Posted on 08/22/2009 9:13:04 PM PDT by raccoonradio
Howie thread for the week starting with his Sunday Herald column
Sunday column ping
Hacks flock when Teddy calls
By Howie Carr | Sunday, August 23, 2009 | http://www.bostonherald.com | Columnists
Let us now consider the State House friends of Teddy Kennedy.
OK, so the senior senator’s scheme to keep “his” Senate seat in the family is probably a non-starter. After all, it’s too late for Teddy to provide the customary “gratuities” to the sleazy solons who in 2004 rolled over for him on the bill that took away the then-GOP governor’s ability to fill a vacant Senate seat.
You know, the bill that Teddy demanded passage of, but which he now claims “concerns me deeply,” because it’s so, uh, undemocratic.
What sort of reprobate reps would vote for such palpably corrupt legislation? Let’s go down the 2004 roll call on a proposed amendment to Teddy’s sordid bill. It would have given Republican Mitt Romney exactly the same power to appoint an interim senator that Kennedy now believes a Democratic governor should have.
The amendment was defeated, 104-44. Below and in our photo array is a partial list of some of the usual Democrat suspects, and I do mean suspects, who followed Teddy’s orders to deprive the people of their “continuity of representation,” as Kennedy now puts it:
Jim Marzilli of Arlington, later elected to the Senate, now awaiting trial in Middlesex County on charges of harassing or molesting four women in Lowell last year.
Brian Dempsey of Haverhill: Arrested in 2003 for drunken driving, two years after his mother called 911 when Dempsey and his brother got into a barroom brawl in her living room.
Robert Coughlin of Dedham: Not charged, but named in the DiMasi indictment as filing bills at the speaker’s behest that led to the $57,000 in bribes paid to DiMasi. Coughlin served as a job-application reference for a Turnpike toll taker who was charged with murdering, dismembering, then cooking the body parts of a cocaine dealer. Succeeded Felon Finneran as lobbyist for biotech industry.
Mark Howland of New Bedford. Defeated after one term in the House, then got into the business of selling wind turbines that didn’t work. Said one customer: “He’s a crook.” Ordered to repay $488,000 to fleeced customers.
Robert Spellane of Worcester: Found guilty of diverting $50,000 from his campaign account for personal use. Dumped his wife last year, after which his 28-year-old girlfriend was hired to work for a State House lobbyist. Recently sent out a letter of apology to his constituents, then days later got into a shouting match with his ex-wife and ex-brother-in-law at a Little League game over $19.
John Rogers of Norwood: Fined $30,000 by the Ethics Commission after an investigation into a summer home in East Falmouth Rogers claimed he owned with one of his campaign consultants, a bank president. Rogers once compared the felony conviction of still another crooked House speaker to the crucifixion of Jesus Christ.
I’m out of space, with no room to name at least six more Kennedy stooges in the House who’ve been bagged for nonpayment of various taxes, not to mention two others fined by the Ethics Commission for accepting improper gifts from lobbyists. But you get the picture.
When it comes to Ted Kennedy’s Svengali-like control over the Legislature, remember the old saying: birds of a feather . . .
Article URL: http://www.bostonherald.com/news/columnists/view.bg?articleid=1192832
Obviously a House desperately in need of fumigation.
If not a fuel-air bomb...
Monday show ping
Candlepins for kiddie-porn? Bob Gamere (”Two Beer
Gamere”—Howie)
>>Disgraced Boston sportscaster Bob Gamere faces up to 40 years in prison - and no less than five - when he goes on trial Sept. 9 for allegedly amassing a revolting video library of child pornography.
>>The self-anointed “Great Gamere,” 70, late of Channels 7 and 56 and the popular program “Candlepins for Cash,” is fighting to suppress evidence the FBI seized from his Brookline apartment in 2007, as well as statements he allegedly made to agents while they were there.
>>The evidence includes his computer, his alleged AOL screen name “GreatGamere,” and videos and still images of children posing nude and having sex with adults, according to a disturbingly detailed trial brief filed by federal prosecutors in U.S. District Court.
noticed a good letter to the editor in today’s Salem News online
http://www.salemnews.com/permalink/local_story_236001611.html
Published: August 24, 2009 12:16 am
Letter: Mad as hell, and going to New Hampshire
To the editor:
To all the local businesses that I have supported through the years: I regretfully inform you that I will consolidate my shopping needs and make my future purchases in New Hampshire.
I am stating this to you in regards to the absolute despicable actions of our local representatives in favoring an astonishing 1.25-point hike in the sales tax. Five percent was bad enough, but 6.25 percent? This is way over the top.
Financially I could pay this tax, but I refuse and I urge my fellow consumers to do the same.
I am also disappointed that you did not fight hard enough to abate this outrage.
You and our elected “royalty” will be in abject pain after shooting yourselves in the foot for dumping on the citizenry.
I also note the lack of actionable outrage by the Massachusetts public as they take yet another boot in the derriere.
I am absolutely livid and I intend to do what I can to make sure that sting in the foot hurts like hell.
I cannot believe patriotic citizens gave their lives hundreds of years ago for me to witness what I am seeing now.
The fools on the hill and in our own very backyard still and never will “get it.”
These are the people who show up at a fire with gas cans in tow. Instead of using their brains and sensibilities to correct our financial dilemma, instead of facing the outright absolute, in-your-face corruption, they extract more of your money to feed the system that is bleeding us dry.
People, where are you? Why are you letting this happen?
Don’t you care about your family? You children? Any semblance of a future?
This is out-in-the-open robbery and you are gladly opening your wallet for removal of your cash. Did you really believe the hype and scare-mongering thrown in your face about what might happen if taxes weren’t raised?
I’ll tell you one thing that isn’t hype: This tax raise will actually create less money and drive another nail into the coffins of Massachusetts small business owners.
Jeff Tanzer
Salem
One comment, from David Pelletier:
>>I will be needing a new refrigerator, stove, dishwasher and washer/dryer within the next year. That should come to just south of $5,000. Normally, I would just go to Tri-City Sales as in the past. But we have abnormal politicians who think by voting this tax increase they are helping the State. They are not. I too will transfer that outlay to New Hampshire. So if more people are like me and the brand new Tri-City Sales in Salem (MA) begins to suffer, you can thank our Rep. John Keenan and others on the North Shore for stabbing them in the back all to make an extra $56.00 that will surely be wasted on some nonsense that we don’t need. I hope it is worth it when honorable businesses like this go under, along with the taxpaying jobs and the things that those people buy, too. Nice ripple effect, you idiots.
Ow. That's gonna leave a mark.
Gamere these days, eh? yeah it’s been a few yrs since the publicity pic in the Herald was taken.
WEEI to broadcast all Red Sox games. No more interruptions for the Howie Carr Show.
http://www.savewrko.com/2009/08/25/breaking-entercom-moves-all-sox-games-to-weei/
Ya beat me to it. Yikes; well, yeah good news for Howie fans and I do hate to TRY and pick up WCRN at work post 6:20 pm;
now, no more pre-emptions (after tonight).
But I work at a postal service facility, nights, where WRKO comes in great. WEEI? Barely if at all. WCRN? Not really.
WBOQ 104.9? Yeah if I stand in one place and hold a Walkman up high. The boomboxes we have have crappy antennae. (THOUGH if they simulcast on WMKK 93.7 that would be great because we’re near their tower)
Yeah I’m glad Howie will be on till 7 full time now, but I hate losing the Sox.
“There may not need for me to appear on the Red Sox games after tonight...”
I routinely go with a friend to shop in NH every other week. We go to Salem — Walmart and Market Basket. There were always quite a few MA plates in the parking lots. Since the sales tax hike, they’re almost all MA! Didn’t Howie say the figures for August sales tax revenues wouldn’t be available until late September? Can’t wait to hear them! ;-)
Your loving thoughts (/ sarcasm) about the Senator may be expressed here or in a special ping list about the death of Ted Kennedy, sure to dominate discussion the rest of the week.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2324636/posts
Wed column ping and no it’s not about Ted; written a few hours, I’d guess, before the news broke.
Oh the ‘hardship’: OUI judge back behind the wheel
By Howie Carr | Wednesday, August 26, 2009 | http://www.bostonherald.com
Try not to let what I’m about to tell you destroy your faith in the integrity of the Massachusetts judiciary, but do you remember how Superior Court Judge Christine McEvoy had her driver’s license suspended until Nov. 26?
After being arrested and charged with OUI in Lexington on April 15, the career hack took the traditional “continued without a finding” on June 5. The presiding judge, as opposed to the defendant judge, then tacked another 45 days on the automatic 180-day license suspension for anyone declining to blow in the balloon.
But apparently some suspensions aren’t quite as automatic as others. Because five days after appearing before the judge, the black-robed terror of 128 was back out on the road driving again - 149 days short of her original sentence.
Hey, it’s all legit - she got a “hardship” license. Oh, the unspeakable hardship. She makes $129,693.98 a year - the standard judicial pay, which she described in 1994 as “inadequate,” when she got the job from fellow tippler Bill Weld. It was a promotion from her district court judgeship that she grabbed in 1988 from M. Stanley Dukakis, shortly after donating $500 to him.
The Duke’s press office put out a release saying that “McEvoy’s civic activities include membership in Greenpeace, WGBH, Massachusetts PIRG. . . .” Did I mention that her brother works for the Middlesex County DA and makes $116,249.98 a year? In other words, she’s one of the Beautiful People. And you know what Lenny Bruce always said: In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
A call to the court systems for comment was not returned. According to the Registry of Motor Vehicles, she appeared before an RMV hearings officer June 10. As a first-time offender, she was eligible for the “hardship” provision to get her license back. She can drive from 8 until 8, seven days a week. So much for just driving to work. That seven-day provision was mandated by the Legislature, with a soft spot for drunken drivers explained in the old saying, “There but for the grace of God . . .”
I found out about the judge’s slap on the wrist from one of her neighbors in Belmont. You can imagine how shocked they were when, less than a week after reading in the paper how she couldn’t drive until Nov. 26, they saw her brazenly tooling around again.
McEvoy had to show the RMV she’s enrolled in the traditional alcohol program. Judge McEvoy, who turns 59 in November, also had to give the RMV her court hours and her teaching schedule - at a law school, presumably, as opposed to a bartenders’ school.
In the original police report, the Lexington cops described her judicial temperament on the night she was charged with OUI: “She was unsteady while walking or standing. During this whole time, I had noticed McEvoy’s slurred speech.”
After a “couple glasses of wine,” she may be unsteady. But when it comes to making sure that the corrupt good-old-boy system she’s been a part of for so many decades delivers her yet another kiss, the hack judge is steady as a rock. Or is that, on the rocks?
Article URL: http://www.bostonherald.com/news/columnists/view.bg?articleid=1193416
Avi Nelson just said that they are going with local programming all day, no Laura or Rush.
Wonder who was the lucky duck that had “Splash” in Howie’s Death Pool???
I don’t know if he’s had a death pool since the last one when Eunice Shriver died. Maybe he was putting it off because of TK.
yup and right now Avi is on with Finneran.
To hear Rush you can go to http://www.wtic1080.com
or if you’re near a radio with good recep he’s on, IIRC:
WTAG 580 Worcester
WHJJ 920 Providence
WGIR 610 Manchester NH
I think the last death pool was the one for Eunice K.S.; today he will probably say the DP will be delayed a few days
(but who knows). One big reason: he needs someone else in studio to take down names and phone numbers. He also may say it might be seen as bad taste.
Right.
Wed show ping
Don’t know if HC will start early (for all I know they may roll him out at 2; not sure)
he will be on from 3 to 9pm today - extended show
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