Sometimes, when events swirling around make no sense, it makes sense to sit back and watch and they'll make sense when the matter stops swirling.
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And sometimes, those events clearly seem to have pieces missing or pieces deliberately tossed into the mix that make even less sense.
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It all gets too confusing to untangle.
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Such is the case with the recent "Let's negotiate a state Compact" swirl.
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The media was preoccupied with the draft, the exclusion of the host community and the Guv's thanks, but no thanks response.
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And everyone was in a tizzy of the law, the pending Supreme Court Case, new IGRA regs, the reasons the mega casino will never come to pass, to a dizzying effect.
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Fellow bloggers, linked on the right of this site have blogged about the surrounding issues.
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One can only speculate that since indictments are known prior to the surrounding publicity and the indictment and pleading of Kevin Ring was published on Monday, September 8, 2008 (handed down September 5), there could be a connection.
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Anyone who has followed this pathetic soap opera of corruption, knew who was being investigated. And anyone who followed, knew Kevin Ring's phone was about to ring.
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Purely hypothetical telephone call from Scott Ferson to Shawn Hendricks:
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Scott: Shawn, Kevin Ring is about to be indicted and this MR person keeps raising the connection between Abramoff and you guys. And people are actually reading that stuff. We need to end the connection, deny everything. And we've decided that you need to distract the media by hand-delivering a letter to Deval asking to negotiate a Compact with your guys. I'll FAX a draft that will exclude Middleboro, give Adam the heads up to protest and raise a little cane with hurt feelings. Got it?
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Shawn: Got it.
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Scott: Now, Shawn, I'll send you what I want you to say to the media when they call, first about the letter to Deval, and then I'll tell you what you need to say when this Ring indictment comes down. Got it?
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Shawn: Got it.
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And so, when the story broke in SacramentoBee , Boston Herald, FindLaw, Washinton Post, Cape Cod Times and other outlets, the missing pieces fell into place.
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It wasn't about a Compact at all. It was about distracting from the corruption created by Abramoff that swirls around the Mashpee Wampanoag and swirls ever closer to the Tribe and its leadership.
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Where's the media coverage now as the corruption cloud moves closer? Good move, Scott!
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And maybe it was about the shunning of members who asked about Tribal finances because they smelled something rotten.
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Previous Abramoff blogs
10 comments:
You missed the end of the Shawn-Ferson conversation. After five minutes of Ferson laying out the plan:
Shawn: Ok, repeat everything after "Hello Shawn"
Good point!
I'm attempting to be kind, not an attribute I'm often accused of, to those who sacrificed heritage, values and caring tribal members and are blinded by the glitter of gold, being led by puppets of investors.
The silence surrounding a certain tribal member who flip-flopped about which tribe she belonged to based on the casino prospects and is now reportedly being paid $300K is deafening.
Those 'shunned' members got it right about the $$$.
The deeper the hole is dug, the more bodies that will fit into it. Wouldn't be surprised to see a couple Middleborough officals in the heap.
Al Capone went to prison for income tax evasion. The IRS was investigating the serial liars. The noose tightens and those who will go to jail because they did as they were told don't see that the investors remain untarnished. How close to Middleboro will investigations move?
What you said makes sense. I couldn't figure out the fuss last week about state and the laws. And Scott might have figured the convention would cover up news which it did.
When you posted about this coruption I started reading about it and the expensive trips sky boxes meals golfing jobs.
Maybe Marshal will go to jail.
Keep blogging!
Your explanation makes more sense than anything I read.
The Cape Cod Times always seems to get it right. Good reporting. At a time when journalistic quality is mostly absent, they rise above the crowd.
dell
There's a union conection to this too. Did you see the union reps at every meeting?
Money men who wrote the checks and dictated the process will walk away from this. The indians who did their bidding will be prosecuted, may do jail. Time will tell if any Middleboro officials will cave. The media reporting indicates that the casino is dead. Scott knows it. The tribe knows it. Time to move on.
The cesspool posters have decided that you want town officials locked up because of the anon 1comment.
Apparently they don't remember when someone in their midst made that comment repeatedly.
They're so convinced of their own delusions, they should write comedy.
On a serious and pertinent note, you might consider posting about Stolen Valor and the potential prison sentence for Glenn Marshall. He was listed on their site as being under investigation.
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