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The Donut Fund and Other Holes in Connaughton’s Story

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Dan Payne gets it right, I mean correct, in this piece on WBUR's Electionwire.

Somebody should get a prize (Dan? Ben Swasey?) for the title of the piece too.  I think I should get credit for using that picture in a comment on this site though.

It's a really nicely organized piece too. And funny. 

  So why didn’t the Globe endorse Bump? In the Sen. Scott Brown era, the paper obviously wanted to find one Republican it could support. She wasn’t a birther (Bill Hudak), hadn’t stood idly by while a teenage girl was strip-searched (Jeff Perry) and hadn’t been an executive at AIG, arrested for drunk driving and smoking weed and hadn’t bothered to vote in the last decade (Jon Golnik).

 

 

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  1. According to Payne’s article in the Phoenix linked above:

    1. She didn’t catch the “donut” fund that hid hundreds of thousands of inappropriate expenses and then didn’t comply with DeNucci’s office when this was caught.
    2. She screwed up the unclaimed property division big time by firing the competent, more expensive contractor who did this work and replacing the contractor with four incompetent contractors who ended up being much, much more expensive in the end.
    3. Potentially a Democratic auditor in a Democratic government won’t be so independent, but Bump’s courage regarding trial lawyers and workers’ compensation show a refreshing willingness to do what’s right, not what’s politically expedient.

    Not a reason, to my mind, but a suspicious cloud: Ms. Connaughton has been a large recipient of money from anti-gay groups. Why?

  2. Yes, Judy, great article, thanks for the link. Also, I recognized the picture right away! You’re famous, if only indirectly!

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    p>The biggest prize, of course, will go to the Commonwealth when Suzanne wins this race. I have fingers crossed, and I’m working like hell for the whole ticket! [Yes, it’s hard to type with your fingers crossed, but anything to get Dems elected, I say!]

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