Reel Wamps

Old Mashpee watched unknown voters show up to cast ballots in an election where the outcome brought the “F Bomb” repeatedly.  To add fuel to the fire, an election monitor said the voting machine broke down in the middle of the balloting. It’s an unnecessary voting method that has brought criticism in the past because it can be easily manipulated particularly when it takes 3 hours too run 700-800 ballots.

It’s an unnecessary voting method because only about 650 so called tribal members voted. It always takes an hour or two or three to count the ballots….electronically.  It should take 10 minutes with such a small number of ballots on the SD cards.  Tribal members could do a hand count in front of everyone, and eliminate any doubt about the integrity of the election….but who cares about integrity right?

And once again, the Cromwell crew got in with the help of Messy Jessie’s “Casino stalkers”. A lot of money was flying around bringing strange looking people in from out of state outnumbering the people who have to live under this regime.

IF the election results were to be believed…Aaron Tobey gave Cedric quite a run.  People are tired Cedric’s disinterest in their struggle, his dishonesty about our status as a tribe.

The squeaker was Carlton Henricks, Jr.  Losing by 4 votes to Messy J for Vice Chair. He will likely ask for a recount but is the fix already in?

Gordon Harris, Cedric’s bestie won as Treasurer with foreign votes and never campaigned a day…just like Jessie.  Just bused in outsiders.

June is around the corner….that’s when the money ends. Let’s see who sticks around.

There are bound to be some substantial changes to the Council leadership come February 12, and it could be the big break for Tribal members. But with the crew in there now, there’s always some smelly fish heads in the bushel.

Even in defeat, losers will still get paid.

Check this out.  If any of the incumbents loose, they get 6 months severance! Right. It’s like rewarding a kid for bad behavior. $300 K out the window. A bonus for failing to deliver and getting fired finally, by the people. That should change.  It also means that Robbie Hendricks will still get paid after his term is up. As much as we like Robbie, it ain’t that much…and with the money running out in June, we need to start investing in tribal initiatives, with tribal workers to generate revenue.

We have been spinning our wheels for 8 years and nothing! Time to look inward and invest in our own people and their businesses the old way. Not a dime ever went to businesses that would put our people to work in areas where they have expertise.  It is absolutely awful and smacks of glaring neglect.  Instead, we have a host of people employed by the Council in do nothing jobs.

THE TREASURERS RACE

Open seats always bring an interesting group of candidates.  In this case, we have two totally different tribal members on the ballot and a write-in.

Gordon Harris is qualified, but he knows that Tribal members are not thrilled with him because he is a total outsider. He’s never around and he’s pretty nasty to people. Worse…he’s Mark Harding’s buddy. He tried to close that gap by claiming that Alice (Mills) Hicks was his grandmother…..well that went too far.  She was his step-grandmother.  Trying to be Mashpeelike that is not cool.

Then there’s Angela (Marcellino) Shwom. Well, Angie is Angie. She exaggerates but give her points for running ( again) because let’s face it…most of us don’t have the nerve.

Denise Johnson Hathaway is running as a write-in.  Let’s just mull that over for a hot minute.  Okay….no need to comment.

This race is a gut check.  Do your best !