Finally, a brave soul appears!
My thanks to James Miele who has earned my admiration for sending an email to members of the City Council, the School Committee, and several officials in the city government. Lawrence residents have been sworn to secrecy and nobody talks about what’s happening in the public schools afraid of something. He complained about the situation at Lawrence High School having been reduced to only 6 safety officers.
Meanwhile, some schools do not have a safety officer in them and that would be a priority, instead of having them in Central Office.
Mr. Miele said in his message, “I only ask this question because we have an incompetent manager who chooses to give Central Office a priority over the schools.” Then, he added, “I question why our superintendent is more important than our students and staff?”
Our schools continue having problems and violence involving students but the media is kept away and we never hear about it. The school department building has not encountered any disturbances that warrant the presence of safety officers.
But now I understand the reason why I was treated almost nastily by two of them. On Tuesday, after covering the rally by the schools’ cafeteria workers, I planned on visiting the Workforce Investment Board offices next door but the doors were shut and the lights off. Perhaps there’s another entrance and they must know how to enter. Big mistake!
I asked if they knew how to enter the offices of the WIB and I was bombarded with things like, “We have no information about them,” “This is the school department,” and “You have to ask the police,” etc. Maybe they had seen Mr. Miele’s email message and are afraid of being taken off their cushy job.
Recently I requested under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) the curriculum being used to teach CRT (Critical Race Theory) in our schools and it was denied unless I pay for it. There’s no rush to get it because I’m confident that I will get it when someone gets pissed enough at what they are teaching.
This week, the Boston Public Schools decided to close permanently the Mission Hill School a new, modern building in Jamaica Plain. The reason is because of the many complaints about sexual harassment and they cited one student who was the source of the attacks. So, the solution is to close the school!
Where were the administrators when the problem began? How about kicking the offender out of school? Or pressing charges in court? They are going about it the wrong way because things of that sort are probably happening at other schools and they believe this action is the cure to this issue.
Another year of chaos
This is not only a mid-term election, marking half of the presidential term in which we elect many state officials, but it has also become more convoluted with the changes of districts as a result of the 2020 Census.
One of the biggest problems each city encounters is the issue of mail voting and Lawrence has had its share of them. From ballots stolen from mailboxes to the usual elderly abuse by “well-meaning” candidates’ campaign workers who help them by filling them out wrong.
This year, Secretary of State William Galvin is requesting that mail voting becomes the norm as if he’s never heard of those incidents. He is the same Secretary of State who said to Dan Rivera, “I made you Mayor.”
Vote by Mail as it is currently implemented in Massachusetts should be abandoned. It has been tried in other countries and banned due to the proclivity for fraud. Ballot harvesting (the first cousin of “vote by mail”) is also fueled by fraud and should also be outlawed. Massachusetts City and Town Clerks are not provided with any lawful authority to “monitor, investigate, police and punish” fraud found to occur with Voting by Mail
A City Clerk has extremely limited legal authority and they are NOT afforded the tools to provide necessary oversight of elections even before the implementation of “temporary COVID measures”. More importantly, it appears that the lack of any legal authority provided to Clerks is intended to provide “cover” for the inevitable errors and fraud that are likely to occur in the future. Vote by Mail should go away like COVID because it is not and cannot be regulated or cured.
Can it happen? It has
The potential for fraud in the “vote by mail” system is exponential and will be heralded as the next best thing to “baked bread” when it occurs. The instances of fraud occurring in the 2020 Presidential Election are being discovered more and more.
If you remember, the 2020 election was overshadowed by a host of “emergency voting measures” resulting in the greatest voter turnout ever. You may also remember that there was a great amount of controversy with voters and election officials alike concerning the legality of “drop boxes” and “ballot harvesting” measures engaged by candidates.
The State of Georgia is investigating 1,643 individuals who voted without the required United States citizenship; the State of Arizona discovered more than 250,000 fake ballots; five states found that they had more legal votes for President Trump and don’t know what to do now.
On Monday, November 2, 2020, Secretary Galvin put out television and radio advertisements announcing that voters MUST fill out and deliver their ballots to assure their vote would be properly received and counted – specifically telling voters NOT to give their ballot to anyone they do not trust (they are called ballot harvesters/collectors) – while candidates throughout the Commonwealth were telling voters to deliver their ballots to their campaign headquarters so the candidate workers could deliver the ballots to election officials.
This issue got very little or no media attention while the efforts of Municipal Clerks to obtain a legal opinion from the Secretary of State went unanswered. I haven’t read the upcoming draft of the vote by mail legislation but it likely has language that will legitimize “ballot harvesting” and “drop boxes” – if not, then the gaping holes by which vague legislation provides will probably be available for Court interpretation in the future.
These points of discussion are to indicate the reason that the City Clerk and all election staff must remain neutral and detached from all political matters to function professionally and without political interference from any source.
The early actions by Clerk Leblanc indicate that requirements may not be met based on actions taken that appear to seek the favor of the Executive Branch and other Department Heads.
The City Clerk has to remain dedicated to the Members of the Council and the tasks required to execute the position.
I have asked City Clerk Diane LeBlanc to give us her opinion on mailing voting which I hope to bring you soon.
Article from The Daily Signal
April 29, 2022, by Deroy Murdock
According to the use of “mules” (people who collected multiple ballots and deposited them in ballot boxes) and how they were electronically followed through their cellular telephones every time they approached a dropbox. These are just some excerpts to show how prevalent they are:
“This investigation’s results are staggering: Cameras capture one mule after another traveling from box to box to deposit successive fists full of ballots. One mule in Atlanta slid ballots into 28 different collection bins.
—In Arizona, 200 mules typically approached 20 boxes each. Disqualifying these 20,000 unlawful ballots would evaporate Biden’s 10,457-vote win in Arizona.
—In Georgia, 250 mules stopped at 24 boxes and inserted five ballots per encounter. Rejecting these 30,000 illegal votes would eliminate Biden’s victory margin of 11,779.
—In Pennsylvania, 1,100 mules in Philadelphia alone encountered 50 boxes. Vacating these 275,000 ilegitimate votes would eradicate Biden’s 80,555-vote victory.”
As you can see, we cannot allow that to happen again.
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