Joe Calitri was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1952 and raised in the small Bay State town of West Bridgewater. A staunch Constitutional Conservative, Joe is a retired twenty year veteran Corrections Officer from the Massachusetts Correctional Institute at Norfolk; former MCIN Chief Union Steward and Field Representative for the Massachusetts Correction Officers Federated Union (MCOFU); Security Officer for the state of Florida; and Computer Assisted Data Specialist for Nielsen Media Research, The Nielsen company LLC. His writing credentials include editing the weekly Bullet and monthly Newsletter for the MCOFU, Chairman and Newsletter editor for the West Bridgewater, Massachusetts Republican Town Committee, and Secretary and Newsletter editor for the Charleston Park Homeowner’s Association in North Port, Florida. He has had numerous editorials published over the years in the Boston Herald, Brockton, Massachusetts Enterprise and North Port, Florida Sun newspapers, and is currently enjoying retirement, creative writing and recording original music in St. Petersburg, Florida.Read more about this authorRead less about this author