Reel Wamps

A hastily scrawled note just  crossed my desk while I wasn’t looking.  Actually I had been doing crosswords and had slipped into one of those summer afternoon half-sleeping daydreams where everything is all right with the world and I am in my happy place—at least until I read this note.  Please, tell me that it is not true that Tribal Council Secretary Marie Lopez Stone (affectionately known to all as Ta-Ta) was hired as the Tribe’s Human Resources person.  Doesn’t she already get paid for being the secretary, and will she receive additional salary for the new position?  As with all of the Council’s actions these days, you have to question their motives.

My first reaction is that this is a plum, a sop to sooth a restless Marie like jam spread on the Dormouse’s nose.  On the other hand, it could be just a way for her mother Carol Lopez to control hiring, firing, and discipline.  I’m sure Carol is seething since Leigh Potter returned to the cemetery as a consultant.  Either way, can you imagine going to Marie for a job with the Tribe?  Marie herself can’t even get a job in the real world, in fact, Tribal Secretary is the first job she has had in a long time.  And she is going to judge your fitness for a job?

Heaven help us.

Mashpee Wampanoag Vice Chairman Aaron Tobey reportedly suffered a stroke earlier this week.  Monday night Cedric Cromwell informed Council members of Tobey’s hospitalization and surgery. Cromwell also commented on Tobey’s face being  paralyzed. The Mashpee Wampanoag hope for Tobey’s speedy recovery.

After  Marita Scott, Tribal Court Clerk, (wink wink ) conducted her own tribal broadcast, she finally  made it official. You know how she loves to talk.  Telling Nellie how nice the court room is and everything.  After 6 months she mailed Nellie Hicks a letter giving her a court date for the complaint   filed challenging the 2009 election debacle that brought tragedy to the tribe. July 3, at 1pm.

Marita confirmed what she told everyone in her broadcast. That Mashpee Wampanoag attorney Robert Mills would preside over this so called 6 month delayed, 6 months brewing in the voodoo hoodoo tribal court.

No Justice in this Court

Several problems are clear.  Robert Mills would have to recuse himself for a variety of reasons.

His sister Shelly not only served on the 2008 – 2009 Election Committee, she worked the polls on the chaotic election day.

• On election day, Shelly’s husband David Pocknett, who was the Vice Chairman at the time, challenged the very lawsuit  (filed by Yvonne Frye  Avant) that allowed the shunned  Tobeys to vote.  That decision allowing the Tobeys to vote was made by Contract Judge Rochelle Ducheneaux .  Later, in 2009 court records, Ducheneaux admitted  that she violated tribal law by allowing the Tobeys to vote, and  that her decision invalidated the election.   Ducheneaux  stated that on a real court record and hasn’t been seen since that disclosure in early summer  of 2009.
• Robert’s brother–in-law David Pocknett, also lost a second case where the tribal court denied him access to the ballot .  That took 15 months for a decision by Judge Henry Sockbeson. And of course Pocknett was denied a place on the ballot in an election that was long gone. He was denied access to the ballot and  lost a write in effort.
• The most glaring conflict is the fact that Robert’s father Earl Mills is actually the Chief of the tribe because Bunny resigned twice in the spring of 2008 and the Elders elected Earl Chief again. That’s all in the tribal record, The Cape Cod Times ( April 5 2009) and the Mittark. But the Tobey brigade lead by Cedric Tobey Cromwell, Aaron Tobey, Paula Peters, Yvonne and Mark Harding had to illegally resurrect Bunny to vote for a variety of illegal emergency meetings to undermine the tribe, and empower themselves. And Bunny wasn’t even the Chief while he was voting on the Council. And we all know that Bunny had no idea what was going on.
• Bad horror story.  Yes sireeeeeeeeeee.

Judge Henry Sockbeson has been playing tribal court judge ever since. In between golf and speeches at Harvard, Dartmouth and such…you know, talking about tribal justice and all because no one else would do the dirty work.  Now its on Robert Mills?

Sockbeson is MIA. His reputation is at stake no doubt.

Interesting.

All these things we’ve outlined are issues that are consequential in a REAL court.  A REAL TRIBAL Court etc….

Why are legal issues against us still thrashed out in state and federal courts? Why are our ICWA issues  still handled in local courts?  Cedric, Aaron and Markie try to drag people into tribal court as a cheap PR stunt knowing  the court has no authority….because land in trust  is completely out of reach with last weeks US Supreme Court decision.  It’s a second death knell. Not good for the Taunton Itty Bitty Casino either.

The tribal court is so worthless that even when you win….nothing happens.  Ask Tah Tah.  She won with Henry Sockbeson earlier this year.  The  “ tribal court “ said the Council could not put her on administrative leave .

And nothing happened.  No enforcement. Nothing.

Off the crumbling team

Now Tah Tah wants out.  Despondent, isolated and tormented, Marie Stone is looking to get the Human Resources job and get off the Council merry go round.  Can you imagine that?  Tah Tah who sends out hundreds of angry, threatening  emails to staff and Council members…in charge of  Human Resources and staff?  More lawsuits to follow…in a real court. That means a special election to replace Tah Tah. Cedric and Mark Harding can’t have that.

Meanwhile her (former) partners and a second group are planning to replace Tah Tah on two different  election tickets.  They want Court Clerk  Marita Scott.  That girls popular ain’t she?  Best believe her aunt Yvonne Frye Avant is behind that….being that Yvonne  filed the lawsuit to allow the Tobeys to vote on election day 2009.  Course Yvonne  persuaded Judge Rochelle to throw the election in favor of Cedric, while her sisters Ca and Joanne added illegal voters (all recorded on video tape) to that voter sign in sheets ( right under Patricia Keli’inui’s nose).  These are the infamous sign in sheets  that nobody seems to be able to produce right now.  The Fryebal Council has too much at stake.  Those birds have 18 jobs out of 32 that are tribal.  No degrees GEDs or experience required of course.   Lovely group ain’t they? The absolute chaos over there never ends.

All Nellie wants is the sign in sheets. That  invalidates the 2009 election.  That’s clearly a reach. Because whether the court rules for or against the tribal community, nothing happens.  Who wants that on their conscience?

Nellie filed in the tribal court to prove that it has no authority because we do not have land in trust.  The next step comes after July 3.

Whatever the court decides….is irrelevant .

The Council will have all their White Boston lawyers with all their motions to dismiss and their billable hours  for thousands and thousands of dollars in the little room with the Natives who have their own people working against them.

Poor  pitiful Mashpee.

Poor poor pitiful Mashpee Wampanoag

No real Mashpee would pull this kind of crap.

Ghetto fabulous is ghetto fabulous all day long.

Come along little Tauntonians

Big day today for that crack team of Cromwellian political operatives lead by Brooke  Scannell who “loves to win.” This is an important moment because for the first time we will see what’s happened to  the $500k she was given to win over the Tauntonians. They’re paying about 35 tribal members  $150 to canvas and work the polls for a day.  That’s pretty good money… too bad they can’t find a way to help the members instead of themselves more often.

Scannell, who has  had a minimal career, seems to be a happy go lucky girl…recently married, and now sitting on a great nest egg…..congrats Brooke.  Do you feel guilty at all ?   Just kidding, course not.

Look who’s in charge of the Natives at the Taunton election side show….the totally trustworthy Patricia Kelliinui.  Patricia Keliinui who allowed Joanne, Ca and Carol Lopez to steal the 2009 tribal election right under her nose.  Now she faces a challenge or rather a demand for documents to prove the elusive sign in sheets weren’t doctored.  No word on that 6 month old request from Nellie Hicks…it’s languishing in Howard Cooper’s tribal court.

Obviously they can’t produce the documents. Of  Course Marietta Scott, the ” court clerk” says Robert Mills will be the judge of that demand.  Marietta, just stop talking okay. You know damned good and well Robert Mills is not going to risk his career fooling with that mystery court of no jurisdiction. You’ve been stalling Nellie for 6 months. That is when you come to work…which is almost never.  That heavy docket is overwhelming ain’t it?  No more tribal members to make fools of in the court without jurisdiction?

Anyway…election day is always exciting. Paula Peters will be over there bossing everyone around. Be sure to take pictures of  Patricia K trying to order those Mashpee around. Great photo op eh Brooke?

Just when we thought that all the runaway bear hoohaw was all done, now we hear that Mashpee has its own mysterious traveler.   Local environmentalists believe that the creature, thought to inhabit the uplands near Shoestring Bay, has been tracked heading west on the power lines that cross Mashpee and parallel Route 151.  One Mashpee High School employee reports that a strange critter was seen raiding a dumpster behind the cafeteria before it ambled away toward Old Barnstable Road.

Subsequent sightings were made near Plum Hollow and Hayway Roads.  At last reports, the mysterious creature was seen on Carriage Shop Road, nervously walking around in circles and peering into the windows of a house just north of Old Barnstable Road.  Bizarre.

You are known by the company you keep. Yeecchhh!!!

Speaking of  bizarre creatures, has anyone seen or heard from Paula?  Now that Glenn is home, what is going on with her?  Will she continue her bizarre behavior, or will she choose to fade into the woodwork where she belongs?  Everyone who knows the history of her “Fatal Attraction” obsession toward Glenn will tell you that it is not likely that anything will change.  Not only did she and her minions do their worst to get Glenn out of office, and  into prison, Paula actually tried to destroy Glenn’s family with her insanity.  Paula Peters, she-devil, narcissist, liar.

Mr. Lugnuts hisself

Speaking of liars, I wonder about another skulking critter-about-town, Peter Kenney.  Ol’ Pete, AKA Lugnuts, fancies himself a journalist, but he is far from it.  Pete is nothing more, at least concerning our Tribe, than a purveyor of half-truths and outright lies.  He did not have the courage to back up his assertions, but used the old tried and true method of posing it as a question, thus: “did Peter Kenney’s wife die because he loosened the lug nuts on her car?”  See, I did not accuse him of it, I merely asked if the rumor was true.

I had wondered where Petey had gotten his “information” from, other than from Paula.  I stopped wondering when I personally saw him emerging from the driveway of Fish House Hill, the palatial estate of one Amelia Peters Bingham, aunt of Paula Peters and first cousin of Glenn Marshall’s mother.  It gets dizzyingly complicated.