire delegation is helping to come up with new ways to explore fraud and financial grifting.
While MA voters overwhelmingly voted to audit the MA government and see where all of our tax money is going, the one-party system of Massachusetts-Marxist democRATS in MA, just simply IGNORE THEIR CONSTITUENTS and keep on using our taxes like their own personal ATM machine.
In their latest money grab, the MA House just voted to start a program to provide every child in MA, with a book to read.
Now, on the surface it seems like a noble idea, until you blow off the dust and horsesh!t on this bill:
*Most kids do not read a standard book anymore.
*Most rely on their phones to “read a book.”
*MA has no idea how many illegal aliens have kids, so how do they come up with an “exact number,” or is it just a guesstimate?
*Who decides what type of books each child gets? (Gender Queer and other assorted child grooming type books like it)
*Will the book list be printed?
*Do parents have a say in the book list, or is it decided by bureaucrats?
*Will we ever see an estimated cost of this program?
*Explain to me, why a child between the ages of birth to 3 years old, 36 months, needs 36 books?
I want to give thanks to the MA State Illegal Aliens Representative, Tricia Farley-Country Buffet (d-illegal aliens), for continuing to waste our tax money and DOING NOTHING for her constituency that elected her.
Maybe it’s time that Tricia, Mayor Lumpy, and Wimpy White, take a “hands off” approach to those extra (unneeded) helpings of dessert after dinner.
Massachusetts Fiscal Alliance on X: “The MA House just voted on a consolidated amendment. An included amendment would start a program to give one book a month to kids from birth to five years old. Is this a good use of taxpayer funds Roll call below. #mapoli https://t.co/eZSQvs11zc” / X
Wow, the Demonrats just can’t stop spending. This is an OUTRAGEOUS use of taxpayer money. TFB needs to be tarred & feathered.
Sounds more like a smokescreen (“it’s for the children”). Bet the funds will instead be used for Demonrat campaigns and causes (think USAID).
Meanwhile many republican states, such as Florida,
By: Scott Sutton , Cassandra Garcia
Posted 12:29 PM, Mar 18, 2025
and last updated 8:13 AM, Mar 20, 2025
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — A new bill under consideration by Florida lawmakers proposes significant changes to the educational requirements for students in public schools.
Making headlines in the measure (Senate Bill 166) is the removal of the following requirements to earn a high school diploma:
Ending the requirement to pass the statewide, standardized grade 10 English Language Arts (ELA) assessment, or earn a concordant score
Ending the requirement to pass the statewide, standardized Algebra I end-of-course assessment or earn a comparative score
Has the Asst Principal at PHS been let back in the building?
After having your wonkadonk all over social media, how can the school committee be concerned about her “privacy?”
How can the school committee be concerned about Wiggins’ privacy since he is being prosecuted for drug dealing?
Why haven’t heads rolled over Wiggins and Shepard?
Release the report!
Maybe Cameron should get a haircut.
The report is a whitewash, henceforth, there is no there there!
Disturbing article in the Berkshire Eagle today about the results of the investigation of Pittsfield HIgh School. Sara Hathaway said she has read the investigation reports and she is satisfied with the investigation and not concerned about whether the public believes her or not. It sounds like the public will know very little about the findings and all of this will be swept under the rug. Lots of ridiculous excuses in the article about why the public shouldn’t know what happened. The corruption in Pittsfield is unbelievable.
Release the report scoholmarm Jane Hathaway!!
Must’ve been an aberration.
Do we still have a district attorney?
They just released the list of streets to be repaved. If your street is on the list call the mayor and your ward councilor. Tell them you don’t Morales to screw up your street.
He could at least give you a choice: 2 inches thinner or 7 feet skinnier
got a link?