Reel Wamps

Okay, people.  We all can be a little bit lax when reading what seems to be routine announcements, and legalese can be off-putting, but we need to talk.  Don’t get me wrong, I appreciate that the Council has posted the reasons for the emergency meeting, but I read closely and I have a grave concern.    Amended-Mashpee-Notice-of-Emergency-Meeting-to-Be-Held-2-15-13-1

I want to call your attention to the second sentence of the paragraph marked “1.”

“The Tribe has an immediate need to receive funds from and preserve relationships with our gaming opportunity investor, who could be substantially harmed and can place our tribal property and assets at risk if the proposed ordinance is not adopted.” (emphasis mine)

I don’t know about you, but this worries me more than just a little bit.  I can understand the part about the Council preserving their paychecks—no matter what —but weren’t we assured that our land and assets were not on the table?  How can we know when they have been so secretive about the deal with the Malaysians.  Has the Council, or, should I say, Cedric and Co. exposed us to the possibility of being sued for our land and what little we own?  Will we lose our housing because it was not excluded as it should have been?

Our Tribe was saved from the 1830 Indian Removal act by Massachusetts Governer Levi Lincoln Jr. (a distant cousin of Abraham Lincoln). Will our governor, president, or the BIA step in to prevent our being removed from our pitifully small land base? God forbid! If the present administration has been so slipshod, or worse, corrupt, maybe we should remember that on the 24th when we vote.
Time to excise the problem.

Still shaky

The new election is set for Feb 24, and you better have a Tribal ID or you can’t vote.  Of course they failed to allow people to use other legitimate forms of ID… That’s because you have an election committee that cannot  identify the real members of the Tribe .  They can’t tell a Peters from a Mills or a Hendricks from an Oakley. They got rid of the Real Mashpee and substituted imitators and Casino Stalkers.  Scary.

And Kimmie, Cedric’s sister-in-law is still the Election Committee chair.  She does what Navajo Joe says…because she has to protect her only shot at a job (Health Department ) and real money to do nothing.

And Navajo Joes’ got nowhere to go…

Because his client list

Ain’t even hit n miss

Cause the Mashpee is all he’s got.

Genting has pulled the plug on the cash flow to the Cromwell gang forcing them to fire two more employees and a consultant.  Controversial grant writer Wanda Jean Lord is out along with Lesley Jonas and Myrna Nuey.

Lord set for retirement after sticking it to the MWT

Lord has done a horrible job of getting grants for the Tribe but she is one hell of a milker.  She has to be the only grant writer in the world who makes a salary of $250 K as opposed to the standard fee of 10% of what she brings in. She clearly couldn’t do it that way or she would starve to death. Lord is part of the cadre of lawyers and consultants who over billed the Tribe because no one in leadership has any professional experience to know better.

Lesley Jonas who had nothing to do with the Tribe 5 years ago became an expert on Pow Pows and was made the Pow Wow director.  We lost hundreds of thousands of dollars on a cherished event that used to make $25K.  Not only did the Tribal attendance drop dramatically the White people stopped coming too. So what do they do with Lesley? They hire her in another job she knows nothing about.  Assisting Lord with grant writing.  Jonas cannot write a complete sentence or thought, so how would she persuade the most astute evaluators that we deserve anything? Close to a million dollars was wasted on those two.  And we have fewer grants and more people on the roll to take the reparations we fought for for over 32 years. Sad.

This administration really knows how to kill a tribe.

It’s been Chinese Water Torture.

But they won’t get away with murder. Too many eyes.  Too many people with evidence of wrongdoing.

After filing a complaint in  US District Court,  Mashpee Wampanoag Tribal members pressed the Election Committee and the Cromwell administration to voluntarily implement election reforms to ensure a fair election on Sunday.

When the Committee failed to post the voter list, the group sent a memo to the Department of Interior and the Regional office of the BIA updating government officials of the continued breach of the tribal election process.  The list was finally posted 10 days late, yet another violation of Tribal law.

On January 16, the attorney for the group, Johnathan Polloni wrote  Cromwell asking for a meeting to agree upon certain safeguards and explicit monitoring on election day. Cromwell never responded to the request, but angry Council members blasted the embattled chairman for keeping the request secret last Friday.

The Mashpee 9 have also question the blatant conflict of Kimberly Frye serving as Election Committee chair.  Council member Carlton Hendricks Jr. said he had evidence that Frye was serving without authority because her term that expired in 2012.

The Council has Election Committee appointments on tonight’s agenda.

Meanwhile the group challenged nearly 50 new members on the voter list.  The committee will have to show that the members challenged meet the criteria for membership set by tribal law.  The list was just a random review but showed a pattern of loading the rolls.

Kimberly Frye, Chairman

Election Committee

Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe

483 Great Neck Road South

Mashpee, MA 02649

February 4, 2013

Dear Chairman Frye,

This letter is to bring to your attention certain names subject to challenge under Section 2(5) of the Election Ordinance of Responsibilities of the Election Committee. For your convenience, the given reason for each challenge is listed next to the individual name being challenged. These allegations are based on my personal knowledge as a Tribal member with a long history and association with the Tribe.

Mostly, these names are challenged on the basis that there is no relationship (NR) of the individual with the Tribe. This means that the individual named is not within the requirements of Article III, Section 1(a) and 1(b) of the Constitution of the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe (“Constitution”). Specifically, this means that for the individual named there is no proof of “direct lineal descent (1) to a Mashpee Indian identified in the Report to the Governor and Council…(also known as the 1859 Milton Earle Report)…or (2) to the union of Georgina Palmer and Charles Peters or Leander Peters and Lydia DeGrasse” or has not demonstrated sufficient tribal community involvement. Tribal community involvement is further defined by the Enrollment Ordinance, 2012-ORD-006, to “have and continue to contribute to the spiritual, traditional, social, and overall well-being of the Tribe.”[1]

The second basis for challenge is abandonment (A) under Article III, Section 1(c) and 1(d) of the Constitution. Abandonment is considered to have occurred when an individual has “publicly denounced Mashpee tribal existence” and “publicly denounced their [own] affiliation to the Tribe”, or have not “lived in or near Mashpee, Massachusetts or have had family members actively involved in tribal community affairs who have lived in or near Mashpee, Massachusetts for at least the preceding 20 years.”

The following names are listed below as found on the Election Committee voter list: [2]

 NAME                                                                                                   Reason for Challenge

1. Abraham, Ashr Ben                                                                         NR or A
2. Bacon, Brianna                                                                                  A
3. Bacon, Brad                                                                                        A
4. Bacon, Denise                                                                                   A
5. Bacon, Joshua                                                                                   A
6. Bacon, Kelli                                                                                         A
7. Bacon, Stephen                                                                                                A
8. Borges, Carlton                                                                                 A
9. Broyles, Craig                                                                                     A
10. Broyles, Mark                                                                                    A
11. Bullock, Clarence                                                                              NR
12. Bullock, Kyle                                                                                       NR
13. Bullock, Shantel                                                                                                NR
14. Charron, Katie Rose                                                                        A
15. Charron, Lindsay                                                                              A
16. Charron, Russell                                                                               A
17. Coyse, Amy                                                                                        NR
18. Dashiell, Emma                                                                                 A
19. Dashiell, Neliea                                                                                 A
20. Dowling, Keith                                                                                   NR
21. Fray, Pamela                                                                                      NR
22. Friedrickson, Corey                                                                         NR
23. Gilkey, Janet                                                                                      NR
24. Hightower, Shirley Ann Nightingal Bullock                             NR
25. Kinsler, Phyliss                                                                                  NR
26. Lammers, Cheryl                                                                              NR
27. Lammers, Edith                                                                                 NR
28. Lammers, Harvey                                                                             NR
29. Livingston, Amos                                                                              NR
30. McDermott, James                                                                         A
31. McDermott, John                                                                            A
32. McDermott, Paul                                                                             A
33. McDermott, Scott                                                                            A
34. McDermott, Stephen                                                                     A
35. McDermott, Thomas                                                                      A
36. McDermott, William                                                                       A
37. Medeiros, Elizabeth                                                                        A
38. Medeiros, Richard                                                                           A
39. Mello, Christopher                                                                          NR
40. Ormsby, Sharon                                                                                               NR
41. Sylvia, Angela                                                                                    A
42. Thompson, Nigel                                                                              NR
43. Tobey, Gail                                                                                         A
44. Tobey, Harold                                                                                    A
45. Tobey, Pamela                                                                                  A
46. Walters, Sharon                                                                                                NR
47. Zangao, Julian                                                                                    NR
48. Zaragoza, Stephanie Lee                                                               NR

Because these individuals cannot satisfy the requirements of membership with the Tribe under Article III of the Constitution due to No Relation or Abandonment, it is requested that you remove their names from the voter list in accordance with Tribal law.

Respectfully,

Patricia Oakley

So much going on. So much attempted manipulation.  You won’t believe it!   But then again, maybe you will.