Wednesday, Nov 11: Mayor Jon Mitchell

Good morning. Good morning. Happy Veterans Day. We're broadcasting live from the Military Museum at Fort Tabor, and we're joined by the mayor of New Bedford, Mayor John Mitchell. Good morning, Mayor. How are you? Good morning, Chris. Great to be here, as always. We're glad to have you. Here on the show, but in a different setting. Yeah, I'm like Dean Martin walking around with this microphone. I see the resemblance. Yeah, you need a cigarette in your mouth, though. And a drink, right? And a drink, yeah. And a drink. So, Mayor, what's been happening in the city? Well, let me just say first off that I want to thank you and the station for hosting the show on Veterans Day here at Fort Tabor, Fort Rodman Military Museum, which is a real gem of a place. In any case, if you... If you haven't been down here in a while, if you've never been, I encourage you to come down. Best if it's Veterans Day or Memorial Day, but really any day. It's a... In the summertime, it's great because you can go to the beach and it's right there. And then, of course, there's the fort itself that you can check out. And one of the great parks on the East Coast with great views. It's such a great, it's a terrific. It's a compelling setting, but the museum itself is really a tribute to those who've served from Greater New Bedford in wars going all the way back to the Revolutionary War, going all the way back to King Philip's War, right to the present day, and you can't help but come through here and feel like not only great pride for your country, but also great pride for the city. The New Bedford... I think justifiably styles itself, and I firmly believe this, as a very patriotic place. It has given so much to this country and vice versa, and so much of it's on display here. And so it's fascinating. It's one of these places where if you really want to learn, it requires more than one day here. There is a tremendous amount of content. I hear about those who served and their connection both to New Bedford as well as their military. experiences. So come on down and check it out and make you feel proud for your country and proud of your city as well. We're broadcasting, as the mayor said, live from the Military Museum. Come on down. So, of course, today is Veterans Day and the Veterans Day Parade. You'll be you'll be participating in that, Mayor. Yeah. And I have to leave early to get to that. We're going to get up to Buntwood Park and it steps off at 11, as it always does, goes right down Union Street downtown. There will be a reviewing stand right in front of City Hall. And, uh, as it's, as has been the tradition and, um, we, we, uh, we look forward to that today. So, uh, the more you turn out, the better it's, as I've said before, so many times before and it bears repeating, it's paraphrasing a famous observation from, uh, attributed attributed to George Washington, that the ability of any nation to To fight future wars is directly proportional to the way that it treats veterans of earlier wars, right? If we show the reverence they deserve, it says something to everybody else, particularly children, about... How important it is to stand up for one's country. So that if there's, and by the way, it's a really nice day outside. So you're not going to be standing out there in the pouring rain. So many reasons to get out there and take a few minutes and pay tribute and express your gratitude. We're here at the Military Museum at Fort Tabor in the city of New Bedford with the mayor of New Bedford. As he said, he's going to get out of here early, so we're going to get right to business. Mayor, the big business going on is this ordinance for automatic license plate reader technology in the city of New Bedford. How's that being received by the city council so far? I think you would have asked them. I hear it straight from the horse's mouth. I guess what I've heard is... I think the counselors I've spoken to directly and the counselors that are police chiefs and others in my administration have spoken to is that it's a good step in the right direction. It's a very strong step in the right direction. I think it could be a, as I said. Previously on your show, I think it could be a model ordinance nationally for the reasonable use of license plate readers because it allows law enforcement to use it for its core purposes, and that is to investigate crime and separately to track down missing people. Missing people include not just... Children who might be abducted, right, those are extreme cases, they're real. But also, more commonly, the so-called silver alerts. When you have somebody who is elderly and may be experiencing some degree of dementia, Thank we see it here in the city where they leave, they drive off, they may not know where they're going, and we want to be able to track them down too. you License plate readers are really effective at that. So we need to have those core capabilities in place, very but at the same time ensuring that... At once, not just anybody can do the searches. much. It has to be trained officers who are closely supervised. That data is not going to be retained indefinitely, but for a very short period of time unless the data has to be preserved for a court case. And then even beyond that, there has to be some level of auditing that's done from time to time. In this case, under the statute, it's yearly with monthly reviews. And that there are restrictions on sharing, that the vendor can't go sell the data to somebody else. And in addition to that, when law enforcement. Asks for the information they have to establish, what our officers have to establish, which is that it's for a criminal investigation order to try to find somebody. So I think the statute, the ordinance that we proposed does all of those things, and I hope the city council sees it the same way. The feedback that I've gotten from counselors ahead of time as well as after the filing has been. Largely positive, so we look forward to that discussion. Mayor, there's concerns about privacy. You see, it took... You seem to be concerned about that. Maybe I'm a little more cavalier about it, but I'm not really in the conversation at the city council level. Your license plate isn't a private item. I don't know where people are getting that from. But put people at ease about privacy. Well, I think there's some... So there isn't a constitutional issue, right? So people think, well, you might need a search warrant to discern, to read people's license plates. There isn't a reasonable expectation of privacy because they are displayed on your car, after all. So you can't say that they're private. It's like the same thing with a bumper sticker on a car or anything else you put on your car. Like in your case, fins. You put fins on your car. Something like that, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But whatever it is, it's there for people to see. I think where the privacy, some of this, I think, is just that people want to feel like they're not always being watched. There is, I think it was Louis Brandeis who said it, like, people need to feel like. They can be let alone. I think those are the words that he used and expresses sort of a general principle of privacy. I see. You know, there are limitations to it, and it's harder these days because of the march of technology that allows for not so much government, but government and private business to intrude in one's life. Um, there should be curbs on those things, even if they don't rise to constitutional, um, levels, even if the, even if under the constitution there, that even if under the constitution, they're permissible, there's still, um, and there are other examples of this that there's still, um, that need in my view to make sure that privacy. People's feelings of privacy are vindicated. I think what we put in front of the council does that. But, you know, we'll see how the conversation goes with with councillors. We have the mayor of New Bedford. Again, it's Veterans Day. He's going to be heading out to go to a parade. Mayor, it was last Wednesday was right after the election, but things hadn't really settled down yet. Your thoughts. How did New Bedford do as far as the take? The changes that happened at the federal level, is that good for New Bedford, in your opinion? The re-election of Governor Healey, all of that? Well, I think in general, I mean, it's not going to surprise anybody. I think I'm pleased with the turnover in Congress. I just think that Congress has not been a check on the presidency. And so, you know, And we've seen a president who's gone off to war all on his own whim. I think Yeah. Did it without, not just in violation of the War Powers Act, that's one but also did it in a way that wasn't well thought out. of the things I mean, we're kind of stuck in Iran right now because he made that we need a number of decisions that effectively painted the U.S. into a corner and are arguably worse off strategically today than we to do. were before the war started. In so far as we haven't, they still have their nuclear weapons. They still have this. Maniacal regime in place and they have greater confidence that they can control the Strait of Hormuz than they, greater confidence than they had before the war. So, and by the way, we've expended considerable munitions at a time when our stockpiles are very depleted. So these are all serious, serious, should be serious concerns for every American. And I think having... A Congress that, for instance, that can check the president in those areas is important, but there are lots of other areas. Immigration is an area where there's just no, whatever your feelings about it, it's hard to discern any kind of system in place, right? It's haphazard, and there's no sense of who can stay in the country and who has to go. So I think there's a real need for immigration reform. I think that'll... Talk of that will at least come up. I don't know whether they'll get passed while this president's in place, but I would certainly think that there'll be bills proposed that at once secure the border, but also give people more reasonable pathways towards citizenship and are clear on asylum and things like that. You could run the gamut on a whole host of issues, Medicare, SNAP benefits for people in need. A lot of folks in New Bedford lost out on those benefits, like literally thousands have lost out on SNAP benefits. SNAPs, of course, formerly food stamps. A lot of people were kicked off of those roles in the last year. And because of the big, beautiful bill that Congress passed, that the president proposed and the Congress passed, that affects people here for sure. Same thing with the changes to Medicaid. Those haven't really kicked in yet. They're supposed to kick in soon. And so you're going to see people struggling to get the kind of medical care they need. So these are things that I think In those two particular instances, I think there's something that Congress can do. Budget bills have to pass. And so restoring funding to those programs, I think, will be very, very important. So I use all these as examples. We could sit here for the next two hours and come up with lots of other policy sets That's where that we're That were affected by the change in Congress, but the sum total of it for to my mind is that this was an election that checked the president. I think it was absolutely necessary to do. And I think I'd rather not see us get mired in an impeachment hearing for the next two years because I think that'll just sort of frankly play into the president's hands because sometimes he likes to hold himself out as a victim and that'll give him that opportunity. But the reality is that I think, and I'll just say from my own party, I hope my own party doesn't conclude that the results of the election were all about. Democrats and not about a rebuke of the president because people think it's a warm embrace of everybody in the Democratic Party. I think that's a recipe for failure. So, but by and large, I do think that it was a good outcome for the city. Mayor, of course, with the Northeast, with the Democrats taking over the Senate, our two senators are both strategically positioned to be chairman, plus the two senators from Rhode Island will also be chairman, particularly one of the super committees, Armed Services, Senator Reid. I got to imagine that's all good for this area. I think so. I mean, it depends on how much, frankly, how much horse trading the president wants to do. In the first Trump administration... I'll give you an example of how it worked for New Bedford. In the first Trump administration, we were working on a port grant for the North Terminal area, just off of Herman Melville Boulevard. So, um... And we had applied two or three times. And the third time, and then we had a strong application. But what happens with those applications, those huge infrastructure grants? Thank you, Hanson. And the Department of Transportation is that they go through a scoring process and then the ones that score well go to the secretary's office. And that's where we're where politics comes into play. So you've seen in the last like recently, like we've missed out on on those same grants for Homer's Wharf because all those grants basically went to red states. And so that became very politicized. But back during the first Trump administration, Senator Markey. Got a call from then Secretary Elaine Chao and said, and who wanted at the time to, along with the president, wanted to curry favor with the Senate Transportation Committee, of which Markey is a member. And so she said to him, what's which grant? From Massachusetts is your priority. And to his credit, he said, New Bedford. Because I've been humming in his ear for a while about it. But he also saw the merits of it. And so that happened. We got $15 million from the federal government as a result. So he deserves credit for it. But it also, I think, was an instance where the Trump administration wanted to actually get some deals done with Democrats. In the last couple of years, we haven't seen much of that. And so... The president is very much a politician and I think, I hope he'd be more willing to cut some deals in the next couple of years, but it remains to be seen because that wasn't going on the last two years. So I use that again as a fairly specific example, Chris, of what some of the prospects look like and why having, you know. Chair people from, chairpersons from this state might matter, but it's really going to come down to whether the Trump administration wants to have that kind of back and forth with chairs of congressional committees or not. Mayor, we're going to get you out of here. It's about that time. Yeah, well, I got to go to the parade. So I'll be back. There's always next week, Chris. Yeah, there is. Yeah, I know it's a short visit for me. I hope everybody holds on their questions. But you can ask your questions by exchange. I hope to see you out at the parade today. Yeah, get on down there to the parade. Mayor, have a great day. Thanks, guys. Wear your sunscreen. Yes. Wear your sunscreen. That's a great idea. That's the best advice I've gotten today. We're going to take a break and then we'll be back with broadcasting live on Veterans Day from the Military Museum. Come on down. Back to Chris McCarthy and South Coast now on WBSN. Call 508-996-0500. Welcome back to the program. It's Veterans Day. We're broadcasting live from the Military Museum. I want to thank the mayor of New Bedford. He's off to the parade. You should be there, too, if you're able to be there. By the way, are you sitting on an investment property and you're ready to cash out? Lanigan & Company makes it look good on paper and even better at the walkthrough. Co-mingled utilities, low rents, problem tenants, you name it. 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And again, I'm fascinated by the fact that we have so many earners of the Medal of Honor in our region. Down here at the Medal of Honor, and you can actually see one here in the facility. It's under a very formidable case. Now, if you'd like to join us as we normally do, you can do it at 508-996-0500. You want to tell us a story about your military service, a family member's military service, we're happy to hear about it. Bill, you want to come up? Now that the mayor's gone, Bill, we're putting you back in position. And again, I appreciate the mayor being able to carve out some time for us. He's got big duties today all around the city of New Bedford. Our region, as the mayor pointed out, Bill, extraordinarily patriotic. We are loaded with veterans. That Medal of Honor display with nine local men who earned the Medal of Honor. And you were even telling us there are more in the region as well. Yes, there are more in the region. I think in Fall River and a few other places. I don't know how to say it. Some places just don't have the area to display the things. Okay. Okay. If you look around, there's not very many military museums. No, you're right about that. Okay, now we do have Battleship Cove, and they do bring up information on that. Again, they don't have an original or actual Medal of Honor, because they couldn't charge admission. Ah. Again, we keep coming back to that. There's no admission price here, in part because of the fact the law is. It's the law, right? Yes, it's the law. The law, it's a law or it's a regulation. Yeah, or a custom maybe. Yeah, and so that you cannot charge to see an actual Medal of Honor. Now, Battleship Cove has some replicas. So somebody says, well, I saw them at Battleship Cove. I says, those are not actual. Okay. Okay, so again, yes, they're really nice to see and things of that nature. But this was earned by a local individual. What other stuff down here, Bill, when people come down, what do they want to see? Some people come in the door and they just stop and just go. Well, you were kind of overwhelmed when you first come through the door. I mean, it's such an incredible display of patriotism. But what stuff is like around the corner that people need to seek out? On the left hand side, as you go into the older section, which is from 1904, the building, you go to the left. We have our armory and we have representations and or weapons dating back to the Revolutionary War all the way to present day. Okay, we have. We have a Mauser, 1893 Mauser that was actually used during the Spanish-American War on Cuba and was brought home by a gentleman. And that was, of course, so people know that's Teddy Roosevelt, the Rough Riders, all of that. Right. We have just about every, how would I say? Era of weaponry, World War II, World War I, Spanish-American War, the Indian Wars, as they were called. Just like we have, we have a bowler that was donated to the museum. A hat? Yes. Okay. And it's a derby. Yeah. And people go, well, why do you have a derby in there? And he says, do you realize that the cowboy hat was not the cowboy hat? I didn't know that. Explain. The Stetson didn't come out until 1897. Really? Really. If you actually, we have a picture below it and it's, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and the Hole in the Wall Gang, and all of them are wearing derbies. You know, when you're from the movie, I don't know how accurate it was, one of them did have a derby now that I think about it. But they almost all wore it. Look at the only picture-ability kid. What is he wearing? He's wearing a top hat. Yes, he is. He isn't wearing a Stetson. Stetsons weren't used. Stetson was an Army hat, okay? Bill, you're a collector of weapons. Yes. What would you say is the rarest weapon here in the museum? Um, is that the right way? Is that the great way? They're all they're all how would I say, put it rare in their own type. We have an Italian, excuse me, a Japanese gun, a weapon, a rifle that was made by the Italians for using the Japanese barrel, an Italian receiver, and a Japanese stock. Was this World War Two? Well, before World War Two. Okay, when they were going into China, they ran out of weapons. They were using the Type 38. Well, a gentleman brought this in and says, I have an Arisaka. And I looked at it as he opened it out of the plastic bag. I says, that is an Arisaka. He goes, well, what is it? I says, it's Japanese, but it's a Type I. Okay. And everybody calls it a Type I because they take the I as one. Okay. But it's Type I because it was made by the Italians. So there's all these different little things that come up, like the submachine gun or like... We have an M3, which has been de-milled, which is the grease gun, which was used in armored vehicles. And that was made to take the place of the Thompson. We do have a Thompson in our cabinet on the newer side during Vietnam. A Thompson from Vietnam? Well, I don't think it's from Vietnam. I think it's actually a replica. Okay. I haven't gone through every gun in the place, but... How many are here, roughly? A hundred and somewhat. That's a lot of weapons. Yep. We have two replicas M60s. One is a regular M60, the pig. And the other one's a stinger, which actually has the butterfly for the helicopter. Instead of the trigger pull like a pistol grip, it has a butterfly on the back like an M50 Cal does. You know, I had to carry that around all through basic training. Yep, aren't they fun? Yeah. And now they don't even use them anymore. No, what do they use now? They use the 240s or the SAWS, the lighter with the 5.56. 508-996-005. We've got some people on hold. Good morning. You're on the air. Good morning. Is it Bill, your guest? Yeah, Bill's my guest, yeah. He's the president. Yeah, I'm a veteran, too, and I was over in Germany. I never get to talk to any veterans in that era, you know. What year was you in? Well, I was in Germany from all the way back into the mid-'70s all the way. I did 13 years total and all the way up, and I left there in 93. Oh, yeah, I was a little bit earlier. I was over there in 59, 61. The same area I heard you say, Grafenwoehr, I was out there. I was in the artillery, but I was stationed outside of Frankfurt, but we used to load up the guns. I was on the Howitzer, 12-inch Howitzer, and they used to load them up on the truck. I guess they were flatbeds, you know, on the railroad. We got them out there, time out there in that area, at the Czech border. I remember the woods were very, I enjoyed the woods, you know. I remember taking a walk in the woods, camp area, alone out there, you know, just the artillery. As I walked down the road, trail, you know, in the woods, came across the whole bunch of armored tanks all lined up too, you know. And I thought we were alone, but then I kept on walking by there. Then we hit the infantry in tents. We weren't alone, you know, on that border. Now, in Graf, you'd have 50,000 troops on, on Grafenwoehr at one time. Anywhere from French to Germans to Americans to airborne to artillery. Grafenwoehr is the only place where they used to be able to fire the Honest John missile on post. Really? Yeah, Grafenwoehr, I remember that was our... It's the only place we could fire our cannons. It was a big area there. Let me ask you, when you were there, what was your rank? Well, I started out as an E-1. I got there as a PFC. I went up to E6, and then I went down, took a break in service, and then went back down to E2 and went all the way back up to E6. Yeah, it was like a sergeant, wasn't it? Yep, staff sergeant. Yeah, yeah. Did you ever meet any person or anybody from your area that you knew? Well, I was in Germany. Yeah, I actually had a gentleman, a guy in my unit, Alex Plotman, who he was from just south of Boston. Um, so we've run around different people. Uh, you know, you've run into, you, you, you've run into people all over. I mean, the military is giant, but it's also small. Right. Of all the people I met, well, I met one, one guy from... I was kind of surprised. Guy named, his last name was Pacheco. And I was kind of surprised. And another guy, um, I worked, um, before I got drafted, I, uh, I was going to school and I was working at Juicy's Bakery part-time. And there was a guy there that I worked with, and he asked me if I wanted to join the service for the Army. At that time, there was like a buddy-buddy plan. If you joined with your friend, you could stay with him and all that stuff. At the time, I said no, you know. A couple of years later, I got drafted. And... See, back then you could add your choice, though. I know, yeah. He had his choice. He was an EMP. And when I was in Germany... I had to leave, I went into Frankfurt and I was walking down the street and a bus stops and here he comes, he gets off the bus and I said, oh my God, of all the people, you know, I was kind of surprised about that. Actually, I was down in Virginia, stationed down there and somebody kept on telling me about a female soldier who they said she was from Boston and had the same accent that I did. So one day I was at a mess hall at lunch and they says, oh, there she is. I said, oh, I heard you're from Boston. He goes, oh, no, I'm not from Boston. I said, where are you from? She goes, New Bedford. I said, yeah, because we tell people you're from New Bedford. They go, where? We're broadcasting live from the military museum. It's Veterans Day. We're going to take a break. We'll be right back. Stick around. This portion of programming on WBSN brought to you by South Coast Health, advanced medicine, more. What's one of your favorite memories? That's a tough question. 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And Bill had a long military career, mostly overseas in Germany, and then back here as well. And he worked in nuclear, biological, chemical warfare. And Bill, you got some interesting stuff here at the military museum. Yes, I was lucky enough to be able to pick up a couple of pieces of trinitite. Which is the residue left over from the first atomic bomb at the Trinity location. I actually donated one of my three pieces here to the museum. And we have it next to the model of the Enola Gay. So again, in that case it's a very interesting situation because we have a model of the Enola Gay piloted by Colonel Paul Tibbetts. And we have a B-29 bomber which was piloted by Colonel Paul Tibbetts, his grandson. That's wild. The Enola Gay, of course, for people that don't know, was one of the planes that delivered the atomic bomb to the Japanese. I almost used some World War II language there, and I wouldn't be allowed to be on the air anymore. So the museum is open today until 4 o'clock. Until 4 o'clock, yes, we are. And the amazing collection that you have here, we're talking about weapons. There's some people that want to speak with us, though, Bill, so let's go to the phones. Good morning. Thanks for holding. You're on. Hi, Chris. Good morning. This is Scott Lima, the old Ward 5 City Councilor. Hey, Scott. How you doing? Good, good. Nice to chat with you, and I'd like to say good morning to Bill. Good morning. Good morning, sir. I just tuned in a few minutes ago. I just wanted to call and honor a veteran. His obituary is on the Saunders Dwyer website right now. He's my cousin. His last name is Bulger, B-U-L-G-A-R. He just passed away six days ago, 101 years old. And he served. There's a nice picture of him on the Saunders-Wyer website with what appears to be a Coast Guard cutter, the hull of a Coast Guard cutter. You only see so much of it. And he served in World War II and actually came under Japanese fire in the Sea of Japan. It's all listed on his obituary here on the Saunders-Wyer website. I just wanted to call in and honor him. And then the other thing I wanted to point out to you, Bill, something very interesting. I haven't been to the Lloyd Center of the Environment in a long time. I used to go there a lot with my son. There's an observation deck at the top of the Lloyd Center of the Environment. And at the top of the environment of the observation deck, there's a set of binoculars. And you could look out to the islands in Buzzard's Bay. What's interesting about the binoculars is they're very large and they're stationary. And they look like ...a warship, and probably a Japanese warship. If I consider it an artifact, I just put it out there, because the script on it, all of the writing on it, looks like it's Japanese. None of it is written in English or anything else, and I'm just wondering if those binoculars are from a Japanese warship, but they're clearly military. They're huge. These were clearly on the ship, so they're mounted stationary, so you stand up and you can look out into Buzzard's Bay. So I just wanted to point that out to you. That's an interesting article. Yeah, I want to point something out to you real quick. If you want to honor him even better, we have the flags, the light for peace flags. I'm sorry. I just totally drew a blank there. We fly a flag every month for a different veteran who's passed away. Get a hold of Linda Ferreira. At Empire Ford and get her information and she will get it and she'll fill out the paper. It'll be put in the newspaper and the flag will fly for him for a month. Hey, that's fantastic. How do people do that? Actually, call Linda Ferreira at Empire Ford. Empire Ford, okay. And she'll try to get the information. She gets all the information. Thank We fly one every single month. The flag is there. Families can come down. We have it posted in our front hallway. you And she does a great job on doing a write-up. The write-up goes in the Standard Times. very And that's a way of honoring that person. And if you have a picture of him, could you please? much. Please go to like Staples and or Walgreens or whatever and have a five by seven made up of him and bring it down on a Sunday afternoon and we'll be gladly to put it up. All right. On a Sunday. Especially you said you... To the museum, if you bring it down to me, we're usually here on every Sunday. If you bring it down with his information, we will bring it in, and we will post his picture in the appropriate time frame. That's fantastic. Scott, we're really glad you called. Thank you. And tomorrow is his wake. I'll mention all of this to his family at the wake tomorrow, and then he's being buried at the National Cemetery on Monday. I thank you all very much, and it was a blessing. Thank you. That's former Ward 5 Council Scott Lima. Let's go. Should we take a break? All right. We're going to take a break. If you're on hold, stay there. We will get to you. Stick around. We'll be right back. We're broadcasting live from the Military Museum at Fort Tabor. Veterans Lake. Welcome back. It's Veterans Day. And where are we? We're at the Military Museum here at Fort Tabor in the south end of New Bedford. Come on by. You know, for 79 years, Carter's clothing has kept the South Coast covered from head to toe. I love shopping at Carter's. I know you do as well. And Carter's is still your go-to store. It is mine for top name brands in clothing and footwear. I just got a brand new Carhartt hat there. Ariat products. Timberland, Chippewa, New Balance, and more. You've got to check out all your opportunities at Carter's Clothing. And at Carter's, you'll find 75 styles of boots, including steel toe, insulated, waterproof, along with high-visibility workwear, flannels, and thermals If you work outside, you've got to shop at Carter's Clothing. Best of all, it's very efficient. There's free parking at both locations. 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