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Saturday, August 10, 2013

LIL'LORI HAS SEEN THE LIGHT


Friday, August 9, 2013

THE PROMISE OF A CAMPAIGN

If I had a pledge to sign, I would sign it. I hereby declare forthwith to not accept any political contributions from anyone. That way I can maintain my OBJECTIVITY. I don't want to owe nobody nothing.

My campaign will be finance from the political capital generated from my ideas. Ink flows through my veins and my veins run deep. If you don't believe me then GOOGLE me. You'll see what I am talking about. My opinions and positions are clearly (if you don't count the typos) and often stated.

Honestly, not just because I am poor and don't have a treasury secretary, I mean, I think a lot of bird cages are lined with political propaganda. They estimate a campaign will cost $5000 when I pulled papers. Well I surely don't have it and I am not about to ask for it. That is because it is indicative of a much larger problem in our political process. Money have replaced ideas about the same time corporations became people.

I was able to cause by  all accounts (mostly mine but no one has said anything different) the first public hearing for the school committee generated by a petition in the HISTORY of Lynn. All of this cost ZERO dollars. Less than a year later, I was part of a second petition generated public hearing that was again spawned not by money but from ideas.

THAT'S HOW THE POLITICAL PROCESS IS SUPPOSED TO WORK!

Call me ROMANTIC (go ahead, I'm on my fourth wife) but I don't want other peoples money corrupting what I believe.

LATHAM'S LETTER LEADS ON

2013_08_09_13_05_54.pdf


 So DR. LATHAM sent a letter to the LYNN CITY COUNCIL requesting that the BOND for building MARSHALL be placed on the ballot for SEPT 17 (Hey that's the same ballot I'm on). It came with the TYPICAL gloom and doom forecast if the iniative fails.

Even though the letter hyped the 80% match we are getting. I think the word ALLOWABLE should have been in bold print. You see by the time you take out what they won;t pay for with our money ( I believe MSBA'S building fund money comes from a %age of the sales tax we all pay, except for these tax free weekends when nobody pays), we end up with closer to a 60% match. I mean that's better than the citizens of LYNN having to pay 100% but  let's be honest about it.

She may be SMARTER than all of us but she doesn't have to rub it in by tricking us into doing what she wants.

AIN'T GOT TIME TO WATCH THE ENTIRE PUBLIC HEARING? CLEO'S GOT IT COVERED!

Excellent job Cleo! I did get to watch online so I know you summed it up PERFECTLY.

An Education: FY14 Budget Hearing Recap
uneducacion.blogspot.com

RECIPE FOR DISASTER

Someone who is better at Math than me and that could be almost anyone, please help me out here. I DO NOT understand how taxes will not go up if we pass the BOND or down if we don't. Half of that I believe. I don't see taxes going down under any circumstances.

I know I never went to no MSBA traing and all but unless the tooth fairy is going to deposit the interest payments under the MAYOR'S pillow who is going to pay? I know wwe are retiring some debt soon and we'll have the money we used to pat to work with. We wouldn't dare think of returning that money to the taxpayers, after all they raised those taxes fair and square. They feel entitled to that money/

All kidding aside, we are going to pay anyhow. If we don't gey a NEW school we are going to pay for it in the end with devalued educational dollars. That being said, the taxpayers deserve to face the TRUTH head on without being subjected to a bag of accounting tricks.

guess that's why I heard one parent call this a BAG job

MARSHALL'S PRICE KEEPS RISING

I tried to be nice, I really did. After all I'm a peace loving guy. Seriously, it was a very FAIR offer. All they had to do was name a small portion of the NEW MARSHALL after me and I would look the other way if in I did see any shenanigans. Yeah I was demanding  a WOTRING WING but honestly I would have negotiated down to a READING ROOM or even a BROOM CLOSET. I mean isn't how this political stuff works? Forgive me I'm new to the game and I'm from a distant land.

The fact is.....

my olive branch was ignored. I was snubbed. I don't know if it was because I am disabled or that I am just not one of you damn yankees. Now my dander is up and so is my price. My cooperation just got a little more expensive (I would have said SILENCE but I didn't want to give them ant ideas). The current PRICE for my unobjective belief in this project is to name the road leading up to the campus: STANLEY H. WOTRING. JR. MEMORIAL BOULEVARD.

Yeah that's a mouthful but I want to show them I mean business.

Thursday, August 8, 2013

WHEN IS A LIE THE TRUTH?

IN THE PUBLIC HEARING ON THE FY14 BUDGET\:

 Dr. Latham and her deputies also stated tonite that materials, such as report cards and IEP's are "always translated to the native language spoken at home" Well here is a 2012 report from the DESE that clearly states otherwise. Refer to page 18 SE 29.http://www.doemass.org/pqa/review/cpr/reports/2012/followup/0163.pdf


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,