A week ago, Cedric Cromwell’s attorneys appeared before the United States District Court of Massachusetts to ask for a delay. They needed more time to respond and review all the documents the US Attorney required. Mounds of documents… among them, records surrounding Cedric’s elections. Yes Cedric’s elections. Cedric got a delay until February 4. And it is the beginning of the long painful consequence of true greed and wrongdoing that will haunt us for a long long time.
Cedric’s demise is one hell of a warning shot across the canoe. Apparently his cronies on the council aren’t paying attention. The efforts to hold on to power eked out into the open during tonight’s council meeting with the old rebuked effort to use absentee ballots during the upcoming election, which could be delayed a month. Absentee ballots are a violation of our constitution, or is Cedric’s crew ignoring the law yet again?
Jessie doesn’t want responsibility or accountability, but she will face it soon enough because every problem we’ve had leads right to her. A scam artist.
Question. With the Justice Department all over us, and paying particular attention to Cedric and the shady elections, using voting machines that could be manipulated to spit out results favoring whoever….is this the time to be violating our law? Or is Jessie insisting on salvaging the regime with all the people she put on the roll? Remember, she created her own tribe of outsiders from the red box, to keep herself and Cedric in power. She claims she didn’t know what he was doing. Oh she knew. And he knew she knew. And guess who else knows what she knew? No mystery there.
And another thing. The constitution was set up to protect the core of the Tribe from outsiders and incompetents. It empowered those who lived in Mashpee for good reason. But the loading of the rolls by Jessie at Cedric’s bidding brought on the 12 year nightmare.
Back to the election. Who needs digital voting machines for 500-700 voters? So absurd and expensive. Paper ballots counted by Elders should work just fine. They should be a little less obvious with attempts to shut out the core of the Mashpee Tribe to stay in power. Maybe if they they were accountable and had paid attention to the needs to the Tribe instead of Cedric’s, they wouldn’t have to suppress voters and import others.
Genting is also acting up, offering millions to continue our enslavement… And Cedric’s crew leaned in….all dumb. Now, we have been the laundromat for these gaming moguls for 11.5 years, and have seen no benefit. NOTHING! Outta $600 million. There cannot be another tribe in the county that”s our size with that kind of debt with nothing to show for it. AND GENTING INSISTED IT BE THAT WAY AND CEDRIC AND CREW ALLOWED IT. The only people to benefit have been Cedric Cromwell, Mark Harding, Paula Peters, Jessie “Big Doe” Baird, Marie “Tah Tah” Stone, Robbie, and Gordon “Knee Knocking” Harris and all the paid gofers on the council. Who do you think flew in all the Casino Stalkers to vote in our election? It was Genting. Do you think the Justice Department might have picked up on that? Ya think? Do you really want to go down that rabbit hole with Cedric? Even those who have immunity, and you can guess who’s already flipped on “The Target,” will have to give up something or face some time in prison.
And the investigation is ongoing. Genting has long been a bad actor on the Justice Department radar. Let’s take a wild guess about their future in the United States after this horror show. And the feds don’t stop until they’re damned good and ready.
Deb Haaland is a wonderful choice for Interior Secretary and we have to demonstrate that we can produce leaders with innovative plans that will sustain our people and culture.
So high praise for US Representative Deb Haaland as the President Elect Joe Biden’s nominee for Interior Secretary and let’s pray she is confirmed. To have a Native leader in charge of Interior is the best thing that can happen for us. And to have a President who has empathy is even better. But we have to play our role and elect new leaders who are the best of us…not the worst, and certainly not connected to Cedric and the old regime in any way. Again, we have to have leaders who will present a plan to get the Tribe back on its feet and get our land into trust.
That’s the only way to remove the stench.
