Listen folks, I almost got sucked in on this Joseph Berman thing. You remember, the Deval judicial nominee who is catching flack from some of the wing nut members of the Governor’s Council for not being anti-Armenien genocide enough.
Even the intelligent yet sober David fell for it.
But then I heard this interview from Councillor Deveaney and read this from Councillor Jubinville. I knew somethign was big time fishy.
There’s more to the story. Of course there is. There always is.
This guy Berman is an a-one a-hole not fit to serve on the the bench
He applied for a district court judgeship a few years ago and was turned down.
He then donated over a hundred grand to Obama and applied again. This time for a Superior Court gig.
He was flippant and condescending to the Councillors during the hearing and in informal interviews.
He lied at the hearing concerning a minor point (whether he asked politicians to call councillors on his behalf).
He can’t recall trying a case.
Taken together these show a man arguably not experienced, lacking temperament, and not completely forthright when questioned under oath.
Add to that his over-the-top political contributions to the President and the case is made that this guy by-passed our Governor and got the White House to give him what he wanted.
Fuck you all. I’m a friend of Barry’s.
Nothing wrong with that, but this guy is a dick and went to his high end hoity toity powerful Democratic friends to get a p.r. machine rolling.
Yvonne Abraham wrote that Berman was an experienced litigator. Yet the man testified he had at most two trials but he doesn’t remember them. (His p.r. machine faked out Yvonne I guess)
Hence people like David and I got sucked in.
I wonder if Joseph Berman called Larry Lucchino and Larry Lucchino called John Henry and John Henry called Brian McGrory and Brian McGrory called Yvonne Abraham and Yvonne Abraham called nobody and wrote the column to satisfy the boss.
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Speaking of the elites how pathetic are these Steve Crosby apologists?
“Steve’s not making money on this.”
“The land price is market value.”
Disgraceful friends. Disgraceful.
Lemme ask the Boston circle jerk crowd out there something. Do you people pass around talking points or is it like chicks in a sorority? You know what I mean? Like when gurls live together they end up getting there periods at the same time. It’s true. My friend’s older brother told me. It’s like quantum physics or something.
In the same light do the pussies who make up the Boston’s self-proclaimed elite communicate telepathically or through quantum physics or something? I mean it’s amazing if not impossible that so many intelligent, elite, condescending, self-rightous yet disrespectful mother fuckers can all be so wrong so fast.
But that’s me. Mr. Science.
Did you notice that Wynn’s casino was declared “suitable” (ie not corrupt), with the condition being that they were approved so long as there wasn’t actual Macau corruption?
What is the point of approving a casino under the guise that they’re not corrupt if all the questions surrounding possible corruption are ignored?
From the SHNS on it yesterday:
Wynn later called Macau the “squarest place I’ve ever been.” Macau!
What the heck are these “background investigators” doing if they can’t bother to do the actual background checking that could really determine suitability?
… that this should be a stand alone diary in and of itself.
Steve Wynn was rude and condescending in the hearing. This is one of the richest men on the planet and he’s clearly used to treating people with contempt. The Gaming Commission just got bullied around like the Freshman Wynn said they are.
Acceptable, as long as he ‘explains’ to us the things we never bothered to look at? Nice investigative work guys.
EB3 – I know you don’t like to name names, but who are the apologists? I feel like I am missing something here, I haven’t read a lot of people defending him yet.
…to the BMG diary hyperlinked with the words “David fell for it” in the second paragraph, the jist of which is that Berman’s opposition on the Governor’s Council is somehow evidence we should get rid of the GC.
The “apologists” are with respect to the Steve Crosby business. Not sure who he’s talking about, but it’s not me!
It took a couple of tries and finally resorting to the find function, but apologist was used for Crosby rather than Berman and sleeples’s comment used “him” without an antecedent. Carry on.