Reel Wamps

The only thing worse than Native Americans being portrayed in cartoonish stereotypes by whites is a Native standing before a crowd and actually being one.  Last night’s performance by Jessie “Little Doe” Baird not only did nothing to advance the case she thought she was trying to make, but may have continued the Cromwell administration’s buffonish slide to near universal scorn.  Under the Russell Peters and Glenn Marshall administrations, and those that came before, the Tribe won many friends and allies.  It was a good time.  Many doors began to open at last, doors that are now beginning to close.

When you are on the outside of a door, and the Montreal Express begins to blow, it is not such a good idea to yell insults at the owners of that door.  Skinheads and xenophobes and NIMBYs, oh my!  Those epithets are guaranteed to win friends—NOT!  It’s going to get mighty cold out here, Jess.  May I make a suggestion?  Put a sock in it.  You have, up until now, made quite a name for yourself.  You have accomplished something that few have.  You have something you are good at.  Stick to it.  Leave the speeches to those who know how.

Please.

The Federal Court — 

Drawing a Bead on the Administration

A tribal member has collected her own evidence and a host of emails that she presented it to the Federal District Court in Boston and there’s a pretty good chance that the court is going to take a look at it being that the court waived the filing fees. The Tribal member wants the court to examine   the expenditures the council officers  made on the American Express credit cards.  The scandal was off the chain (see December 3, 2011 story).  There seems to be a precedent for judicial review in light of the fact that the Pequot brothers, the former chairman and treasurer are headed to jail for their credit card atrocities.  The court has a case to point to in order to move forward. Ya see ? And there is yet another federal case that is even more ominous for the the Cromwell Clown Show.  That’s a discussion for another time. However,  the timing of the AMEX scandal is another example of what happens when unqualified people are in charge of a tribe.

Museum Chairs Returned and New PR Director Urges Censorship

Emails were flying telling people not to pay attention to Reel Wamps and Pauline Peters, the unpaid PR maven, was on a rant that was clearly coming from a person who was not only  misguided but clearly not connected to the very interesting goings on in Mashpee.  She’s really passionate and all but come on. Her propaganda comes from a confidant who is not only foreign to Mashpee but is not very nice to Elders. Actually abusive to Elders.  Serious domestic violence. Course everyone one in Mashpee knows about this person but  Pauline.  But she allows herself to be used by this person and others take advantage of her bitterness that spills out all over the place. She is clueless. Whatever.  Pauline should concentrate her energy on getting people to visit the museum. Few people visit the  museum.  Put your energy into educating people about us and getting them to learn our proud history instead of defending people who laugh at you as they drive down Rt. 130.

YVONNE TOBEY — Take a Civics Course

Yvonne Tobey is a little different.  She’s a Tobey.  She brought a envelope to the meeting last week and she handed it to her sworn enemy Carlton Hendricks Jr.  He looked at it, laughed and handed it to everyone in the room and they laughed.  She was filing suit against him in the non existent  Tribal Court. He is her boss who questioned why she did a lot of really stupid stuff. Like giving Aaron $700 for his resume?  She claimed he was verbally abusive because he asked her questions.  He voted against giving her a raise.  Why? He’s her boss. And she does a lousy job of getting our people jobs.  Being a Tobey comes with serious baggage.  Maybe she doesn’t know.  They will be branded with the degradation of the Tribe.  We were soaring.  Now we are a joke. Jessie, Cedric, Cheryl and Tah Tah with her warrants and madness still allowed to serve on the Council.  Who would take us seriously?

The Feds are Circling

The HUD housing program is so messed up that people are betting on the number of housing committee members that are going to tell on Leon Jacobs.  Course he and Cedric were approving extensions for Joanne and her sister Nancy Joseph without even consulting the commission.  God they are pathetic.  Worse yet, the commission never did a damned thing to stop it. Nothing, and certain ones are trying to paint a picture of horror at what’s going on. It’s been going on for 4.5 years.  Come on.

Tobey Terror, Frybal Council Ignorance

The movement of the Compact in the statehouse is another maneuver to stoke Genting because Cedric’s cash flow  has stopped.  Simple problem however.  The Compact does not matter without Land in the Trust. No land in trust no license, no casino. The application is still incomplete !  Reel Wamps and every media outlet says we have no path to LIT, unless we get an Act of Congress which ain’t happening.  The Republicans hate the President emphatically…and have paralyzed funding.  How  do you think they feel about us?  Right.  Act of Congress …..sure. We are so out of the picture most have stopped writing about us because the stories always end at the blockade…LIT.

Since Cedric has provided no service to our people for $62 million …..he continues to mislead certain members with this mythical casino ( we would not get a dime anyway  because of the debt to the investor).

He should resign.  If he were a real man he would resign.

Land in Trust is the big turd in the toilet that Cedric can’t flush.  He dreams about it going away….every night,  but it never does. Flush after flush.  Round and round the turdie goes and we all know where it goes…..NOWHERE.

The great revelations about finally finishing the environmental component of the LIT application is just as irrelevant as the Compact.  Why? Because the BIA cannot take our land into trust ( the US Supreme Court said it has no authority) and we can’t prove we were under federal  jurisdiction before 1934.The 1934 issue was denied by the BIA when we tried to use it for recognition nealy 10 years ago.  But the Cromwellians cranked it back up as a new way to milk Genting and pretend we weren’t out of the game.

Just as annoying is the governor’s ploy to prod the state Senate to act on the Compact. The Compact is permanently stalled because it is irrelevant.  Governor Patrick said  that if the Senate didn’t act, we would build a casino on our own and not pay that onerous tax ( that the BIA won’t approve).  Listen, if  Cedric can’t get land in trust for a state license, how can he get one independent of the state? Signing our sovereignty away has never been a problem for CeddieLou, as long as he gets that pay check.

But CeddieLou can only keep stringing the investors along for so long.  About 4 weeks ago Genting made CeddieLou do some explaining. They gave him 2 days notice and called an emergency meeting in Taunton.  Very few Council members showed up, but CeddieLou, and the developer once again tried to convince Genting that things were progressing. Keep in mind this was exactly the time when KG Urban Enterprises put in their bid for the Southeast region. The investors were not happy So CeddieLou pitched this:

• DEC 2014 Casino Phase 1 A built ( only half a plan)

• Casino: 1600 slots, 60 table games,1buffet hotel, 2500 parking spaces

Same BS with another  years delay !

When the presentation was over, guess what Genting said ? ” When are you getting over the hurdles?”

CeddieLou could not give them an  answer.

So the irrelevant news stories are not enough to placate the investors who have spent $62 million on a raggity casino strategy.  One thing for sure, the White lawyers got rich, Navajo Joe got rich…( and he brought another Navajo in as the tribal administrator) Leon got richer than rich.  Cedric, Aaron, Jessie, Mark, Yvonne, Cheryl and Trish all combined made well over $3 million dollars to sell us out and render us destitute.

Cedric has quite a battle going on cause that turd has some strong medicine. Quite a distinction…. the only chairman to  be beaten by a turd.

Just because we don’t know what to do yet, doesn’t mean we don’t know what you’re doing to us. Obviously Mark Tilden’s sudden interest in the Mashpee Wampanoag Constitution election law is predicated upon protecting the Frybal Council (staff) lead by union leader Yvonne Frye (Avant?). First Lady Cheryl, also up for re election with her cousin, is trying to hang on for another year and another $140,000 worth of salary.

Yvonne can't be out of a job now

The shameless transparency of Navajo Joe’s cash cow operation is supposed to be explained away at the special meeting Sat. Funny he’s never followed the Constitution before. In fact he was constantly being forced to adhere to the constitution during last year’s bizarre election. That was because Traditionalists forwarded proof of his violations of the law and filed suit in federal court. All that information was forwarded to the BIA for the record so they couldn’t say they didn’t know.

Cheryl has run out of ribbon cuttings

The Tribe should have an election in 2014 and another election in 2015.
The tribe should not be made to suffer with those two because they want to keep getting a check.
Course Yvonne and Cheryl know their popularity is waning. Kimmie can’t throw another election for her brother in law no less her sister and first cousin. She’s not allowed to be involved with the next election and all of a sudden they’re saying we have to wait.

Kimmie put the 2013 ballot box in her car and went into Dino's to tie one on.

Cheryl and Yvonne don’t want to risk it. But the families should have the opportunity to unite behind candidates and rid the Council of two of the worst, most self serving members ever to finagle their way on to that board.

And if we don’t have the good sense to do it….we have no one to blame but ourselves.