Oy.
A local lawmaker turned himself in to police on Monday after leaving the scene of an accident.
State Sen. Anthony Galluccio (D-Cambridge) was cited for leaving the scene of an accident causing personal injury and leaving the scene of an accident causing property damage, police said. The accident happened around 5:30 Sunday afternoon….
And again, I say, oy.
UPDATE: You can see Channel 7’s video report, which has an eyewitness describing what happened, at this link (no embeddable video). According to the eyewitness, there were children in the car, though it sounds like none of them was hurt (Channel 7 reports that the driver of the car was treated at a hospital and released). And from her story, it doesn’t sound likely that Galluccio could have been unaware that an accident had occurred.
Charley, please buy this guy a T pass.
He is a member of the General Court. He is a state senator.
He a democrat for Cambridge. You can’t ask for a better pedigree. The DA in Middlesex will broom it—just like he broomed Marzilli’s indecent A&B on the campaign worker. No problemo—the “fix” is in. If not the DA then a judge. This is after all: MASSACHUSETTS! Rules only apply to the “little people.”
You got that line from “Terminator” didn’t you?
Where, exactly, is Marzilli now? Strange, I haven’t seen him on Beacon Hill in sometime. Seems, perhaps, there was a problem with his actions in the General Court.
He got it swepted under the rug this time.
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p>Middlesex District Attorney Gerard T. Leone Jr. said there was not enough evidence to charge Marzilli with inappropriately touching a woman he drove home from a fund-raiser in Arlington in April.
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p>Then it was too much to broom…. Leone said authorities are investigating allegations against the senator of inappropriate sexual contact with a woman in Brighton two years ago and in Arlington last year. Lowell police said that they are investigating reports from three other women who said Marzilli accosted them in Lowell Tuesday.
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p>And don’t forget the support he got from many on this site.
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By any of the Editors or the vast majority of the commenters. Fantasies of inappropriate political touching by some notwithstanding.
Indeed, the two are separated.
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p>My point being thus: politically, the Marzilli mess was cleaned up to the best of Beacon Hill’s ability. They can’t control what happens at the judicial level. If a judge throws a case out because of a lack of evidence, you can’t pin that on the political process. Lots and lots of cases are thrown out due to lack of evidence, probably more than are actually carried to fruition.
Appoint the judiciary, they control what the judiciary does. The judiciary owe the political their jobs.
“Cinderella” Paul Kujawshi: DUI, indecent exposure (urinating on a lady trooper’s shoe, no less).
In MA, like the US, judges get lifetime appointments. Once they are on the bench they don’t owe anyone anything. That’s the key behind the independence of the judiciary.
To all other court employees. The DA or register of probate run the courthouse. The part-time judges aren’t there to see what’s really going on.
and qualifications is convenient.
You cannot deny their accuracy.
In fact, Rye just did.
You cannot deny their accuracy.
Next.
They truly are like 6s from someone else.
It’s like a vote of confidence.
Your several examples of ratings abuse on this thread of comments is telling. You gave Huh a zero for saying “In fact, Rye just did.” You gave Stomv a zero for posting a picture of “Denied.” You gave me a zero for saying “your list of ongoing excuses and qualifications is convenient.” You can’t give people zeroes because you disagree with them or don’t like what they had to say. In fact, the only post worthy of deletion on this entire thread was your own, with your accidental double post. As the saying goes, if you can’t handle the heat, stay out of the kitchen.
are giving each other 6’s for unfunny insults? If I cared about what you people thought I’d have run home crying years ago. I guess I don’t.
Where?
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p>The sixes I see are for pointing out the obvious: you’re so intent on demonizing Democrats that you make stuff up.
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p>If you don’t care what we think, why do you keep giving us zeros?
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p>Better yet, why do you keep coming back?
Why are you here, billxi?
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p>Quite telling!
To think that judges don’t play the game is naive. If a judge wants to get a relative on the state payroll or needs a raise, then he or she had best be a team player. This goes for DAs, magistrates, AGs as well as the judges.
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p>Oh, well, at least we’re not New Jersey!
Phone calls get made to judges all the time—or to his/her secretary—or the clerk of courts—-or to the chief of probation. Apparently—-you do not understand how the system works.
That woman was smeared by the lefties because she had the temerity to blow the whistle on that pwervert and then the DA borromed it. Of course this gave Marzilli license to run amok like a blind dog in a butcher shop.
No one was “smeared.” People on the left were shocked and horrified about what happened. That’s just pure revisionist BS.
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p>Second, whether justice is denied or not, what relevance does that have to do with Beacon Hill politics? You brought the post up as some sort of example with what’s wrong with Beacon Hill politics, but it’s completely remote. The guy was thrown out of Beacon Hill.
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p>Lastly, it is inherently difficult to prosecute people in this country. We set the system up so people were assumed innocent of crimes before proven guilty. We created a system where a single juror alters the case, where a single case of tampering can throw a result out. We’ve created our system this way for obvious reasons; we don’t want innocent people going to prison. Sometimes that unfortunately means the guilty walk free — but, again, that has positively nothing to do with Beacon Hill politics. It has everything to do with a choice this country made long, long ago and has stuck to ever since — because we knew the result that happens when countries chose otherwise: tyranny.
How about Bob or Dave resurrecting the Marzilli postings here so that we are all able to “refresh” our memories?
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p>And YES—-that woman was smeared—-many here questioned her intent. Just as the left in CA rushes to Roam Planski’s defense and the democrats rushing to defend Clinton for Lewinsky and Paula Jones and the other women he is alleged to have assaulted. It’s never ending.
but don’t let facts get in the way of your blanket unsupported statements.
I guess he’s taken himself out of the running for the 8th District Congressional seat should Capuano win the Senate race.
One “rational” reason to run in a hit and run is to avoid a breathalyzer or field-sobriety test.
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p>Then turn yourself in later, which is what happened.
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p>Given his history, I wonder.
His press release today makes me wonder why the cops didn’t get a warrant and lock his ass up—
Is Galluccio really the best person for his current position? Surely there is somebody else better suited for his seat in the Senate.
He won the special election and his driving history was well explored before the election.
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p>That said, as a Galluccio supporter this is distrubing.
Don’t blame yourself.
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p>Please tell me this is tongue in cheek.
Let’s not kid ourselves — he won a special election with single digit turnout and then was unopposed thereafter.
The vehicular incidents causing injury, though, not so much.
Is worth reading
Having DUI’ed once myself, anyone can make a mistake once. But after the humiliation and financial cost associated with it, once should well be enough. But it’s ok, he’s a democrat. All sarcasm intended.
Are you going to get a free toaster oven after your thousandth snide remark?
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p>I hope it’s a model you like.
Not an issue I think anyone would support. I base my statement on Paul “Cinderella” Kujawski.
Do you really think anyone actually falls for them?
I don’t see any of you taking the Senator to task. Yes or no…Do you support this drunken loser?
That includes due process, by the way.
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p>And for the record, I have never voted for Gallucio, even when I had the opportunity to do so.
…and, in fact have voted against him multiple times. That said, I have a lot more respect for him than I do you.
I didn’t, but he did very well in city council elections, which is what I was talking about. He’s not my state senator.
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p>Do you have any evidence of voter fraud or do you just feel your hatred of Democrats is sufficient?
You’re not a pollster!
…anyone coming out in support of drunk driving. Some things are so obviously bad that we can easily assume everyone opposes them without having to say so.
now that you have admitted a DUI?
Perhaps “former drunken loser,” or “one-time drunken loser,” or “erstwhile drunken loser,” but not just “drunken loser”.
Just because you put others’ lives in danger recklessly and indiscriminately doesn’t mean that “anyone can.”
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p>I know many, many people who have never ever driven drunk. Not even once.
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p>P.S. Just for clarity, have you operated a vehicle under the influence once, or have you been arrested for operating a vehicle under the influence once?
Went through the whole embarrassing and expensive process. Not dumb enough to do it again. A normal person will learn from once.
Went through the whole embarrassing and expensive process. Not dumb enough to do it again. A normal person will learn from once.
I defended Gooch back when he was running because I didn’t believe it affected his ability to be a state seantor, the incidents were isolated and he would get treated to avoid such behavior in the future. It is clear this has not been the case. There goes his campaign to replace Cap and possibly his job.
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p>The operative word is INCIDENTS ( plural) Isolated ?
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p>What do you need? Multiple deaths? George Bush ( every illegal aliens pal) had one OUI. You’d have thunk he was an axe murderer. Ted always got a pass. Kajowski gets a pass. And now this dope. I don’t get it.
and his “passes” through the years and his amazing ability to rise above his mediocrity, aided and abetted by the monied Republican cabal to become the President of the United States. The Peter Pan who finally grew up at what age? 40? I think he referred to his own drug and alcohol issues as “youthful indiscretions.” The multiple businesses that he drove into the ground, and yet, trading on his famous last name, could run and win the Texas governership. How about the eminent domain land-taking abuse he engaged in to built the Texas Rangers a stadium? And then as President, goes “Greyhound” (leave the driving to us!) on foreign policy, leaving it to Cheney and company to execute (no pun intended.) Poor George. He was treated so poooorly.
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p>This is one lucky, lucky man. If you think he’s been abused, perhaps you should consider what the Bushies did to McCain in 2000, questioning his mental health status as a POW.
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But—–he was piloried for the OUI—not because of the offense—but who he was. On the other side of the coin—numerous democrats get a pass—repeatedly ie many Kennedy’s , Kujowski, Gallucio and I understand a school bus just whacked today by a former MA Solon ( party affiliation unknown). These are dangerous people. They should be in AA, detox, walking, or jail.
Care to document that?
and I don’t really think that was the case, given that he was allowed to call two decades of bacchanalia “youthful indiscretions” without so much as a bat of the eye – it was because it WAS two decades long of drunken and feckless behavior. It wasn’t just an OUI, it was all the things he had been bailed out from. And because he played the evangelical card, no one dared question his sincerity. The evangelicals learned fairly early on that Gee Dubyah was no evangelical, that is was all just a fascade.
from his OUI. I would hardly call that “piloried.”
You mean that I, a confirmed Bush hater, missed out on Bush being pilloried.
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p>Damn! That’s a show I didn’t want to have missed. Will it be rerun?
Democrats make laws for others to obey, not them. They’re entitled.
There’s a lot of Democrats in Massachusetts — seems sort of weird that our prison population would be so high if all Democrats were “entitled” to exemption. What, do all the liberal prisoners stuffed in prison choose to go there of their own accord?
Democratic state legislators.
another qualification. What happens when I point out various state legislators who have been prosecuted, etc? What will your “excuse” be then?
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p>Or by asking you a question, do I just get a zero?
You do that. I am not the first person to rate a post. Where are your friends to give you 6’s. There, that will bring them out.
I’ll ask again: if you hate us so much, why are you here?
That this is a forum for EVERYONE. Not just you ass-kissing democratic hacks who owe your lives to the “party”. I don’t hate anyone. Now I understand the socialist principles you disguise as democratic, but last I heard, censorship hasn’t been conquered by you (plural) yet. So until you (plural) shut down the bill of rights, I’m saying my piece.
have their rules of participation. Your first amendment rights have nothing to do with that.
The same amendment gives us the right of association. The people that control the forum choose to include you and me. We have no right to be here.
Someone has to let the governor, State Senator, State Representative, usually state rep., know that their pants aren’t fastened.
It’s been pointed out before, but you hold a record for deleted posts without being banned. The bulk of your posts are insults and baseless smears. You mainly serve as a concrete example of the vacuity of the MAGOP.
You didn’t answer it.
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p>So I’ll state it in your words: Why do you want to stay around ass-kissing democratic hacks who owe their lives to the party and who disguise their socialist principles?
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p>Is it a desire to be in forum where you can give yourself permission to be rude? What’s the point?
To let you folks know that we, the people are paying attention now. And your absolute power is corrupting absolutely. And some of you are losing elections next year. Specifically: Governor Patrick, and Nicki Tsongas.
You heard it here.
By becoming our moral witness, you’ve given yourself license to be rude.
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p>Apparently, you kind of enjoy that.
To who I’m speaking with.
Or are you welcoming anything that’s home to roost?
Where did he stand on Melanie’s Law?
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p>How did he vote on other alcohol related issues? Taxes, for example?
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p>Where does he stand on combining offenses to avoid automatic penalty triggers?
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p>And so on.
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p>There has been a LOT of legislation on teh subject in recent year – did his (apparent) personal failing affect his votes?