Yes. He should have been fired months ago, along with Mitchell Chester, for the charter fiasco in Gloucester.The resulting press revelations of Reville’s “smoking gun” email to Chester demanding that the Gloucester charter be approved despite being a “bitter pill to swallow” (in order to have approved at least one charter for Patrick’s record) is damning in an order of magnitude that cannot in good conscience be shrugged away, as it has been, by this administration.
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p>Now, with the recent finding of Judge Welch in Newburyport that there were “blatant violations of state law” on the part of Chester in granting approval to that charter, and the evidence of Reville’s email remains, there is no reason to defend Reville OR Chester, who may well end up on trial for his egregious abuses.
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p>The reasons are 1) political: it may well cost Patrick a second term, and should; and 2) moral: the bitter division in the city of Gloucester, including a partially built facility and children left in the lurch in all directions, is unconscionable and was utterly, completely avoidable, had the original “Do Not Recommend” verdict for the charter application been allowed to stand (as every single one with that verdict had been until this one). As it was, Chester reached in and plucked it out, approved it as absolute monarch claiming absolute power, and has since manipulated the rules and regs retroactively to try to keep his shenanigans “legal.” The two of them should be history, and if–as Thomas Jefferson famously said–“God is just,”so should Patrick, come November. And I say that as someone who actively campaigned for him last time. He stood idly by while injustice prevailed in my home town, and for that I shall remain angry for a very long time.
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Yes. He should have been fired months ago, along with Mitchell Chester, for the charter fiasco in Gloucester.The resulting press revelations of Reville’s “smoking gun” email to Chester demanding that the Gloucester charter be approved despite being a “bitter pill to swallow” (in order to have approved at least one charter for Patrick’s record) is damning in an order of magnitude that cannot in good conscience be shrugged away, as it has been, by this administration.
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p>Now, with the recent finding of Judge Welch in Newburyport that there were “blatant violations of state law” on the part of Chester in granting approval to that charter, and the evidence of Reville’s email remains, there is no reason to defend Reville OR Chester, who may well end up on trial for his egregious abuses.
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p>The reasons are 1) political: it may well cost Patrick a second term, and should; and 2) moral: the bitter division in the city of Gloucester, including a partially built facility and children left in the lurch in all directions, is unconscionable and was utterly, completely avoidable, had the original “Do Not Recommend” verdict for the charter application been allowed to stand (as every single one with that verdict had been until this one). As it was, Chester reached in and plucked it out, approved it as absolute monarch claiming absolute power, and has since manipulated the rules and regs retroactively to try to keep his shenanigans “legal.” The two of them should be history, and if–as Thomas Jefferson famously said–“God is just,”so should Patrick, come November. And I say that as someone who actively campaigned for him last time. He stood idly by while injustice prevailed in my home town, and for that I shall remain angry for a very long time.