Kudos to George Bachrach for his defense of Deval Patrick on Braude’s show on NECN last night (Wednesday 3-7). George helps put thing into a proper perspective and helps show the minority party as trying to blow this all out of proportion. And showing the Republican party “grappling to have the same relevance as the green party” by filing for an ethics investigation. Rich stuff.
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Way to go, George!
I posted some similar comments. It’s obvious that even Common Cause thinks there is no violation.
And was not impressed. It wasn’t enough for Bachrach to defend Patrick against exaggeration of the mistake, which would have been reasonable; he had to insist that the call was good economic policy, and that he hoped Patrick would be making many such calls. Shameless “black is white and white is black” loyalist rhetoric.
Come on folks. You think that looked good? I wrote about this too. He is not the face you want out there when people are concerned – and they are.
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To simply claim its a non-issue because he does not want to talk about it is not how government works. We deserve better.
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As Charlie said…this matters.
The executive director of Common Cause said that her own legal staff was conflicted but the majority of them thought it wasn’t a violation of law.
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She then went on to say she welcomes the Ethics Commission ruling and looks forward to it. Not sure what you guys are smoking when you say Common Cause doesn’t even think a law was broken, and doesn’t support an ethics investigation.
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Also would it kill George to put on a tie when he is going to be on TV. It makes him come across as arrogant without one on. Although his actual words helped him do that well themselves.
It’s what they do, ask Tom Finneran. The rest is lip service. Actions matter, they refused to file a complaint.