Sorry, I thought I was done with the whole Reilly phone call non-event,
but here I am again…
A couple of days ago, <a
href=”http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2006/01/10/reilly_faces_more_questions_about_involvement_in_crash_probe/”>it
came out that Reilly had talked about the Murphy case with Bob
Davis, a neighbor of the Murphy’s, the founder of Lycos, and one of
Reilly’s major fundraisers. So the spectre of campaign money and
influence briefly reared its head … except that it doesn’t change the
fact that Reilly never asked anyone to do anything illegal or untoward
— just the opposite.
Now, the press — and the rest of us — have had our knickers in a
twist over this thing for a week, presumably because we’re interested
in what motivates and influences Tom Reilly’s actions.
- Can we please have this kind of a discussion, this kind of
scrutiny, these kinds of tough questions, when our Governor <a
href=”http://bluemassgroup.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=967″>accepts a
plane ride from a pharmaceutical company that has <a
href=”http://bluemassgroup.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=1076″>major
business before the legislature? - Can we please ask about the motivations of a Governor and State
Senator that <a
href=”http://bluemassgroup.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=959″>seem to
take the side of an out-of-state competitor to several in-state
businesses? - Can we please ask what motivates our Governor to <a
href=”http://bluemassgroup.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=1073″>mysteriously
change his mind about allowing local utilities to continue to puke
out greenhouse gases? - Can we wonder aloud why our Governor <a
href=”http://bluemassgroup.com/hotList.do?diaryId=1193″>ignores
the advice of “the best health and human services
secretary in the nation”, and tries to write up a Potemkin village
health care “plan” without any new funding, and with no new incentives
for freeloading
employers to insure their workers?
You get my drift: Our democracy at every level is drowning in real
influence-peddling and outright (legal and illegal) bribery, with real
money and lives at stake … and this is what gets us
exercised? For over a week?
Can we get real, please?
Well Said!!!! Lets move on and focus on relinquishing the rain that the Republicans have had over the corner office. Now is the time to unite and work hard to elect a Democrat.
So you really believe?:
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-That Tom Reilly would actually be influenced to do what he did for a campaign contributor.Is he not entitled to have a heart simply because he is a politician?
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Can you be so jaded to think that there are not any real people that are politicians.
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Does that mean that every politician who lives and dies on campaign contributions can no longer help their donors. Are you for real?
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-That our Governor (who not one of my favorites) and who is worth $800,000,000 personally, is being influenced by a freaking plane ride .Get freaking real. I may not like the man but I respect his cold blooded honesty.
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-our region which only contributes 1% of the entire greenhouse gases in the country should be penalized with higher energy costs because some bunch of crunchy granola eco nazis say it is so.
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Can’t comment on the rest. Don’t have the time….but i hope you get the point. Spinning your line without facts will get you no respect…at least from me.