Reel Wamps

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.

Fairhaven—The social was good until Cedric’s stepson PJ  Fermino ran up to the drum and tagged David Pocknett’s  son.  Supposedly it was about a campaign bumper sticker or flyer. Then David and Cedric,  as usual,  almost got in a fight. Great. Those testosterone chest bumps don’t amount to anything when your people need work and assistance.
Richard Oakley meanwhile, was talking about delivering services and Gettin’ Mashpee Back on Track.

That’s what you fight about.

More details later..

THE MISSING VOTER LIST

The Monday night Council meeting was crazy. Candidates and Council members were asking  Cedric Cromwell for the voter list that was supposed to be posted 8 days ago.  Tribal members and candidates are supposed to have access to the list to see who’s on it and challenge questionable new members before the election.  Candidates also use it for voter contact.

Supposedly there was an ordinance passed  ending this practice citing  confidentiality or some such nonsense.  No one can find the ordinance nor can they find the minutes confirming passage of the ordinance. Of course there are no audio tapes of  the meetings, so you can’t validate anything.

"BBA" & Cheryl in better days before his health deteriorated

It got heated when the candidates said they wanted the same access the incumbents like Cedric had.  Of course this  access is all courtesy of Cedric’s sister-in-law Kimmie Frye, “SR”,  Chair of the Election Committee.   Right… the chairman’s sister-in-law is CHAIR of the Election Committee.  Anyway,  Kimmie and her sister, Council woman Cheryl  Frye Cromwell (wife to “Big Brother Almighty”), were just recently busted while trying to commandeer the voter list from a mail house.   When pressed, Cedric shouted…”You have to buy the list just like I did.”  Buy it from whom? Is there no end to the blatant disregard for Tribal law?  Now the voter list is being sold ? Apparently.

Nine tribal members have already filed in US Federal District Court warning of this kind of behavior, potential voter fraud and countless other violations of the Constitution.  They asked for government oversight because of this kind of  lawlessness.

Recent  memos have been sent to the Assistant Secretary of DOI and  the Nashville BIA documenting  the pattern of disenfranchisement that continues to persist. The Council officers are leaving quite a paper trail.

SCAMMIN’

Another effort to keep getting a pay check is now being proposed under the guise of  ” protecting the health and welfare of the tribe” through the Tribal Gaming Commission. Funneling Genting money into he tribal gaming commission to pay  Cedric, Mark Harding and Yvonne Frye Avant will not resolve the fact that the Tribe is broke. But they’re  trying to disguise it that way. They are calling an emergency meeting Friday to  pass funding for the gaming commission, pretending they’re going to keep people on the payroll.

We support keeping tribal members employed, but we don’t want Cedric,  Markie and Yvonne permanently ensconced in the Tribal Gaming Commission.  They set it up to be totally separate and  untouchable so they can keep getting a pay check.  Genting runs it….and funds it….and has been funneling money through the GC for a while. More transparency eh ?