WELL, WELL, WELL, isn't this interesting?

Bobo the Windbag and his tin hat crew have been bloviating all weekend about how the Hypocrite Elite is blameless in all of this...but as it turns out, noneother than the Hypocrite Elite picked TA reviewed the situation and came to his own conclusion that Biz should be booted.

You may recall that Mike often opined on the name mike9f that Biz was great and so on....turns out, not so much.

Voters, you know what to do.  Throw the bums out tomorrow.  Get every voter that you can to get out and vote. 

Wareham cannot suffer the incompetence of the Hypocrite Elite for one more day!  Throw the bums out!!!

Vote DeFelice, Petersen Selectman, Vote Ashley Dep Moderator!

Hey uh, why did the press release come from the Wareham Police Department?

Should we keep the 3D glasses and popcorn handy for this one?

Guess there are in excess of 900,000 reasons to get the Bee Jays OUT. Completely, finally, OUT.

As I posted before: You pay peanuts, you get monkeys.

Only this one monkeyed around WAY too much with real money, your money.

Begin to solve the problem. VOTE tomorrow to finish the job. Delete the Hypocrite Elite. Totally...

Here is another interesting note: The audit report was received on 3/25/2011. Wonder who saw it before it was unveiled on 3/30/2011???? I was at the meeting and I know that most of the Selectmen didn't see it until that day. Does that sound transparent????? The date stamp on the audit draft was 3/25/2011. Hmmmm?????

Larry McDonald wrote:

As strange as it seems, Lyn Skynyrd agree with me last week and now...sigh it looks we are in agreement again. Now we should all start to worry!

By: LenSkynyrd on 4/4/11
Here's what does not seem right to me, Robert. Andrews fired her based on the results of the audit. Why were those results a surprise to management? Andrews should have known prior to receiving the management letter, even prior to being audited, if his financial house was or was not in order. A strong company has its own checks and balances in place and knows well before the auditors arrive if it has anything to worry about. In those situations, audits are essentially a mere formality and are nothing to worry about.

Mr Andrews should not come out from this unscathed. Unless the accountant lied to him about the condition of the general ledger, Mr Andrews is just as much in the wrong here

You bet Mr. Andrews is just as wrong here. He was fully aware of the F/Y 2009 audit results and the DOR report from July 2009. This was not a surprise and if you look at his history at Lawrence, it is a pattern. So, let us examine a few facts:

1. Who gave Biz a raise and bonuse in F/Y 2011? Correct answer: Mark Andrews
2. Who has been touting his progress towards the issues outlined in the DOR letter? Correct answer: Mark Andrews

3. Who is hoping to lay all the blame on the Town Accountant? Correct Answer: Mark Andrews

Our Selectmen should hold Mark Andrews accountable. Now he is making moves to correct it, but what was his excuse in July 2010?  At the very least, he should give back his raise and any bonus money he received. He should have a letter in his file stating his blame in this serious issue. Just my opinion, he should be terminated just like he did to Biz.

The lack of credibility followed him to Wareham and will continue to follow him. Do we need to be the laughing stock of the Commonwealth???? Fire him!

Mr McDonald, I can't agree with you more but there is MUCH MORE.  First of all, don't count on LenSkynyrd to do much except spew his BS on BS's site.
While he's 100% accurate in his assessment of who is responsible (Mr. Andrews), he wouldn't make the tough decision to throw the BUM (imposter) OUT. Andrews should NEVER have been hired !  He's NEVER managed a town.  His only skill is lip service and it seems that he's made a professional career of it. 
More important in all this is the cost of VERY POOR decision making over the past three or four years starting with Swifts Beach, McAuliffe, then both Bliss boys (Bob and Don), Sanguinet, Biz, Andrews, Burke and his girl toy, Grizzy, the library fiasco, etc., etc.  We've let the good ones go and replaced them with incompetence.  Mr. Andrews should have been the first to go but Holmes is up his A _ _ and Walter believes everthing he's told and Cara can't do it alone.  I say get rid of them all !
And the sad part is that EB and MS are drinking the same kool-aid so if they're elected we'll be seing more of the same.  God help Wareham !
Begley and Schneider are just an extension of the Donahue BS. 
Vote for anyone but !

This immediate action speaks volumes to the severity of the problem they are facing.  Andrews is going to use "Biz" to get himself out of a jam however this could have some serious reprecussions.  I doubt she is going to ride off into the sunset and not look back, I have a feeling some attorneys will be getting involved in the near future and ALL of Andrew's skeletons will start to be be exposed. 
Insted of being quoted in the paper for "Patting himself on the back" he should have been kicking himself in the ass!!  If any of the existing BOS believe for a minute that he's been truthful mostly Holmes and Cruz then they are absolute idiots!

This has nothing to do with gloating about the situation and the "were the winners and your the loosers" game as Im sure "Jim Jones" Slager will try to make it look like!  Its a sad state of affairs and it should not be happening, period.   

I cant tell people enough, we need to start fresh!

PETERSEN
DEFELIECE
ASHLEY
2011
Please help guide our town to stability!

I've noticed it's all quite "over there"...  Cat got your tongue Slager and followers?

Anyways, Spanky, how correct in your statement that nothing good has come of this.  There is a serious problem within our town hall that we all knew was there but just didn't know the depths it goes.  Rather than spending $60,000 + on a computer audit, an assistant to the accountant, might we have spent that money on a competant accountant?   At this point, we MUST get everything right!

bv

Last edited by redrobin (2011-04-04 21:12:06)

I hope you are right Guy....
Lots of people have to go....you know...fired.

Just saying, I'm tired of being called a "member of Take Back Wareham".  I pay no dues, don't have a membership card, don't know who the president and other officers are, haven't been invited to a meeting or asked to sign one thing.  I just agree with the majority of people on this site.  We want what we feel is best for Wareham, we want to take it back from the idiots that have been sitting in the big chairs in town hall.  Now, if I was asked to become I member, I would join, but I know full well that there is no organization named Take Back Wareham.  We are just believers that Wareham can again be run by moral, competent people.  We are individuals that saw thru Slager and his rantings from day one.  He has done nothing for this town except to divide it.  False headlines to grab people's attention.  The only thing he does is to incite people negatively.

The name calling is getting old.  If people want Wareham to be run as a city, they can just move to a city, don't change our town.  This is The Town of Wareham, a once beautiful town, run by competent selectmen. 

What else has to happen for some people to wake up?  We have a TA that is NOT doing a good job.  Let's get rid of him.  The COA ~ who knows what will happen there.  All I know is that we are paying a lot of money to someone that is sitting home all day.  Let's get rid of her.  We have an "Inspector" who can't inspect because our TA hired him (a friend) knowing he did not have the credentials needed for the job.  Let's get rid of him.  We have a PT chief of police who has drained us and instead of keeping Wareham's problems low key, he has to rant and rave via the news media.  Airing out our dirty laundry so to speak.  Let's get rid of him.

I am really hoping that people in town are ready to change this mess and the only way to do that is to elect Frank and Jen.  Don't forget Joseph either.

Has anyone heard yet why this press release was issued by the Wareham Police Department?  It seems very concerning for the police to be involved.

Jaime Rebhan wrote:

Andrews said the press release came from Wareham Police because the town does not have a designated public relations employee.

What does Mark Andrews call Robert Slager?

Really, I'm asking. An unregistered lobbyist? A paid shill? A slimy whore? What is it?

I don't know if I buy it.  The TA has the power to make and distribute his own press releases.  An announcement like this has never come from the police department before.

I'd say seeing as how two Mike and Ellen ads just popped up on the rag site, "paid shill" works pretty good.

Last edited by GuyIncognito (2011-04-05 11:42:28)

"For that I would pat myself on the back." Gee, I hope that you didn't tear your rotator cuff in that shoulder. Ouch!

We do agree, however, he has earned the application of one portion of the human anatomy to another part on the posterior side of the body: A KICK IN THE ASS  !!!!

Last edited by stewie (2011-04-05 15:51:18)

"Pat myself on the back?"  I think that ranks right up there with "Senator, how are you?"

Here's one thing I noticed. 

The Hypocrite Elite are masters of  delaying bad news to more opportune times.  Thus, it surprised me that they did not get together and make it so the news of the firing was postponed until after the election.

The news of Biz's canning in the wake of an accounting audit, announced on Monday, will do nothing but cause Mike and Ellen to hemorrhage votes left and right.  This is an action that hurts the political chances of two people who will be yes votes to renew Andrews contract.  But Andrews took the action a day before the election anyway.

Delaying the news by a day or two might have been less damaging to Mike and Ellen's election prospects.

I'm surprised the Hypocrite Elite didn't get together and have this bad news for them delayed until after the election, and, my personal opinion, the only conclusion I can draw is that something must be so amiss that the Hypocrite Elite realized that one more day could not be waited until a firing occurred.

In my opinion, of course.

Last edited by GuyIncognito (2011-04-05 15:46:23)

"Senator, how are you?  Can you pat me on the back?"

Keep in mind that Biz was hired by the Brucey Bunch...the same bunch that has endorsed Mike and Ellen (except Cronie, who got thrown under the bus) but yes I think you are all correct that questions need to be asked as to what Andrews' responsibility may be.

"For that I think I should pat myself on the back."  Yeesh.

This raises question, does it not?

1. Town Administrator Mark Andrews has terminated Town Accountant Elizabeth Zaleski after the draft results of a financial audit revealed that $919,000 is unaccounted for, according to a press release from the Wareham Police Department

2. Auditor James Powers told the Board of Selectmen and Finance Committee Wednesday during a joint meeting of the two boards that it is currently unclear what happened to the money. He said the variance could be due to accounting errors from past years or the "misappropriation of funds" by an employee.

Is there a connection? Is there a reason for the WPD to be involved? Is this why the announcement couldn't wait?

Not accusing, just wondering....

Spanky wrote:

I guess we can start to call this mess a "Bizaster!"  Gosh, Im such a hoot...

"Get Bizzy"

I really don't understand how Mark Andrews has NOT been held accountable for his (lack of) actions????  Anyone else in any other job/location/career would have been at the very least reprimanded, if not fired!  In the military the actions of your subordinates are essentially your own actions.  How does a supervisor not be held responsible for this?