It’s not exactly news but the Meeting House has been pressure washed and painted! A victory for the committee and a notch for Tribal Historic Preservation Officer and Councilman David Weeden. Unfortunately, it took over a year (some say 2 years) to get it done. But it’s done right?  The caveat— since it was his only accomplishment during the year we spent $80 k on his salary and $13 k on the actual project. And it was a struggle to get it done.

MAGPIE’S UNFINISHED BUSINESS

David has proven he is not a serious person. But he still thinks he’s worthy of being on the Council and getting paid for work he does not do.

So the Parsonage restoration has been stalled for 3 years.  Ellen Frye Sharp and Magpie are just getting the bids out.  Who knows how long that’s going to take. They both have a very casual work ethic.

The museum is a disgusting mess. It is closed and looks abandoned.  If you look in the window you see a few pictures glued on to some construction paper on cardboard. Look for yourself. And the weetu behind the museum is falling apart. All of this is neglect on the part of the THIPO officer we’re paying.  Nice work if you can get it.

We will never grow if we can’t even get funded projects done. Broadening relationships with other tribes, federal, state and local governments bring collaboration and money.  But the economic development efforts have to be consistent because we can’t survive depending on grants, and we can’t maintain them now under this administration.

The chairman’s buddy Mark Harding is moving around on some projects that no one’s supposed to know about but do.  A reminder here, Mark Harding brought Genting to the Tribe and it nearly destroyed us. CK is easy prey for Harding.  Inexperienced, and lazy, CK always relies on others to do the work cause he won’t hit a lick. Thus he has not done a single project that has contributed to the betterment of this tribe,

Trusting Harding is dangerous.

Nelson continues to work hard on partnerships that benefit the Tribe.

Meanwhile council members are doing the work they should be doing. Nelson Andrews continues to use his relationships in Indian Country to broaden our economic development prospects. He was able strengthen those ties with the Seminoles while on FEMA duty at Dania, Florida. He then headed to Cherokee North Carolina where the Eastern Band Cherokees are interested in a host of partnerships.  The ability for the Tribe to have it’s own manufactured housing business is on Andrews’ radar.

Time to face the realities of our future.

The spending and misappropriation of funds is more than a whisper in the government center.

Be very aware that the budget coverup is real. And what and who is covering up will knock you down.

Now you may think we’re talking about the Child King, Brian Weeden. Well, he’s not the one…. this time. This time it’s his partner in crime, Tribal Chief of Police Kevin Frye. Now, Kevin lives up to his reputation of being scared of his own people.  That’s why we have virtually no law enforcement on tribal lands.  He refuses to have officers monitor housing, the cemetery, or the homeless shelter. Instead, he’s the hatchet man for CK. Conducting bogus investigations that harass tribal members, and council officers.  What he doesn’t do is the real stuff.

That’s because he and CK do more than collaborate.  They collude and have been colluding since Brian got busted on videotape stealing bull rushes and bear rugs from Plymouth Plantation.  Remember this headline in the Boston Globe in mid-December 2022? Remember the headlines all over the country.

Tribe chairman charged with theft of Wampanoag artifacts from Plymouth museum

This was a state felony grand larceny charge that exceeded $10k, nothing to sneeze at.  But the absurdity of his actions was demoralizing for us. CK was unable to keep it covered up.  And in early November 2022, when he sobered up, he had a certain person (we all know who that was) return the artifacts to the police and Plymouth. Oh, and CK tried to justify the theft by saying he was taking our artifacts back. Plymouth had that covered too.  They paid tribal members to make authentic bull rushes and bear rugs.

So damned stupid.  And he dragged young people into the mix as usual without a care.  The scandal was the talk of the tribe for months.  The Council suspended CK until Jan 11 2023.Then he fought his removal effort and was able to hang on dragging out the state court hearings for 8 months during 2023.

We hate to bring it all back up but it’s just to remind you of how CK has undermined the Tribe. Hè just keeps doing his thing with his salacious behavior and contributing nothing to the tribal wellbeing. But he gets that $10K a month.

Guess what? His number one detractor, his number one hater is his recent bestie, the Hall Monitor Roxanne. Yes, in Jan 2023, she did her whole sanctimonious “He’s awful. This is bad for the tribe. No moral compass.” No kidding girl.  You’ve been away from Mashpee too long, cause that boy is God awful.

Ya, but what happened next was beyond disturbing. We won’t go into the litany of repulsive behavior by CK over the last year and a half. We’re going to the most egregious that took place during our celebratory 2024 Pow Wow this past summer.

After inviting a crowd of people from a Hyannis night club, the Child King lead hundreds of the party goers on to the Tribal farmland, pushing past tribal police trucks and officers who tried to stop them. Again, CK lead these people who were drinking and doing God knows what else on to the property. CK had his own insurrection.  His sister Sassamon was driving a car through the crowd with a man hanging on to the car.

It is scandalous.  The Tribal Chairman violated tribal law.  There were numerous witnesses, but

Curtis Frye was the last Native Police Chief. He was respected. It’s hard to understand how Kevin can stay on as Chief in good conscience. But then again, he has no conscience. Maybe it’s a latent DNA thing.

THERE IS NO POLICE REPORT. THERE IS NO INVESTIGATION. THERE IS A PROBLEM. WHY?

THERE IS A COVERUP, BECAUSE COUNCIL MEMBERS AND EMPLOYEES HAVE BEEN STONEWALLED IN FFORTS TO RAISE THE ISSUE.OF COURSE CK RUNS THE CLOCK SO THE ISSUE NEVER MAKES IT TO THE AGENDA. 

IF KEVIN FILES A CHARGE AGAINST CK, IT IS A VIOLATION OF HIS PROBATION THAT ENDS DECEMBER 17, ONLY IF “HE STAYS OUT OF TROUBLE.” KEVIN IS WORKING HARD FOR CK.

KEVIN’S DERELICTION OF DUTY IS AN UNDERSTATEMENT.

WHERE’S THE POLICE REPORT?

More details on Talia’s sad fall from grace, Robin Stamps long awaited resignation as election committee chair and Lovely Winona’s (or newly named Little Genius) new role as CK’s enforcer (without authority).