Cedric Cromwell was scurrying for the last two days doing damage control over the Land into Trust debacle. Now, he told Taunton that he has ” reactivated the LIT process for Mashpee and East Taunton.” Cause he got caught. Can you imagine what the Taunton leadership thought as that horror story about the Mashpee and Middleboro land mess played out on the news and in the papers? And the stories about dishonest dealings with Middleboro. The pending lawsuits. The phone calls about ” What the hell are you people doin’?”
Incompetence will kill the “Taunto itty bitty” casino. Very late, disorganized and risky.
How do you prove that he reactivated the LIT process? How do we know if the BIA has accepted a letter saying Mashpee can start over again? You just don’t know, because the BIA is not confirming anything.
You don’t expect the truth from Cedric do you? Considering the fact that he failed to tell the tribe about the rejection of the LIT application on January 19. He had no intention of doing anything until he got busted on the 7th. Obviously Taunton officials are skeptical. They say they are ” cautiously optimistic” that “the tribe has a lot of work to do to bring this project to fruition,” and ” our people have a lot of unanswered questions.”
It’s so bad the tribe is giving the town hundreds of thousands of dollars to pay consultants to assess the economic impact of the casino and the kicker is paying for the special election. The tribe paying for the Taunton election is a red flag. It’s a sign that the struggling community is unenthusiastic at best.
Another greenhorn move is paying Cromwell regime flak Brooke Scanell $5o0k to do a 3 month media cam
paign in Taunton. That’s a lot of money to pay an inexperienced PR person to persuade Taunton to accept the deal. You could do a media blitz in the entire state of Massachusetts for 2 years and never spend $500k… the state is so small….let alone Taunton. Who on Cedric’s team can double check how the money is being spent, and if they’re getting ripped off ? You can imagine where that money is going. Why isn’t Genting doing it? They have in – house experts that produce stuff all day long.
Cedric was circulating his emails and taking down posts on Facebook. Trying to push back. He’s getting so much criticism that he took his personal Facebook down and put up a Public Figure page that has only 5 ” likes” where in his bio he takes credit for bringing down Glen Marshall. And he’s still exaggerating his education credentials. Take a look. It’s awful. Wampaleaks researched his lineage, and his education, so he had to make changes.
But the most telling issue is the fact that Cedric and his team have not even started the complicated LIT process that costs millions. Mashpee LIT was done by the previous administration, but Taunton is not even started, because the Taunton casino is Cedric’s personal commercial venture, so you don’t need LIT. But, if Mashpee and Taunton are tied together there’s a problem. But if Taunton is incomplete, it kills Mashpee. But we will never know what’s going on because the dishonesty is so pervasive.
And besides, applying for LIT is not like applying for a job at Burger King. Someone needs to tell Ceddie.
