Shovel Ready sings an honor song to the Tribe . This is from the man from Dorchester who didn’t know what the tribal roll was and had to be put on by Glenn Marshall and Patty Oakley He can’t sing and he scares people.
Cedric Cromwell achieved his dream and became the chairman of the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe, but it was in name only. He never had the credentials or legitimacy of his predecessors. A stolen election brought him to power and rigged elections thereafter kept him there. Always considered a wannabe, he fell victim to the notorious Mashpee Wampanoag nic name brand of “Shovel Ready Ceddie.” He couldn’t deliver. It was too much for him. But he gave it “the ole heave ho” by gory. You see, standing up against Eben Queppish, Steve Peters, Earl Mills, Eddie Amos, Russell Peters, Hazel Oakley, Mable Avant, Glenn Marshall and John Peters…. real leadership was not something Cedric could ever even fake. Not in the DNA you see.
So Cedric and the BF’s ( Bottom Feeders ) began erasing our history around April of 2009.. They fired all the Elders, literally threw them out of the Tribal Council effectively killing many of them off prematurely. Of course, we all know the importance of Elders in Native culture, but if you are not raised Native, it doesn’t matter does it? Blaspheming, after all, we went through to get recognition brought no rebuke of Cedric and his Play Play Indians. They moved ahead.
Here were the signs that Shovel Ready was never about the best interest of the Tribe. Straight out of the Trump playbook.
- In a matter of months, Cromwell and his gang blew through a $1 million surplus left by the previous administration plus David Pocknett’s donated salary.
- Also within months SRC and his Council officers fired all tribal members in enrollment, finance, and housing resulting in a general collapse of any structure of tribal governance established by the previous administration
- SRC puts his Tobey cousin, Jessie Bard in charge of enrollment. For months she could not access the code to enroll members. She eventually begins adding people through her newly created process. They were people who did not meet tribal enrollment standards. She built a base vote that would keep them in power. She added over 1,000 new members who never had any affiliation with the Tribe. These people came from the dreaded RED BOX who were prohibited from becoming members because they had no affiliation with theTribe for 10-20 years. The Casino Stalkers outnumbered the core of the Tribe. So Cedric and Jessie had a lock on the Tribe.
- By the Fall of 2009, SRC and his regime abandoned the Middleborough agreement, and a 536 acres and confirmed homeland of the Mashpee. It was purchased by the previous administration for a mear $6m.
- Mark Harding brought Genting to the table and the true horror story of extraordinary debt, interest rates and pimping of the Tribe began in earnest.
- THE GROSS INCOMPETENCE OF THIS ADMINISTRATION WAS REVEALED WHEN THERE WAS NO EFFORT TO COMPLETE THE LAND IN TRUST PROCESS in 2009. The Carcieri decision by the US Supreme Court came down in Feb of 2009 and Cedric had no idea what it meant. Tribal Lawyers ( who were the best Indian lawyers in the country), were calling the previous administration members to get for the Tribe to act because the decision meant that the Department of the Interior did not have the authority to take our land into trust. It was catastrophic for us. Cedric and the crew never responded to the lawyers. They were too busy getting paid by Genting.
- The point was that US Senator Ted Kennedy was still alive and a good friend to our people. He could have gotten an Act of Congress passed for us to get our land into trust.. Only Kennedy could have done it. Cedric was clueless They were in the limousine phase and making their exit from the ghetto. They were partying down and everyone saw the shade and the bad stuff coming.
More tomorrow about how bad he really is…just a reminder.
