Reel Wamps

Now, we’ve been down this road with Tah Tah.  She’s gotten away with her manic behavior under Cedric. But now, we’re in a bad place, and trying to get on our feet.  And we have Tah Tah  getting paid $1,400 a week for doing nothin’.  AGAIN.

Cedric’s legacy lives on !.

So she sabotages the Council meeting tonight and says she’s got a stomach ache and the meeting is  canceled combined with other excuses for non attendance that add up to no quorum.  The real problem is that Marie Stone wants to get paid for a job she can’t do. Check this out.

• She’s not coming to work
• She’s not at critical meetings regarding Tribal funding
• She’s delaying meetings for funding because she doesn’t understand the process or procedure
• She has not prepared a budget
• She won’t provide an audit
• Shelly Tobey can’t draw down on about $1million in Housing money to move forward as a result
• She says she can’t get the information because Knees Knocking AKA ” Gordon Harris” left no records
• She pledged to hire people to do the finance work and she won’t do that.
• When attempts to get her to a meeting to talk about funding tribal economic development, she said “Let’s hold off on that.  What’s the rush?”

She is so incompetent she can’t even figure out how to do her job.

But Cassie Jackson has nothing to go on. Ann Marie left no discernible minutes.

NOR DID TAH TAH leave records when she was Secretary…. she kept no minutes, but Cassie Jackson does her job despite the fact that she has no records from either of here predecessors.

Jessie Baird wiped her records clean and left Carlton Hendricks no records.  Course since it was all bout her getting grants to pay herself, you can understand.  But the Feds have that along with Cedric’s mess. Jessie unloaded on Natana Hicks when she walked away from her responsibilities as Vice Chair. She replaced Natana with Anne Marie Askew who also quit as Secretary. That was one hell of a move when you realize that Natana has REAL LANGUAGE credential and Jessie….well you know.

So that whole crew of officers was scandalous and brought us to our knees. We’re trying to get up and Marie Stone a former member of that mob is doing her damnedest to continue to oppress us to get paid.

Money that belongs to the Tribe  is going to someone who is desperate for a salary, incapable of delivering service and is doing everything she can to slow things down to get a check. So she’s stalling, avoiding tribal members.

Just like Cedric and the others who did that over and over. Paying themselves until the Feds had to come in and stop the madness.

Cedric’s sycophants are still on the Council…you know who they are still holding on for dear life.

The same people are still employed.

They said nothing.

They did nothing, for years. and look where we are.

Tah Tah doesn’t want a meeting because she has to be accountable and  she can’t.  She will continue to humiliate us as long as we let her.

Who knows when  we will have a Council meeting to talk about what we want for the Tribe.

It’s starting to look like Cedric never left.

The Council meeting last night was dominated by a variety of house keeping measures and votes to extend the life of actions taking longer to cure than usual. The controversial expenditure of $250,000 in COVID  hazardous duty pay came up. The auditors made a report that measured the extent of dangerous exposure for employees from 0, being no exposure to 5, being extensive exposure.  And the the appropriate pay to coincide with the ranking will come shortly.  In other words a lot of employees who were working from home and took the hazardous duty pay will have to pay it back….to the US Treasury no less.

So the worst culprit is Denise Hathaway, finance director.  Not only did she work from home a majority of the time, she ( like others working from home on tribal laptops) came into the (empty) building occasionally and was ranked at a level 1. That’s how you got extra cash.  Come to the building.  Expect a large portion of the $57 K she made over 7 months to be refunded.  Oh, that was on top of her $90k salary.  Hopefully she won’t dodge, block and stonewall the Treasury Department the way she did the outside auditors brought in by then Council member, now Vice Chairman Carlton Hendricks, Jr. to check “her” book keeping of the tribal government. What they could decipher was pretty damned bad.  We talked about it in earlier posts

This round will be a tough one for Marie Tah Tah. She faces more scrutiny and less patience from tribal members who are stakeholders wanting leadership from the new Council.

But her insubordination and belligerence is known tribewide. And the new treasurer, Marie “Tah Tah” Stone unloaded in the Council meeting about Denise.  Denise won’t obey Tah Tah. And? So she went on mumbling ridiculous questions to the accountant, demanded an executive assistant, complained about Gayle Andrews being an election monitor, dodged the question about producing a budget and plans to fly in the tribe’s Wisconsin audit firm to make a report at the Sunday General Membership Meeting.   That’s in lieu of producing anything that even looks like a budget.We already know how bad it is. In other words if Denise doesn’t produce a spread sheet and  incriminate herself, Tah Tah is incapable of doing it.  This went on for at least 35-40 minutes. In Tah Tah’s mind, she was showing everyone how smart she was when it was confirmation of just the opposite.

Yes people, the nightmare’s beginning again. We were tortured by her behavior and professional malpractice when she was secretary.  We’re still missing years of minutes. You can search this site for a reminder of the madness. Cedric tried to take advantage of Marie but in the end he became one of her many victims. We can hear people saying, “Well they put her back in there.” Not really. Tah Tah got 223 votes.  But 388 people voted against her casting ballots for the other three candidates. If it were a two person race she would have lost.

Marie’s problem now is that the rouge government that violated Tribal law is gone. She can’t hide behind a corrupt regime. She can’t command a salary for her nonsense, especially during a financial crisis. Transparency is in the eyes of the Tribe.