BATORY STANDS HER GROUND AGAINST MAYOR: ‘IT’S NOT PETER’S RULES; IT’S ROBERTS’ RULES
BY DAN VALENTI
PLANET VALENTI NEWS AND COMMENTARY
(FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, MONDAY MARCH 30, 2026) — THE PLANET prematurely pressed the PUBLISH button for this column when it was in ROUGH draft form, but we have attended to the matter. This was intended for Monday publication, with our column on Iran meant for The Weekend Edition. Consider it an early bonus.
Here is the polished version:
School committee (SC) newbie Ciara Batory campaigned on transparency, openness, and sticking up for Mary Jane and Joe Kapanski, even if it meant sticking it to the man, particularly with respect to releasing the “independent,” $155,000 report on school department scandals. Well guess what? She’s actually fulfilling those promises.
This man loves transparency … except when he doesn’t.
That’s something unique to Bitchfield. Let’s see. Official, “representative Bitchfield has one mayor, 11 city councilors, and seven SC members. That’s 18 “reps.” Thus far, We The People have evidence of one true Rep. That’s Batory. One-for-18 produces a batting average of .055. In the Dreaded 18, we have one repeat member, Mayor Lumpy.
THE PLANET asks why the mayor is even on the committee, let alone chairman. It’s a decided conflict of interest, but wise and procedurally. But this is Chinatown, Jake, where corruption and abuse of power is the norm. We saw that on full and raw display Wednesday, when the SC met.
The mayor and Batory got into it when Lumpy introduced an item that wasn’t on the agenda, let alone put there by Batory. You’ll recall that on Jan. 28, the SC voted to RELEASE THE REDACTED SCANDAL REPORT by Feb. 18. Done deal, right? Not so. Feb. 18 came and went with no report. On Wednesday, Marchetti introduced the matter again, essentially saying it needed to be approved again.
In a blatant disregard for the law, the mayor pretended through a convoluted “explanation” designed to confuse the matter that in its Jan. 28 vote, the SC did not actually approve but voted to send it back a second time for review based on fuzzy, phantom legal threats from one parent and the teachers union. Of note, Batory did not receive one syllable of support from her five colleagues, who enabled the petulance of the mayor.
Batory, in a Facebook post wrote:
For the record I did not place this item on the agenda. The Chair placed this item on the agenda without my request or consent, and that is not how this process works. Under Robert’s Rules of Order, a member has the right to control their own motions and how they are presented. Assigning an item to a member without their authorization is improper and misrepresents my position. This is an abuse of process, and I want the record to clearly reflect that I did not submit this agenda item. WE ALREADY VOTED ON THIS! We cannot claim to follow procedure while denying members the floor and assigning them agenda items they did not file.
CIARA BATORY
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Here’s the exchange. It highlights Lumpy’s problem in dealing with strong, independent women. It also shows The Suits’ puzzling attempts to keep the report hidden, which makes no sense. On the one hand, they say the report found nothing of concern. On the other, they claim that releasing the report will spur a lawsuit. That’s contradiction is easily resolved — (a) release the report and (b) let them sue (unlikely). Call their bluff.
Here’s the exchange from Wednesday night:
BATORY: Can you clarity if there is active litigation or a specific legal claim?
MARCHETTI: There are threats
B: OK so then that’s just a threat and not an actual legal claim. I fell like we already did this (1/18 vote)
M: I think we did and its on here because I know some of you actually went to the administration building to read the report. So it’s there just … I’m sure there’s probably not much we will be discussing in executive session
B: So I just have a point of clarification. The school committee already voted to release a redacted version of the report and that vote has already taken place.
M: A correction to that,that, because I specifically asked you before you made your motion [to release the report] to have it come back to the school committee for review before it was given to the public. And that’s the motion you made [it wasn’t] and that’s the motion you made …
B: The motion that I made was for release of the redacted version of the report. You came to me because you said that if I did not say that if I did not say that that I would be handed a blank piece of paper.
M: No. I said that …
B: That we should review it. In my motion, it was not a motion to make another motion. It was a motion that
M: You made at that that the mo— the chair’s making the ruling that the motion you made that day [1/28] was for the report to be …
B: My motion — point of order —
M: In that, I may … we can go back and play the tape [voice rising].
B: Please do. Please do, go back and play the tape because you guys voted to …
M: You can vote ‘no’ and the rest of us will go into executive session. Roll call, madame clerk.
B: Sir, I did not yield the floor.
M: I —
B: I did not yield the floor.
M: I am telling you you are out of order and to stop.
B: I am not out of order, because I did not yield the floor.
M: [strident] Roll call madame clerk.
B: Point of order for clarification and you …
M: I gave it to you. I gave you the clarification.
B: I’m telling you that is not what my motion said.
M: And I’m telling you differently.
B: Are you telling me it is what I said? My motion was to release a redacted version of the report.
M: Roll call, madame clerk.
CLERK: Miss Batory.
B: I’m not Im not done talking. I didn’t yield the floor.
M: [snippy] What’s your vote?
B: What’s my vote?
M: Ye’m ma’am.
B: I wan’t done talking and I didn’t yield the floor.
M: I told you that … I, I provided you the answer to your point of order that you’re done. What’s your vote.
B: I’m not done. I I didn’t yield the floor, Mayor. I …
M: You don’t have to yield the floor. You asked. {C tried speaking] Scuse me.
B: I know what my motion said …
M: Mmm you asked for a point of order
B: Roberts rules, if you want … if we did want to go back and vote somebody, I know there was talk about that — they would have had to then done a motion to redact my motion for another vote. I never said that we would vote again. I said we would release a redacted report.
M: I’m telling you [that] you had a point of order. The chair ruled.
B: It’s not Peter’s rules. It’s Roberts rules.
M: The chair ruled and we’re moving forward. Roll call.
CLERK: Miss Batory.
B: No, because we’ve already done that. Like I said, this is also not … this is a threat. This is not somebody suing us, which is what we’re being told numerous times. This is a threat.
M: [PAUSE] Next.
CLERK: Miss Batory.
B: [votes] No.
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THE PLANET thanks Batory for standing up to a bully. She’s fulfilling her campaign promises and, unlike Mayor Lumpy, at least can leave the room with a clear conscience.
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“He who has a why to live can bear almost any how” — Friederich Nietzsche.
“OPEN THE WINDOW, AUNT MILLIE.”
LOVE TO ALL.
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March 28, 2026
Hello blogger Dan Valenti,
Peter Marchetti is a DISGRACED politician. He should RESIGN the Mayor’s Office. His inappropriate unprofessional behavior towards School Committee Member Ciara Batory is inexcusable.
The hidden Pittsfield school legal report is obviously a cover-up. They are doing everything to keep it hidden from the public. There is NO trust between the common people and the corrupt government in Pittsfield politics. (So much for Peter Marchetti’s “One Pittsfield” tagline).
Earl and the 2-Pete’s Pittsfield politics have to release their fiscal year 2027 municipal and public school operating budget proposal soon. Pittsfield has the 2nd highest in Massachusetts Commercial tax rate in Massachusetts only behind Holyoke. Residential taxes and fees in Pittsfield are a lot higher than peer small cities to the tune of tens of millions of dollars per fiscal year.
In fiscal year 2026, Pittsfield is currently spending over $62 million dollars more than Westfield. They are 2 similarly sized small cities in Western Massachusetts. (What is WRONG with this picture?).
There needs to be a FORENSIC Audit to explain why Pittsfield is always over-taxing and over-spending taxpayer dollars.
I do NOT know what is WORSE here. Is it Mayor Peter Marchetti’s history of inappropriate unprofessional behavior towards women, especially with the hidden legal report whereby he acted abusively against School Committee Member Ciara Batory, as well as the fact that he is named in a federal sex discrimination/harassment lawsuit by Victoria May, OR is it Pittsfield’s decades of financial mismanagement that is costing the Kapanski’s an excessive amount of tax dollars?
Ciara Batory is a real leader who is standing up for what is good and right in Pittsfield.
Best wishes,
Jon Melle
https://live959.com/pittsfield-massachusetts-population/
Ayatollah Lumpy’s true colors on how he feels and treats women are now on full display after that episode with CB. I hope May’s legal team uses that display for the jury ( if it makes that far).
MULLAH
“Ayatollah Lumpy” … phunny stuff!
Good one JM. Good research. I prefer a Fitchburg comparison too given populations. Same picture though. Pittsfield appetite for cash is unusual.
Marchettis behavior suggests that he is terrified of something. Terrified and opens a door into who he really is. Exhibit A to be used in his court case by any opposing attorney as to personality.
When you speak up, instead of being heard, you are argued with. When you bring facts, instead of engagement, you get dismissal. When you stand your ground, instead of respect, you get talked down to. That is not a one time interaction. That is a repeated experience that people are starting to recognize.
There is a difference between leadership and control, and what we are seeing does not feel like leadership. It feels like someone who takes disagreement personally instead of understanding that it comes with the job. Public service requires listening. It requires humility. It requires the ability to sit across from someone who disagrees with you and not turn it into a power struggle.
Instead, the conversation gets redirected, the concern gets minimized, and the person raising it becomes the problem. That is not communication. That is deflection. And when this happens over and over again, it stops feeling like a misunderstanding and starts to feel like a leadership style.
Are we okay with a city where speaking up means preparing to be dismissed? Where asking questions turn into being challenged personally instead of answered professionally? Where accountability is treated like disrespect?
Because strong leadership is not threatened by being questioned. It does not need to argue its way out of every uncomfortable moment, and it certainly does not need to belittle the people it serves to maintain control. Strong leadership listens, engages, and responds.
Petty Peter doesn’t like being challenged.
Not because he’s right but because he’s already decided he is.
Pittsfield needs a 25th amendment. This guy is not up to the job on many levels. And I think he might welcome it.
There is a recall that takes 15% of voters to trigger an election for Mayor
But you would probably have to get his sycophant council to initiate it. And he butters their bread. They signed up to be special interest soldiers not representatives of the people so they gonna have his back as per their instructions when elected. They are not independent thinkers by any means.
He’d just run again and have the pleasure of winning too. Then you’d have no right to complain.
Would just prove
Bitchfield’s electorate this uninformed and ignorant doesn’t belong anywhere near a polling
location, if voting for him again after Lumpy was recalled.
What would you expect? Do you think the Machine would even blink at a recall? It would be their moment of victory because no one here (the odd few who actually live in Bitchfield) will even show up to vote and the rest will ignore it too. Count on 30% interest with half owned by the Mayor. They’ll probably put some other business on that ballot too.
It’s a laughable idea.
and would Persip be any different? Would he be allowed to be any different?
ZF;
This guy is not up to the job on many levels.
This is why the special interests put him in. They wanted someone incapable of doing the job. They wanted to do the job for him without any push back.
Ciara Batory is doing exactly what she was elected to do…expose the corruption. In response to Mayor Marchetti saying, “There have been threats if we release the report”, Ciara responded, “At some point, we have to separate legitimate risk from fear-based decision-making — because the public deserves transparency, not speculation.” Perfect answer.
Bitchfield Lumpy and crew always goes against what the citizens want , which is why their leadership and families are always more equal than the masses. And, one benign despot (if one ever existed) never gets replaced
by another.
and is there an iota of support from the other elected officials who were elected to do what she is doing or are they all attached to Pete’s umbilical cord and afraid of the wrath he seems all to ready to lay on em?
Slim chance of Bitchfield ever being fixed. And it doesn’t appear Lumpy and co.has any intention of
helping to do so.
Ciara has blown all credibility she had to actually make a difference.
She outsources all her thinking and research to Chat GPT, doesn’t understand anything about her position and how the rules around it work, and contradicts herself when ranting about funding levels while shes about to blow taxdollars getting the city sued releasing the report.
As a PARENT I understand releasing the report for our kids but the report will be redacted and by the sounds of the committee it won’t have any new information. The report will have confidential information in it though that is protected by law. The cost of this would be the city getting sued by the unions. The unions have sent formal lawyer demand letters to the city saying they will sue if the report is released. You would think people that work with classified information at their work would understand this? As a TAXPAYER watching the city cut our schools and have shit roads I dont see the value in releasing the report. I wish Batory and Moody cared more about MY TAXDOLLARS
But they don’t. Ciara is busy asking ChatGPT to write her thoughts and tell her how to dress in the morning. She can barely read the slop it writes for her without fumbling over her words. Then when its time to think on her feet she cant string toghether anything intelligent or political to move the committee in a good direction. She got walked all over by the Mayor because she clearly didnt read any of the rules and didnt know enough to understand she never had the floor in the last meeting. It is amateur hour with her and now shes throwing a fit because shes retarded.
How long you been a shill for Marchetti and the Sochol Committee?
What about….
Victoria May’s lawsuit that names Peter Marchetti?
Mayor Peter Marchetti’s record-breaking city budgets?
No FORENSIC AUDITS in Pittsfield?
It is unfair to say Ciara Batory is to blame for Peter Marchetti’s failures.
I May’s lawsuit puts Marchetti in the poor house. He was a lousy Clowncilor and worse Mayor.
This last outburst removes any doubts.
come on Pete chill out will ya?
The unions exist to protect school system employees, not students. And certainly not taxpayers. If the unions are opposed to releasing a report about dirty employees then you know it’s a good idea to release the report. Whose side are you on?
Sound ad hominem. You lost all credibility when you suggest she needs help getting dressed.
The report is about protecting bad hires. If the School Admin addressed that problem, they could probably keep the report to themselves.
The secrecy in releasing this PHS report makes me take pause and wonder who are they really protecting?
IMO, it’s our former failed Mayor Linda “Flat” Tyer-Clairmont.
It’s alleged this disturbing child predatory behavior by adult female administrators has been known (and ignored) long before Mayor Lumpy took over Bitchfield.
Flat and GOBSIG’s don’t want her to have to answer questions and possibly face civil deposition(s), about what she knew and blew off. Lying is a criminal offense, known as perjury.
“Vibrant and dynamic” statements only go so far in legal proceedings. A paper trail and what’s known and ignored (precedent set) is what they care about.
Just my belief.
I doubt the Mayor had her hands on this; this is Teacher’s Union and School Administration territory where they prowl and protect their turf.
She was in charge when most of it went down. She left the mess for marchetti. He might tell you that if he had the courage.
I have a hard time drawing line s between the Mayor, School Committee power, and the School Admins who do the hiring. Example. SC says, we need a subcommittee (usually just the one proposing it) to study how to get DEI positions. That goes into a black box, but I guess the fin team cooks a job description and a budget request. And presto you have $400000 of open funds that can be aggregated for years until they decide to hire. Which then results in expanding that newly grown tentacle with surveys, trainings consultants, financial incentives for promoting DEI talking points. Just one position yield a wonderful harvest, but tying it to the Mayor? She had enough milking asphalt, trucks, Ford SUVs, sewage sludge. Road salt, and weird union deals mysteriously funded months after they’ve been approved, and grants, airport gambits, homeless schemes, and seizing control and quickly digesting the ARPA monies, not more than a few pennies that were seen by any person there.
Not impossible, but for the Mayor to accomplish all that plus milking the School budget stretches belief, and surely someone would wind up in Silver Lake.
Fair point Sir Chaz.
Flat might not have had her hand in the Bitchfield Pubic Scohol hiring/firing deishons, but to think she knew nada about “Sheppard’s Pie,” being passed around the PHS students of color, would be naive.
Scohol Comite or not, the buck stopped with Flat. She could have put an end to all of it and saved taxpayers $155,000.
She did nothing.
Country Buffet?
Probably all true. To the victors go the spoils. In this case, it’s a lot of lettuce.
You know.
Your content has changed. Your grammar, your vocabulary, your formatting, your punctuation and even your diction. It changed around the time you started harassing and accusing others using ChatGPT. Takes one to know one I guess, huh?
FMR:
I wish Batory and Moody cared more about MY TAXDOLLARS.
CB is caring about your tax dollars by asking for the taxpayer funded report to be made public. Why pay for something and not get it?
Fixmy, you are full of it. The public has an absolute right to the report and there are provisions in the public records law to redact protected information. You can’t handle the truth, and neither can the GOBSIGs.
I might recall Batory saying redactions may be necessary. The threat looks like its poorly backed.
The media is full of reports of women accused of sexual assault of students, albeit after they have been charged. And then there is Miss Halls where there was no legal action, and he was named. Weak threat. Maybe they should sue the firm that wrote the report?
or sue the sochol committee. What is their level of say in the matter…isn’t it the chair who is sand bagging it?
Highest number of negatives ever. Broke Melles record.
Should be an award for this. Can someone give him their peace prize?
In MA, under MGL Chapter 93A, an entity that suing a government must serve a notice of intent to sue that government agency. It’s mandatory, not “Peter’s Law.”
I used to threaten my kids when they were growing up and acting up, that I’d let Santa know, so they wouldn’t get any Christmas presents. It worked, but it was just a threat. Nothing more, nothing less.
Same exact thing Mayor Lumpy is doing here. Using an idle threat to try and stop the release of the report.
Maybe it’s time Ciara and other PHS parents file suit to get the report released.
Show us the lawsuit paperwork Lumpy or release the report.
We paid for it, not the Bitchfield gubermint.
Hey even have an investigated report. It was mentioned on here to let the authorities do those due diligence,instead pay a hundred grand ? Here’s what I don’t get. Lumpy says there could be a so called threatened lawsuit? Why do you have six school seats. Let a vote take place. I doubt Ms. Batory could be told the way she should vote. Release the report and stop playing high school f’ko around.
I believe Mayor Lumpy doesn’t want the report released because it was a $155,000 fleece job by a locally connected DEI law firm.
The two “investigators” were both retired female judges who did all their “interviews” by phone or zoom. Zero investigative experience, other than assigning a law clerk a research project for them to cite as their work.
Ask a seasoned detective if that’s how they conduct an investigation.
Not go to people’s houses, their job, or have them meet at Mercer (neutral site) to conduct interviews?
Nope, just phone calls.
**Phone calls to today’s younger generation is like showing up at someone’s house unannounced and not invited, back in our day.
and perhaps it would hurt his friends
Lumpy has a mental disorder which rears its ugly head when he has to deal with women, which is now chiseled in stone for all to see from his past and present actions, that have
been exposed .
Is there a connection to mental health and sexual orientation ? Seems like a lot of gay blades are shall we say a bit testy.
No. Absolutely not. People are generally a mentally fucked up species,which is how G-d made us. There are advantages though: the ability to obtain infinite jest, plan ahead, think wonderful thoughts about yourself, pleasure, art, neat hobbies, and stuff the rest of the species don’t care to think much about.
There may be mental disorder associated with those seeking a career in politics though. There’s evidence for that.
Why did G-d give us bodies that had six million different potential maladies to suffer from? Was it to create jobs in the medical field so people could support themselves? Just imagine starting out with one atom and creating something as complicated as the human body with all the cells and organs and blood vessels and bones and brain matter. Was it hobby that just went badly?
Maladies are G-ds failure? People like most what is worst for them. We seek pain. Who wants to live a life of a potted plant?
maga folk?
TDS!!!
To all the Asshats, at the No Kings rally today, get a hobby, there’s a whole big World out there. No one gives a shit what you think.
The irony is funny though. They shriek “no kings, no billionaires!” However, they are the propagandizing foot soldiers of billionaires funding Marxist antics. They think they march for grassroot movement but are actually the agents of extraordinarily wealthy men in distant countries who are using them as meat. The marchers should read “The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich.” They may have a shot of understanding what they are doing.
Seriously? What is the name of the guy talking about sending thousands of American troops into Iran? Begins with a T does it not?
?
You asked if I’m serious? Totally.
You do not know your own Kings name? Shame on you!
Across the country there were millions of protestors so apparently some people DO give a shit eh?
But for those not interested in no kings’ rallies there are things that can be done to show support for your president. For instance, he is looking for his most loyal followers to sign up for his military adventures in the mid-east. So as you can see, there is something for everyone including you.
The same democRATS who call and protest President Trump as a “King,” had no problems when the Autopen Administration forced you to get mandatory “COVID” vaccinations, locked you down, destroyed businesses, and kept children out of schools.
Let’s also not forget the democRATS appointed Kammy without a single vote or primary during the presidential campaign.
So yeah, I’d say democRATS like Kings. As long as “the King” is a democRAT that is.
Not sure there were Millions, but there are 350 Million people in America. Yes, inside the Circle Jerk, that is No Kings, they do care, but outside of their echo chamber, no one gives a fuck. On a side note yesterday President Trump got more fat white woman out walking than Jenny Craig.
Estimated at over one billion around the world. Trump has zero friends outside of his maga servants
and you know this in your heart
348 Million Americans did not attend the No Kings Circle Jerk. Demorats have no platform except Orange Man bad. President Trump can’t run again, move on.
JD Vance Marc Rubio 2028.
Cry a river of blue tears like 2024
They are an integral part of the ongoing shitshow Maddy.
They wanted to run Jared Kushner but more likely Donald Jr and Erics wife Lara. Now there is a pair of maga maniacs if we have ever seen em huh? And Lara can sing like a bird. (a screech owl perhaps)
Tucker Carlson is also running on a ticket with another diehard Trump supporter, Marjorie Taylor Green. I may vote for them.
A vast improvement from cackling heels up Harris, and globalist/NWO Blinken.
Bing Videos
Lara trump singing
Looks like just the ten of you.
Apparently you do give a shit. You have this all wrong old man. If you don’t care about something you don’t pay it any attention.
It’s like when you drive by a car crash, you don’t want to look but you do. MSM had that farce on a loop for 24 hrs. Unfortunately couldn’t avoid it.
Yeah ok. I don’t look at anything I don’t want to see. And I look at car accidents because I’m nosy af and I wanna see.
Many elected Bitchfield politicians past and present are mental midget’s who once elected to their positions realized
their only true job is to enrich themselves and those who put them in , Bitchfield’s
constiuents be damned.
Pittsfield (Massachusetts) politics is a SAD JOKE!
Sarcasm
BUT….I thought that the Kapanski’s voted for Pittsfield’s 2nd highest Commercial tax rates in Massachusetts; Holyoke is 1st….
I thought that the Kapanski’s voted for Pittsfield excessive spending by tens of millions of dollars per fiscal year more than its peer small cities….
I thought that the Kapanski’s voted for the around 15 empty storefronts on North Street….
I thought that the Kapanski’s voted for 6-figure hidden legal reports, NDA’s, pot permits settlements, and other controversial and questionable legal matters….
I thought that the Kapanski’s voted for Pittsfield’s Level 5 public schools that 679 students per academic year choice out of to neighboring public school districts….
Sarcasm
Do you mean to tell me that Pittsfield’s politicians are greedy failures?
Sarcasm
NOT Sarcasm
Earl and the 2-Pete’s Pittsfield politics pounds people’s purses.
Just you wait until they present their record-breaking fiscal year 2027 city operating budget spending proposal later this Spring 2026.
Then it will be written that Earl and the 2-Pete’s Pittsfield politics PUMMEL people’s purses.
Belly’s, tax increases,and just overall unhealthy sbjects in Lumpy’s administrating. Trim the FAT. Anyone over seventy spending tax dollars should resign. To C B continue pissing Lumpy off eventually he will show his colors.
Stop complaining as nauseam.You are so critical with ideas… be a man move back here and run for office. Either that or stop throwing stones buffoon.
All the fellas want Jonny to run for mayor against his cousin Mayor Pete. If Jonny wins he’ll want to be in charge of firing Matt Kerwood and hiring hot beefy lineman and utility workers with big tool belts.
Moodiest full of quips and gadget phrases. Hat she needs to be is Bitchfield new bitch unlike fading slurpy in ward one. Of course call for the new water construction and sewer after all it’s only 160 million, idiots. We had a fellow on our side everybody dismissed him least you could’ve put a wrench into the works that’s gonna be a big dig at the end watch for those contingencies fat Albert Bike Zome,fat Albert Lumpy and Fat Albert Kufflinks will make sure the engineers get their money they lost in the eighties. The crazy thing is they already have the tens of millions of drawings from the original build. This project should have been way under the 160 m PLUS…..Dan.
Sorry for the grammar and confusion Daniel. I’m old and have bad arthritis. I wish I could have been at the latest meetings. So sorry Bitchfield.
Hey, it’s over. It’s all over.
Over and out.
It ain’t over till that phat lady simgs
What’s that shrill treble I hear from West Pittsfield?
Marchetti hasn’t changed a bit from his time as council president. He continues to change petitions and shut individuals down that he doesn’t agree with. I could list a number of incidents in which he used the same tactics on a few councilors over the years. I was waiting for his all too familiar hissy fit to kick it at this meeting. He’s like a child that cries and pouts when he doesn’t get his way. The only person worse than Marchetti is our space cadet VP of the council houseless White.
Batory deserves a medal for standing up to the GOBSIGS.
Yes, and surely all the support she can get from the public and hopefully many school employees who are not too intimidated to speak up. Because marchetti and others who, for whatever their own personal reasons are, are going to do everything they can to cancel her.
Oddly, there is another report on the federal level that is also being redacted and held back by the people with the power.
Pittsfield Metro Named One of America’s Fastest-Shrinking Cities
I wunner why.
Cardocufflinxlumpy abyss.
Marchetti obviously doesn’t want to release the report and doesn’t know how to run a meeting. Thanks for publicizing this. What is the scandal the report deals with? Drugs? Who wrote the report and why did it cost so much? (I can write reports and would charge much less..)
The only thing preventing Lumpy from being a perfect moron is the fact that nobody’s
perfect..
The only thing this transparency report reminds me of are theEpsteein files. I told the bozos on here not top pay for a report.let the law investigate its For Free.
Lumpy needs to lower taxes and cut the school budget. The current way of appeasing the school budget quid pro quo VOTES,has run its tenure. Like to know how Lumpy came up with 30 40 percent increase in property taxes. Because he can?????????
Charles, there was no need for a report until they kept everything secret. That’s what this city does,lets everything fester,if no one says anything then drop. If someone challenges it’s to late because we’ve already spent the money for a doomed hushed up report. I would have let the criminal part of the process seal the fate, then maybe, maaaaaaybe do a report.
Bottom line Lumpy is afraid of the Unions…..VOTES……..
FK:
Bottom line Lumpy is afraid of the Unions…..VOTES……..
And the unions don’t care students are Not educated, and are ok with them being schooled. When one is taught (indoctrinated) by a purple haired pierced tattooed weirdo who usually has no grasp of the subject they are allegedly “teaching” how can a child or teen actually learn anything of value?
Students are Not educated, they are schooled. Lumpy and others in leadership are ok with it, as long as they get the union votes needed to get
elected.
Not even socholed, INDOCTRINATED!!
If you fed all the available info into an AI system it might come back and answer your question with something like this, “similar situations suggest one or more higher level people with power covering for other higher-level people of power.”
The “potential lawsuit” gaslighting is comical on its face. Did the city attorney suggest this one or did the mayor pull it out of his ass spontaneously? Either way, it is his way of pissing in the face of his city, especially the school children and anyone who backs him on this is just as bad as he is.
It always makes me sad when woman do not support woman and girls who have or might be sexually taken advantage of. Pam Bondi is hiding the Epstein files and why any woman, who may even have female children of their own, do not do every thing they can to protect school age children is hard to understand.
What kind of person is willing to abandon children in order to advance their own political career? And how does God look upon such a person?
Some updates from other articles would be great.
Are there any updates on the Victoria May suit?
Did John Kroll ever file suit like he said he would?
Have the Munn couple settled yet?
What’s happening with the ACLU lawsuit against the city?
And EMS automotive lawsuits?
Krol for Mayor! The comeback kid. Bring back Transparency and open doors.
Krol? You gotta be kidding! The alleged cat charity thief?
The guy couldn’t manage his own family.
Can’t hold a job.
Can’t handle his own finances.
Linda’s right hand man for funneling illegals into the city.
”Spend” is his middle name.
Smooth talking Demonrat politician.
Was a lousy city councilor!
Based on your comments you must be wife #2!
Plus a pot shop on every corner.
They won’t release the report because there are huge allegations and a plethora of information proving that something happened…. they just couldn’t PROVE who the culprits were on some accounts due to technicalities.
Parents are rightfully concerned about their kids being harassed as snitches in our Diverse and Inclusive schools
By the way, one administrator’s “rumors” have followed them since their time at Drury High School. After all, I took them to prom!
PROM
Not releasing the report has only served to feed the rumors and spotlight the question: “What are they hiding?” It’s a self-created mess for Lumpy both as SC chair and mayor.
How can one person be a them and a their?
Same way men can get pregnant and breast feed, according to Democrats/Liberals, who can’t define what a female of the human race is……….I suspect “woke” DEI hires, are teaching that in Biology classes at PHS and Taconic these days.
IT’s almost–almost–guaranteed, TRAP, that the teachers are “woke”. That’s a condition of hire in Bitchfield.
When you have a reputation like Pittsfield you have no choice but to lower the bar for applicants. High value candidates take a glance and veer off to……well,…. anywhere else.
I did that purposely because They/Them/Their/She/Her/Zer threatens lawyer action online if you post theys name or allude to hers
With 3 months to go in fiscal year 2026 that ends at midnight on June 30th, 2026, the City of Boston faces a close to $50 million municipal budget deficit – as of March 30th, 2026.
In fiscal year 2026, Boston raised local taxes by double digits. It will be the same in fiscal year 2027. Double digit local tax increases two years in a row is a RED FLAG.
State lawmakers in Boston are under-funding state administered, federal funds – STATE AID – to local governments in Massachusetts.
Massachusetts is a one political (Democratic) party state that is starving local government of the state aid revenues they need to operate.
What do you think the Republican Party is going to say about Boston’s state and local fiscal mismanagement at election time?
They will point to Governor Maura Healey and the state Legislature for letting local government in Massachusetts go insolvent, excessively raise local taxes, fees, and municipal debts, and that local taxes are REGRESSIVE taxation.
JM writes, “What do you think the Republican Party is going to say about Boston’s state and local fiscal mismanagement at election time?
They will point to Governor Maura Healey and the state Legislature for letting local government in Massachusetts go insolvent, excessively raise local taxes, fees, and municipal debts, and that local taxes are REGRESSIVE taxation.”
Why wouldn’t they point to failed MA Gov Maura Healey and her criminal syndicate, otherwise known as the MA democRAT party, for causing this financial disaster in the commonwealth?
Maura and Co. spent money on illegal aliens like drunken sailors thinking that Kammy would steal the election and this “debt” would be passed onto the red states for not participating in the Autopen Illegal Alien Invasion, during his (Obama’s 3rd) term.
Guess what? It didn’t happen and now the rent is due and Big Daddy (the feds) ain’t there to help bail Maura out.
You always sing her praises for “helping the little guy.”
In this case, the “little guy” are all of the cities and towns she’s about to shortchange.
What’s your advice to her JM? Would you ask her if she would still take on the illegal aliens, had she known she might have to pay for all of them one day?
Keep in mind, TDS and empty democRAT slogans like, “she helps Vets,” doesn’t pay bills. We need real solutions.
The floor is now yours…….
All valid points. Thank you for pointing out that Governor Maura Healey, and the state Legislature in Boston as well, has not looked out for the financial well-being of the cities and towns in Massachusetts.
Not only will republicans rightly point out her mismanagement of taxpayers money, Maura’s voting constituents will be also be pointing out at election time to her about wanting their free stuff, and wanting more free stuff, and “Where’s the rest of my free stuff you promised last time you wuz’
here!”
A new episode in Pittsfield’s The Twilight Zone….
https://www.iberkshires.com/story/82198/Letter-Pittsfield-Court-Injustices-Against-Seniors.html
when people are nasty they deserve it back man or woman the rest of us are treated great by Peter
So lumpy does a commercial for pittsfield rye bakery on his show? Is that even legal. Using a public station p c t v. what a schlep.
But I bet he does not even get free bread anytime he wants it.
There have been quite a few slimeball blowhards’ in Bitchfield politics over the years,Lumpy is in a class by
himself.
He is in Tyers class. she nurtured him to be the mayor he is.
What’s that got to do with how he treats other women or men when you are nasty people you deserve it right back people think they are all entitled
Peter is a great guy
Well, the special interest sure love him huh? Goldklang loves him.
Sounds like a line from The Godfather