We had to post the signs that say it all. The efforts to recall Cedric Cromwell and Je$$ie Baird were boldly placed in front of a tribal landmark, Norman Dias’s farm stand. That says it all. So the process of getting to the recall election has begun because more than enough signatures have been gathered for both the Chairman and Vice Chairman. Course you know they will try to thwart it but let’s see if they really want to push that envelope. And word is Cedric told the Fye’s some kind of lie to get them back in line. The Fryes may be ” sleepy ” but they’re not stupid. More after tonights meeting.
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You got “enumerated powers” alright
So Brian Weeden was talking and of course everyone was laughing. He just can’t stop runnin’ his mouth. Wah, wah, wah. Because he gets a new talking point from the embattled tribal chairman Cedric Cromwell and he pontificates like he’s some constitutional guru. Well he would be correct about enumerated powers if Cedric and paid council members followed any kind of law. But they don’t. They just do anything they want to do, and now its all disintegrating.
We were trying to keep from dumping more bad news on you but they just can’t stop shoveling it at us…from the congressional misinformation to statutes as the lights dim on our future.
We’ll get at it tomorrow.
Who’s the boss?
Cedric Cromwell and his cohorts had quite a learning experience last night. Tribal members took them to the shed. Yes, they went “Mashpee on ’em.” alright. It was not pretty. All of it could have been avoided if Cedric was a true leader and did something for the people. Something. Instead he paid selected Council members
and bought their loyalty. Forget the Tribe. With council member in tow, well, he does whatever he wants and rewards who he wants like Councilwoman Winnie Johnson. She owes the Tribe thousands of
dollars and yet Cedric granted her “housing assistance” recently. The problem is. No one knows what favors Cedric’s handing out to his pals, but we know it’s a lot.
The Tribe is paying for Cedric and his business partner Mark Harding to represent the Mashpee at the National Council of American Indians. Thaaaats right. How much business do you think they’re doing for the Tribe? Why are we paying for either of them?
Another example. Ramona Peters leaves her position and David Weeden is handed her six figure job as head of Tribal Historic Preservation? Ramona has expertise, David has no expertise in the field. None. No formal education…ah….. Someone with expertise should have replaced Peters, instead of a political pawn. David was reminded last night of his blind loyalty to Cedric when he whispered his
“no” vote to the executive session and voted “yes” at the last minute. David Pocknett gave him some choice words privately of what he thought of him and told him that every time he sees him, he’s going to remind him of his new brand… “L—–F——B—-.”
Another Weeden, the youngest council member Brian, was dressed down pretty thoroughly by elder Pauline Peters. She told the otherwise chatty Weeden that he needed to talk less, listen and stop discussing things he knows nothing about. Peters also said he does not have the education or experience to critique anything. Weeden reminds everyone that he was the highest vote-getter in the February election, but tribal members were predicting a sharp drop off in support because of his adoration of Cromwell and his unpopular vidictive attacks against
anyone who challenges him.
Je$$ie was chastised by her aunt for continuing to sit on the council when she submitted her resignation in writing. A written resignation is final and cannot be rescinded according to the Tribal constitution. Je$$ie has put all council actions in legal jeopardy since her January resignation. Tribal members see it as another example of the council just doing what it pleases defying the rule of Tribal law.
Treasurer Gordon Harris took quite a lambasting. Coward was just one of a long list of uncomplimentary names he was hit with. As we said, for 2 hours, he never looked up
Anne Marie was demoralized by one of her closest friends and relative for not standing up for the Tribe and falling in with Cedric. The emotions ran very high because the administration never discusses anything with Tribal members and has provided nothing to them for the $500m debt. Cromwell does not have a single friend among Tribal members, only the council members he’s bought.
The expulsion hearings for council members Aaron Tobey and Rita Gonsalves is scheduled for Thursday and Friday. It could likely result in a replay of the Tuesday night lesson on ” who’s the boss.”
Security escorts Cromwell from council meeting
An overflow crowd of Mashpee Wampanoag watching the raucous tribal meeting
on the gymnasium close circuit TV, saw Council Chairman Cedric Cromwell escorted to his car through a side door. Defiant citizens denounced the Cromwell’s plan to “undo the recent election” of Carlton Hendricks, Jr in a 2 hour meeting where Cromwell’s council members sat silently as tribal members angrily said they would not leave or allow them to meet in executive session to remove Hendricks. About 50 Tribal members in the chambers stayed put. Around 70 members were in the gym.
One tribal member called Harris a “coward” because he would not defend his accusation that Hendricks disparaged him. Harris barely looked up throughout the meeting.
Info is still coming in. We will report as we get it..
Tribal members shutdown Council meeting
Well over 120 Mashpee Wampanoag showed up at the Council meeting tonight and refused to leave the chambers, prohibiting the council from going into executive session. The Council voted 6-3 to hold the secret meeting to sanction and possibly remove council member Carlton Hendricks, Jr. for charges made by Treasurer Gordon Harris. Harris claimed that Hendricks disparaged him and needed to be removed from the council. Similar frivolous claims were launched against new council member Rita Gonsalves and returning adversary Aaron Tobey. Those claims are on the agenda for Thursday.
More in a minute….Details are still coming in!
Undoing the election
We have to remember that in January, after Cedric Cromwell’s messy divorce, business enterprises were exposed, and his failure to pay his taxes, the council unanimously stripped him of his power. The power to spend the tribe’s money. Not that there was much left….but we’ll get to that little end game. Well, Cedric was horrified and went into full gear telling his minions, Je$$ie, Blessed, Winnie and anyone who would listen that
the casino was still possible and he was going to restore their salaries. They restored his authority. And of course Je$$ie, despite her written resignation and pitty party, couldn’t abandon Ceddie. She violated the constitution instead and stayed on the council (that she never attends).
Since the February 9 election, Cedric now faces 3 council members who are a real threat to his embattled reign. They know stuff that Ceddie does not want us to know, or government officials. They call him out constantly, especially about the $225m funneled through his gaming commission that he cannot account for. So they TRUMP up charges to remove them (without authority) Where are the minutes? There is no record of of anything…changes to ordinances, the constitution, just a rouge government led by a guy just like Donald Trump, who has leveraged his role as Chairman to make money…like a pimp.
Let’s get to the glaring corruption.
Cedric Cromwell was paid a consulting fee of $50,000 by Platform 8, established in August 2017 by his buddy Paul Filtzer. Well Filtzer has some issues. For one, he’s not allowed to practice law in three states. His company supposedly helps landless tribes. Ya, I bet. Just not a very reputable person committing tax
fraud and evasion and forced to pay a $620k fine. When he established Platform 8, he also established Tribal Carbon Partnerships in Ohio, with Cedric, and Mr Bad Penny himself…. Mark Harding. Okay, then, Filtzer moves to Hungary 12 days later and …well that’s odd, isn’t it? Remember that it was really clear the tribe was running into trouble money wise, but no one ever knew what was going on in the Gaming Commission where Cedric had total control of the money. So let’s think about this….Like Robert Mueller. Filzer bounced in the legal field in three states, has God knows how many shell companies, hooks up with a guy who has access to hundreds of millions of dollars in this secret “Gaming Commission,” and he moves to Hungary? He can apparently do things n Hungary. $225m is still unaccounted for. Cedric was striped of his fiduciary responsibilities. Remember how frantic his pals Mark Harding and Paula Peters were as they freaked out at their house trying to figure out what to do?
Now, what would Robert Mueller say to that? He would probably say removing the council members is a Comey move no doubt. Obstrution of justice in plain sight. But they plan to undermine the election Thurs. the 19th at 5:30 by trying to remove Carlo in Executive Session in secret. That is illegal. They do not want to face tribal members.
You hand full of naysayers, lovers of Cedric need to understand that this news of a hearing in the House Natural Resources Committee on Land in Trust means absolutely nothing because if it gets out of the House and the other references. IT WILL NEVER PASS IN THE US SENATE. They know that and want to make it appear as though there is still some hope before they get ready to undo your vote on the council members duely elected.
Here’s what he really wants to do after he draws that last dime from Genting at the end of the month and his loyal council members are still waiting for their payday. Crash Dummies.
Cedric, Je$$ie, and “I donno” want to sell the only thing we have and that’s the Middleboro land. That’s right. They were planning on setting up an LLC., serve as officers authorized to sell the land and spend that too.
Cedric has to get rid of Aaron, Carlo and Rita because they are in the way. The rest of them will let him roll right over us and steal us blind. What they forget is that they were:
com·plic·it
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involved with others in an illegal activity or wrongdoing.
So all those using Cedrics talking points about not “airing our business in the public.” Clearly, you would rather know that you’re getting ripped off (enough to impact 10 generations) than not know, right? Maybe not. Ask him if you can have some of the $225m he funneling out all over the world.
The Horror
Being on the front page ain’t no joke. It’s embarrassing and humiliating for the world to know that we have been duped by Non Mashpee who pretend to be elected officials
Loans to Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe halted
No news here. Reel Wamps predicted this
Mashpee tribe’s annual payments of more than $500K to Taunton continue
Paying for land that was not historically tied to us but wasn’t worth 1/8th of the purchase price of over $148M
Federal agency denies Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe’s allegations
We predicted that the Department of Interior would abandon the effort to find an alternate path to land in trust. It never exhisted.
SO…Week after week, the Cromwells continue to melt down the last bit of money in the middle of chaos. Frightened of the new members on the council which continues to challenge the moronic effort to silence them and coverup the grandest theft….they came up with a new set of efforts to undo the recent election.
On Thursday night they will move to expel Carlton Hendricks, Jr. and Aaron Tobey. It’s so frivolous, it again, is embarrassing to talk about but we will…because Hendricks was supposedly making fun of someone studdering, and Aaron said something about poor poor Messy Je$$ie.
Well, you know how Cedric, “Blessed” (Anne Marie) Je$$ie and “I donno” Gordon rolls. When there’s no explanation and they think they can do what they want but then again not so much…..well take a look.
Carlton & Aaron say:
Je$$ie wrote her resignation in a January 25 email and according to the consitution she is officially out…and she is. ( But that would mean someone would have to run for that post, and Cedric can’t have that can he?), also, Je$$ie never comes to council meetings anyway, and she should have been remved based on her lack of attendance. But who the hell knows anything because there ARE NO MINUTES. We have said for years that this is a problem….and one thing for sure, Blessed carries on that tradition of incompetence. Likewise there’s no record of the TRUMPED up accusations against Aaron Tobey and Carlton Hendricks, Jr…..for Christ sake. It’s so absurd it’s not funny any more.
Since when do they follow the constitution?
“I Donno” is angry with Carlton because he can’t explain what happened to $225m handed out by the Gaming Commission. Now think about that for a moment. The secret Gaming Commission slush fund. The place were everyone had a BS title and no responsibility. The place where Genting sent money in and took it out. The place where, lawyers and girlfiends and certain council members got paid. Poor Cedric. His white Indian girl friend ran away, even before the money ran out. No one loves him. $225 million dollars that they cannot account for. Maybe the FBI will figure it out.
So emergency meeting is called to deal with Je$$ies resignation and questions surrounding Cedrics $13,000 check from the tribe to pay for his divorce or whatever and all his shell companies that are so convienient. The questions about the $225m is pretty overwhelming, and “I Donno” can’t explain the incrdible disappearing act of all that money.
And Mr. Corruption Mark Harding and his chairmanship of the Economic Development Committee. The guy sucks up all the contracts and does it with that sweet boy smile…yes he does. That’ going to end.
Yes…we’re going to say it. Imagine what the Tribe could have done with that money. Imagine.
Tribe charts new course, the resistance strengthens
Tribal voters decided to change direction and ushered in a new majority group of council members ready to oust the embattleded council chairman. Cedric Cromwell started this election cycle disadvantaged by two open seats. His soon to be ex wife Cheryl decided not to seek re election along with Winnona Pocknett, who was never a strong council member.
Two Cromwell incumbents Winnie Johnson (212) and Yvonne Frye Avant (187)who continues to barely make it on to the council each time she seeks re election. Top vote getters were Brian Weeden (346) Rita Pocknett Gonsalves (309) Carlton Hendricks, Jr (232) and Aaron Tobey a committed reformist (201).
Cromwell’s biggest problem is that he has a weak leadership team. Look at them. Je$$ie, Anne Marie and Gordon Harris. They will dip at a moments notice. And there’s David Weeden who dodges any decision but most of the time comes down on the side of Cedric depending on Cedric’s status. But the resistance is gaining ground and votes.
There’s more tomorrow. Congratulations to al the winners and thank you to those who presented their names for consideration.
The Pimp is back in place
Not a single tribal member is surprised by the paid council members vote to restore Cedric Cromwell to his “Big Pimpin’ ” status. After all, Genting told him to or they would not send the tribe the last million dollars. Shovel Ready Ceddie gave everyone their marching orders and they are all set to keep raping the tribe until there is nothing left to assault. Spineless.
You know who they are. They are a small group of unqualified candidates who will let Shovel Ready Ceddie do whatever he wants with Mark Harding,Paula Peters and Trish Kelliinui (very bad at spinning and writing talking points. Anne Marie’s quotes were ridiculous conspiracy theories when everyone knows the damned fools were outed for gross incompetence in the Cape Cod Times, Reel Wamps, the Mashpee Enterprise and any media outlet paying attention) …..and they keep saying the world is out to get them. Bad audits, loose checks left in draws with signature stamps, random budget without year to year comparisons. By the way,a tribal member did not leak anything to the CCT. In the story they noted that it was a freedom of information request. For God’s sake, you can smell the stench of corruption before you hit the building. They have destroyed the tribe in plain sight all for money.
There are other legitimate candidates running who are worthy of your vote, and you know who they are. Make that choice. Backward or forward. As long as Cedric has his pawns in place we will never be able to start over and work toward a shared goal. So think about who will work for you not against you. They will spend that money on their salaries and keep lying about it.
At this point, Cedric can’t face decent people or elected officials now that his administration has been exposed. He’s lied about his professional credentials, education, the casino and his personal life confirms that he’s an absolute loser who can’t run a lemonade stand. All the clap trap he used to talk doesn’t work on anyone but Winnie who says “The casino dream is still alive!” cause Cedric told her that. We don’t even have anyone lobbying for us in the Congress anymore. What does that say about House Resolution 312?
By the way a resolution is not a bill. Tricked ya again….Oh ya Joanne Frye… It’s HR 312 not HR 123, going
nowhere.
SRC is still winning though. He punishing us for finding out who he is. It is not over and he knows it. He’s not invisible, neither are his cronies.
But tribal members feel the full weight of shame brought on by the Cromwell administration and Crystal Maddox states it plainly. We should never give up.
VOTE!
Don’t judge whole tribe by the actions of a few
I know the community has this idea of who the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe is, because of what people read in the paper. But that is individuals, not all of us as a whole. Those individuals do not represent who we are.
What the majority of us are is strong, loving, traditional, hardworking people who just want what our ancestors wanted. We want our children to be able to live on the land where their people come from. We want to be able to freely fish and hunt in the oceans/rivers and woods our ancestors did. We want to practice our traditions without interruption. We want to house our homeless and feed our hungry. Most important, we want our land back!
What we are not is greedy, self-indulgent, power hungry, or money hungry people. Never have been! Never will be! This tribe never had money and did just fine. We were not rich financially, but we were rich in every other way.
Do not lump this entire tribe in with the actions of a few. They do not represent who we are, and they do not speak for us. We speak for ourselves!
Finally, no matter how dim our future may seem to others, Mashpee will shine!
Crystal Maddox
Mashpee
Whose government is it anyway?
Let’s just break it down. Two things. The meeting Wednesday morning was about keeping Cedric in power and justifying all the crazy efforts to keep the regime in place. They…that would be the Cromwellians started questioning the reimburseent of Chief Earl Mills for doing WHAT THEY SHOULD HAVE DONE BY STABALIZING THE PARSONAGE. So we’re not going to get into the absurdity of them asking if it was David Pocknett or Earl who was getting the money, because it was about them all trying to justify their total indifference and incompetence regarding their responsiblity to the Tribe.
Number 2. Tribal members have a bunch of petitions circulating that were supposed to be heard Thursday. All to get rid of Cedric etc, etc. Well of course clinging to power is the goal, so they “suspended” the meeting. Its another case of the tribal members following the rules and Shovel Ready Ceddie thwarting them. But Trish Kelliinui sent out the ” suspended meeting” notice. Whoever heard of that? You postpone but you can’t suspend or cancel that kind of meeting. Anyway, at Mark Hardings house with Paula Peters leading the desperation agenda they crafted the plan to suspend the meeting. They were all upset and freaking out. It’s kind of hard to design an exit strategy when your entire agenda has been self serving.
Just resign Cedric and Je$$ie. Do your family a favor.
During the meeting they never got to the 3 day suspension of Carlton Hendricks Jr, for making fun of “Big Time Indian” Gordon Harris and his ” studder”. But they were totally obsessed with trying to get their hands on the last $700k from Genting.
Remember, this about paying Cedric’s crew not about how to stabalize the Tribe. Just remember that.