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The phone bank list keeps growing as hundreds of tribal members, council members, elected and federal officials listened to Robo Call III concerning irregularities on the elections committee and the inability to have a clean tribal election.

Since the Woebegones and Shovel Ready Ceddie want to maintain control of the tribal council, they will fight even harder to preserve their crooked election process. The First Lady (Cheryl FRYE Cromwell), Mean Travel Queen (Yvonne FRYE Avant), Housing Hijacker ( Winnie Johnson) and Newfrye (Trish Keliinui) are the slate that is being presented.  Actually, it’s really just Mean Travel Queen and The First Lady that they really want. But if 2 of the other 3 get in its as acceptable because they will do whatever Shovel Ready dictates. The back up candidate to Housing Highjacker or Newfrye is of course Ratchett (Danielle Hill).  Winnona Pocknett  doesn’t seem to understand that she’s in there to take votes from other candidates that can’t be controlled by Shovel Ready.

Stunneded Woebegone Women! Running against each other as a unified front. We know the fix is in. HH, MTQ,R, NF, WP, & TFL. For God sakes more makeup, more highlighter for the under eye dark shadows.The Woebegone Women standing tall !

It was pretty obvious during the council meeting that the Woebegones can’t take any chances on this election. They could easily loose control of the council. They put on a great demonstration with the voting machines. Not convincing at all.  Those voting machines can be programed to do whatever Arkana wants. And they want their pawns back in to continue to gouge us.

With such a small number of people voting, at most 600 -700, you don’t need voting machines.  The computerized voting machines are designed to read lengthy ballots containing many categories, candidates, and issues. It counts all those categories quickly. Voting in numerous categories is what is time consuming for the citizenry. The voting technology is designed to count  hundreds of thousands of complicated ballots.

We have 6 council seats to vote on. Our voter turnout amounts to a very small precinct so it’s hard to justify even the expense when you can count them in a half an hour in front of God and everybody..

Simple, quick & clean . Everyone can vote and watch the ballots counted. Crooked voting machines deliver crooked results.

But then again, we don’t know what the hell is going on or who’s been put on the roll.  You have Brian Weeden chairing the enrollment committee (that determines who votes) and campaigning openly for the incumbent Woebegone Women like they are role models and this is okay. It’s pretty incredible that such a young person is in charge of enrollment.  Very very irresponsible.  But look who we’re dealing with. Why not put Brian on the election committee too with Melissa Hill and Kimmie Frye Sr? We could skip the voting and just let the 3 of them announce their results.   He runs everything on election day. Very important fellow. I’m sure we’re all comfortable with that.  Apparently he’s “Chair For Life” of the Youth Council.  They’ve extended the membership cut-off to 45 years old with the motto ” I’ll never grow up.” We have enough bullies in Woebegones.  Now they’re training new ones.

Tribal Youth Chair Brian Weeden in 2013 surrounded by kids half his age in a video at a youth party. Because he insisted on continuing as chair, the age limit was bumped to 21 so he could be "Chair for Life." Another Woebegone in training. Breaking all the rules is mandatory.

Anyway, Shovel Ready Ceddie who runs the election committee, could allow us to mark our ballots and drop them in the ballot box. Everyone can watch them go in and be counted.  That would be the smart thing to do and it would give us a clean election that no one can contest.   The other way is yet another negative hash mark for the feds watching with great interest.

When you are disenfranchised, it means you are unable to exercise a legal right, awarded to you as a US citizen …..in this case, the right to vote. By the way, our so called sovereignty does not supersede the US Government. We are about to participate in a election that is clearly rigged….again. There are no independent election monitors who know the election machines and the red flags to watch for.  We certainly have no tribal members who know the election technology. So if they serve as monitors it’s a joke.  The tribe currently uses  election equipment has been documented in the media, as easily hacked that has brought faulty results. Arkana can rig the process with less than $15k in election equipment.  How would we know ? On top of that crap you have the following.

Kimmie pressured

Kimmie Frye decided to resign as chair of the elections committee after her less than professional conduct following the last dirty election she presided over. You may recall she was riding around with ballots in the trunk of her car and getting wasted at Dino’s after the  deed was done. It took a while but she finally stepped down, exhausted from the stress of all her other family problems.  But now big sista Cheryl Frye Cromwell  is back on the ballot and needs to stay on that Council. The First Lady

Can't get any worse, but no better either

has to keep cheesing in pictures and giving all that good service to tribal members, especially cancer patients, as the health department liaison.  Ahem. Its the same conflict and nepotistism we were subjected to before. Course Kimmie has to take care of TFL, Yvonne for sure. They can’t afford to loose any pawns like Trish or Winnie.

Now they’re really feeling the heat as the noose tightens so they have another entrenched sista tag team involved.  The Hill girls.  Melissa Hill has been added to the elections committee. Melissa is the secretary for the gaming authority (also known as the “Laundromat” that is getting over $7m over 3 months. The tribe

Danielle ready to serve Arkana

gets $2m, in Shovel Ready’s budget request).  She is paid to keep secrets from us. She also got busted for driving on a suspended license very recently.  Anyhow, her sister Danielle who is a highly paid tribal senior planner (both received first and last months rent …and  Danielle is living with someone of questionable reputation all according to the internal housing audit.) has decided to run for council.  Isn’t that amazing?  A  month before the election. Danielle has decided to run and her sister is on the election committee.  Pretty funky indeed.

It doesn’t stop there.  You have the chair of the enrollment committee and a volunteer for the election committee openly campaigning for TFL and the crew of incumbent females, like these are the kind of women we want our girls to follow…eh?

Since Marge's hospitalization for heart failure, Boo has been overwhelmed

And Boo Boo the Fool refuses to give the names of the tribal employees and their salaries  in his report because the Fryebal Council  strangle hold will be confirmed. The gouging by attorney’s and consultants is even worse.

They are flaunting their egregious behavior.  So we will keep “Feedin’ the Fryes.”

Edith T. Bannister was a first and second grad teacher at Samuel G. Davis School.  She was one of those dedicated teachers of the type necessary to teach Mashpee kids.  She had many aphorisms and words of wit for us.  One comes to mind:

“Fool’s names and fool’s faces

always appear in public places.”

What the reader should take away from this is:  If you object to your name or face being displayed on this page, then your best course is to not be a fool.  Free yourself from the corruption and destructive behavior that has taken hold of our Tribe like the talons of a predatory bird.  Smarten up.  The gravy train is about to go off the track.

Word to the wise.

Let’s talk about the Cowlitz Tribe.  Let’s talk about how the Cowlitz situation is in no way connected to us and cannot help us get land in trust.  Here’s why: The Cowliz are part of the Salish nation in Washington state. In 1911 the Cowlitz received (federal) land allotments on the Quinault Reservation.

The Cowlitz we are not.

That means they were on a federal reservation, under the jurisdiction of the Department of Interior, Bureau of Indian Affairs (before 1933). Their current lawsuit is embroiled in legal challenges because the Cowlitz want to take a second parcel of land into trust for an off reservation casino.  Of course the surrounding communities don’t want it and are fighting it, and despite the BIA saying they’re ready to move, those legal challenges are blocking that. We cannot coattail the Cowlitz unless the BIA wants to reverse a bunch of decisions.

But the big difference between us and them is that the Cowliz were clearly under federal jurisdiction before 1933, and we were not. So the Cowlitz could get that off reservation casino because the US Supreme Court  Carcieri case makes one exception: it allows the BIA to take LIT ONLY if the tribe was under federal jurisdiction before 1933. 

So What about us?  Well now, Shovel Ready Ceddie and attorney Arlinda Locklear are offering (38 year old) REJECTED ARGUMENTS as proof  that we were under the feds prior to 1933. Well, clearly this is all strictly for billing purposes and the paycheck.  But they press on with irrelevant (and rejected) arguments like these.

Mashpee Wampanoag (Charlie Peters, Eben Queppish and Nelson Simon) attended Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Pennsylvania.  Yes they did but the feds had no authority over us. The other argument is that  our

Mashpee in our Middleboro homeland in 1929

agreements and land deeds with the King of England were tantamount to recognition by the new United States government.  That is absolutely not true. Those agreements were not transferred, considered or of any concern to the US government. Unlike the western tribes, we had no treaties with the US government. The Commonwealth of Massachusetts governed us from 1776  until 2007 (without Land in Trust we are in limbo as a landless tribe, we own nothing and our sovereignty is incomplete).  We had plantations  (reservations)for centuries under the Commonwealth, as Marshpee, and later Mashpee. As wards of the Commonwealth we became a town in 1876 and then we really got screwed because Sandwich and surrounding towns would blatantly steal our land with authority! We had self governance, but as the Town of Mashpee in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

Ironically, Massachusetts Governor Levi Lincoln Jr blocked the first possibility

Massachusetts Gov. Levi Lincoln Jr blocked our removal from the state.

of our becoming a “federal tribe”  in the 1830’s.It actually worked in our best interest. When President Andrew Jackson began his forced  “Indian removal” known as the “Trail of Tears,”  Jackson wanted to move us to Oklahoma.  Lincoln, a progressive, said no way.   With a 1,000 miles added to the 3000 mile trek we would have surely perished like thousands of Creeks, Cherokees, Chickasaws, Seminoles and Choctaws forced from their homeland and culture.

MW Reniasance leader Eben Queppish

Our attempt to get federal recognition in 1933 was lead by Mashpee Wampanoag Renaissance leaders  Queppish and Simon.  Simply put, everyone met at the Old Indian Church, did the required paperwork that never materialized at the BIA. Middleboro sleuths reminded the BIA of that with recognition documents confirm that fact.

So, Shovel Ready Ceddie and Locklear are using the King of England, Carlisle and the failed 1933 effort AGAIN. Those arguments were rejected during the recognition process and in our  famous land suit from the late 1970’s. So what’s changed ? Nothing but the enormous  price tag attached to this deceitful mission to get us to believe the Woebegones can get around Carcieri. There’s no detour, but they keep spinning and spending.

Now the worst part. We laughed pretty hard about the Healing Fire fiasco especially with the First Lady lying about what a huge success it was. Oh yaaaas yaaaas! Just like her major effort to help the tribal member get to her cancer treatments. Ahem.

But the last laugh is on us.  Shovel Ready Ceddie and the Woebegone Crew had to do the big spin on LIT  to justify a $386.500,000.00 loan they’re going for now. Oh, don’t forget the $100,000,000 we’re drowning in, with nothing to show for it. This is in light of the fact that (according to the Taunton Gazette) the BIA has even less to say than normal about our application.  BIA honcho Kevin Washburn  said earlier this summer that he could no longer predict when our application would be finished, totally lacking the enthusiasm he had months earlier.  Just call it INFINITY cause we don’t meet the 1933 criteria.

The state has extended the gaming license application deadline by a few months, not for us but to get the best deal  for the Southeast region.  None of the state leaders see us as a threat because of our LIT is such a long shot.

So this is how the budget breaks down:

The Tribe — $12,500,000  (to keep “Feedin’ the Fryes”)

The MW Gaming Authority  $374,000,000

Casino                                   $250,000,000

TCAM                                     $ 55,000,000

Steelman Partners                  $ 17,000,000

Taunton Property                     $ 40,000,000

Property Option                       $   7,000,000

The numbers come out about $5m short but actually that’s being paid to about 10 additional architects associated with Steelman Partners. For some reason those extra architects are just floating around independently instead of coming under the Steelman umbrella.They are busy working in Vegas and Florida for Genting(Arkana). TCAM is the original investor group and Middleboro, the Property Option fees is money

Fantasy First Light Casino constantly redesigned

we have paid to hold the many small tracts of Taunton property that we don’t own.  We do not get that money back by the way. But you know Shovel Ready. Who cares….as long as he gets a check.  All of this is contingent upon us getting LIT.  If we don’t get it,TCAM gets nothing, no casino built. Lotta money spent on people doing nothing but over billing.

Shovel Ready told our well informed Treasurer  Robbie Hendricks now known as “Boo Boo the Fool” that he was working on Bank of America and Wells Fargo to loan the $224 m balance because Arkana is tapped out at $150 m. Jesus, why would these banks bother with us? The Woebegones also have option 2 of  $27 m for the Gaming Authority, if the land doesn’t go into trust,(add the $12.5m Feedin’ the Fryes money) and we’re just under the Arkana cash cut off. Isn’t that interesting? Also the Arkana loan comes due July 3 ($150m) etc etc.  Yah why has the loan due date been extended over and over if we don’t have to pay it back His Hokaness? And if we plan on honoring the state compact we have to have land into trust to move forward. Could it be no LIT no casino? And how do we pay it back with no cash flow? With that being in doubt, the state issues the license to a White gaming entity that is credible and not a front. The other options are risky and would confirm our money laundering status for all these years and Shovel Ready allowing it to happen.

Yes the Woebegones give us food bank charity of potatoes and ham. Oh yah, how was the $100m ham? And they keep spending millions on whatever

Welfare for us...millions for the Woebegones

personal luxury they want. And taking care of their buddies and the Fryes is the pastime.  We can look forward to nearly $500,000,000 in debt.

Watch for His Hokaness and The First Lady digging around in the Arkana

Shovel Ready & TFL are using Winnie's backhoe in the Arkana Sacred Burial Ground

Scared Burial Ground very soon. Looking for all that dirty money that never went through the laundry.

His “Hokaness” has decided to change the host of the Sunday  “Healing Fire.” To replace Messy Jessie with her cousin Guy Cash, the alleged Tribal  Medicine Man demonstrates the abject disregard for the well being of our people.  Clearly the administrative regime recognizes that it has a huge image problem but has botched efforts to win back the support of  tribal members.   This move only worsens their deteriorating status.

John Peters "Slow Turtle" was an internationally recognized Native American leader. According to the NYT, he is the initiator of ICWA and a fierce advocate for indigenous people and the Mashpee most of all. He was the Supreme Medicine Man of the Wampanoag Nation.

When Guy Cash replaced Medicine Man John Peters, that was insulting enough, but he has never been able to comfort or minister to suffering members.  It’s a full time job, and Cash has been absent.   His illness is one thing, and we understand.  But, he should have resigned.  The tribe paid thousands for Cash’s medical bills and other things.  He was paid to vote and was instrumental in Shovel Ready Ceddie coming to power and the ultimate degradation of nearly all of our most basic traditions.

We have many Elders who are shut in, others are sick.  Guy Cash is no where to be found. He can’t even show up for naming ceremonies so of course Messy inserts herself in place of ! We recently had a tribal member murdered in her home….Guy never went near the grieving family.  In an email he said he was ” too busy. ”

The “Healing Fire” is drawing controversy…and they continue to throw fuel on the fire.  Bring your own coffee and stuff like that he says ! Can ya spare it?  A few dollars out of that $100 million.  We can only hope the staff will be counseled to  stop taking food from the Pantry so the members without can benefit.

Guy Cash......

To bring back Billy James or John Peters is wishful thinking.  But this regime should at least pretend to emulate those who had our best interests at heart.

Exhausting.