Lt Blisss Was Fired By Lies From Ms Bindas And Brenda That Lt Bliss Installed An Alarm System While In Uniform , Which Was A Lie,  Ms Bindas Later Refused In Court To Testify That She Had Made These Charges In The Beginning That Mr Bliss Had Installed An Alarm In Her House While In Uniform. Brenda Who Was Joined At The Hip To Ms Bindas  Pushed For Lt Bliss Fireing While Knowing These Charges Were False , Ms Bindas And Brenda  Should Be Sewed Peosonally For There Actioms.

Donney Bliss Sue Wareham , And Take Wareham To The Cleaners For Your Wrongful Fireing. Only Then Will Voters Eyes Wake Up To The Nastey Ways Of Brenda , Jayne ,cronin And The Bruce.

I am glad to hear this good news but I am sure that the Hypocrite Elite are not.  I have heard that the story of how this man was railroaded was so disgraceful that no hypocrite elitist will ever hold office again if the details ever come out.  I think that any town official involved, even if no longer in office, should be required to personally reimburse the town for this incompetence.

Last edited by GuyIncognito (2011-05-05 22:54:50)

....and the beat goes on....the beat goes on....

WAreham is going to pay BIG on this one for sure

Forty page Pdf of the Lt. Bliss ruling:

Last edited by billw (2011-05-06 14:00:54)

My God!  I'm just giving this document a perusal now and my jaw is on the floor!  What an outrage!  What disgusting leadership we had from these  clowns! 

Note there are details about the "fabricated uniform story" that certain Hypocrites said never happened.

The evidence showed that he stopped wearing a uniform years ago when he was promoted, but these morons actually tried to make it out that he showed up to an alarm sale in a uniform.  What a bunch of morons!

Oh God, I have to take breaks while I read this because the stupidity and incompetence of the Hypocrite Elite is making me sick.

Former selectman Bruce Sauvageau, who served on the board when Bliss was fired, took offense at Stein's statement regarding political motivation.
   "Stein needs to be very specific because that is a very serious charge," Sauvageau said. "Not only that, he didn't provide any factual basis to disbelieve Bindas’s testimony. When an administrative law judge renders a ruling there is usually a factual basis. That’s what is missing here. How can this judge determine that Binidas was essentially lying under oath without any factual basis to support such a ruling? Stein has an obligation to both parties to share what facts he is basing his ruling on. That is a prefect opportunity for the town to appeal the decision because Stein failed to do so."


I KNOW YOU DIDNT PASS THE BAR BRUCE BUT THE COMMISSION SAID BINDAS TESTIMONY WAS NOT CONSISTENT!!!

Total silence from the tin hats.  Could this be the wake up call they need to peel off the tin foil? 

The clowns responsible for this outrage are lucky they are no longer in office.  With this news, they would have been easily recalled.

Last edited by GuyIncognito (2011-05-06 16:48:21)

ms bindas ,you liar  just  chew [redacted].

edit: Forgive me, Red but let's not go there.

Last edited by billw (2011-05-06 16:54:04)

yes bruce did not pass the bar as curley did not but also brenda did not pass the bar and she did not even go to law school.

http://www.southcoasttoday.com/apps/pbc … /110509940

Wareham police lieutenant reinstated

By Steve Urbon
surbon@s-t.com
May 06, 2011 5:30 PM

WAREHAM — Lt. Donald Bliss has been reinstated to the Police Department by a 5-0 decision of the state Civil Service Commission. The panel found he was wrongly terminated for “improper personal motives and undue political influence which have no place in a merit-based civil service system.”

The ruling Thursday means that Bliss is immediately available to take his job back and will receive back pay plus interest from the day he was fired in February 2009. His attorney, Andrew Gambaccini, told The Standard-Times that the back pay will likely amount to more than $200,000. His legal expenses will be paid from a legal defense fund that he joined in the past.

Bliss was relieved and jubilant and vowed to return to work. “I have to. I’m just too proud to be run out of town,” he said Friday. Bliss said that while down this “brutal road,” his family has suffered with the cloud hanging over him, and he has tried to make ends meet by plowing driveways and doing work as a private investigator.

Town Administrator Mark Andrews did not return calls seeking comment Friday, but several months ago told a Standard-Times reporter that he expected to be able to manage any payback to Bliss within the town budget.

Former acting Town Administrator John Sanguinet, who signed the termination letter two years ago, did not return a call seeking comment about the ruling, which was highly critical of him and his actions.

Bliss was fired by Sanguinet on the grounds that he misused a department-owned cell phone for his sidelines as an alarm salesman and real estate agent. The commission ruled that the misjudgment, while real, didn’t merit such a draconian punishment, and in fact, Bliss had already been disciplined by then-Chief Thomas Joyce with two days of unpaid service.

The ruling, written by Commissioner Paul M. Stein, who conducted three days of hearings in mid-2009, concluded that a Linda Bindas of Maple Springs Road was not credible when she testified that Bliss had sold her a home alarm system while in uniform, which could be a firing offense.

While Bindas “presented as a well-dressed, intelligent woman,” Stein concluded that “the preponderance of the evidence weighs heavily in favor of the conclusion that Lt. Bliss made two visits to Ms. Bindas’ home, as he testified, and that he did not appear in his police uniform on either occasion.

“His convincing testimony regarding the Bindas transaction outweighs the unpersuasively vague and inconsistent testimony from Ms. Bindas, whom I infer, given the passage of time, has conflated her recollections and time frames of the dates, occurrences and individuals involved in her transactions with the harbormaster, Lt. Bliss and others over the alarm system.”

Stein often praised the demeanor and consistency of testimony from Bliss, Joyce and former Town Administrator John McAuliffe.

“In contrast,” he wrote, “Mr. Sanguinet’s admissions and demeanor (tentativeness, failure to make critical eye contact and inability to articulate the specific facts he used to support the decision to terminate Lt. Bliss), confirmed a picture far more consistent with one who took his cue from others, and not a true decision-maker who acted on his own careful and independent judgment.”

Stein was not specific about the motives or individuals behind the move to fire Bliss, and dismissed any suggestions from the witnesses as speculation. But he did make special mention of Sanguinet’s remark to McAuliffe at the time he delivered his letter, which was, “It’s out of my hands.”

The town may appeal the decision to Superior Court, according to Gambaccini. But he said that such an appeal would be “dead on arrival” because an appeal would not re-hear testimony or challenge factual findings, but rather ask the question of whether the commission went outside the law. Nor could an appeal challenge the hearing officer’s judgments about the veracity of the witnesses, he said.

He said that Bliss would still be entitled to return to work pending any appeal.

Last edited by LizMcD (2011-05-06 18:39:05)

I believe his salary was about 90,000 and he's been out 2 and a half years, so we're looking at about 225,000,  he's also owed attorney fees, compensation for losing the chief position, plus a whole host of issues...this is going to cost the town a butt load of money.

OK folks, get ready to laugh your asses off:

Bobo the Clown in an August 25, 2010 Just the Facts Maam Column wrote:

Claim: Wareham Police Officer Don Bliss was fired over a fabricated “uniform” wearing story.

    Fact: Don Bliss was terminated for using town equipment to run a private alarm installing business while on duty as a police officer. On his business card he listed his town-issued cell phone number. A private citizen testified during a Civil Service hearing that Bliss tried to solicit business for his company while conducting an alarm inspection as a police officer. Civil Service has not issued a finding more than a year after Bliss’s termination.

Ummm...what's that old Bobo line?

Oh right....CARE TO REVISE YOUR STATEMENT, DUMBASS?!!!!!!!

Worst...reporter...EVER!

Last edited by GuyIncognito (2011-05-06 20:41:47)

EVIDENCE OF FORMER BOS INTERMEDDLING:

Civil Service Commission wrote:

Chief Joyce and John McAuliffe both gave persuasive testimony in support of their shared conclusion that Interim Town Administrator Sanguinet's discharge of Lt. Bliss was wrong-headed, and was not based on sound, independent judgment, but was one (of several examples) of continued intermeddling in personnel matters and daily operations orchestrated by the Board of Selectmen in excess of their authority, motivated by personal and political factors.

My God, thank God for the sake of the town these people are no longer in office.

THE "MOST AGRESSIVE BUNCH"

Civil Service Commission wrote:

John McAuliffe testified that the Board of Selectmen at the time was the "most aggressive bunch" that he had seen in his years as a professional municipal executive."

"NEVER SAY ANYTHING LIKE"

Civil Service Commission wrote:

Chief Joyce testified that he "never saw anything like" the degree of interference in his daily operations as he received from the Board of Selectmen as constituted in 2007 and 2008.  He was convincing when he testified that, by the middle of 2008, the relationship had deteriorated to the point that he decided to retire, after 20 years as Chief of Police.  He was personally close to tears as he described how strongly he believed Lt. Bliss was mistreated by the Board of Selectmen."

How these people walk around without hanging their heads in shame I'll never know.

"CARRY OUT THE WISHES"

Civil Service Commission wrote:

Chief Joyce testified that, at one point, Mr. Sanguinet told him that his job as Interim Town Administrator was to "carry out the wishes" of the Board of Selectmen.  At another point, during a discussion of budget issues, even Mr. Sanguinet admitted that he was reluctant to reallocate Lt. Bliss's WPD salary because he agreed that it was likely Bliss would eventually win back his job.

Evidence that the previous BOS controlled Interim Butt Monkey like a puppet.

Evidence of Incompetence - the town should have paid the salary into an escrow account.  Now over 200,000 or more will have to immediately be slashed from the town budget.  What a disaster these people have turned the town into.

Last edited by GuyIncognito (2011-05-06 21:46:54)

"THE DRACONIAN SANCTION"

Civil Service Commission wrote:

Applying these principals to the facts of this appeal, Wareham falls short of establishing just cause for discharging or further disciplining Lt. Bliss, as there is insufficient evidence of substantial misconduct on his part contained in the record.  The draconian sanction imposed upon a career 24-year veteran WPD police officer with an otherwise unblemished, and indeed, markedly distinguished career of service to Wareham, who has acknowledged his one poor lapse of judgment and fully remediated his behavior, is an unmistakable example of the effect of improper personal motives and undue political influence which have no place in a merit-based civil service system.

Metaphorically speaking, I believe that quote is the sound of the State of Massachusetts ripping the Hypocrite Elite a new one.

GuyIncognito wrote:

Metaphorically speaking, I believe that quote is the sound of the State of Massachusetts ripping the Hypocrite Elite a new one.

And strictly speaking, that doesn't matter much. The evil doers are out of office, all except our hapless BOS chairman, and the town is on the hook for wages, slick leave, vacation time, Quinn bill and assorted other entitlements; substantially more than the reported sum, amiright?

The really rotten reality is we've seen nothing yet. The town administrator, town counsel, and town clerk, together with 3 of 5 selectmen, still take their marching orders from their Donahue/Sauvageau barracks lawyer brain trust. They will spare no tax dollar funded legal expense when Bliss files for damages, where they will lose again and not give a shit.

This isn't good news, it's retarded.

I can almost  hear the crickets chirping on the rag site.  Who knew it was possible for tin hats to feel embarrassment?

Here is what bobo claimed:


"By: robertslager on 5/7/11
I'm not an attorney, darkknight. I have spoken to one about this case. She said the town may have grounds to appeal on the basis that the ruling was capricious and arbitrary, and not based on the rule of law."

Really?

What dumb assed attorney ("She") would say something as stupid as that?

In my opinion, whatever "attorney", "she", that said that should be disbarred.

Give us her name so someone can call the Board of Bar Overseers.

Dumb-ass.

Surrounded by "attorneys".

Bullshit.

You don't have any "real" attorneys telling you that crap.

Para Legal?

Doubtful.

They are too smart to say such a stupid thing.

Just keep believing your own bullshit, numb-nuts, and you will go down quicker than anyone thought.

You and your "attorneys".

To sum up this case:

The Hypocrite Elite, worried about usage of a town owned cell phone, calls on which I doubt cost more than a few cents, not to mention the problem was already solved, put the town on the hook for over $200,000 (it will be way more before this is all done).

Spend over $200,000 to save a few cents - that's the Hypocrite Elite way.

Bindas complained to a town official about bliss in a uniform. Then under cross examination said it was blue pants and a shirt. No badge. No gun. Anyone want to guess who that was? Why ECKSTROM no less. After hearing from bindas she immediately went to sanguinet and ordered bliss be fired or he would be fired himself

Civil Service Commission wrote:

When confronted with the assertion that she told Special Town Counsel that "Lt. Bliss showed up on at least two occasions dressed in his police uniform," she said she did not recall making that statement."

Funny how peoples' memories tend to fail them when they are under oath, isn't it?