Billy has won the lottery! Hit the jackpot. Grabbed the brass ring. Perhaps he can now gussy up his building a bit, maybe buy some letters from Vanna for the front façade.

Ahhhhh! Vanna, I’d like to buy an E. Spin again Billy!

So, when you see Billy, the media mogul of the daily record of advertisement, death, Dear Abby and horoscope appearing with a studded star cast of state politicos who’s who, you’ll know what being on the in gets you! Vanna, I’d like to buy a B. Spin again Billy!

A fully-funded taxpayer gift connecting two private properties, benefiting a miniscule portion of the population of Methuen, not to mention the even more miniscule population of the state and country who will get to traverse the BILLYBRIDGE.

It was your local, state and federal officials who stupidly allocated these funds, this ludicrous waste of taxpayer funds, which believe me has been pointed out to them many times. Vanna I’d like to buy an R. Spin again Billy!

So when you see our politicos, Broadhurst, Baddour, Meehan, Riley, all posing for pictures with our mayor Billy (Bridgeboy) Manzi, it is plain to see that they have no business, managing our money, they cannot be trusted to act in the people’s best interest.

Hell, they can’t even be trusted to follow the rules and not use public resources to promote their sorry endeavors for public office!

Can I have a D, Vanna? Billy, this is your lucky day. Spin again, I’d like to buy a vowel. Can I buy an I?

I’d like to solve the puzzle, after all the people of Methuen have been waiting a long time to hear me say this. Vanna does it spell BRIDGE!

Billy Manzi you have won the jackpot! Tell us how you did it? Or is that a secret? I love secrets!

Loyal readers, I will keep you posted as to the progress of the BILLYBRIDGE. I’ll bet there will be cost overruns!

Now Billy, you might have enough money to spin the wheel, grab some of those missing letters for the front of your liquor store, how bout an S for Rostron’s, a U for liquors and an O for cold.

Wait, don’t spend your own money (like you ever would!) When the 1.5 million dollar bridge is complete, there will probably be some façade money available to do over your building. It would be a shame for us taxpayers to spend all that money on the BILLYBRIDGE, and you not having a revolving door right off the bridge into your store!

Here are some letters Vanna wants you to buy for the front of your store. M A N Z I W O R L D G A T E W A Y T O T H E B R I D G E!

PS. Billy, Katherine Robinson, AKA Historic District Commission has an old article detailing just what your store needs!

PSS. Is there a part time job for Matty K. in Manzi World? Perhaps oiling the revolving door.

Watch for a very special MCTV, channel 22 “It’s All About Right(s)” television show coming soon.

Back Seat Mayor
Kinda like a back seat driver. Don’t they just drive you crazy?

I realize that the people have spoken; Billy won, and it did cost him $81,000! It brings a tear to my eye, and I’ll bet it made Billy sob!

Billy likes to pride himself in the fact that he raised the most money, gleaned over 70 percent of the vote, Billy considers that validation. But that still does not prevent me from telling over 2300 voters who voted for me, how it would have been different IF I WERE MAYOR!

I tried to give Billy a chance, but he’s looking more and more like old shar everyday. Let me list some of things I would not be doing.

I would not be supporting that bum Reilly! He has made a secret pact with the big dig rape and pillagers, which infuriated me! He gives his buddies and campaign contributors a get-out-of-jail free card.

It has become apparent that Reilly will not be perusing old shar when it comes to breaking every law and rule of the 401(c)3 regulations; first the doughboy DA drops the ball and now the AG. Ask me if I am surprised. Reilly must be busy, pouring over choosing a new running mate.

I would suspect that there are many local, state and federal officials who breathed a sigh of relief when I lost my bid for mayor. It is a known fact that I do not play with others. When I see their utter lack of regard for those of whom they are supposed to serve. I am talking about you MARTY!

Billy, I would not be looking perplexed, standing next to Steve Baddour at the rotary wondering how in heaven we were going to get the funds to fix the rotary.

I know where I could have found 1.5 million dollars that was allocated erroneously, to benefit two private owners, to build a footbridge connecting 97 units of low income housing to a liquor store.

I would have asked Gaylord, guru of the Merrimack Valley Planning Commission just what the hell his organization was doing. Just how it is you earn your money? I believe that the MVPC’s estimate on how much it would cost to fix the rotary was between 1 million and over 20 million. Really nailed that down Gaylord, and obviously earned every cent of which you are paid!

I would never have hired Matty K for a whopping 77k when the boy showed me nothing all the while he sat as representative of the east end. Folks, remember years ago when I had Matty K dressed in an orange hunting suit so at least we knew he was sitting there at the council meetings.

It sets a real poor precedent when a new hire is catapulted to the top of the salary cap without proving himself. Sorry, he did prove himself to be a loser lawyer, ever striving for the public spout. I am still wondering how he made out over at and I Tewksbury State Hospital.

There would be no red light cameras would have admonished the chief for researching only the pro side AKA money side and not taken into consideration that installing these cameras increases the accidents where our citizens could be put in danger.

The dawwg’s position (Deputy Chief Alaimo) would be eliminated; Solomon would have to get another chauffer. Molori would not be relegated to the cellar, he would be relegated out the door!

I would be seriously wondering if all the development on the west side, Pelham Street would indeed be my BROOKS MOMENT! I think this is going to be yours, Billy.

Question: How many yellow sticks are going to be needed to do traffic mitigation on Pelham Street after all that development has been completed?

How much are those developments going to cost the developers in mitigation money? Old shar liked that nice round figure of $650,000; see how nicely it rolls off your lips. Now you see it, now you don’t!

I would be having all those legal brains taking up space at town hall, look into the fact that the applications for the 40Bs may have been falsified. I know one of them has. I would be seeking for the people of Methuen reparations from these dishonest developers.

Billy is selling off parcels of property to offset a shortfall in the budget. I would make sure that these parcels were sold at the same fire sale price as the property to complete the golf course, Emerald Pines, was conveyed. After all, it is a mayor’s duty to attend to the people’s needs not the needs of a developer.

I would be asking Phil Littlefield how the hell could everything be hunky dory under the regime of the queen, with Billy having sat on her knee for the longest time. Now, three months into Billy’s tenure, you have another job in another state and we are going to need 70+ teachers! How can this be? Who screwed up, we need to hold someone accountable for this incredible faux pas.

TO BE CONTINUED… AND CONTINUED… AND CONTINUED…
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Don’t Let the Sun Catch You Crying
As we come off of what the mainstream media refers to as “Sunshine Week”, and having read a familiar diatribe of just how unaccountable our politicos are. Trusted public officials treating their positions like their own little fiefdom, I SAY WELCOME TO MY WORLD!

Why is it only on sunshine week the mainstream media thinks there are being duped? I hate to tell you this, but you are being duped everyday.

Perhaps, my assumption about the daily record of advertisement, death, Dear Abby and horoscope has been correct all along. You are so interested in the money, to hell with investigative reporting, when your reporters can go into the mayor’s office and get the daily news fit to print!

During sunshine week don’t tell me you suddenly want access to the stall! Join me anytime; I could always use another shoulder to keep the door open.

Spend some of your advertising money, use the political windfall money and buy some public information. That will spread a whole lot of sunshine on what these politicos have been up to! I predict a whole lot of crying!

PS: Have you got the Maurice Lariviere tape yet?

Watch for a very special MCTV, channel 22 “It’s All About Right(s)” television show coming soon.
 

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