Are you tired of being held accountable for your actions, while those in leadership positions break the law and betray the public trust with little to no consequences?
Yeah. So are we.
The past few years on Cape Cod have been a real education. Not the kind you get at school — the kind you get when you finally pay attention to who’s actually running things in your own backyard. What we found wasn’t pretty. What we found was a pattern: small-time corruption, big-time arrogance, and zero accountability from the people who are supposed to be holding the line.
They Said It Couldn’t Happen Here
Cape Cod has a reputation. Salt air, seafood, summer traffic, and a certain kind of New England civic pride. Good people. Decent communities. Hard workers. It’s the kind of place where you trust your neighbor and your local rep is someone you might see at the Fourth of July parade.
But that trust has been weaponized. The familiarity of small-town politics has been used as a shield. “We know Chris.” “Galibois is a good guy.” “Give Buckley a chance.” And while we were being neighborly, they were apparently helping themselves.
Here’s What We Know — By the Numbers
State Rep. Chris Flanagan (D-Dennis) invented a fictional woman to run a fake grassroots campaign mailer in 2022. That wasn’t enough to get him removed from office. Then, on April 11, 2025, he was federally indicted for allegedly stealing from the Home Builders & Remodelers Association of Cape Cod — using the money to fund his own campaign and pay his personal mortgage. Five counts of wire fraud. One count of falsifying records. Still serving as your state representative as of this writing.
District Attorney Robert J. Galibois used his DA’s office — your DA’s office, paid for with your tax dollars — to spin the media narrative after his own car accident, and to promote his campaign donor’s rental apartments to his staff. He admitted it in writing. Paid a $5,000 fine. Still the DA.
Sheriff Donna Buckley runs a correctional facility where a lieutenant called female subordinates sexually degrading names in front of male coworkers; where an officer was arraigned for allegedly beating an inmate; where taxpayer money reportedly ended up at casinos; and where she publicly refused to cooperate with federal immigration enforcement. Still the sheriff.
All three. Still in office. Still collecting paychecks funded by you. Still making decisions that affect your life.
What the One-Party Machine Doesn’t Want You to Think About
Massachusetts is effectively a one-party state. In a one-party state, accountability requires either the press or the citizens to do the job that political opposition normally provides. When there’s no meaningful opposition, bad behavior festers. The people in power know that as long as they maintain party loyalty, nothing short of a federal indictment will touch them — and even then, they’ll just wait it out and hope the voters forget.
This site exists because you deserve better. Cape Cod residents pay their taxes, follow the rules, and expect the people they elect to do the same. That’s not a radical expectation. It’s the minimum requirement of democratic governance.
What You Can Do
The Massachusetts system makes it deliberately hard to remove bad officials. But you still have real power. Vote in the primaries — that’s where one-party machines are most vulnerable. A primary challenger can appear on the ballot with 150 signatures. One strong primary can end a career that decades of general elections couldn’t touch. Show up to town meetings, county commissioner sessions, and school board meetings. These people rely on low turnout. Talk to your neighbors. Share this site. Sunlight is the best disinfectant, and the officials profiled here have been operating in the dark for too long.
It’s time for the people of Cape Cod to take a good, long look at those who have been entrusted with leadership — and ask whether that trust has been earned. Based on the documented record: for several of our local officials, the answer is an emphatic, documented, federally-indicted no.
— The Cape Cod Fraud Squad, Hyannis, Peoples Republic of Massachusetts
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