simple solution. add to the minutes the gifts recieved the value and move on. no one will question someones integrity over a t-shirt that was returned.

does Middleboro have the people in place to protect the towns interests regarding this issue. the state powers will run over these people if the town doesn't support them. it will destroy middleboro. know that. go to CT and RI and looke at the mess of a town they have there. let new bedford be the calf they the rest of the state ticks feed off of.

As always, you hit one of the noteworthy comments.

My husband had to leave the room because he began to get somewhat … how to say it? Peeved?

No calendar?

When they were filling the time before the hearing, they took correspondence out of order. Mrs. Duphily’s response seemed to indicate that she had not read the correspondence and was unprepared.

This isn’t to pick on the Dear or Deer, but she now seems lost since Carcieri v Salazar.

I was disappointed in Pat Rogers’ summary of the Regional Task Force meeting – not the casino RTF, but the Brockton Power Plant. More facts and less trivia like the scarf thing might have been appreciated. At least he went and someone on the BOS is showing some interest.

Noted by its absence was a public apology for last week’s conduct.

Out of the four, Pat Rogers at least seems to have his act together but the other three have to go.

I feel bad for Mrs. Duphily in those meetings, she’s such a dear. Or is that deer? As in deer caught in the headlights!

Spataro, he just seems a day late and a dollar short. Although if the casino ever was to be built and we needed someone to find out the weight of the trucks working on the project, HE’S OUR MAN!

Marsha Brunelle, where to start, where to start. Mrs. Back to the Future. If someone suggested bringing a calendar to the BOS meeting, I’m sure Marsha could instantly come up with a date where she did that in the past.

Everybody else can do whatever they want, but come election day, I’m going to start replacing some selectmen.

The ball is in our court to do the right thing and replace him on Election Day!

Those comments were uncalled for. What elected offical has the right to disgregard the concerns of citizens they represent, simply by virtue of the fact that they felt thier integrity was being questioned? This was not a personal attack.

It is every citizens responsibility to monitor and question thier leaders. It is nice to see a few brave souls standing up for what is right and ethical. We should have been doing this all along.

Our board is in a “bad place”. They live in the land of entitlement. Because they haven’t been questioned before, they feel above reproach.

Thier actions are not a reflection on them personally. Thier reactions are.

I will be voting against "Mr. Take Out Papers" come Election Day!

HEY, HEY, HO, HO Steve Spataro has got to GO!

The BOS allowed it to blow-up. Steve was rude and hostile. Thsi was one of many sad displays by this man. I look forward to Election Day!

The whole board needs to GO!

I can’t wait till April.

Questioning their integrity over a mug and T-shirt?

My dear BOS, the mug and T-shirt are simply SYMBOLIC for how easily you were bought and quickly you sold this town out.

Can’t the BOS see that?

Mike is simply calling that fact to your attention!

Mike Solomini should be commended….

An old adage says, be careful who you step on going up the ladder because those same people may not be so friendly on you’re way back down.

Smile, and lets show Mr. Spataro the door on his way out.

I also agree with the comment above. If a Middleboro formal response or amendment is not made, this has to be sent to the DA.

Mr. Spataro went out of his way to get return receipt for returning his gifts, so where is our receipt in the form of accurate minutes, which record the real issue.

Those minutes were weak, but only on the issue that was heavily discussed. Was this by design?

Write the DA, these guys are not serving the residents. They are covering for each other.

Feelings are running high.

Please keep the posts even handed and free of accusation.

We have a BOS that many of us are unhappy with. They are nonetheless our neighbors and fellow townfolk who have spent many hours in service of Middleboro.

Spataro’s disdain and action deserve to be exposed and discussed. The BOS’s actions in the casino process were problematic. There is much to be unhappy about. But this is the time for us to show our caliber by dissenting in a manner that is constructive and above reproach.

That being said, if the BOS does not want the minutes to include the admission of the board members accepting gifts then why did they accept the said gifts in the first place? Why did they publicly acknowledge these gifts only when pressed? Where, by the way, have they documented said gifts or any other such gifts to date?

I think it would be wise to remember that the BOS cornered the town into voting on an agreement with a Tribe that is now being investigated by the FBI. The ongoing investigation and guilty plea by Marshall, (and don’t forget the allegations from the former Chair of the board) have left a stink surrounding this whole matter. They brought this on themselves.

As for Mr. Spataro’s ‘cheap seats’ comment I, as a resident of Middleboro, have just as much right to be at that meeting as he does!

The blowhard ‘take out papers’ comment is completely lame when, as he is fully aware, the deadline to do so was a week prior.

I certainly hope the public is watching and remembers all of this in the coming election. Some members of the BOS lack the moral compass and fortitude for this job. It is time for some accountability and new blood in the BOS

I suggest that someone write a brief letter of concern to the DA, specifically, to one Mary Lee, Assistant District Attorney.

I’ll provide the address:

Plymouth County District Attorney’s Office
Mary Lee, Assistant District Attorney
32 Belmont Street
P.O. Box 1665
Brockton, MA 02301

Until that letter is written, no one knows but us.

If no record is ammended Spataro could have accepted many other things…..

Just record the damn comments.

GIFTS WERE ACCEPTED. CALL THEM SAME OR WHAT THEY ARE. BUT RECORD THEM.

ALSO RECORD THAT TOWN COUNCIL only made reference to the communications, and made no legal statement on the Pow Wows or gifts….. I wonder why….

If the board think they should move on the nso beit, but lets see what the 2-23-09 minute include.

I’m sure Mr. Solomini will be watchin that as well.

From the Cheap Seats that is?????

Spataro, Mimi and Brunell are wrong.

By The way FYI.
Something is wrong with that video the voice is not matched up with the lips.

Mike – I presume,

Adam got a blanket, which he immediately returned and discussed it at a BOS meeting. This was back in August ’08 I think. You said “blankets” – plural and I don’t know who else received one. Do you?

It is my belief that you are trying to invalidate the point of accepting gifts because Solimini had a detail wrong. He said blanket, Steve corrected him that it was a cup and a T-shirt. Agreed. But splitting hairs on this minor detail and missing the big point.

We’ve already discussed the BOS, their parties, and small gifts they received. The topic under discussion now is the totally inappropriate behavior of Spataro when MS made a polite and valid request to amend the meeting minutes.

As far as frustrated goes – I’ve seen your posts on all the sites you frequent in all your various anonymous incarnations.

Playing nice here while you continue with your exaggerated and baseless posts on other sites is disingenuous to say the least.

This Board looks and sounds like Mikey Mouse in their response.

Mr. Spatero owes Mr. Solamini a written apology for his attack.