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Where is Martha Coakley?

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More from today’s Globe piece (emphasis mine):

Kineavy is under investigation after a Globe request for copies of his e-mails led to the disclosure that Kineavy had been double-deleting the e-mail on his office computer every day. A state law requires municipal employees to save e-mails for at least two years, even if they are of “no informational or evidential value.”

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The deletions were investigated first by Secretary of State William F. Galvin, who found that Kineavy had improperly deleted e-mails and turned the case over to Coakley for further investigation and possible prosecution.

Coakley’s office said yesterday that the investigation is ongoing and that no conclusions have been reached.

“Ongoing”. “No conclusions.” The usual weasel-words used to describe the usual whitewashing. Sort of like the “investigations” that whitewash police murders of innocent civilians.

Senator Coakley will find the rightwing attack machine harder to game than Mike Capuano when the many indictments come down against the City Hall machine and the network of corrupt lawyers, doctors, lobbyists, and “friends” that power it.

Her unwillingness to take a stand against corruption in Massachusetts politics will be her — and our — undoing.

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  1. the AG’s office didn’t order Kineavy to take a leave of absence, nor could it.  His decision to take a leave, and his decision to return, were his and Menino’s.

    • The Attorney General’s office also wasn’t required to go on the record dismissing the apparent crime days after it was reported.

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      p>I agree that the decisions to take a leave and then return were Mr. Kineavy’s and Mr. Menino’s — as were the decisions to delete the emails (in apparent violation of state law).

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      p>The decision about the public posture to take towards all this is Martha Coakley’s, and I’m disappointed by it. In my view, it reflects a dissonance between her values and mine, and portends significant difficulties when Martha Coakley becomes Senator (as now seems likely).

  2. As I commented in another post, you have a skewed view of the events of the last 48 hours.  Beyond revisionist rhetoric, would you care to elaborate how this was some clever plot by Martha, and not a case of Cap stepping in it?

    • Is anyone asking her to defend that position?

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      p>I find it surprising that Capuano’s decision to defend his vote in the house, and take a position on a future vote on a conference bill with Stupak, can be credibly portrayed as a “reversal”.  

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      p>You say he stepped in it. I say his misstep has at least as much do to the Coakley campaign’s inaccurate portrayal of his two votes as a “reversal” and the press’s inability to do its own thinking.  

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      p>That said, credit the Coakley campaign for wining that campaign bout.  On the substance of the matter, I’ll take Capuano every day of the week and twice on Sunday.    

    • I agree that Mike Capuano blundered, and I’ve already written so. I’ve changed the offending phrase to accommodate your complaint. The point is that she found the time and the campaign chops to go after an issue she cares about.

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      p>Why is she then so silent about the pervasive culture of corruption that permeates the Beacon Hill and City Hall political machines?

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      p>I think she’s making her own values clear, and I don’t like what I see.

  3. Most seemed to have overlooked a story in the Herald on Monday:
    http://www.bostonherald.com/ne…

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    p>Michael Capuano ranks 10th in Congress for skipping votes

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    p>”U.S. Rep. Michael Capuano has missed more Capitol Hill votes than all but nine of the nation’s 435 members of Congress, skipping key tallies this year on veterans issues, defense spending, highway funding and the impeachment of a federal judge, records show.

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    p>Capuano, who has boasted he is the Senate hopeful that most “closely mirrors” late U.S. Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, ranks 10th in missed votes among members of Congress, blowing off 128 votes – or 14 percent – this year, according to congressional records compiled by The Washington Post.”

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    p>This seems to me to be more of a campaign issue.  Not sure why there has been no mention of this.  Is it not a problem to have our Congressman miss so much especially during a time of major crisis in our country?

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