eric schwaab – gary lopez – john julius – a year of ufo-style conspiracies, frivolous lawsuits, libel, slander and wasted energy

September 16, 2007 at 7:54 pm | In barnstable, barnstable charter commission, barnstable town council, cape cod living, cape cog, capeCOG, capecodliving.com, capecog.com, charter comission, citizens for, citizens for open government, cog, council, eric schwaab, eric schwaab precint 3, eric schwaab town council, eric schwab, eric scwab, eric shwaab hyannis, gary lopez, hyannis, john julius, jon julius, municpal politics, open government, politics, precinct 3, schwaab, schwab, scwaab, taryn, taryn thoman, team, thoman, town council, town council precinct 3, town of barnstable, www.capecog.com | 7 Comments

This and the past few posts have focused on Eric Schwaab and his candidacy for town council in precinct 3.  The motivation is simple.  This man represents a small group of angry and destructive gadflies who call them selves COG.

He states the following on his blog: 

“I hope to restore some semblance of sanity to our Town Council.  My friends at CapeCOG drafted me for this position and I hope you will allow me an opportunity to introduce myself. I’d like your vote for the 3rd Precinct. I’d like to represent your best interests before the Town Council.”

Their plan is one they are proud of.   Schwaab, who bought a summer home in Hyannis three years ago, would change his voter registration from Brighton to Barnstable, then at the same counter pull papers to run for charter commission and town council in a seat with an incumbent considered vulnerable.

Luckily, a local guy, Mike Hersey, has also thrown his hat in the ring and we can only hope that in the preliminary election on Tuesday residents of precinct 3 will show Mr. Schwaab that they won’t fall for the act and Gary Lopez and the COG group has put together.

 According to people who have met Schwaab at the door when he went door-to-door, Schwaab claims that the town is allowing asbestos filled water into their precinct and it is harmful to the area’s children and elderly.  That is not true.  That is not legal.  There are measures in place to test the water and prevent this.

 Schwaab also says he will make changes at the airport — a promise that can’t be kept unless this charter commission puts a question on the ballot that would bring the airport under the town’s management.

He says he will lower the property taxes? How will he lower them any further now that the residential exemption is in effect? 

Let’s not forget that he dodged that extra tax when he was still registered to vote and claimed his primary home was in Brighton.  The town was sending tax bills to his address in Hyannis, not knowing that they were forwarded to his home in Brighton and he was not charged the residential exemption.

He touts that as more proof that the town is somehow inept. But, when the town caught on to this, he had gone for TWO years getting that tax break that he should not have received, and he didn’t bring it to the town’s attention. If he claims he did, then he is demonstrating his ability to comfortably twist the truth like his friend Gary Lopez.

On his blog he responds to the charge that he is blatantly carpet-bagging by explaining that his condo in Brighton is his home office…. meaning he works out of his home….. in Brighton….  A home office is an office set up in your HOME.  Will he go home to work and come her to sleep?

The bottom line is that the group that recruited him called COG is run by Gary Lopez, a gadfly who wrote angry letters to the editors and showed up at meetings — until he discovered the blogging tool.

His blog has brought together people like John Julius, Eric Schwaab, Peter Doiran and others who spend hours spinning conspiracy theories, filing unsuccessful an wasteful lawsuits against the town that cost each and every tax payer money to attend to, they send John Julius and Peter Doiran to the Town Council meetings to rant and rave and throw out accusations, and they orchestrated a very public, very hateful, recall attempt against me because they disagreed with a vote I took.

Members of that group have now created websites about me full of incredibly sick accustations , with photos of my face on Osama Bin Ladin’s head language that embarasses any decent human being, that have many wondering about the levels of sanity among the members of COG.

This group has never actually tried to work with people in the town. Julius and Lopez were each invited to discuss issues and numbers at various times and each declined.

Schwaab claimed to be involved in committees during the purchase of the water company in Hyannis, but no one remembers him being at public hearings and workshops, and he would have had to have been a full time resident to serve officially.

Gadflies are present in every level of government. They are important, they are necessary and occasionally they can be credited for righting wrongs.  I was one myself before I ran. 

But gadflies like the COG group are more destructive than constructive.  The try to convince us that despite the good news about our bond ratings, and the recognitions we get locally and nationally, we are all corupt.  This group has accused me of accepting bribes and stealing money.  This group has continuously hurled visceral insults at good people. They attack family and appearances, they post personal and private information about those they attack; they stoop to levels that will bring any discussion to the gutter level.

This group will always have a new conspiracy to report.

This group recruited and is supporting Eric Schwaab, the fellow from Brighton with the dog and no true, clear, understanding of what life is really like for us who have one true home in BArnstable and who stick it out all four seasons. 

Schwaab state’s “I’d like to represent your best interests before the Town of Barnstable.” How can he do that when he doesn’t know us well enough to understand what those best interests are. 

Please vote for Mike Hersey or Jim Munafo this Tuesday Sept. 18th.  Let’s send Mr. Schwaab and his dog back to his home office and his wife in Brighton.

check out related posts:

 http://sevenvillagesblog.com/2007/09/15/part-ii-schwaab-lots-of-promises-that-demostrate-the-truth/

http://sevenvillagesblog.com/2007/09/12/eric-schwaaba-lesson-in-irony-and-contradictions-homework-grade-incomplete/

 http://sevenvillagesblog.com/2007/08/15/hipocracy-would-you-vote-for-this-man/

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  1. HELLO,
    I started reading Gary Lopez’s blog or Web site or however you call it for fun a few weeks ago after my wife found it on the Barnstable Patriot site.
    I thought it was funny at first.
    But they are an angry sick group, the stuff they write is disturbing and the fact that some of them actually sign thier names is scary!
    If Eric Schwaab is one of them I am very worried.
    He came to our door and we thought he was very pleasant. When I read all of this Blog stuff I realize he was pleasant in a POSIONOUS lizard kind of way – watch out for the bite.
    This is really bad news because most of those people living around us don’t read these blogs or Web sites. They don’t know that he is connected to the sick group and the scary stuff they right. They are so crazy mean and I am very unhappy for you that the Barnstable Patriot put a link to their site on their newspaper as if it is some place where there is important information.

    Comment by sickofnutjobs — September 17, 2007 #

  2. Janet
    I read Lopez’s Blogger’s version of “STAR” magazine the other day and he said that you were visiting his site and that he could tell that you were because there was an address that he clicked on in his logs or something that led back to your blog.

    I know you are always saying that you don’t want people to go to those blogs and wondered how he has that link in his records or logs or whatever it’s called.

    He also gave a lot of information about Atsalis properties and what they pay in taxes for business properties and maybe even personal properties. On Taryn Thoman’s blog with your face on Bin Ladin’s head, she threatened to expose your family’s tax payments or something, I can get the quote for you if you want me to.

    So it looks like she followed through on her threat by having Gary Lopez post that on his “hate blog.”

    These people are just a small group of idiots. People who have seen these blogs once go back to see what sick stuff they are doing now.
    They all seem to gather around a need to hate and attack others. My wife likes to talk about what might drive them psychologically.

    You are doing a good job! Swat the gadflies away and keep doing what you’re doing.

    les

    Comment by lesrmore — September 20, 2007 #

  3. I was wondering if you would provide us the list you were talking about at the meeting last night by putting it on this blog or on your Web site?
    John Klimm was reading from a list of things that have to be done if they want you to vote for the new terminal.

    Thanks

    Comment by rck1957 — September 21, 2007 #

  4. Where was John Jules our us last night?
    Where was Eric Schwab and Taryn Thoman the new dynamic duo or lying Lopez?

    Comment by rck1957 — September 21, 2007 #

  5. les -
    No, I can’t visit lopez’s website, it makes me ill. That people are capable of such hate and filth is sad.

    But, a link on a blog’s logs is not going to lead you back to the computer visitor’s computer, or website.

    If he is finding links in his blogs that come to my site, then it must have been a refferer

    Logs and statistic programs are fairly sophistcated and can tell you where a vistor has come from.
    Specifically, without knowing or identifying who your visitors are, statistics can track and provide the a link to the website a visitor was before they came to your site.
    Most referers are from links someone has put on a website leading to a site.

    But, referrers can be misleading. If lopez was led right to my site, that means that someone was at my blog, then either used a bookmark, or typed in his address directly going from one site to another. I don’t think I have any links to his site anymore – if I do then it is in a much older post.

    SO — no — I wasn’t clicking into and around his site, and a referer that clicks back to my blog means someone is looking at reason before viewing entertainment.

    Someone said recently,”I had to read lopez’s site, it is sort of like a car crash, you don’t want to look, but curiousity gets the best of you.”

    Thing is, in the end if the wreck is bad most people wish they had never looked…..
    jj

    Comment by JSJ — September 21, 2007 #

  6. HEY!
    You are editing the comments a little too much!
    You cut a paragraph. Please let this go on the comments.

    You need to know that those sick blogs your good friend Taryn Thoman keeps making up and putting on the Internet just shows us all how messed up these people are in the soul. She obviously has some serious issues that worry me about your safety though.

    I also think you should start thinking about suing some of these idiots.

    Comment by lesrmore — September 21, 2007 #

  7. This is all just so wrong. Why don’r we read about this stuff in the paper? Do reporters know this stuff and do they care?

    Why can people like this run for office and only those of us who are willing to burn a little shoe leather find all of this stuff out?

    I am sending you an email with scanned copies of something I found yesterday.
    rck

    Comment by rck1957 — October 13, 2007 #


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