john byers running for MAYOR of MEDFORD

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John Byers Announces Mayoral Run

Medford man announces he will challenge Michael McGlynn in November.

June 28, 2011

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The following was submitted by John Byers. The statements made are opinion, and do not reflect the views Medford Patch:

Advocate for the disadvantaged and well-known sports enthusiast, John Byers II, has involved himself in Medford politics his entire life. 

"Michael J. McGlynn is a great guy, but as Mayor he's been absolutely tone-deaf to the needs of the disabled community" Byers said.

Byers can personally attest to that as he chose not to renew his membership to Medford Community Cablevision, Inc. after he read that McGlynn's own City Solicitor, Mark E. Rumley, dubbed TV 3 "Equal opportunity slappers" yet McGlynn's Administration failed to address the voluminous complaints that have filtered in to City Hall.  

"McGlynn is in his 24th year with no term limits, no well-funded opposition and City Councilors mocking him regularly and calling him 'King.'  The sense of fatigue around the entire city, McGlynn Fatigue...is extreme; the irritation to Medford voters so palpable you can almost touch it," Byers said.

Known as "John from Medford" as a frequent caller on 850 AM WEEI and 98.5 FM WBZ radio stations, Byers brought Damon Amendolara from 98.5 to TV 3 Medford and planned on interviewing Larry Lucchino until the station broadcast "Dirty Talk Live" and the city became a joke in the local broadcast television news media.

"Mayor McGlynn asked me why I didn't want to go back to TV 3 and failed to help me resolve the situation." Byers said. "I moved to a different station and interviewed Mr. Lucchino for my new show outside of the Medford City Limits...but why should residents have to go elsewhere when the Mayor has City Hall enjoying 3% of the franchise fee attached to your cable bill...and no accountability for the 2% he does give to public, educational and governmental access TV."

John Byers will accept no more than $30,000.00 salary as Mayor, and he challenges McGlynn to do the same.

"McGlynn brought home $141,296 last year," Byers said. "Over 24 years he has made well over a million dollars as Mayor, closer to two.  If we have to cut jobs at City Hall let's remove the person who is the 7th highest paid person on the government payroll in Medford."

Byers has a number of other issues he will unveil along the campaign trail.  If you believe in change, if you aren't afraid of a person who actually cares about you running the city despite having a handicap (and Byers cites John C. Curran, former Woburn Mayor, flourishing in Billerica as Town Manager as one example of the benefits of a person with a disability holding office), then vote John Byers on November 8th. 

If President Obama is Change You Can Believe in, John Byers is Change that Medford Desperately needs.

INSIDE MEDFORD


http://insidemedford.com/2011/06/29/byers-declares-candidacy-for-mayor/

MEDFORD TRANSCRIPT  HOTTEST STORY FOR 48 HOURShttp://www.wickedlocal.com/medford/news/x977386365/ELECTION-2011-John-Byers-runs-for-Medford-mayor#axzz1Qh06jv72


BOSTON.COM/MEDFORD THE BOSTON GLOBE RAN WITH THE STORY Byers candidacy for mayor

• So, ZoningLit, you're perfectly happy with the Mayor's tenure? Personally, I am glad that someone -- finally -- stepped up and decided to try to do something about it
 
• 
• – Jiggles

http://www.boston.com/yourtown/medford/

John From Medford on Visual Radio Friday Night June 10, 2011

Sports Talk with Johnny "The Kid" on WinCAM Winchester Community Access & Media
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7d8kqqOlIv4

Update coming soon

John Byers update coming soon

Friday morning 12:14 AM June 3, 2011

12:14 AM

The Boston Red Sox just finished a rough part of their schedule of 20 games in 20 days. They posted a record of 13-6.  They have two more instances on their schedule where they have a number of games without a day off.

 They will have another stretch of 20 games in 20 days beginning July 22nd through August 10.  They will have a day off on the 21st of July during that next stretch and their next day off won't be until August 11.

The good part about this is, 14 out of the first 20 games are at home and then they will have a 13 game in 13 days schedule which will begin August 30th through September 11 and that will start off with a series against the Yankees at home and end on the road with a series against the Tampa Bay Rays.  Hopefully, by the time we get to that portion of the schedule, the Red Sox will have clinched a playoff spot...or be close to clinching a playoff spot.

As Dice-K Matsuzaka, it's looking more and more like he's going to have Tommy John surgery.  This hurts him in two ways...he will have to go through rehab up until next season, and it just so happens that next year is his free agent year, so what team is going to want to take a chance on him after he's done with his contract with the Sox.

FOOTBALL NEWS
Adam Scheffter of ESPN Sports, one of their NFL insiders, reported that last week the owners and players got together in a secret meeting to discuss plans to take care of their problems ...involved in the meeting for the owners was Bob Kraft of the Patriots, Jerry Jones of the Dallas Cowboys and John Marra of the Giants.
Some good things came out of the meeting, but they're not disclosing what was said.  If all goes well, the season could start on time. 

Tune in for more updates and check out between 8:20- 8:30 PM tonight http://www.wincam.org

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Johnny Byers most recent appearance on Visual Radio May 27, 2011 with Jeff Dearman at WinCAM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=menIVoZNM_0&feature=channel_video_title

Happy Memorial Day

More to report later on what's happening with the Red Sox; Adrian Gonzalez just hit a home run at 7:33 PM and the score is 2-1 White Sox...

Jon Lester looks good...he gave up a couple of runs in the first inning but he's looking good.


John From Medford, Johnny "The Kid" Byers on 
WEEI Sunday

Yesterday, Sunday March 29, 2011 (a little before 5:30 PM), I was on WEEI with Butch Stearns talking about the Red Sox and the reason why Game 2 of the Doubleheader was available on NESN.  We also spoke about the Expo this past week where Stearns saw me talking to Charlie Jacobs.


BUTCH STEARNS WEBSITE
http://butchstearns.tumblr.com/

I was on the D.A. Show on 98.5 FM Tuesday (5/24/11) night talking about The Bruins.  I also appeared on
Visual Radio last Friday night with my new director/producer Jeff Dearman over at http://www.wincam.org

Jeff Dearman is known at TD Garden as "the dancing usher".

This blog will update on Thursday, June 2nd.  We'll have LOTS OF GOOD STUFF on the Boston Red Sox

PAST SOUNDBITES ON WEEI
http://audio.weei.com/a/2173958/john-from-medford.htm

Johnny on MASSHOLE SPORTS http://www.massholesports.com/2010/06/john-from-medford-has-his-own-tv-show.html

It was good meeting author Bob Hyldburg at the Expo last Wednesday
http://totalpatriotsbook.com/

COMMENTS on D.A. being on Johnny's previous sports show
http://boston.cbslocal.com/2010/03/02/da-on-john-in-medfords-cable-access-tv-show/

Update Friday Night May 27, 2011

Appearance on Visual Radio Live at 8:40 PM

Jeff Dearman co-hosted with John Byers tonight ...the sports segment.

We talked a little about the Red Sox, the Bruins and the upcoming sports show on WinCAM.

This is a new sports show with a very special guest who will help us launch the series in-studio.

Stay tuned.  We are going to be giving away books and we will ask some of the celebrities to give us some autographs on the merchandise for the audience.

Thank you for your patience as I rebuild my TV presence.    Specials thanks to the professionals at WinCAM.

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SPORTS UPDATE

The Red Sox had another great game tonight for the third game in a row...they had a 5 run innning for the third game in a row as well...and went on to win 6-3 against Detroit.  They have 2 more games with the Tigers and then they return home on Monday for a brief six game homestand against the White Sox and Oakland Athletics.

BRUINS WIN: HEAD TO STANLEY CUP!  Friday May 27, 2011
Good luck to the Bruins...in this bloggers view, they don't have a shot!

HERE's A LINK
http://espn.go.com/blog/boston/bruins/post/_/id/5714/rapid-reaction-bruins-1-lightning-0

Steve Pagliuca and Larry Lucchino chat with Johnny Byers

Steve Pagliuca,Managing Director of Bain Capital and co-owner of the Boston Celtics, gave a station I.D. to John Byers today while

Larry Lucchino, the current President and CEO of the Boston Red Sox, spoke with Johnny Byers at the N.E. Expo today.

We have some great footage of the breakfast roundtable and footage of Mayor Menino, a previous guest on Visual Radio.

More talk about the event on Visual Radio Live this Friday night at 8:20 PM 

http://www.wincam.org

The Home of public access!

We also found a Winchester resident at one of the booths at the event and interviewed him along with a Woburn author of a huge book on the N.E. Patriots.    We make great community programming that serves the public interest while broadcasting things of importance to those in Massachusetts who follow sports.