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Kenneth Woodland

Friday, December 21, 2012

LETTER: John DiMascio Responds to Councilor Woodland's Citizens United Letter

DiMascio denies any libel or wrongdoing in asserting that Woodland backed the measure to ask the Town Council to reverse the Citizens United ruling.

  • GOVERNMENT
  • Friday, December 21, 2012

  To the editor,   In his letter to the editor, District D Councilor and Law Student Kenneth Woodland, implies that someone has committed libel and slander when commenting on his involvement vis-a-vis the Citizens United Resolution which the Town Council wisely rejected. [Editor's Note: the Town Council did not vote on the resolution.] He accuses people promoting conspiracy theories about backroom arm-twisting. And then he threatens to prove his “legal skills.” These are the facts. I wrote a letter to the editor in which I said a group of people encouraged by Kenneth Woodland used a charter provision to bring this matter before the Council. The fact is; encouragement can take many forms. The Councilor supported the measure. Therefore to …

In this Article:

LETTER: Keeping Discourse Truthful When Considering Citizens United and Watertown Town Council Passes on Taking Stand on Reversing Citizens United Ruling

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Steven Cavaretta

10:25 am on Thursday, December 27, 2012

Tough to get anything straight when the historian keeps rewriting history. Now excuse me I have to go play the grand piano.   more ›

Wednesday, December 12, 2012

LETTER: Keeping Discourse Truthful When Considering Citizens United

Town Councilor Kenneth Woodland writes about the petition submitted to the Town Council about reversing the Supreme Court's campaign financing ruling.

  • GOVERNMENT
  • Wednesday, December 12, 2012

As many may have read over the past few weeks, a group of citizens have petitioned the Watertown Town Council under the rules and provisions of the Watertown Charter to consider action on the United States Supreme Court Case Citizen’s United.  Since then, efforts have been made by partisan groups in favor of the ruling to purposefully misconstrue the process in hopes that the mere notion of impropriety will sway the public to similar methods of thinking. I am writing in today simply to set the record straight. First and foremost, it should be clear that I, Ken Woodland, am not the driving force behind the initiative. Although flattered to be given credit for helping with guidance, I would do the same for any passionate group of citizens …

John DiMascio

4:07 pm on Thursday, December 13, 2012

Thanks for your concern Binders.... I'm not too worried about the Council being mad at me. Most of them didn't want any part of this silliness and that's why the voted the way they did. Notice that they didn't even debate the question after the public hearing. They just voted to send a letter telling the Beacon Hill and Congressional delegation, what they already knew or could have read in the …   more ›

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