Here's What People Are Saying!

Robert Winters is regarded as "The Premier Observer of Cambridge Government and Politics." He is one of the few who watch Cambridge government.

Most Americans don't think logically. They do not think politically. Winters is an instructor in mathematics. ..... he is referred to as "Professor." Usually people who study math learn to think logically. Logical thinking does not always carry over into other fields.

Winters is unusual in so far as he understands how the proportional voting system works. He is happy to explain it to whoever is interested.

He maintains a web site which consists mostly of government information, for those who are unwilling or unable to find it on the city web pages.

He uses it to ridicule persons with disabilities. Some city officials and a lot of taxpayer funds are appropriated to address bullying in the schools. But these same officials refuse to address bullying by teachers, psychologists or police and politicians.

Winters is a teacher. To persons with disabilities he is an upper class cyber-bully thug. He is admired by most of the academic elitists and the self-centered politicians in Cambridge. He is a sorry case of what is produced by the universities.

Winters explains what he "learned" about "The Final Report of the Cambridge Neighborhood Safety Task Force." issued on Nov. 19, 2007, 19 days late. [As of January 23, 2008, this report is not available online. It is reportedly available at the City Clerk's office.] It was the result of 50 persons who spent 14 months preparing it. He did not say that he read the report. He says he attended the City Council meeting on December 10, 2007 where he heard one councilor explain that some city residents rely on a 9-week city employment program as their only form of employment. It is revealing about how some residents think, but also what being "The Premier Observer of City Government" means.

For people who pay no attention to city government what Winters reports is helpful to understanding one city issue. But when taken into context of other parts of the government what he reports is a drop in the ocean. Thus to some, in fact to many of the upper class residents of Cambridge, many of whom have PhDs, Winters is the most informed. But his perspective is an apologist for the sorry state of local government. He seldom criticizes what goes on. He sees no corruption, and has mild opinions of misguided acts of the city officials.

He never criticizes police abuses and openly ridicules persons with disabilities. Nonetheless for Cambridge he is the One-eyed King in the Land of the Blind.

R.B., Jan 23, 2007