Hey Martha Coakley, you went way way way out of your way to needlessly hurt a few people from Quincy. People who didn’t deserve it. You brought destruction on Quincy families. You wrongfully persecuted the Cahills and O’Briens for personal and political gain.
Basically Martha you are a no-good-so-and-so who picked people from the wrong town to screw with.
Enter Rockin’ Ron Mariano, the House Majority Leader from Quincy and the puppeteer of the chamber for the past decade. His unexpected endorsement of Juliette Kayyem less than a week before the convention is just what the doctor ordered.
Do you know how many reps there are out there who ask “how High?” to Mariano’s “jump”? Boatloads my friends, boatloads. And do you know how many reps (and former reps now in the lobbying business) have significant influence over delegates from from their district? Shiploads amigos, shiploads.
So on behalf of the entire city of Quincy, the birthplace of one of the great minds who helped draft the Constitution, Ron Mariano says “Fuck you Martha! Fuck You!”
Excellent work Mr. Leader.
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Come Sunday after Steve Grossman and Warren Tolman win the convention expect each to come out swinging.
Tolman will paint Healy as a power hungry overzealous prosecutor who believes in more state NSA type powers and increased militarization of police.
It would be nice to see an A.G. candidate say they want to see more accountants, tech people, and lawyers hired as state troopers who eventually move up to detectives doing relevant investigations rather than beefed-up-bad-attitude-so-so-educated-tools.
And I’m keeping my fingers crossed that Grossman will educate the electorate on the evils of Martha Coakley.
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Great read by Matt Connolly today on Alan Dershowitz and his bizarre longstanding hate of Bill Bulger.
JimC says
That would only backfire on him.
Kayyem could go negative, to Steve’s benefit. Maybe he could promise her a job.
Christopher says
If they do their jobs well they end up upseting some significant players in politics.
ryepower12 says
You’ll be flipping your posts around by the end. Maura has the kind of scrappy determination you like. A 5’4″ former pro basketball player needs it.
waldox says
I’ll have to take your word for it. Though I cannot see Tolman accusing Healey of being an overzealous prosecutor type. I don’t see it sticking in part because there’s just nothing there to support it. She was the head of the Civil Rights Division and her work was civil, not criminal. She was not — unlike the prior umpteen AG’s — a prosecutor before. If she were a tough-on-crime, let’s-throw-em-in-jail (or spy-on-em, go NSA! type) she would’ve gone to a DA’s or US Attorney’s office to do public service, not the AG’s Civil Rights Division to enforce civil anti-discrimination laws.
chrismatth says
I recently received a mailer from Healey in which she touts the fact that she is the only former prosecutor in the race for AG… So I guess she indeed was a prosecutor before just like “the prior umpteen AG’s.”
waldox says
I think she is doing that, calling herself that, because she worked at the AG’s office and she “prosecuted” the state anti-discrimination laws (civil). That is not the standard usage of a “prosecutor,” which typically means a person enforcing criminal laws and is exactly where EB3 was going with his comments. I realized in raising this that it may generate this commentary about her usage of it. Personally, it looks to me like she’s trying out different messages. It is what it is. But the truth is, she was not a criminal prosecutor. (Ask her). And it means EB3’s commentary and messaging (militarization, NSA) around it are totally off. Again, we’re talking about someone who “prosecuted” laws banning discrimination in housing and employment (and took on the Obama justice department to ban it as to married same sex couples in Mass). That’s a pretty far cry from espousing militarization and spying.