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Anthony DiPierro’s Future

Councilor Anthony DiPierro believes he is going to be the next mayor of Everett.

This may come as news to many residents as Carlo DeMaria has almost four years to go before there is another election.

It is a bit early to be making predictions about who will be the next mayor of Everett.

That being said, DiPierro is a not so interesting study of arrogance and big feeling, intellectual emptiness and the willingness to do as he is told by his cousin the mayor.

There isn’t an independent bone in his subservient body.

He speaks well. He is smooth. He is almost slick.

He presents himself as Mr. Calm, Mr. Nice Guy, and Mr. Common Sense.

All he is about is performing for his cousin the mayor.

When it has been shown decisively that the mayor should not have been receiving a $40,000 a year longevity payment, DiPierro shook his head in disagreement.

He said he believes the mayor is worth the payment.

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DiPierro E-mail Portraying Bigotry And Hate Comes To Light

Backs Former Councilor Adrien’s Claims She Was Targeted By Leadership Because of Racism

By Josh Resnek

An Instagram post, believed to be one of a number of racist messages sent to a colleague in municipal government here by Councilor Anthony DiPierro, calls into question the city council’s effort to force the city’s first Black councilor to resign in 2020.

DiPierro’s messaging of racist memes magnifies Everett’s unwillingness to hire more Blacks and minorities in its city work force, and colors the mayor’s protest that “I am not a racist.”

DiPierro was DeMaria’s campaign chief. He is the mayor’s cousin.

DiPierro did not return a call left for him by the Leader Herald Tuesday.

Less than 5% of the city’s 900 person workforce is Black or multi-racial. The coming to light of DiPierro’s racist memes gives credence to former city councilor Gerly Adrien’s belief that DiPierro, former councilor Rosa DeFlorio, present assistant city clerk Peter Napolitano, Mayor Carlo DeMaria and others wanted her to resign or to force her out from her seat on the city council.

During an October, 2020 city council meeting, DeFlorio, and Napolitano led a contentious hearing where they made clear that if Adrien did not appear at the meeting in person, maybe she should resign or consider other employment.

The city of Everett video from that meeting was erased, misplaced or lost. An investigation termed by the mayor’s chief of staff as “thorough” failed to reveal a culprit.

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Stabbed Again In The Back

By Stephen Pinto

The majority of the city council backstabbed Everett taxpayers again last Thursday. In the end they rewarded the mayor and approved longevity, ignoring the fact that the mayor already illegally took $180,000 of taxpayer money.

They should first have asked themselves one question. What would happen if a city employee did what the mayor did? That city employee would be terminated and would possibly be facing a judge for stealing taxpayer money. The employee would probably be court ordered to pay the money back. The employee certainly would not be rewarded. What if one of Mr. Lattanzi’s hardware store employees took money that he was not entitled to, it’s called stealing.

Would that employee be terminated or rewarded by Lattanzi?

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Mayor’s Longevity Reduction Put Off, Thursday Meeting To Finish Drama

Resident Anger Rising at City Council Inertia

By Josh Resnek

A succession of speakers attacked the city council and directed councilors to brake the chains the mayor has on them and to demand the mayor pay back $180,000 they say he owes the city for hidden longevity payments he accepted.

The pre-meeting public speaking period has been growing in numbers and intensity as residents come to terms with the mayor showing no intention of paying back the city, allegedly improper, and likely, illegal payments of $40,000 yearly he has been receiving.

Several councilors have publicly stated it is up to the mayor to pay the money back if he wants. Many residents cannot comprehend city councilors talking this way.

At Monday night’s meeting, the city council put off until Thursday, a final decision on the mayor’s longevity.

It is expected the council will reduce the mayor’s longevity without doing away with it, rejecting the effort by Councilor Stephanie Smith to peg the mayor’s year to year payment for years served to department heads.

This would have reduced the mayor’s yearly check to $1,700 from $40,000.

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Council Stops Double Dipping by Denying Cristiano and Mangan Second Salaries

Both Can Serve as School Committee Members

By Josh Resnek

A rejuvenated City Council, powered by new members and a changed attitude, made two decisions last week.

First, the city council voted against allowing newly elected School Committee members Jeannie Cristiano and Mike Mangan to collect two salaries.

Cristiano and Mangan are city employees.

The city charter does not allow for city employees to collect two paychecks from the city.

The duo, both elected for the first time last November, will be serving but will not be paid.

How did this come about?

That’s part of the second decision made by the city council to allow all the members of the School Committee to be considered as “special employees.”

The city council approved this last week.

By doing so, the city council carried out the city charter’s imperative.

It allows for city employees to serve on the city council or the school committee with the proviso they cannot be paid for serving.

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