Barrios Leaves GLAAD Under Cloud

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Barrios leaves GLAAD amidst controversy
By Andy Metzger
Cambridge Chronicle
Posted Jun 21, 2011 @ 06:20 PM
Last update Jun 21, 2011 @ 09:36 PM

Barrios Quits as Human Services Lobbyist


Barrios exits the revolving door of Massachusetts politicians and human services providers to become an advocate for "the equality of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people." ("Barrios resigning as head of Blue Cross foundation," Boston Herald, June 17, 2009) Will GLAAD work to allow non homosexuals to become FBI agents? Homosexuals currently have an unequal opportunity in that all-homosexual US agency. Will Barrios work to allow non-homosexuals in the all homosexual City government of Cambridge and at the all homosexual MA state house too?

Barrios leaves the city and state where life imitates art. Animal Farm is acted out where formerly oppressed homosexuals are now the oppressors. This guarantees success for Barrios.

His new position is appropriate. He brings his $500,000 campaign fund which he can use to explore new elective offices. He can concentrate on his own career. Non brain dead people know not to criticize homosexuals in this country.

Discrimination against homosexuals in this country has gone underground.
Homosexual organizations and their useful media idiots bully anyone who speaks against homosexuals as gods and goddesses. Criticizing homosexual government and media abuses bring the wrath of the GLAAD. Now GLAAD has the King of Mass homosexuals as its leader.

In 1999 when he was first elected to the MA state house I requested his help with a bill I wrote to create protections for human subjects used in medical experiments. I told Mr. Barrios that the reason for so many abuses of vulnerable persons was the failure of government to enforce discrimination laws for persons with disabilities. Mr. Barrios said to me, "I'm not going to change the world." Then he got up and walked away. He consistently ignored the needs of persons with disabilities during his tenure as an elected official of all the people. He continued this attitude while working for the human services lobbyist as President. With no executive experience Barrios was appointed to lead a MA foundation. Is he another of the chief executives who run corporations into the ground and then get enormous bonuses for destroying the company?

On one occasion after I criticized him publicly he used his position on the Homeland Security Committee of the state to have their agents follow me and harass me. For Cambridge that is par.

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Barrios resigning as head of Blue Cross foundation
By Boston Herald staff
Wednesday, June 17, 2009

Puppies, Ken Reeves and Jarrett Barrios

Not only is Harvard taking food out of the mouths of babies, they also take curing drugs and health care away from babies and puppies. Ken Reeves forgot that. The City Council has no power to force Harvard to take a pay cut. They do have the power over their own pay. Each coucilor could take a 50 percent pay cut and hire two or three workers at Harvard. Think about how good it would make these councilors feel if they knew that their money was paying Harvard employees to clean the halls of Veritas Universty and to keep the paths clean for the students, faculty and administrators. What a great legacy for these altruistic city councilors who always act to benefit others. They are so dedicated to the public good that one wonders if they ever eat a decent meal, and if they have heated homes in the winter. What do they do with all their campaign contributions? When Cambridge altruistic state senator Jarrett Barrios retired to his $100,000/year lobbyist position he had $500,000 in his campaign account. Will Barrios hire any of the laid off workers?

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City Officials Decry Harvard Staff Cuts
Published On Tuesday, April 07, 2009 1:05 AM
By DANELLA H. DEBEL
Harvard Crimson Staff Writer

T Fares Fund Roads?

T Fares Fund Roads?

Retiring Senator Jarrett "Barrios said that much of that [MBTA] debt
actually resulted from the Big Dig." Huh? (Marie Szaniszlo, "Barrios, Wolf urge
state to cover debt, thwart more T fare hikes," Boston Herald, June 08, 2007)
This is rational transportation policy? Two Democrats lament
counterproductive policy mandated under the one-party system in Massachusetts.
Rather than promoting mass transit for energy savings, and for saving the
environment, the one-party government in Massachusetts places the financial
burden of funding the $15 billion boondoggle road project on the users of mass
transit. That makes sense if you want to encourage vehicle usage and to
discourage mass transit usage.
Underlying the irrational Democratic policies is that there is more money
to
be made by pouring taxpayer funds into the MBTA pit. Using government agencies
to make money for criminal organizations is the new pattern of government in
this country. This is like using appropriations for gambling addiction to build
casinos.
Is this a surprise for Barrios and Wolf? Did they just learn about
the abuses? Where have they been all of these years? Why is the rest of the
legislature silent on these abuses?

Roy Bercaw, Editor ENOUGH ROOM

Barrios,Wolf urge state to cover debt, thwart more T fare hikes
By Marie Szaniszlo/Boston Herald
Boston Herald
Fri Jun 08, 2007, 06:21 PM EDT
Boston -

Some of the MBTA’s harshest critics yesterday urged state lawmakers to support
two bills that would relieve the T of most of its massive debt, one reason why
the transit agency has doubled fares over the last seven years.

Senate bill 2029 and House bill 3694 call for the state to pay $2.9 billion
- or about $280 million a year - of the T’s $5.1 billion in debt, which
according to T officials would otherwise cost the agency $8 billion to pay off
over 30 years. In return, the bills, filed by state Sen. Jarrett T. Barrios and
Rep. Alice K. Wolf, both Cambridge Democrats, would limit future fare increases
to the rate of inflation.

“Without doing this, the cycle of fare increases will continue,” Lee H.
Matsueda, a community organizer at The T Riders Union, said at a press
conference before a hearing on the bills. “And that injustice needs to end.”

[...]

Senator Fluff Keeps Us Safe?

Senator Fluff Keeps Us Safe?

Cambridge and Harvard Senator Barrios is the chairman of the state legislature's Public Safety Committee. We read about serious negligence, malfeasance at the Medical Examiner's office. It is the latest in a long history of problems in that office, which is under the jurisdiction of the Public Safety Committee. What is the reaction from the chairman? We read about his expertise as a nutritionist in the Cambridge Chronicle in a full page spread. We read about his new bill to keep toxic waste away from young people. We read about his work for same sex marriage in Massachusetts. Is it any wonder why there is no scrutiny of police abuses in the Commonwealth? Why did Traviligni appoint this real estate lawyer to the public safety position?

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Roy Bercaw, Editor
ENOUGH ROOM
Cambridge MA USA



Honcho orders corpse clearout within 2 weeks
Boston Herald
By Laura Crimaldi and Tom Mashberg
Saturday, March 17, 2007

After months of inaction, the state medical examiner’s office has embarked on an urgent top-to-bottom effort to clear decomposing corpses from its cramped premises under stern orders from the Bay State’s chief public safety official. [...]

Real Estate Expert on Crime

Real Estate Expert on Crime

The essay on rising crime among youth indicates the fanciful result of appointing a real estate lawyer to be chairman of the Public Safety Committee. (Jarrett Barrios, "Mass. voters give mandate for smart-on-crime policies," Boston Herald, November 19, 2006) For many years criminal justice experts (e.g., John DiIulio, Princeton University; Heritage Foundation "The Breakdown of Marriage, Family, and Community") knew that the rising numbers of youth growing up with one parent and without an authority figure would become a serious crime issue ten years later.
We are now ten years later. Massachusetts's Public Safety Chairman is unwilling or unable to recognize that. It is politically incorrect to suggest that one parent families may be a cause of violent crime among youths.
The Harvard politician blames the gun industry. Facts show that more legal guns in the city reduce the amount of violent crime. But facts never got in the way determining nonsensical policy for Barrios. He should spend more time on criminal justice issues than promoting the flawed same sex marriage court decision. And the reason Travaligni appointed Barrios to that post is what?
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Roy Bercaw, Editor
ENOUGH ROOM
Cambridge MA USA

Mass. voters give mandate for smart-on-crime policies
By Jarrett Barrios
Boston Herald
Sunday, November 19, 2006

Our next governor, Deval Patrick, will not have 30-second sound bites, but four, long years to deliver on the many promises of this campaign, including the pledge from all political camps to make Massachusetts safer. For urban youth, who are so often the victims of violence, action could not come soon enough. In many parts of Massachusetts, particularly among urban youth, crime has increased.
It also has become increasingly violent. According to the FBI, Massachusetts has become the most violent state in the Northeast due to an explosion in youth violence over the last four years. In 2005, there were more than 600 shootings in Boston, up from 341 in 2004.
Most startling is the age of victims: High-school-age teens comprised more than 50 percent of shooting victims, according to a report on youth violent crime prevention published by the Boston City Council last year.
From shootings at Charlestown High School to three men age 23 and under walking into a South Boston housing development last week and fatally shooting a man, youth gun violence is out of control. As Gov.-elect Patrick begins to focus on his policy priorities, he has said he wants to go deeper than just gimmicks.
I believe that will mean he - like all of us - will have to answer this question: Why this rise in gun-involved youth violence at a time when crime in general is falling? One of the biggest contributing factors to gun violence is the babbling brook of illegal ballistics flowing into the commonwealth. Where guns are easy for kids to get, they will use them in their crimes.
In 2005, Boston seized 797 guns, a 35 percent increase from 2004. Further, most illegal guns are obtained through straw purchases from outside Massachusetts. Straw purchases occur when one person, who will pass the background check, travels to a state with loose gun laws - such as Pennsylvania, Virginia or Georgia - and buys several guns at one time, then distributes them on the black market. So what can be done?
First, we need Congress to modify federal laws that hamper state and local governments’ efforts to trace straw purchasing for illegal use in conjunction with the Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms’ National Tracing Center database. In Massachusetts, we can make the sharing of ballistics reports between the local and state police mandatory.
Creating a large crime-scene ballistics database will assist in linking crimes and criminals - something even National Rifle Association members would support. More information means easier prosecutions of gun-sales middlemen. Pre-election polling showed voters were unpersuaded by the tough-on-crime message.
It means the public has caught on that quick-fix sound bites are no-fix solutions. Far more important, this turn of voter sentiment portends a turn toward more effective crime policy. A governor bolstered by a mandate for change, a Legislature that has taken note of the political failures of Massachusetts-style “tough on crime” rhetoric and a public that expects policymakers to offer real answers - all the stars seem to be aligned for a real change from tough-on-crime rhetoric to smart-on-crime policies. Let’s get started.
Sen. Jarrett Barrios (D-Cambridge) chairs the state Senate’s Public Safety and Homeland Security Committee.

The Decision is a Fraud

The Decision is a Fraud

Jarrett Barrios calls the Governor a fraud. But the main fraud in this dispute is the Mass Supreme Judicial Court. (Charles A. Radin, "Romney directs his ire at legislators," Boston Globe, November 21, 2006) The state Constitution clearly states that matters regarding marriage are to be left to the Governor and to the legislature.
The Court did not have jurisdiction. But Barrios, a real estate lawyer, is no stranger to fraudulent claims. When he ran for District Attorney he had no experience as a prosecutor. He has no experience in criminal justice, yet he now heads the Public Safety Committee where he spends his time promoting a flawed same sex marriage court decision.
In Cambridge he ignores abuses of persons with disabilities while he claims that only minorities should vote on matters of civil rights for the minority. Barrios is the preferred packaged candidate as a celebrity with no substance.
His charm, looks and degree make him qualified for office, any office. And this differs from the qualifications of the Governor-elect how?
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Roy Bercaw, Editor
ENOUGH ROOM
Cambridge MA USA

Romney directs his ire at legislators
By Charles A. Radin,
Boston Globe Staff
November 21, 2006

Governor Mitt Romney yesterday sent a sharply worded letter and copies of the Massachusetts Constitution to state legislators who helped block a popular vote on a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriages, telling the lawmakers they are violating the constitution and frustrating the democratic process. On Nov. 9, the Legislature met in joint session as a constitutional convention and voted 109-87 to recess before taking a vote on whether to put the proposed amendment on the 2008 ballot.
Fifty "yes" votes would have been needed to put the amendment to a popular vote, which a record 170,000 citizens had signed a petition in favor of holding. "The Constitution plainly states that when a qualified petition is put before them, the legislature 'shall' vote," Romney said in a letter to the 109 who favored recessing. "Not 'may' vote . . . not 'could' vote . . . not 'perhaps' vote . . . It's very clear."
Romney aides said the governor based his assertion -- and a suit he intends to file this week with the Supreme Judicial Court -- on Article 48 of the state constitution, which contains the wording "final legislative action in the joint session . . . shall be taken only by call of the yeas and nays." The suit will ask the court to order that the amendment be placed on the ballot. The aides said the suit would be similar to one filed by proponents of universal health care, whose proposal also was not voted on at the constitutional convention.
Same-sex marriages have been allowed in Massachusetts since six months after the state's Supreme Judicial Court ruled in November 2003 that gays and lesbians have the right to marry under the constitution. The proposed amendment would withdraw that right. In addition to the copy of the constitution, Romney attached a copy of the legislator's oath of office to each letter, and concluded: "Those words meant a lot to me when I said them and I know they still mean something to you."
Supporters of equal marital rights for gays and lesbians reacted with scorn and sarcasm to the Romney letter and to the planned lawsuit, charging that the governor is playing national political games in his expected run for the White House. "He is a fraud -- this whole thing is a fraud," said Senator Jarrett T. Barrios of Cambridge, one of the legislators who voted to recess.
"It is a ploy for his run for president. The Legislature had rejected his efforts to insert discrimination into the constitution."
Arlene Isaacson , a leader of the Massachusetts Gay and Lesbian Political Caucus, said the letter "is a very clever and creative move. Because he has been rendered powerless in the current situation, his handlers need a vehicle to assert his right-wing credentials. . . . He needs to show his anti gay credentials across the country, and this will do it very effectively." The legislative leadership did not react to the letter or the planned suit.
Senate President Robert E. Travaglini did not return a call for comment, while a spokesman for House Speaker Salvatore F. DiMasi said, "The speaker is not going to respond every time the governor stages a cynical political ploy designed to impress right-wing Republican voters in primary states."
But supporters of a ban on same-sex marriage hailed the governor's actions, and his legal counsel said the precedents set by the court in the early 1990s pave the way for the court to order that the amendment be placed on the ballot if the Legislature refuses to act. "The governor is doing the right thing," said Edward F. Saunders , executive director of the Massachusetts Catholic Conference, whose bishops support the referendum.
"What is at stake here is the petitioning rights that the people have under the constitution. The [Legislature's] procedures are undermining the wishes of 170,000 citizens who indicated their wish to vote on this." Scott Helman of the Globe staff contributed to this report.
Charles A. Radin can be reached at radin@globe.com.

Name Calling Wins

Name Calling Wins

Same sex marriage is a question of law. The state court decision used to "legalize" it is flawed. The state constitution clearly states that matters regarding marriage are to be left to the Governor and to the legislature. The State Supreme Court has no jurisdiction. Quoting a math professor on this issue is like quoting me on economics. Robert Winter's feelings on this issue are meaningless. (CLIFFORD M MARKS, "Romney files lawsuit after legislators recessed before vote on issue," Harvard Crimson, November 26, 2006)
Are there no law professors at Harvard who are concerned about the lawlessness of the state government? Why not repeat that Harvard's Senator, Jarrett Barrios, called the Governor a "fraud," because he filed the suit. Now there's a rational argument. Calling the Governor names is why the same sex marriage decision should be enforced and protected from those inconvenient constitutional provisions.
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Roy Bercaw, Editor
ENOUGH ROOM
Cambridge MA USA

Romney files lawsuit after legislators recessed before vote on issue
Published On 11/26/2006 10:21:35 PM
By CLIFFORD M MARKS
The Harvard Crimson Contributing Writer

Outgoing Massachusetts Governor W. Mitt Romney announced last week that he would file a lawsuit with the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) in an attempt to put an amendment banning gay marriage to a statewide referendum. The state constitution requires that a quarter of the legislature’s 200 members approve an amendment in two consecutive sessions before it can be put to a popular vote, the final hurdle before becoming law.
However, because the measure would most likely have the support of 50 legislators, opponents have recessed the legislative session before the amendment could be voted on so as to prevent it from getting on the ballot. The motion to recess early, which needed the backing of a majority of legislators to pass, received 109 votes, including those of Cambridge’s three legislators.
The move came as no surprise to Robert Winters, editor of the Cambridge Civic Journal and an instructor at the Extension School. “I think they’re all lobbied extensively by certain people around town and the pressure they feel tends to come from the people who are very satisfied by going into recess the way they did.” If the amendment clears the legislature and receives the approval of a majority of state voters, Massachusetts would lose its status as the only state in the country to allow gay couples to marry.
Romney has said he hopes to get a ruling from the SJC that will either force the legislature to vote on the amendment or place the amendment on the ballot if the current legislative session expires on Jan. 2 without a vote on the amendment. Activitsts on both sides of the gay-marriage debate are now turning their attention to the SJC with little indication as to how it will act on Romney’s request.
“It’s anybody’s guess,” Winters said of the outcome. “I think anybody who claims to know how it’s going to be adjudicated is just blowing steam.” http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=515976