The Next Speaker and Senate Prez – “The Half Man” – Sen. Doogie – Globe Columns

I predict both Speaker DeLeo and Senate President Murray will be re-elected to their current posts and resign before their terms are done.

Bobby has one thing on his list. Save Suffolk Downs or go down trying. He is doing a marvelous job. He gave the anti-gambling people nothing. There is so much to be ironed out in the conference committee. The House threw a lot in there that the Senate is just not comfortable with.

What does this give Bobby D.? Leverage Grasshopper, leverage.

With all these demands Bobby maybe persuaded to “give-up a lot”, including slots at tracks, if the horse tracks still get money from the casino revenue for a significant increase in track purses.

This is a great play by the Speaker.

So anyway, win or lose Bobby will have had enough. And when he does Charley Murphy should walk  in with little, if any debate. Nice smooth transition without the emotion of the past years.

On the Senate side Therese should be packin’ it in soon. A person just knows when the ride is almost over yet needs to sell high. I mean, they still have to work. It seems to me that next year would be the perfect time for the Senate Prez to start looking and I bet she will.

Enter Jack Hart as our next Senate Prez. Again with little debate.

That could be a great combo for the people of MA. I like it.

I mean I like it today. Who knows about next year. That’s like decades in politics.

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Two great Globe columns in recent weeks did a tremendous job in separating the Catholic Church and Catholicism.

Yvonne Abraham’s memories of the hard working liberal nuns from whom she learned math and english but also the true meaning of sacrifice for others.

The other is James Carroll’s piece last month detailing the history behind the Papacy and why we have a Pope with a permanent scowl.

Carroll btw is a former Jesuit who among other works wrote a historical novel called Mortal Friends which begins with a post office being blown up in Dublin and then rapidly moves to James Michael Curley and political Boston during his time. It’s a good read.

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Is it me or does candidate for state senate Dr. Peter Smulowitz look like former teen sensation Jason Biggs from American Pie?

Okay. It’s settled. If he wins I will baptize him Sen. Doogie Howzer.

Next.

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Anyone notice the Herald being sued for printing an untrue story that a certain woman used political connections to visit a prisoner at one of our local clinks and had sex with him? Turns out she was there legitimately with her politician boss and the sex was an unwanted touching by a prisoner she did not know other than for the professional reasons which brought her there.

This woman is black by the way. So who really cares if everyone that knows her or her family believes she was making her way into jails to suck dick?

Could you imagine if this was some young blonde pony-tailed state house aide from Wellesley or Weston whose Daddy knew a rep and the Herald told the world she was breaking into prisons to suck dick?

We should probably pose this question to the family of the black kid from Springfield that killed himself as a result bullying. What’s his name again? I know Phoebe’s name because I could feel her pain. But the black kid?

Thank God black people don’t feel pain and anger and injustice like the rest of us.

But anyway, back to the Herald. The Half Man aka George Regan is doing a great job keeping this as quiet as possible. One blurb in the paper somewhere.

Yuk, Every time I mention Howie Carr, the Herald, or “The Half Man” George Regan a strong desire to take a shower comes over me. I feel so slimy.

I wonder why?