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Health & Fitness

The dirty facts

To the residents of Woburn, to the voters who shape our city, please take some time to read this:

I have no dog in this fight for Mayor, but only an outsider who watched and read all the Patch comments.  I read the reports and the newspaper accounts of this accident and what I truly believe there was a major cover up. 

Let's start from the night of the accident.  The reports say the crash was the fault of the car entering the intersection cutting off the Mayor.  If you know the area, you have to slow down just to make a turn.  How fast was the Mayor going not to use the other lane to get by?  The news reports now say the Mayor admits to drinking and our State Rep, seeing the alcohol on the table during the function, held back this information.  Why would they lie  for so long and to so many people?  The Chief, who was at the same party,  who sat a the same table saw the same thing.  The Chief said he came upon the accident location on his way home and was not called.  This is not true.  The Chief lives in the eastern part of the city and no normal route home would take him anywhere near the square.

The Chief, falling on his sword, stated he did not know the policy on Drug and Alcohol testing.  There is a written policy and a 24/7 phone number to call for the on-scene testing in his cue cards.  He removed the Mayor from the accident scene minutes after the crash.  The report indicated the Mayor talked to victim.  Again, that was not true.  We all assume the reports of the Mayor with only one drink may be true, but was that his first or last drink of the day?  In the haste to cover this up, did anyone think to ask where he was before the function? It may surprise you. 

The car was moved first to the DPW yard and quickly moved to North Woburn.  The reason given was so people would not disturb the wreck.  The Mayor stated to the Globe it is a city policy to hide wrecked city owned equipment behind the homes on private property.  I asked current employees, retired employees and former high-ranking officials and after the laughed, they said NEVER, NEVER was a policy of that nature ever done.  On the same day the car was moved to the hidden location, while private citizens were taking photos of the hidden wreck, a DPW employee drove up and removed the official plates off the car.  Without the normal city lettering on all the cars, except the undercover police cars and the Mayor's car by ordinance, it looked like any other black car.  They were covering it up.  The resident of the house, not the owner, the Deputy Superintendent allowed this and tampered with the evidence in the car.  Did the police search it after the accident?  I do not think so. 

That brings us to the current events.  An Alderman asking about testing got attacked in the Council Chambers by an enraged Mayor.  The people asking questions were being belittled and receiving threats, including the victim. 

The Mayor's race - so much rage, so much anger from all sides, but the worse from Galvin's supporters.  What they did to Natale and his family was awful.  The people who destroyed him also knew he was not just running for Mayor.  He wanted to find out if he could get his voter base behind him for a run at his old job - State Rep.  When they figured this out, his future in politics was over, they saw to it.  The DWI arrest was the icing on the cake.  By the way, he took 2 breathalyzers and passed.  I wonder if Galvin would have passed.  We will never know.  The car was taken, we guess, by the insurance company after paying $12,000, but the release from the City Council never was adopted as all city owned equipment by law must be released with a vote.  Who gave them the title and signed the release?  Did the city have the right to buy it back or was getting rid of the black box information more important?

After finding out what happened to Natale, some of his old friends on Beacon Hill were not too happy with Woburn and after the Globe report and the Rep's involvement, to them Woburn is unstable.  They will disclaim this, but watch for funding changes. 

Back to the Mayor.  He lied about everything.  He lied to his friends, to the voters, to the young adults, college students asking or absentee ballots, do you really understand what you did?  How can they trust adults when you lied to them?  They were members and mentors of SADD (Students Against Dumb Decisions).  How about MADD?  Ask those mothers how they feel.  Do you even care?  Natale never lied.  Flaherty never lied.  When asked they held nothing back.  I do not care who wins.  I care about truth and the damage you caused by not telling it.  Woburn, as I see it, is bleeding with it fighting over DeNapoli, the schools and their ranking, the Fire Dept short falls, the excessive hiring, the water meters and lack of public meeting for resident's questions.  There is so much more, but one fact you cannot refute or your people cannot refute is that you lied.  Can the city ever believe you or even our State Rep again?

When you lay in bed with your family out and God forbid the phone rings that there has been an accident, will it not flash in your mind "I hope the Mayor.......

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