Pushed around by mayor, local contractor says he will sue

By JOSH RESNEK

Two weeks ago following a short presentation before the City Council decrying how the mayor and the city had denied him a contract he won to perform services, Peter Tufts left the council chamber.

The mayor confronted him, berated him, swore a fusillade of obscenities at him and threatened him physically, chest bumping him down the third floor corridor.

“I have served the city with a request for videos of the incident,” Tufts told the Leader Herald Monday night.

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Good luck to Vivian Nguyen

Vivian Nguyen rather soundly defeated longtime councilor Rosa DeFlorio last Tuesday.

Nguyen becomes one of the youngest, if not the youngest woman to ever be elected a city councilor in the city’s history.

She is 21 and a senior at Babson College in Waltham.

She is bright. She is concerned. She is active in the community and her ward, and she appears to have a great future standing before her.

As a Vietnamese woman, her victory is made all the more notable.

She will join Councilor Jimmy Tri Le on the council in January.

Le is also Vietnamese.

At no time in the modern political history of the city have there been two Vietnamese city councilors.

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Election Commission rocks

The Election Commission may have missed a large number of fraudulent votes and it may have overlooked or simply underestimated the value of checking every ballot whether mailed in or cast last Tuesday but we can tell you this – the vote counting effort by the Election Commission last Tuesday was absolutely, positively the fastest and most efficient Election Night tabulation of the total vote we can recall during the past two decades of covering elections in Everett.

The tabulation was announced, distributed and finished by 9:00 p.m., an unheard of never matched tabulation of a vote by an Everett Election Commission.

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The mayor’s hollow victory

Mayor Carlo DeMaria’s most recent mayoral victory last Tuesday came as close to a defeat as all his other victories combined. Landslide Carlo, as some have called him in the election aftermath, scored 210 votes more than his challenger, Councilor Fred Capone.

For Capone, it is a bitter defeat having come so close and yet being so far away.

There is some talk that as many as 75-100 out of towners, that is, residents of other cities and towns, who voted in Everett in last week’s election.

This, obviously, is problematic, as voter fraud is problematic and what’s worse, it is a federal offense..

Whether or not anyone in law enforcement cares about the mayor and his apparent excesses and voter fraud or possible fraud in real estate transactions remains to be seen.

Law enforcement should take notice of the mayor’s election night remarks where he used the platform to threaten those who were not with him.

If his words are not about retaliation coming, well, we don’t know what is.

DeMaria’s victory is hollow because he is hollow.

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Medford rekindles rivalry, oust Tide on penalty kicks

Everett’s Alcin Tysenger and Medford’s Jordan Ianakiev get tangled up as they battle in Everett’s MIAA playoff loss. (Photo by Jim Mahoney)

A renewed rivalry is brewing between Medford and Everett High Schools.

In Friday’s second round MIAA Division 1 playoff bout at Medford HS, the two sides met for the third time this season, with Medford besting the Crimson Tide 4-3 in penalty kicks.

In their two regular-season meetings, both 1-1 ties, undefeated Medford was really put to the test but couldn’t take down the Tide (12-2-3) until the playoffs, EHS’ first visit to the tournament in 3 years.

Although Medford (13-0-4) is moving on to the next round, the slim margin in skill and style separating the two sides caused a friction all season that has really relit the rivalry flame between the two Greater Boston League counterparts.

“The rivalry has been restarted,” said third-year EHS head coach Pedro Blas. “In general, with our schools being traditional rivals and our team continuously getting better, it was clear they wanted it and we wanted it bad, too,” said Blas.

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