Reel Wamps

The meeting with the town of Mashpee over the tax issue and the Community Building was like watching a used car salesman pitching a car that the buyer knows won’t make it off the lot.  Poor Cedric Cromwell was doing his blather about the economic impact in Mashpee and tribal sovereignty.  (sigh…) He wouldn’t look anyone  in the eye as he rattled on about sovereignty. Could that be why the tribe has  to pay the back taxes, and secure building permits from the town?No sovereignty? Ya think? Ah, no Land in Trust?

Ain't they cute?

Let’s t  go back to the beginning of the meeting. Remember  Cedric accused Chucky Green of  ” setting him up “? Well, it turns out that Chucky was trying to warn Cedric that Markie Harding was doing his thing by trying to cut all kinds of deals with the town. Behind his back of course.  Up to his old tricks he was.  He was offering land exchanges in lieu of the taxes and all kinds of crazy stuff. Course Grungy Boy still thinks Markie is his friend.  Grungy’s stupidity is exhausting ya know? It was a vintage Markie Move.

Worse than that was Markie’s contractor’s presentation to the town….a preliminary discussion about the building specs etc.  Whatever the town asked about easements and a multitude of  standard construction questions…the guy said “I don’t know,”  over and over again.  Mark loves to subcontract under front construction firms.  The tribal coffers continue to be his private ATM.  Ahemm…..

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 campaign 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.

The Housing Committee is meeting at 6:30 tonight.  There are questions about who has access to the books in Housing.  It is rumored that some committee members have seen them, while others have not.  But most on the committee do not know what’s going on.  It was also said that a non tribal members who works for the tribe making 5 figures, was given mortgage money.  Listen, HUD does not play, and that agency loves to arrest people…ask the Narragansetts.

That department is plagued with fraud and treated like an ATM.  It all stems from the very top.  Why is the chairman and all of his crew continuing to take a salary,  for making us look like damned fools, and can’t pay the rent or the taxes to the town,  cause we have no Land in Trust, and ain’t applied to do so.

Good luck at the Meeting. Somebody has to stop the bleeding.

Michelle Tobey Fernandes has been fired.  She should not have been hired in the first place. Who knows what she was doing over there. The department has been plagued with trouble for a long long time. We hear that Nashville is investigating….that trail will lead to Mark Harding no doubt.

Those problems cannot be covered up.  You see what happens when you throw back the covers of the Cromwell Administration. It’s not a pretty sight.

The Department of Interior, that would be Larry Echo Hawk, the Secretary of the agency that has oversight of nearly 600 federally recognized tribes said the tribe ( Cedric Cromwell) was notified on January 19, 2012 that the land into trust application was “ incomplete, and no longer under consideration.”

Contrary to what Cedric Cromwell said in a statement, the LIT application, and the only one ever filed on behalf of the

Mashpee     Wampanoag Tribe is gonezo.  It is NOT “on hold.” It is dead because he never finished the paperwork and let it languish for 3 years.  Confirmation that he never cared about us having a reservation…anywhere. The Department of Interior, that would be Larry Echo Hawk, said there are no applications for LIT for any land parcels connected to the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe. Nor can we amend and refile and pick up where we left off.

It’s like this, you step out of line, you’re out of luck. Go to the back of the line.

Remember, Cedric said he was going to amend Fall River, Bridgewater,  ( some said even  Samuel G Davis School and South Cape Beach ) and most recently, in a tribal letter, Taunton. The DOI said there’s nothing there for us. Nothing has been filed. That’s part of  CeddieLou’s audacious, bodacious,  and obscene lies. In a memo to the Council he said the DOI email was not correct…basically, the Echo Hawk’s spokesperson was misinformed….lying.

Filing a land into trust application is a very complicated process. It took years of extraordinary research and collaboration with experts and the BIA  to do this.  And despite the fact the Mark Tilden and Lou Catirina have billed the tribe for hundreds of thousands of dollars for work on LIT…they never did a damned thing.
 Cedric has been consistent with 2 things.  Lying and incompetence.

At least now he doesn’t have to worry about the governor forcing him to sign our sovereignty away…the issue was never, ever on the radar.   They’re both off the hook. “Hoka Grungy Boy!”