July 31, 2021
Hello Patrick Fennell,
I have followed former North Adams State Representative and GREEDY registered Beacon Hill lobbyist Daniel E. Bosley since 1998 when he battled with my dad, Bob, about the state's abolishing and taking over Berkshire County Government back then. Rep. Bosley said in the local newspaper in the Summer of 1998 that the sooner that Berkshire County Government is abolished the better. My dad was quoted in the local newspaper that Rep. Bosley's words were "reprehensible". I emailed Rep. Bosley back in the Summer of 1998 and I told him that he was being mean to my dad. Rep. Bosley emailed me back and said that it was not personal, and that he and my dad were only talking about politics. My dad was an elected Berkshire County Commissioner back then. My dad asked Rep. Bosley about Boston's "Big Dig" multibillion dollar cost overruns back then. I used to go to Beacon Hill legislative hearings with my dad, and my dad told them all off in Boston by saying that Boston's "Big Dig" project costs tens of billions of state government dollars, while Berkshire County Government's fiscal year budget was 2.5 million. My dad said to the Boston Pols that he could run Berkshire County Government for 5,000 years with all of the billions of taxpayer dollars they were spending on Boston's "Big Dig". Then State Representative Marty Walsh scolded my dad and I, and he told us that Boston's "Big Dig" is "an engineering marvel". All of these decades later in 2021, I wish I could tell President Biden's U.S. Secretary of Labor Marty Walsh that Boston's "Big Dig" killed multiple innocent people over the years, leaks millions of gallons of dirty water everyday, will only last around 50 years, will eventually submerge into the Atlantic Ocean, and cost state taxpayers over $20 billion and counting. That is NOT an engineering marvel, Marty Walsh, who was a Massachusetts State Representative on Beacon Hill, a corrupt Mayor of Boston (who helped my "Enemy #1" Andrea Francesco Nuciforo Junior open a marijuana dispensary in East Boston over Veterans and minority applicants), and now works in the cabinet of the Biden Administration that is failing the working class with 30 to 40 year high inflation, which is worse than any federal tax.
Rep. Dan Bosley's public record on Berkshire County Government was that he, along with Nuciforo, abolished it in the fiscal year 1999 state budget via a budget rider with an end date of June 30, 2000. He and "Luciforo" put Pontoosuc Lake, which sits in both Pittsfield and Lanesborough, into a state accounting agency for two years from July 1, 2000 to June 30, 2002, before the state put into the Department of Environmental Management. There are seven county governments (out of 14 counties) left in Massachusetts, but none left in Western and Central Massachusetts. Franklin County has a regional government in place of its county government. Nuciforo ran for the old county government post of Pittsfield Registrar of Deeds in 2006 after having to leave the Massachusetts State Senate for illegally double dipping as Chairman of the State Senate Finance Committee and at the same time being a corporate Attorney for Boston's big banks and insurance companies. How Nuciforo never face criminal charges for breaking so many state laws back then boggles my mind, except that he is well protected by his powerful political connections. Daniel Bosley ran for Berkshire County Sheriff against Pittsfield Police Detective/Officer Tom Bowler in 2010, and Dan Bosley lost to Bowler in the Democratic Primary election that year. Dan Bosley filed state "ethics" complaints against a few state government workers in the Berkshires who opposed his campaign and instead supported Bowler. The irony of Nuciforo (2006) and Dan Bosley (2010) running for former county government posts is that they railed against Berkshire County Government when my dad was trying to defend it back in 1997 and 1998. Also, Nuciforo filed multiple state "ethics" complaints to multiple state agencies in both Pittsfield and Boston from the Fall of 1997 to the Spring of 1998 against my dad when he (Bob Melle) was a Berkshire County Commissioner and worked in the Pittsfield District Court Probation Office back then. Nuciforo and Dan Bosley both filed respective state "ethics" complaints against state workers who opposed their political "work" on Beacon Hill to intimidate and retaliate against state workers who opposed them. The irony of Nuciforo openly saying he enjoyed to file state "ethics" complaints against state and local workers in Massachusetts is that Nuciforo himself was one of the most unethical politicians on Beacon Hill because he was in bed with Boston's financial district from 1999 to 2006, according to the Boston Globe. Nuciforo and Dan Bosley were both fiscal conservatives who "worked" for Boston's big business interests on Beacon Hill, despite being elected in the mostly rural Berkshires and beyond in Western Massachusetts.
Towards the end of Dan Bosley's 24 year long run on Beacon Hill, Daniel Bosley filed "The Bosley Amendment", which was a secretive budget rider to State House legislation to give Boston's big businesses billions of dollars in state tax breaks that would have upended the Massachusetts State Budget. "The Bosley Amendment" was quickly defeated, and Dan Bosley faced heavy criticism by his Beacon Hill colleagues and The Boston Globe alike. Dan Bosley is now a registered lobbyist of Beacon Hill - along with Peter Larkin and Stan Rosenberg, et al - and he makes a 6 figure salary by shaking down Beacon Hill lawmakers for huge tax breaks and favorable legislation for his Boston area wealthy big business clients. On top of that Dan Bosley collects at least one, or possibly two state pensions, along with his public perks, as a retired Beacon Hill lawmaker. I write to Daniel Bosley that Massachusetts state taxpayers should pay him directly instead of paying the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. It would be most efficient for everyone involved.
The irony of it all is that Dan Bosley's GREED on the backs of Massachusetts taxpayers has nothing at all to do with North Adams, Massachusetts, which is the poorest community in the Commonwealth. That leads me to the Massachusetts State Lottery bragging about its most profitable fiscal year on record that went from July 1, 2020 to June 30, 2021. The Massachusetts State Lottery is a total SCAM against the financially illiterate working class and underclass people of the Commonwealth that pays them pennies on the dollar. The lottery is really only a financial scheme of voluntary regressive taxation that substitutes would be progressive state taxes on big business and wealthy property owners for voluntary regressive state taxes on millions of uneducated and disadvantaged people who don't know they are being taken advantage of by the corporate and ruling elites. Dan Bosley knows all of this, but he is on record defending the state lottery from the casino gambling industry during then Governor Deval Patrick's administration, which passed into state law casino gambling in Massachusetts. Daniel Bosley's public record on public financial policies are for inequity in favor of the wealthy, yet he represented North Adams in Boston for 24 years, which meant that he has enriched himself at the public trough since the mid-1980s by screwing over the proverbial Kapanski family that blogger Dan Valenti writes about day in and day out.
Lastly, Dan Bosley writes countless op-eds in Western Massachusetts newspapers praising PAC Man Richie Neal, who really only represents corporate lobbyists on K Street in Washington, D.C., which critics sarcastically say is the real Capitol Hill. To Daniel Bosley, there is God and Richie and GREED!
Best wishes,
Jonathan A. Melle
