Now there's leadership that works. Are my eyes deceiving me? Did I just read that the city council vote of no confidence was a factor in McGlynn's decision? A new day has dawned indeed. And to think McGlynn's three shameless lap dogs (Camuso, Dello Russo & Maiocco) voted no on the resolution. I can just imagine the hand wringing and self-flagellation on Camuso's part, as he repeats over and over, "Why...oh why didn't I vote yes"? "I swear mayor I was going ta". Do the city a favor McGlynn and spare Medford the shame of another day of your pathetic tenure as mayor and fall on your sword like men of honor used to do. On second thought hold off. I'd much rather see a useless & corrupt hack like you dragged out of city hall in handcuffs.

A little too late..this good old boy network is quickly collapsing..did they think authorities wouldn't figure out that Lonergan is related by marriage to the guy who was getting the construction contracts? That's not that hard to figure out. Illegal and unethical. Now everyone trying to cover their ass. There is a lot more coming on this and unrelated issues..medford will soon see a day where its not who you know but how qualified you are ..why do you think medford has fallen behind other neighboring cities in development..it is a blister of plight. Unqualified people making big boy decisions.

Jarret Bencks fails to note that Joe Viglione's Visual Radio asked Eugene J. McGillicuddy his relationship to Mayor Michael J. McGlynn and that on Tuesday Viglione (that would be me) asked Governor Deval Patrick's office if they knew that McGillicuddy was the Mayor's uncle. Which is why we called the former president of TV 3 (Gene McGillicuddy) "Uncle Gene". Fascinating that either Jarret or NIck Iovino asked me why I was probing into McGlynn's family ties...duh...there you have it, boys. Without McGillicuddy to vote FOR Covelle (even with McGlynn keeping the board down to four members instead of 5 so that Uncle Gene's Governor appointed vote would mean more) McGlynn had to ask Covelle to resign. You know McGlynn phoned him and fired him. This is all just a dog and pony show. It would be nice to see the newspapers crediting me for my hard work in this regard. Without me asking the question and then going to the Governor, McGillicuddy is still on the Board of Directors and McGlynn still has the vote to keep Covelle in power. Now Paul A. Camuso is REALLY scared because allegedly the tentacles on this thing could reach right into the Sheriff's Department, especially with Covelle saying the Sheriff & The Mayor were his consultants. Hey Stevie B, you didn't mention on your TV show that I brought an important guest to TV 3 when you noted how happy you were to meet him. Try crediting people in life. Show a little courage.

Joe Vig needs constant pats on the back and worship from the masses me thinks. Who cares Joe, you're a 65 year old who still needs Mommy's approval. We all know the trouble you stir up in Medford and surrounding towns.

In other words, some folks in town think your agenda is to verbally assasinate anyone that stands in your way. Why would you want to intentionally hurt people and there are many that you've done this to, unless you have some kind of sick agenda? I agree that the MHA situation is a scandel but to take it a step further and bring the state into it? That speaks of revenge and self worship, especially when you keep mentioning that you 'broke' the story.

Joan, you are absolutely right. Crop rotation makes for a better harvest. Medford has stagnant waters. Time for a refreshing change.

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Councilor Penta is there for people when they need help in this city. That post is missing that badgered him so I can't remember all the attacks to respond. Thank you for removing it. We need more people like Mr. Penta and Joe Viglione and that woman who speaks at the council every Tuesday night. Isn't it interesting that you turn on tv 3 and see people mocked and harassed. "Revenge" and "self worship" is a description of the access TV station, not its critics.

Lisa, do you understand the 'beef' going on between Joe V and TV3??? If you knew the entire truth you'd rethink your response here. Counciler Penta is mean and vindictive. He speaks out against gays and calls renters in Medford 'transients', that's on tape so there's no denying it. If you really want to know more about this and see what Joe V is really like, go to his blog.

http://informationcentralmedford.blogspot.com/

Joe why does everything dissolve into "Lets screw TV3"? Stay on topic. We were talking about Mayor McGlynn, Penta and the rest of the tribe. I'm not Dan Sarno, I live in South Medford. I've been coming to the council meetings for years and I've heard you get up at the podium, nearly each and every week and every topic segues into TV3. As did this one.

Angie from TV 3 takes things off topic. Then when you hit a nerve responding to her rants she backs off. Notice she won't answer a simple question about minutes to the meetings, though she's the one who veered way off topic. She posted a link to the blog giving the community information on TV3, I didn't. By the way, Angie brought up the attacks on Bob Penta and she was deleted for crossing the line. Angie's hypocrisy is showing. OK, you want to talk about McGlynn? McGlynn should resign and Bob Penta should be Mayor. TV 3 is a big part of the problem, the former TV 3 President, Eugene McGillicuddy migrated to the Medford Housing Authority...that can only happen one way, not by coincidence, by the Mayor (McGlynn) attempting to control "autonomous" bodies like TV 3 and the MHA. There's the connection, "Angie".

p.s. No one is trying to "screw" TV3. Medford Community Cablevision, Inc. is out of compliance in regards to hiring practices, proper procedures building a board of directors, keeping and maintaining minutes to meetings and releasing hard copies of expense reports and income as other cities and towns do. Angie's defensive and gruff responses don't resolve those questions. In fact, they seem downright defensive, don't they? Answer those questions, Angie. Furthermore, these are the EXACT SAME problems that Medford Housing faces and it is all fair game as the former TV 3 President, Gene McGillicuddy was the chair of the Medford Housing Board and similar practices were uncovered at MHA that have been complained about at TV 3. No one is "screwing" the MHA Angie, and no one is "screwing TV3". It seems that TV3 and the MHA are screwing the community. Please print your full name as I do. You can't, you won't, thus your defensive posture can be directly attributed to the board of TV 3.

OK, the City Council voted for the resignation of Robert Covelle, then the Mayor follows the lead of the council? This is leadership that works? Is not leadership leading the way? If the Mayor is the leader, why is he following other elected officials. I don't get it.

Condolences to the family of Councilor Robert Penta as I just read there was a passing in his family on Friday night, May 4. Good thoughts going out to Councilor Penta and his loved ones.

its called leading from behind...ala obama leadership..incompetence, arrogance and cluelessness...the democratic way

Stevie B must mean "Leading from behind" the George W. Bush way. Democrats gave the country a surplus with Clinton, Bush decimated it, Obama is working hard to get us the surplus back. It's a tough chore with a propaganda machine out there that brainwashes the weak minded.

Who in the hell are all you people/Joe V/Angie blablablabla? You are all corrupt misleading and self indulgent. I have Lived in Medford over 65 years.And today it is as ONE FLEW OVER THE COOKOOS NEST.

Hello Thelma, respectfully I say to thee that some of us are not "corrupt", "misleading" or "self indulgent." Some of just want to know how the city we live in functions. City Hall abhors transparency. I can agree with you on one thing, City Hall is very much like One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. Remember, Nurse Ratched, was a woman more of a dictator than a nurse in that 1975 flick. Very much like our Mayor, yes? Thanks also for using your real name.

I am truly amazed at how these posts are full of personalized attacks, and am saddened that the level of discourse has become an aggressive collection of slurs and innuendo mixed with sounds bytes of fact. This isn't a discussion... it's noise.

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Rick, sometimes noise is better than the alternative that the Medford City Council used to appreciate: silence. Not enough people in Medford speak up, and this article proclaiming McGlynn asks for the resignation of the Executive Director displays the arrogance of this Mayor. He's the one who put in Covelle who is the brother-in-law of the Mayor and Personnel Director's secretary. Who is kidding who here? Please don't confuse exposing how business is done in Medford with "personalized attacks" - if those individuals weren't connected so closely to City Hall it wouldn't be such a disgrace.

I have been reading the Patch and associated comments for some time now. My comments were not specifically directed at this topic which is merely one topic where I see behavior that would not be tolerated in most places. I'm not the least bit confused and stand by my earlier statement.

Specific to this thread, as I understand the Plan A form of government, citizens elect a mayor. I believe McGlynn is in his 12th or 13th term now, and was last elected with something like 65% of the vote. A logical perspective would be that the voters choose him over any other candidate(s) that came forward. From the comments I read here, one would have to conclude that the 65% of the voters who cast a ballot for McGlynn are all related to him. He wasn't appointed Mayor by friends and family.

Where folks disagree with his mayoral performance, they have the option to vote for someone else. That does not appear to have happened in the past quarter century. I also have to believe that those people who have passion around a specific topic could find better means to effect change other than bashing and whining.

It is obvious that several people feel very passionate that political patronage is the root of all of Medford's collective problems. In my humble opinion, to dismiss any accomplishments that have occurred in McGlynn's administration shows a lack of balance and perspective.

It could just be me... sometimes I have difficulty differentiating passion from obsession.

Rick, sometimes it is neither passion or obsession but a need to correct wrongs that improve the place where we live. The 65% McGlynn claims he won by is a bit of an illusion, I choose to look at it as a Mayor who came within 2,500 votes out of 55,000 people of not being re-elected. As I understand it his opponent won the "straw" in Room 207 before the debate and that was ignored so Mike McGlynn could close the show. The place was packed with friendly faces who applauded loudly for McGlynn...a definite "stacked house" against someone who appeared to be a political novice unaware of how seasoned politicians play the game. An incumbent of 24 years coming within approximately 2500 votes of being removed is a big red flag, whether you choose to look at it or not. Imagine if Stephanie Muccini Burke, the unofficial scheduled opponent, had run rather than take the position she now holds! The very popular Burke could have, very likely, won the whole thing... McGlynn's accomplishments get enough press...and that's another problem, Rick, the press has lots of ribbon cuttings but an article about the 4 million dollar judgment against Mystic Valley Development Commission, headed by McGlynn (with Stephanie Burke on the board) was in a Malden paper and not its Medford counterpart. 4 million dollars is a lot of money, as is the 1.7 million collected from cable TV subscribers in 2010/2011. These are facts I wish people would get "obsessed" and "passionate" about. Money talks.

LOL - I'm already sorry I posted a response in the first place but, since I did, I'll make this one last entry....

I have to poke at your "facts": Medford has about 55K residents, not voters. Of those who had enough passion about the mayoral race to go to polls, 65% voted for McGlynn. If Medford had a million residents and the same number of voters cast a ballot, it would still be 65%. Rules of mathematics cannot be changed so someone can try to make a point. That pretty much renders most of what you have said above somewhat moot.

Relative to MVDC, I believe the judgement you refer to was for an old eminent domain suit brought by former owners of the property. Not sure what that has to do with anything but glad you brought it up so that readers might erroneously think it had something to do with McGlynn. And the fact that cable subscribers paid $1.7M is a nice anecdotal factoid.... which also has nothing to do with the topic or my prior posts.

I stand by my initial post..."an aggressive collection of slurs and innuendo mixed with sound bytes of fact" and may I add, made mostly by people who do not identify themselves and have "passion and/or obsession" via pseudonym.

Wow, Rick, 55K residents is right. Also, the 65% probably didn't include absentee ballots, etc. But it's a nice soundbite and it is actually the official soundbite that came out of the Mayor's lips. "old eminent domain suit" not showing up in the press...4 million bucks. That's like a politician on the phone last week talking to me about a 1 1/2 year old domestic violence case he wanted to forget about because it was long ago...as if 18 months is long ago. I got it, Rick. Can't argue with people who seem to tow the official line.

Thank you for reinforcing my position. My initial point was that in the absence of facts, you can always introduce unrelated news (MVDC), irrelevant data (" like a politician on the phone last week"); play with the math until it suits you ("2,500 votes out of 55,000 people"), then slam whoever disagrees with your point of view. ("Can't argue with people who seem to tow the official line").

Political discourse in this country has reached a point where intelligent people cannot seem to discuss an issue without anger and unnecessary emotion. Going back to my initial post, I view this as very sad indeed.

No need to respond (even though I'm pretty certain you will) since I'm all done here. Best of luck to you; whoever you are.....

You are protesting a bit too much, Rick, and have gone way off topic. I stand by my belief that this Mayor came very close to losing the election. You made two posts and you asked me not to respond. Sounds like you need to read Hamlet...something about protesting too much. If you don't want a response, don't respond. It is as simple as that, Rick.

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wow Joe V says Bush was leadin gfrom behind...a surplus?? its called the invention of the internet...oh yeah Gore "invented" it...Joe what government ad are you in..after all you are a democrat and you like the messiah...how much of my taxes get you through the day?

According to GAO, the only four years we have shown a surplus since 1969 happen to coincide with the last four years of Clinton's presidency. I wouldn't know about Al Gore and the Internet, or the messiah, or other extraneous, off-topic information, but the deficit/surplus information is a publicly available and published fact.

I'm happy to be a Progressive and vote mostly Democrat (though I did vote for Bill Campbell - Republican - for Secretary of the State). Unlike many "independents" (Republicans who are ashamed of how they vote) you can be nice to me for being honest about how I vote. For the person and what they represent, not the party. Democrat is how I lean, though there are many Democratic politicians that have disappointed me. When the poster attacks Al Gore (who was reportedly instrumental in helping the internet blossom and flourish) - when a poster names someone and then belittles them, well, that's why we flag them as inappropriate.

And the rants take this off topic. The discussion is the resignation of Bob Covelle and how tight he was with McGlynn and Sheriff DiPaola. He got the job through connections, not skill.