HINDS HIDING FROM OPPONENTS AND PRESS (read: ‘PLANET’) … WHAT’S HE SCARED OF?
BY DAN VALENTI
PLANET VALENTI NEWS AND COMMENTARY
(FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, THE WEEKEND EDITION, AUG. 26-28, 2016) — The Committe to Elect Adam Hinds, conductor of Hinds on the Roof, the vertigonous fund raiser for The Chosen One for state senate, Democrat Adam Hinds, wants to ride out the illegality of a promotion on the city’s official web page for the event. THE PLANET predicts it will succeed, right through the primary election on Sept. 8 — held on a Thursday because of Labor Day.
Hinds will follow the classic Machine formula to local political “success”:
1. Sniff the Machine Bosses
2. Agree not to have a will of your own
3. Check self-respect at the door
4. Avoid THE PLANET
5. Count on the lazy and incompetent Mainstream Media to publish your press releases and sound bites with no followup, and
6. Rely on apathy to do the rest.
Turnout will be appallingly low, the Machine will get out the Special Interest vote — primarily from those connected with the Pittsfield School Department – and Hinds will defeat attorneys Andrea Harrington of Great Barrington and Rinaldo Del Gallo III. He will then turn to the general phase, where he will face Republican Chris Canning in November.
Harrington will disappear until the Bosses reward her for splitting the party vote. For those not familiar with this tactic, see “Sweet” Pete White doing the same for Pittsfield state rep. Tricia Farley Bouvier several years ago. The Bosses rewarded the indiscernible White, whose presence does not trigger automatic doors in supermarkets, with an at-large city council position. White thinks this is “the big time.”
Harrington and Hinds didn’t not appear on PLANET VALENTI TELEVISION last night for a live discussion of issues with Yours Truly and Supercitizen Terry Kinnas. The Committee to Elect Adam Hinds, not Hinds, told us The Chosen One’s “schedule is already booked. As you can imagine, with the primary two weeks away, scheduling is extremely difficult.” Committee, we don’t have to use our imagination.
Here’s the e-mail we sent to Hinds on Aug. 24:
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COMMITTEE
(1) In your first e-mail, you said the campaign would investigate and then let me know what it found out. A simple inquiry at city hall would provide more information if not answers. If the campaign didn’t see that the posting got on the city’s official website, which you claim, then it had to come from city hall. You need to ask the mayor and especially the person who maintains the website. I could easily do this, but I am busy, too, probably busier than Adam if truth be told. If I do it, moreover, I will uncover the information. The would implicitly suggest a cover-up. You can see where that would lead, and it likely would put the worst possible light on it for the campaign. It would be much better for you guys to get the answers.
(2) Please do pass along anything else you learn about this. I’m sure the campaign agrees this is no light matter. It’s a violation of the law as egregious as if someone walked into city hall and set up a fund-raiser right there, outside the mayor’s office.
(3) Can you please share where Adam will be tomorrow? I would like specifics, only because someone from your campaign told me today Adam is ducking me. I put no weight into this, but I do want to give the campaign the benefit of the doubt. I can do that by being able to share where he was at the time of taping. Give me verse and chapter, and I will share that with my readers and viewers.
(4) Speaking of which. We tape at 4 p.m., not 4:30 as I originally stated. The TV station moved us up on request. That may allow Adam to be there.
(5) I generally do not conduct business with a “Committee to Elect” anybody. Please give me a person, a human being with a name, who is writing these missives to me. It may sound trivial, but I assure you it’s not. And would it spoil some vast, eternal plan for Adam, himself, to contact me?
(6) I’m not a monster, I don’t steal candy from babies, and I don’t knock out canes from old ladies when they are crossing North Street (except if they have a Hillary sticker on their cane). If Adam wishes to have a coffee with me, before or after the primary, informal and off the record, I’m willing.
Thanks,
DAN
The campaign didn’t respond. These days, when the phone doesn’t ring, I know it’s Chrome Dome not getting back to us.
With that, we open The Comment Line with our usual exhortation: Be witty not witless. Have a great weekend, everybody!
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Curious, how did they get on the roof? Through a hole?
stairs, then through a door.
Let’s hope Dangerous DannyEvans doesn’t scramble The pushovers brains tonight.
I never vote for special interest candidates and this guy seems to have special interest political hack stamped on his forehead.
Good observation heh.
Political hacks are what Boston and the local bosses want in this area. They can easily control them. The schools are of course in on the DEAL. Keep the big salary increases coming to the school employees and we will vote your hacks in every time and this is exactly what happens here in the PITTS. It’s a sick dysfunctional system that really only benefits the special interests like the school employees and does nothing for the rest of us. Just like the schools have McCandless as their “yes” man, they make sure the politicians are also friendly to their money grabbing. By having everyone that “matters” in their corner, they can easily keep taking taxpayer money.
Did anyone hear about all of the tools and equipment stolen from the Taconic worksite. More money from taxpayers?
the tools belong to the contractor, not the taxpayers. in fact, the GC is responsible for the site’s security.
Yes heard that tends of thousands worth. Site won’t allow reporters but thieves can walk right in. Drug related. Heard that contractor won’t file claim for the boost in premiums but will bury replacement cost and then some in his bill to us the taxpayers. Thank you Ms Yon. Thank you Jive. Thank you mayor.
Really?
4 out of 5 days on Hinds?
I get it. It was a bad thing.
I doubt hinds has access to the city’s website. I doubt he did this. The real question is who did.
I’m voting for Harrington, but Hinds still wins. He has run a better campaign, like it or not. The guy is everywhere. He quit his job to run. He is hungry, the others are not.
I will also be voting for Harrington. Hinds represents everything I dislike. Government funded programs that in no way benefit the taxpayers, So how can he relate to our concerns…..he can’t!
Did he quit his job because he was guaranteed to win We can only wonder.
Dan, I think the reason that folks avoid appearing on your show is that they are not comfortable in an unscripted environment they do not control.
It is often said that nothing clarifies your knowledge of a subject like needing to train or teach someone else. That analogy applies here, because taking off the cuff inquiries, responding to a field disinclined to support you, or just being in a situation you don’t control shows your true grasp of the issues and the depth of your position,
I don’t always agree with Smitty or Ben Downing – but neither ever shied away from engaging with me to hear my rationale on an issue.
Willingness to head into the Lion’s Den is the mark of a true believer. If he cannot articulate to PV readers and viewers his positions and try to at least explain his views – you know they are canned and the limit of his beliefs is wrapped up in the press releases and sound bites he issues.
At 40 years old, lets figure he’s had 8 jobs. He has left each job not only before he accomplished anything – but before he even learned the job. What makes anyone on this blog believe he even understands the issues he campaigns on?
Do you think Tricia understands the issues? Or cares about the issues? These people are hand selected and are told not to worry their pretty little heads about “issues” and “voting” because they will be given cue cards telling them what to vote for and what to say if anyone asks them a question. Easy peasy puppet people as they are referred to in inner circles.
no – Tricia is useless to the constituents.
Adam and handler’s sound like someone else who is running for office. Rope lines and questions going to be asked in written form handed in first. Then just maybe an answer to the questions.
They are playing it cautiously, playing it “not to lose” rather than to win. They also appear to be running scared of putting the candidate in any kind of unscripted forum.
I disagree with Dan Valenti that Andrea Harrington is running for Berkshire State Senator to split the 3 way primary vote in favor of Adam Hinds so she will receive a political plum sinecure as her reward. Dan Valenti has written not one positive thing about Andrea Harrington!
Andrea Harrington is a Pittsfield area native who went to Pittsfield public schools, to college, to law school, who has professional experience in small business and practicing law. She is married with children. She is invested in the community. She has a lot of great qualities!
I wouldn’t toss her out of bed but she could use implants
parhetic and deviant. I can only imagine what happened to you to hate women so much.
Hate. All wrong l love them. How odd of you to accuse me. Just saying she would look amazing with a pair of DDs.
Steven, Shakes is probably upset because he can’t get a weiner implant and he has to stuff a sock in his britches
Shakes is just misunderstood:(
Parhetic is not a word. Pay more attention
Shakes is never wrong so it must be a word.
Saying that you like DDs might be a lot of things but it’s certainly is not a deviation from the norm.
Hinds had implants!……on his resume……Go Andrea…..
Whether Harrington is running intentionally to split the vote or not, the fact remains that the vote will most definitely be split…..making Hinds the winner. Surprise?
and she may pop up on some gravy train payroll before the sun sets on election day.
What about all of the other political hacks who traded elected political office for a sinecure?
* Luciforo stepped down as Berkshire State Senator to anoint himself as Pittsfield Registrar of Deeds for 6 years while he plotted a failed run for U.S. Congress
* Speranzo stepped down from Pittsfield State Representative to be anointed Pittsfield Clerk of Courts for the rest of his “working” life
* Larkin also stepped down from Pittsfield State Representative to be anointed as a GE Lobbyist
Andrea Harrington hasn’t accepted any sinecures! All she has done is work hard and set the example of being a small business owner and an Attorney at Law.
Thank you, JM. Points well taken.
For Shakes…..that means a hack job……not a cure for sin.
That’s the main point, Spidey. The theory of vote-splitting comes from an operative deep inside the Hinds camp.
Hinds will get more votes than the two of them combined. Can’t it be that DelGallo is running to split the vote. He’s much more connected to what is referred as the GOBs than she is.
She doesn’t seem to be the evil spoiler Dan makes her out to be. I’m with you Jonathan.
Reply to Jonathan Melle—Andrea Harrington is a Pittsfield area native? She lives in Great Barrington now, so far for love of Pittsfield! And if she went to Public school and college and law school–so what? Hundreds of people did–so what? Of course, on the village level that’s great accomplishment–I see.
I checked her web site–dozen endorsements from construction companies–plasterers, masons, plumbers, roofers–which she has never ever seen, never spoke to–all fake, done by her husband, connected to them. Yes. she is a nice person–my sister is aslo nice–let’s vote for her!
Come on, Dan, I’ve seen you steal candy from babies.
only to protect them from future cavities
True, SE!
But never on a golf course. Right??
Last Night’s Discover Tyler Street fair was a reminder of how a group of motivated merchants who truly work together for the collective good without government interference can thrive, while highlighting why Downtown Pittsfield will never thrive under the political strong arm of Downtown Pittsfield Inc. Ask any downtown merchant or building owner, especially those who were independent enough to reject membership and they will describe how the quasi government agency demands say on everything from choice of tenants to operating hours and even what window displays should look like, while demanding that only IT knows what’s best for downtown.(see downtown master plan). Under that environment, ingenuity, creativity and true entrepreneurial spirit is lost for the sake of going along to get along. And look at what great success it has brought downtown after those worshiped economic engines were built with taxpayer funded dollars- A place to be avoided at all cost with only a handful of government workers and the urchins that Dan loves so well providing foot traffic during non theater hours. How many doors will have to close downtown before our deaf, dumb and blind city leaders realize that the failed business model just does not work?
PUBLIC SAFETY ALERT!
Stay off of:
North st.
Tyler st.
Lincoln st.
First st.
Second st.
Linden st.
Dewey ave
Cherry st.
Burbank st.
Kent ave
Madison ave
And Seymour st.
And you might survive.
TWO
Earlier this week, I was talking to the former owner of a highly visible downtown business. This person told me that after the business pulled out of DPI Inc., it started “having trouble” with the city: Inspections, unwarranted assessments, permitting hassles, etc. This person cited city politics and DPI as a direct cause of the sale. The business later closed. That Tyler Street has avoided this type of imperialistic control is more power to them, as was evidenced on Thursday night.
OFF TOPIC
Just what purpose do eyebrows serve? If we were once apes and had total facial hair and then though evolution that hair stop growing in, why then, why why why, do we still have eye brows?
They serve the same purpose as TFB
There to keep dust and particulates out of eyes.
That’s eye lashes Dan, I believe. Brows function more as a partial impediment to dripping sweat it appears so apparently the Pittsfield political class will continue to evolve until browless.
and the mustache is to keep particulates out of the mouth?
Continue your journey South
“Go West, young man.”
I read that little blurb in the Eagle about tools being stolen from the Taconic job site. Between that and the unforeseen ledge and pcbs and paranoia on the job site the whole mess seems to be cursed. Has somebody pissed off the Gods by pushing through a project that should never have even been on the drawing board?
and speaking of expensive projects that were never necessary in the first place, did Mr McCandless release accurate figures on how many Pittsfield students are now opting out of the Pittsfield public school system? And how many are new this year? Did I miss the article? Thank you ahead of time for any help on this concern of mine.
The date this project was started was a Friday the 13th. As you say this project was started without public approval. They arrogantly didn’t care what the public thought about this issue.
Everyone including Trump loves public money.Imagine how much wall would be built if Trump asked private business to build it.There is a very simple answer to illegal hiring of people coming to America for a better life…..put private business owners in jail for a felony 2 to 5 years 1st offence…..Supporting Donald Trump’s wall will be an embarrassing memory for those that do.
The wall is a shovel ready job I approve. I would be more embarrassed if I supported Hillary.
Agree. Electing Hillary is the same as Obama. They agree on everything. The middle class is dying and we are left with just the rich and the poor. Is this the country we want?
New topic: I like to think of myself as being a benevolent person, but the story in today’s Eagle got to me.
The story about Youth Works (a state funded program) for those children 14 to 21 from low income families showed two gals who came to Pittsfield this past year….one from Jamaica and the other from Colombia.
100 youths applied and it appears 35 were chosen.
My question: Doesn’t charity begin at home? Why were two foreigners (non citizens) picked over our own low income youths?
Maybe the people they were staying with are connected?
Just another example how American Citizens are slighted in favor of foreigners. But you bring up a good question. What were the circumstances that brought them here……and where are they living and who is paying for their living expenses while here.
Because local youth are too mentally retarded from the years of chewing on lead windowsills and sitting in PCB ridden dwellings and schools. P
Ignorant reply
Spider, easy answer, section 8, EBT cards, WIC, food pantry, free cell phones and the free crap never ends.
You are exactly right, Paul! As a taxpayer, I would like to know the rest of the story on this program. Were there others besides these two girls who came from other countries?
Dan: Is this something you could check on?
The reason Trumps down by 10 million votes is The stupid wall.This is a wall you can’t go under around or over.The great Wall of China.and Berlin…..Trump wants to turn America into a gated community…..shoot anybody trying to work…
The world is upside-down
Buy the Tshirt….I helped build the Wall….Trump hate s goverment so he build s the Wall of America…..American business owners hire illegal workers…end of story.
I just drove the hood…..Barry would you tell linda to have Eversourse turn up the lights in the hood…..
Jonathan provided the streets….these are very dark streets…cut the tree limbs…simple stuff 1st
Great ideas. The devil is in the details. Politicians often just throw money at problems when actual thinking might solve far more problems.
This city is full of political hacks who don’t give a damn about the progression of this city but rather the progression of their political careers. The city council is full of morons. John Krol and Pete White follow around our degenerate mayor like puppy dogs. I think Krol and White take turns wiping her bottom. I mean why else would city council members support another big box store idea(Walmart)? Yeah good idea Pete and Linda bring in more minimum wage jobs so we can keep shelling out more and more taxes every month to help these people who can’t live or support their family off 10 dollars an hour. Is Walmart promising our mayor something we don’t know about? And our city councilors? Is Linda’s mayoral salary enough to pay for that mansion she moved into with the wonderful Barry Clairmont? Does Barry even have a job? (Other than walking into city hall like he owns the place and annoying the hell out of people) Corrupt as hell. This city continues to shoot itself in the foot by electing idiots and failed leaders. Younger generations will continue to move out of this crippled city and you can thank our failed leadership for that.
Another freak obsessed with everyone molesting each other’s asses.
These three also chuckled when they bitched slapped the taxpayers and the poor fools who elected them by giving Mr Stanley and his Beacon Theater another. ANOTHER, 5 years of tax breaks.
Anyone who thinks these people ran for office to represent the citizens are clueless. It is called “taking care of Number One.”
The only freak here is you
It was nice here when you were away to see the Sox.
Mr. nice guy–I agree with the so many past hacks –holding positions in Tyer’s administration. How did we allow this mess to occur? We are in for a very rough 4 years with a mayor and council who do not know what they are doing.
Reply to Mr Nice Guy—Bravo!!! Nicely said! Bravo!!!
Change of subject. Elizabeth Warren says “she gives us hope for change” are you F-ing kidding me. She is going to keep with Obamas plan of spend spend spend. I am Hoping for some change and it’s not Hillary.
Another change of subject. In the Friday Eagle a woman wrote a scathing editorial bashing the turf field at BCC. She stated health issues and possible law suites down the road. What she did not mention was that she lived on west street less than 1 mile from the field. Also she did not mention that the committee for the field went with s alternative product for the field. At a significant increase to the project , they went with a Nike field that uses recycled sneakers instead of toxic tires. I wish the folks living next to the field would have the balls to say they don’t want it by there homes.
Let’s call it the Freaking Theatre, how’s that Mr. S. ?
You can call it what you want. I went to the Beacon with my family last night and there were a handful of moviegoers and 2 people working. You people should stop getting each other off and use the tools available to you (FOIA, AG’s office, etc. ) and force the city to abide by its laws and the binding legal agreements in place for all the tax breaks the city provides.
I cannot believe….that you gave a family
Have a family
Just like Manson
If Patty Bouvier gets in we are done for.Planetvalenti does not matter
Itook in the Tyler Street experience last. Iget, well is was a drive through experience, unlike Jimi Hendriks would sing about. o k, so sojourning by the gas stations fro First and Tyler, two people arguing, down Tyler a little ways there were about a dozen people lined up at the ice cream joint, further down there was a thirties
female smoking a cigarette on the curb. A couple, was walking hand in hand on the left across from the Car Wash,
nothing unusual, other than his faragots were down to his ankles. Up and over the Hill was the ever popular Pizza Parlor with about three or four people getting dinner, I was one of them. The food was delicious,also a little further down before turning around PCb alley was the Barber Shop, which was closed but the pole in front was turning. I might add, mag ident views adorn the site across from P E D A headquarters.
Once I get my momentum it all comes together,ahhaa.
Shoulda took in the North street experience Dilly, if you can get through it?
O K I’m out of it,what’s going on at the old Ker Plunkett Sdhool?
Dukin Donuts plaza, I’m sure there will be a bank, car parts store and pharmacy.
Who the F has the money to take a family to the movies?
Hacks like Shakes
Who the F has the money to take a family to the movies?
DV will you invite Adam Hinds and Andrea Harrington on your TV show? Mike Bloomberg and F-B?
It took the federal government 15 years to go 1 mile and 1/2 on the river cleanup..
..how long will it take to build the Wall of America…..if patty Bouvier wins just build the fn walmart on Tyler it over…..we are all losing our homes…..taxes are over 2500 to live in the Hood….hope ing school opens peacefully at Morningside….Instead of laptops mccanless should issue bullet proof vest…..also pittsfield is at 500 kids out of district or 8 million….more want to leave but can’t be placed
Lots of new positions in pittsfield schools…they can’t fix morningside…it’s a total loss….they will redistricting like they did at ried years ago…..ramifications of Sabic will show right away this year in the schools…yons in charge….PCBS rule in pittsfield schools….so do guns
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Just heard a transmission of reported shots fired which was fluffed off as only fireworks. Well,the fireworks that I heard sounded like a stick of dynamite. Anyway, they couldn’t figure that maybe sometimes gunshots and fireworks could both be happening. The police did say that they caught the culprits and fluffed it of as stopped, that’s it. How about disturbing the piece for one, illegal fireworks two, and I don’t think that that sound was a legal firecracker in most states, let alone this city.
Stop listening to the same old garbage mi, you’ll live longer.