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Thursday, August 8, 2013

MY BFF HAD MY BACK


Thanks to the marvels of modern technology MELISSA was able to convey ny concerns about the trustwothiness of their truths; Watching the hearing online I got to see her express what she was sure was their heartfelt anguish over my absence.

You see I wondered how we can trust these numbers when on one hand they insist we were never cited for pack of translation services yet we got these new hoops we have to jump through/ I womder if it was sonething like a continuance without a finding where they just got to agree with the presentation of the fscts yet get to escape a GUILTY verdict.

HEY, LET'S ASK CHUCK, HE'S ONE OF THEM LAWYER  FELLAS!

Anyway, thanks bunches MELISSA, I'm not sure we got an answer but at least we got to ask questions..

YOU BE THE JUDGE!

Put Two lawyers in a room, who you gonna believe?


Phelan admitted in the debate that the Brookline site is contaminated, but Judy denied it and gave an explanation of what was found and offered anyone who wanted to, to come to her office and read the soil testing report. Of course, you could probably just submit a public records request too (you know I love those 

MELISSA, MELISSA, MELISSA

Melissa Romaniello for Lynn School Committee: Its All About The Benjamins or N2N Question #4
melissa4lynnschools.blogspot.com


It is good you plan to partner with the council. They should be concerned with what goes on in the schools but.....they kind of keep their distance because of political correctness, not stepping on anyone's toes. For this partnership to work, 1). they either have to start attending the LSC meetings (I'll save them a seat) or appoint some liasion to keep them apprised of what is actually happening. Otherwise you get some vague letter of support like the one read at the FIRST public hearing that demonstrated their ignorance about the situation.

I believe you are WRONG in your assessment of how the FORD programs are paid for.
Sorry BFF, your idea to eliminate a teaching position to fund an afterschool program is CRAZY! Yes, you have a worthy goal but I think you are going about it the wrong way. Cutting ANY direct services to kids is ludicrous. Let's get our savings from making people do their job and pare down a top heavy administration,

We have different ideas about the effectiveness of SUBSTANTIALLY SEPARATE STUFF too, I strongly believe in the importance of the community as a therapeutic tool and the power of peers. Plus, it saves transportation costs.

You can thank me later for the additional clicks to your blog!

MY BFF BLOWS HER OWN HORN


http://melissa4lynnschools.blogspot.com/2013/08/didnt-have-time-to-post-yesterday-buti.html


I WOULD NEVER DO THAT! Well, maybe I would a little. She is my friend and all but why would anyone want to have me as a friend?

MELISSA and I have went round and round on this KIPP thing. She knows I got nutin against CHARTER SCHOOLS (well almost nothing) philosophically but I thinking who gets paid is kind of shady. Apparently, it's not a problem for MELISSA. Here is where I insert the KOOL-AID joke but MELISSA she be a younin and don't get all the nuances of my humor.

I see and agree with MELISSA is going on the voting bloc thing. Contraversial things are usually always 4 - 3. However I HOPE I don't come across as being so ANTI as her. Of course a lot of people eould say that is just wishful thing. You know, I HAVE A DREAM YOU'RE HAVING A NIGHTMARE.

Well MELISSA, maybe this post will get you a few more page views. It's all about the numbers.

UNSPINNING THE NEW MARSHALL SPIN

I was reading in today's Item that the MAYOR favors borrowing the ENTIRE cost for the new Marhall now to take advantage of our current BOND rating. Hmmm......this is a different one pitched by everyone at all the school committee meetings.

In fact it is different from the one given to me by Rich Fortucci, whatevr position he holds in city government, told me at the last Marshall building meeting when I pressed him for a DIRECT answer on the extent of our indebtness for the project. I just wanted to know EXACTLY how much we were have to borrow, the 34 million that is our 20% (that is really 40%) or the whole 87 million. He grudgingly (my opinion) insisted the lower amount.

I was also told that CFO Caron (Fortucci's replacement) sent an e mail insisting the extent of our indebtness would be the lower amount. My source would have shared the e mail with me but there were conflicting confidentiality disclaimers.

DON'T YOU THINK WE OUGHT HAVE A LITTLE AGREEMENT BEFORE WE VOTE ON TAKING ON THE DEBT!

Again I ask you,"Who you gonna believe, a LIAR like me OR a politican who has TWO truths?"

Wednesday, August 7, 2013

CAN YOU HEAR THE THUNDER?

Well I just submitted a brief press release to the ITEM annoucing my candidcy. I guess I've been keeping it a secret. Well no longer. I gave them something.

They probably been having the same problem with their Inyernet as me and they couldn't find anything to write about me. I'll save the whole text so they can have an EXCLUSIVE.

IF THEY DON'T RUN IT THERE, I'LL HAVE TO RUN IT HERE

Tuesday, August 6, 2013

LET'S ALL ATTEND THE ITEM'S WAKE

We here at the WATCH would be on a tight budget if we had money. Pretty hard to be on a shoestring budget when you can;t afford the shoes to put the laces in. Still despite our financial constraints, it just goes against our grain to PAY themfor us to promote their STUPID newspaper.

I know it's a tough world out there and the print business us crumbling because of all the upstart BLOGGERS who give you not only MORE news but NEWER news all for....

FREE!


Now I am never going to get coverage.

Monday, August 5, 2013

A LAUNDROMAT AT THE NEW MARSHALL?

Always looking for new sources of revenue tokeep the burden off the taxpayer, I am proposing we line the gymnasium with coin-operated washing machines to clean the LPS dirty laundry. It's a natural fit because there already a loy of SPINNING going on. How else can you explain the new twenty percent being closer to FORTY?

THIS MARSHALL AIN'T NAME MATT BUT THERE BE A WHOLE LOT OF SMOKE

I was a wonderin. Would you'all buy one of them there horseless carriage contraptions if that shifty horse trader wouldn't a let you drive it off the lot?

You see that's kinda what happened with us and that there BROOKLINE acreage. We were allowed to take one boring before we signed on the dotted line. Of course it came back solid. Might of split your gut if that one place would hadne been over that buried fuel tank. We'd thought we struck refined oil!

I GIVE YA IT'T WEREN'T EXACTLY LIKE BUYIN A PIG-IN-A-POKE BUT PERT NEAR.

Them politicians, there a hoot.

FIGURATIVELY SPEAKING

Just a quick note about something for you to chew on for a while. The same group of people who are telling you this BOND vote will mean NO increase in taxes are the same group of people who told you that we are only going to have to pay 20% that is actually close to 40% and the $17 million has turned into a $34 million one.

WHO YOU GONNA BELIEVE A LIAR LIKE ME OR THEM?

Maybe that's why my candidicy gets NO press?

RAISING THE TERROR THREAT LEVEL IN THE SCHOOLS

Romaniello running to bring change to school committee

I got no other way to explain it. The fact that MELISSA is getting some press is great! I am happy for her. What I do find disturbing is that the fact that I had my signatures certified well BEFORE any of the other challengers amd I think all but ONE of the incumbents.....

YET......

I have had NO coverage. Well there was that reference to being an on-line commentator. REALLY? Do they really think I show up at all those school committee meetings for the past three and a half years to get the left-over candy?

Ihe fact is I make people UNCOMFORTABLE. Yeah the easy thing to do is play victim and complain about possible discrimination because I am DISABLED. That would make good headlines. There might even be a lawsuit somewhere in there. Somebody will pay.

YEAH, THAT SOMEBODY IS YOU!

The only thing is I won't get no money. You'll keep paying for our failing educational system. I represent accountability. That's a change that everyonee is afraid of.

Sunday, August 4, 2013

BOND BATTLE BLOWUP

So as indicated below everyone is not happy with my position on the new Marshall. I am just saying be warry of things that seem too good to be true.

There os NO such thing as a FREE lunch. Somebody has gotta pay!


Hey, I'm g;ad when somebody proves me wrong thay means I got chance to learn. It's just that it's not enough to tell mr I'm wrong. you dotta show ME!

LIFE AFTER THE BOND VOTE

It is like a TALE OF TWO STORIES turned inside out. Observing all the LSC meetings like I have for the past three and a half I years, I have noticed a definite voting pattern emerge. For anything contraverasial it is usually 4-3 with the parents concerns being on the losing end.

I am not going to call out names (I know unusual for me but I don't want to type) because everybody knows who is on what team. So it warms my heart to see both sides come together on an issue.Well....

MAYBE......

it's just heartburn and the warmth I feel is the whole in the pockets caused by a NINETY MILLION DOLLAR fire. I can't help but feel the tax payers of LYNN are being held hostage by warnings of school building armageddon if we don't PASS it.

I here to tell you DOOMSDAY is already here given the current rate of new school construction and the sorry state of our schools. We have to do something different, we have to do something more. Talking to people and actually listening, I am here to tell you I don't think the bond has a chance of passing. Not given the state of the economy, exorbitant property tax rates, our track record with CLASSICAL and FALLON, not to mention the plethora of examples of wasteful spending.

When elected I will strongly push for the political change and help we need and are due. Lynn has been pivotal in several KEY recent federal and state elections.

TIME TO CALL IN OUR MARKERS.

We need someone who can step up and twist those arms. I am that man because if they don't give me what I want, I'll write about them.

WHO'S AFRAID OF A LITTLE OLE GHOST?

Here I was out campaigning with SW3 and I stopped to talk to a HOMEOWNER, After introducing myself and the office I'm rinning fgor he told me :Sorry, I don'y have kids". I think I was getting the brush off and I am just to stupid to know.

Undeterred I ask him, "Well do you pay taxes because about FIFTY PERCENT pf ALL property taxes go to the schools. Not to mention the highest paid city employee is the SUPERINTENDENT of schools". His interest was peaked.

A long conversation ensued about the wasteful direction much of our spending is heading. A pet peeve of his is how our students have to stand on street corners and beg for money for sports, the arts, and extracurricular activities.

That is our ghost tax.


Saturday, August 3, 2013

I THINK JUDY LOVES TIM

Kennedy comment irks Phelan

How else can you explain it? To make such a BONE-HEADED comment that smacks of Civil or Human rights violations (Ah heck, let's throw in ethical) is an accidental slip of the tongue, I don;t see our MENSA MAYOR MAKING. I mean STACY probably wasn't too disappointed she didn't get the job.

We all know there are easier principalships coming up. And with her carefull calculated callous remarks TIM gets to play the victim for picture perfect political propaganda! 

PRICELESS!

DRESS CODE TO BE UNDRESSED

Pretty in pink: Navs to sport color for charity

Time again to take a break from all that school talk. Well not exactly, the NAVS are a summer league with school ties. One of which is KYLE DEVIN from CLASSICAL whose name also appears on the wall of fame in the clubhouse for having pitched a no-hitter at the field in his younger school days. (Het I bet the bidding will be high for his jersey.)

Yeah, tomorrow night SAINTS will be among ANGELS and it's not another DAN BROWN novel.

IT'S BELIEVABLE BECAUSE IT IS UNBELIEVABLE

Superintendent Catherine Latham has named Harrington Program Specialist Susanne Garrity the new principal of Cobbet Elementary.
Not to take anything away from SUSANNE GARRITY, she has the credentials, I am sure she will do a good job or at least the one they want. Den's of LION'S or WOLVES. Pick your mammal.

Having watched all the INTERVIEWS in person, I was least impressed with MS. GARRITY of the three. But there were four you say. Yeah bit REBECCA from SUNNYBROOK farm was not in my opinion a serious candidate. Working at a charter school in MARBLEHEAD, in MY opinion, doesn't give you a clue what this job would entail.

There are two possible explanations, I think. They must be saving the better candidates for the more PLUM positions......

OR......

I cursed DR. IARIBINO by professing my LOVE for her.



Friday, August 2, 2013

TALK ABOUT DISCRIMINATION

Can you nelieve this? Here I am a blohher/powt/legitamate school committee candidate with notariced papers and NOBODY from no ITEM calls me to ask me nithing. Noy even WV FOLKLORE.

Here MELISSA has about 272,000 pageviews than me and she gets a call!

I had to admit that I don't get the Item.

I have more good news!  Just completed an interview with Chris Stevens, Lynn Item.  Now I know all the candidates do it, but this was my first candidacy related interview with a newspaper.  I had to admit to Chris that I don't get the Item (I used to read it on-line but now they charge) when I asked when the interview would be published.  She said sometime at the beginning of next week - so keep your eyes peeled.  And will someone tell me when it's out?

Is there NO justice? 

CAN'T A DISABLED GUY GET A BREAK?

Anyway check out MELISSA'S bew blog. Ley's get those numbers up.

http://melissa4lynnschools.blogspot.com/

SOME PEOPLE HAVE FEWER HAIRS TO SPLIT THAN OTHERS

Candidate objects to competitors

Even though some would say that politically I should stay away from commenting on this story, who am I to listen to SOME?

Now in the past RICK and I have disagreed (Okay he's been wrong on a few things). Still I have found him to be PASSIONATE about his principles (unlike me who is passionate about principals).

ON TOP OF ALL THAT

I don't think he is that dumb.....He's a car guy for crying out loud!

BE STILL MY FOOLISH HEART

I have to br CAREFUL. Certain people have been making certain accusations about a certain person writing certain things about those same certain people that could certainly be true if looked at in a certain light/ Did you follow that? What I am trying not to say is that I am bluntly in LOVE with SUSAN IARIBINO, candidate for COBBETT SCHOOL principal.

Don't worry, I have no romantic asperations. I am not ready for a FIFTH. My FOURTH might have objections and my THIRD keeps dragging me back to court. To be more specific, I am in LOVE with the QUALIFICATIONS of this candidate and her philosophical outlook. And to be honest, she's a published POET. She captured my heart right there.I am talking about SUSAN IARIBINO.  She definitely has the ability to be data driven but that is not the only car in her driveway.

On top of all that she is the only candidate with a DOCTORATE. That brings the question how come her qualifications weren't put up on the LPS website? STACY PHELAN'S MASTERS was also not given the same visibility as the only candidate publicly being given credit for an advanced degree, NINA with two last names who had a Masters in Education.

In MY opinion and I rarely give my opinion (stop laughing). this selection process should not even be close. Coming in a distant but clear second was STACY PHELAN. She presented herself well and you could see her business background with her organizational skills. I was impressed and you know how I am with last names.

NENA TWO-NAME definitely had the best hair but seemed to me to be the least qualified. Yeah, I know she is actually a PRINCIPAL. However it is at a CHARTER SCHOOL in MARBLEHEAD with an enrollment of 230 and a waiting list of 219. I don't think she is ready for the CONNETT culture shock Sunnybrook Farm it ain't.

STACY does have her principal's certificate whie SUSAN has some 17 years experiance and comes from LAWRENCE, a LEVEL 5 district. It's not easy to find a place doing worse than us,She is leaving LAWRENCE because she is opposed to the educational philosophy of the state takeover.

NUMBER CRUNCHERS BE DAMNED! Sorry I got excited. I think I wet my pants. It is not easy getting old.

Thursday, August 1, 2013

MY CAMPAIGN SUFFERS YET ANOTHER ACT OF DISCRIMINATION

This will be a quick one I got a date with a Gator. I've got a lot to say about the interview but it's not wgast you think, aat least coming from me. For now, I want to complain about a grievous and potentially discriminatory action perpetrated against me. Well not me really, it was against my campaign manager SW3.

In the middle of the third of four scheduled principal interviews. However he was DENIED access. I can't say for sure or not, if he would have been allowed to enter at the beginning of the fourth or not. He may have felt insulted and just walked. Sometimes SW3 caaaaaaaaan be shifty when it comes to straight answers. I don't know where that comes from.

Maybe the administrator manning the door thought he was too young but she underestimated his standing in the community,

Wednesday, July 31, 2013

READING RICK THE RIOT ACT

Sorry RICK in advance. In the LCA debate, I claimed to be an EQUAL OPPORTUNITY OFFENDER. Well here goes.....

Although recently I have been joined by a questionably opportunistic chorus, it has ALWAYS been my position that these MARSHALL MEETINGS should be held at a time and manner more CONDUCIVE to parental involvement. (You can use the search engine on my blog, I;m too busy right now to look it up.).

I appreciate and often value your perspective. You have stateted that you felt it was unfair to ask the PROJECT MANAGER and DESIGN TEAM to schedule meetings during the evening because during the day is when they do business.

In the interest of getting along I would agree with you but then we would both be wrong.

I am sorry those people aren't the ones paying for it so I think for NINETY MILLION DOLLARS they could afford an alarm clock.

IT'S ALL IN A NAME

12:00 PM Susan Garrity 12:40 PM Stacy Phelan 1:20 PM Susan Dion Earabino 2:00 PM Nina Cullen-Hamzeh, M.Ed

I have an appointment with my lawyer in the morning but sense I represent myself, hopefully my schedule will be able to accomodate my attendence. Right off the bat I see a potential nomenclature nemisis. The only one with a MASTERS has too many names.

Think of the added expense of putting those extra letters on a name plate. I don't even want to think about BUSINESS cards. What's more important having the right qualifications or the right last name?



PUTTING THE "MIDDLE" IN MIDDLE SCHOOL!


Remember when our MARVELOUS MAYOR told us no need to worry about the train being so close to the NEW MARSHALL building site because it was only commuter trains not any hauling cargo? How ya feelin now?

PARTY AT MARSHALL TERRACE!


http://www.itemlive.com/news/marshall-plans-include-rooftop-rec-area/article_131da352-f96a-11e2-a112-001a4bcf887a.html

LPS has discovered a new source of future revenue to be geenerateed after the construction of the new MARSHALL.

Ta da!

A NEW ROOFTOP PARTY DECK complete with a scenic view of the railroad tracks. Why goes on some dumb boat when all the amenities can be provided on BROOKLINE AVENUE. No life vest required.

Sure there are no ponies racing or even greyhounds but we have the next best thing, you can bet on when the next commuter rail will be passing by. Smart handicappers will invest in one of the scedules the MBTA puts out.

Even though the students in the classes below will be somewhat insulated from the sound by expensive noise reducing material on both the back and side walls, people on the roof deck won't have that luxury.

BUT....

we need to approach every problem as an opportunity. If we sell custom designer ear plugs, here is yet another source of additional revenue without resorting to 1-900 numbers. The money generated from all of these innovative fundraising ideas can go into a slush fund insuring that our top administrative officials get the salaries they richly deserve or WANT anyway.

THE PRECEDING POST WAS AN UNTRUTH AS IT HAS BEEN POINTED OUT THAT I AM PRONE TO REPORT. THIS DISCLAIMER IS EVIDENTLY NECESSARY SO AS NOT TO MISLEAD CERTAIN PEOPLE.

WHY NOT SELL IT ON E-BAY?

Not only was oil discovered on the proposed new MARSHALL site, it is light, clean fuel oil, already refined.. It is also well contained in a secure tank. We are so lucky......

BECAUSE.....

they found someone to take it for FREE. Now I don't think that actually means they will pay for the cost of pumping it in their tank. We don't operate no self-serve filling station. And we are talking tens of thousands of gallons.

We may not wash their windshield but we are going to scrub the fuel tank before we leave it under the new school site. Some day in the future an archealogical dig will rediscover it along with other foundations left there from days gone by.

The MA HISTORICAL COMMISSION still has to sign off on the building site too because as I hope LPS learns HISTORY MATTERS. Maybe they can quit ignoring the LYNN MUSEUM now.

Tuesday, July 30, 2013

I LOVE THE VODOO THAT YOU DO

You can do magic not just with the wave of a wand with a push of a pencil. You see there were two cost estimates for the PILING price to have a steady enough foundation for this four story school building that will be MARSHALL. The CITY had one and then there was the PROJECT MANAGEMENT team. Forgive mee if I get this terminology mixed up. Being from WV, a new OUTHOUSE or a CHICKHEN COOP was the biggest construction projects I ever did learn about.

Any which way,the high one was actually 7.4 million dollars but they whittled it down in what they call RECONCILLIATION. Kind of sounds like something you do to avoid a divorce. As I am sure you are aware I was none too good at that. Then again, I didn't have a MAGIC pencil that erased almost HALF of my faults..

KINDERHARVEST, PLANTING SEEDS OF FAILURE

I want to take a moment's pause about all of this MARSHALL MANURE and give you some news about the administration relocation. They are supposed to be moving out and to BENNETT STREET in two weeks. That seems to me to be cutting it pretty close to hace COMMERCIAL STREET ready to be a new KINDERGARTEN CENTER but hey what do I know. I know, not as much as I think.

Thank you DR. LATHAM for setting me free from the burden of telling the truth.

I KNOW, MAKE YOUR WEAKNESS YOUR STRENGTH!

ARE YOU READY FOR SOME ACCOUNTING?

I was a wondering just how what started out to be a 17 million dollar proposed bill for the new MARSHALL has now turned into a 34 million dollar one if things go as planned but you know how that goes....

UNLESS....

that was the plan.

Now I tried to nail down just how much we are going to bond, the 34 million or the whole project cost. NOBODY wanted to give me an answer. Don'y yake my word for it, I have been told I am an UNTRUTH teller. Go to LYNNHAPPENS and watch the videotape.

After the meeting I approached RICHARD FORTUCCI for a little, dare I say, a little journalistic arm twisting. He hesitated at first but when paonted in a metaphorical (that's a poetry term) corner he said 34 million/

"You see the MSBA has this new formula, PAY AS YOU GO, you see. We;ve had TRAINING."

Training, that makes me feel better. But wait a minute babies get training too, only they still need diapers while they are getting it.

KEEPS EVERYBODY FROM GETTING CRAPPED ON.

How clean do you feel?

A WOMAN SCORNED!

I better write something quick before my Internet fades out again.

Well I go to this MARSHALL MEETING you see and surprise I was the first one there. I approach the secretary and ask about the meeting. You see I know where it is I read the posting, I even help SPREAD the word, you might say. Well she looked at me kinda dumbfounded like. She had NO idea. Now mind you she is responsible for directing visitors, observors if you like. Being a helpful person, I volunteered details to make it easier for her.

Using some kind of scheduleling application on the computer shr found some EISK MANAGEMENT meeting in the STAFF DEVELOPMENT room. That's it, I said. You see the problem was it had been double-booked for teacher evaluations. They must have found somewhere else for those evaluations cause we got the room. I must say the seats are much more compfy than those at the regular LSC meetings ....but I digress.

At first there was only me, CATHE and the building people in the room, CATHE warns, with what I thought was with an air of disgust, "I have to warn you, there may be some PUBLIC here. There are some bloggers who put out some untruths." Then she swiveled her swivel chair and bore down on me with those cold blue eyes and said, "You write some untruths by your own admission, isn;t that right?"

Boy she had me. I have always told you she was a smart lady. Well I do have a license to be creative. I always try to make it clear when I am trying to entertain you. This stuff is boring and whose truth you going to believe anyway?

She even told them I write sexual innuendos about the staff! Cathe, I am a HAPPILY narried man.

FOUR TIMES!

She even claimed that I had mentioned the use of 1-900 numbers. I really don't remember. I probably did. Of course I am always thinking of the tax payer looking for new sources of revenue. What do thry use those numbers for anyway, SPORTS TRIVIA?

I was a little hurt that she never did tell them I was running for LSC. LORRAINE GATELY, fellow candidate along with sitting members RICK STARBARD and PATTI CAPANO were also observing. Who wasn't observing was LSC member JOHN FORD who is actually on the BUILDING COMMITTEE. Now from what I was able to pick up from listening to other people's conversations (I know that's rude but I never claimed to fo be polite), he must have had some serious personal reason. They all knew but left the rest of us to make stuff up.

ISN'T THAT WHAT GOT LITTLE CATHE MAD AT ME IN THE FIRST PLACE?

DON'T WORRY, YOU WON'T BE LONELY

1 am a bad boy!

CONTAMINATION? I FEEL DIRTY.

You know how this town talks so I don;t know if this is true. One of my sources, I don't remember who (See with my BRAIN DAMAGE I can legitamately habe memory problems and protect my sources.File that for future reference.) Someone  said JOHN FORD, LSC member and Building Committee member did alluded to the fact that the new MARSHALL site was indeed CONTAMINATED......

BUT.....

it was where the parking lot was so the kids wouldn't be exposed. HELLO........does it rain up in here?\\


Well.....hopefully today's meetin will show me my sources were all wrong.