PR firm just brought another award.
This time the School Super Org chose Margaret Driscoll !
Our taxpayer money is being well spent !
Is that the SC all star award mentioned previously? Or something else?
Same thing. This is the award that is arranged by MASC with help from our $800 a month PR Firm, paid by your tax dollars. It is given annually to the school committee chairs who exemplify everything an SC chair should NOT be; those that have acted in direct contravention to the best interests of the general student population. They alienate, intimidate and retaliate against the victims of harassment, bullying and civil rights related aggression by teachers, administrators and even city legal counsel. Sadly, the school committee members like Margaret and Rob honestly believe that their job is to cover up these crimes,and then retaliate against the victims, witnesses and complainants so that the complainants and thus, the problem will perhaps disappear. Their abhorrent behavior continues to costs tax payers millions of dollars a year in legal fees, settlement costs, student outplacement costs and of course, historic bad press for our city.
I challenge you to watch MMTV reruns, even the first 10 minutes of every meeting so that you can see Margaret beating up on our neighbors during public comment period. Any time someone brings up any valid point contradicting the party line or exposing the SC and school misadministration, Margaret starts harassing them. I challenge you to educate yourself on how Margaret, Rob and other SC members conspired to prevent Carrie Courkoumelis from obtaining information about the rampant civil rights violations within the school district, and then forced her off the committee by their persistent bullying tactics.
No these creeps did not "force" CKK off the school committee as she stood firm fighting for our community's children and taxpayers all through her six years, though they tried unsuccessfully to intimidate her with their constant bullying and outrageously illegal conduct. CKK had the integrity and grit to stand up to them at each and every juncture, and she finally stepped down when she could not continue to sit next to them as they broke one law after another. She has ethical backbone, class, and intelligence and always fought for the students, unlike the menaces like CT and MD whose fraudulent "awards" reveal the shameful lack of integrity of the SC and the MASC and MASS. Those bogus designations also point to the toxic environment in both the education world and the completely messed-up world of politics, nationally and local.
Now, MD as SC Chair can sign the checks !
Saint R couldn't care less about the real issues. She is part and parcel of the problem, totally embedded with these awful SC members and administrators. She gets to have her cushy job and ego-gratification of her "saintly" role thanks to them, so she certainly wouldn't rock their boat, even when it's her MAAV/MHS poster kids that are the drunkest, drugged partying loose cannons. She's as phony as the whole lot of them when it comes to how she approaches the serious problems confronting the community. Her stark absence every time it really matters (like with the OCR issues) says it all. She is the consummate hypocrite and bystander when it comes to bullying.
That is absolutely correct. She is one of the biggest frauds of them all, but flies under the radar because she is only answerable to Dolan and his cronies.
Now PR firm manages to get itself awards! Absolutely sickening and gross! Wonder if they'll be brought in to spin the literal Grave-Robbing Crimes of Melrose Officials and Their Friends!
For Immediate Release
Wednesday, Dec. 7, 2016
Contact: Jessica Sacco
Phone: 617-993-0003
Email: jessica@jgpr.net
JGPR Honored with Four National Public Relations Industry Awards at National Press Club on Tuesday
John Guilfoil Named National Public Affairs Professional of the Year for Second Consecutive Year, Also Named Crisis Manager of the Year
JGPR earned four awards from PR News yesterday at the National Press Club in Washington. Left to right: Chelsea Belliveau, John Guilfoil and Jessica Sacco. Photo Credit: John Guilfoil Public Relations LLC
JGPR earned four awards from PR News yesterday at the National Press Club in Washington. Left to right: Chelsea Belliveau, John Guilfoil and Jessica Sacco. Photo Credit: John Guilfoil Public Relations LLC
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WASHINGTON and GEORGETOWN, Mass. — John Guilfoil Public Relations LLC is honored to announce that three members of the team traveled to the nation’s capital yesterday and accepted four national awards from PR News for their work over the past year.
The 12:30 p.m. event, held at the National Press Club on Tuesday, Dec. 7, honored the top professionals in Public Relations in 2016 who make communications matter every day.
For the second year in a row, John Guilfoil, the principal owner of the company, received the Public Affairs Professional of the Year award for successfully spearheading public affairs campaigns for the company’s police, fire, municipal, school and nonprofit clients.
Guilfoil also won in the category of Crisis Manager of the Year for his work with multiple clients, including the Exeter, N.H. Police Department and the Taunton Fire Department.
Both awards were competitive, with multiple finalists in each category.
“The public sector rightly deserves effective public relations advice and communications strategy, and this company endeavors every day to do just that,” Guilfoil said. “I am humbled and honored to accept these awards in front of my peers in the public relations industry, and I am grateful to our clients for allowing us to be part of their teams.”
Account Executive Jessica Sacco and Digital Services Manager Chelsea Belliveau were also honored during the awards ceremony. Both were named among 45 other public relations agency professionals from across the country as “Rising PR Stars 30 & Under.” The award honors blossoming public relations leaders excelling at communications.
“The clients we work with at JGPR have a meaningful impact on people’s lives, and I am thankful to be able to play a small role alongside them,” Belliveau said. “I have a tremendous amount of respect for my colleagues and am proud to be part of a team that has worked so hard to make this company the success it is today.”
PR News also recognized the Top Places to Work in PR, awarded Diversity and Inclusion Campaigns and inducted five public relations industry leaders into its Hall of Fame. Click here for more information on the ceremony and to view a complete list of winners.
About John Guilfoil Public Relations LLC
With the philosophy that every police and fire department and government agency deserves effective communications and public relations on the same scale as major corporations, John Guilfoil Public Relations produces clear, concise content for our clients and responds to major news incidents for more than 150 police and fire departments, as well as schools, government agencies, nonprofits, and corporations in six states. The company is located in Georgetown, Mass. and was founded by John Guilfoil, a former Boston Globe staff reporter who served as deputy press secretary for the late Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino during the 2013 Boston Marathon attacks and at the end of his historic run as Boston’s longest-serving mayor.
About PR News
The PR News Group at Access Intelligence, LLC is a daily intellectual hub that serves the communications and marketing community at corporations, agencies and nonprofits. The PR News group focuses on honing and growing PR practitioners’ skills in social media, crisis management, digital PR, measurement, employee relations, media training, CSR and writing through its flagship newsletter, webinars, conferences, awards programs, workshops and guidebooks. With the launch of its weekly newsletter over 70 years ago, PR News has remained dedicated to supporting the growth of communicators, all while keeping them abreast of the latest news affecting the industry.
Are you aware that his PR firm was hired at the recommendation of Patty White Lambright. Yes it's true. They are long-time 'friends' (ahem) both from Georgetown. Melrose School System is so incestuous.
Hats off. Anyone who could possibly spin the recent mega-public relations super-disasters over the last couple of years at the Melrose School Department and School Committee and leave them smelling any better than elephant $hit is deserving of such an award.
Sorry but they still walk, talk, and smell like the fecal matter they are. The dressed-up disasters appear exactly as that, badly covered over festering messes that are only worsening by the day.
This government pr business sickens me. Corporations are private entities. They can use pr firms for their own benefit. They are not governments of the people, by the people and for the people.
Democracy itself is placed in jeopardy when governments are allowed to distort the facts and truths - either themselves or through pr firms. When the unvarnished truth isn't freely available to the public, when government gets to rewrite it to mislead citizens, democracy and freedom is put at risk.
The Guilfoil pr firm may win awards within the realm of manipulators and liars but must be run out of town for its conspiracy with politicians to abuse democracy.
Well spoken, Orwellian! Not sure if I have ever heard of another Melrose government body ever using a PR firm to do their communications. This only goes to show that the school committee needed help to manipulate the negative narrative to residents and to put a spin on the bad news.
Driscoll and her cohorts should be run out of town! But instead the mother's group click will keep voting this wretched person into office each election period. All the new people on the committee have been a dismal failure in controlling Driscoll's anti-democratic actions and lack of transparency.
It's time to drain our own swamp, starting with this basket of deplorable SC members, each and every one of them.
Maybe the Cemetery Commission has a place for them to serve out their term along with the other criminals....
The word is Mayor Dolan has knowledge of this term being taken place at the cemetery. The SC and Mayor need to leave the drain needs to be dry.
English, please.
Of course I'll get you a fake award just like I did CT after the OCR guilty finding. What are uncles who are a head of DESE for?