Posted on 11/07/2009 9:05:22 PM PST by raccoonradio
Howie thread for the week; not sure if there will be a Sunday Herald column (he's just coming back from Italy). A quick check of the Herald site just after midnight shows some columns by others but no Howie yet
Howie list ping; if there is a Sun column I’ll post it
Death pool tomorrow since John Muhammad is due to die at 9 pm tonight. Howie says in the future death row members won’t be acceptable for the death pool (I think he means the ones who are imminent to die but does this mean no Scott Peterson, for example, who prob could live many decades in the stir but...ya never know?)
Wed column ping
Hack’s pension loss the final indignity
By Howie Carr | Wednesday, November 11, 2009 | http://www.bostonherald.com
Twenty years ago, John Buonomo came within 153 votes of being elected mayor of Somerville. He lost to Mike Capuano, who is now on TV every night, running for the U.S. Senate.
John Buonomo was on TV Monday night too, only he wasn’t buying the time, he was in the newscast itself. The reprobate ex-probate register of Middlesex County was throwing himself on the mercy of the court after pleading guilty to stealing over $100,000.
“I have ruined my career,” he read from his prepared statement in Superior Court in Woburn, “my reputation and any integrity that I may have had. As a human, I have lost the very core of my being.”
Don’t worry too much about your “reputation,” John. Nobody in Somerville ever liked you much anyway. You were too sneaky, like you were trying to make up for the fact that you go 65 inches in your stocking feet, tops.
“I hope and I pray to those that I have failed to live up to their expectations in me that they can someday find it in their hearts to someday forgive me.”
And now Buonomo’s worst nightmare comes true - this hack’s hack will lose his pension. The City of Somerville is moving to strip Buonomo of his kiss in the mail, which given his lifetime in the hackerama and his $110,000 salary as register, had to be over 85 large a year.
You remember the state police surveillance video of Buonomo last year, looting the copying machines in the East Cambridge courthouse after dark. Usually it was one-dollar bills, but at least once he brought in a bucket and emptied out the quarters.
As someone who knows Buonomo a long time, the only “expectation” I had for him was that he wouldn’t get caught. You can take the boy out of Somerville, but you can’t take the Somerville out of the boy.
As amusing as the video was, they only got him for short money - he pleaded guilty to eight counts of larceny of under $250. That means he went down for $2,000, max. At the same time he was embezzling over 100 large from his campaign account, which he might well have gotten away with if he could have just kept his hands off the change.
Now 57, during the boom years Buonomo fancied himself a real-estate investor. He bought a two-family in Everett that’s now underwater. He also invested in a 3-unit condo development in East Cambridge behind the courthouse, which is what croaked him when the real-estate market tanked.
He had been living in Newton, with co-custody of his two sons, ages 11 and 13. Now he’s sold the Newton house, and he’s moved in with his elderly parents - in Billerica.
Imagine the irony here. First of all, Billerica - Somerville with trees. The state prosecutors want the judge next week to give him 4-6, in state prison. Probably the best Buonomo can hope for is 2 or 2 in the House of Correction which in this case would be... Billerica.
What goes around comes around, like the careers of Capuano and Buonomo since that bitter Somerville mayor’s fight of 1989. Capuano probably won’t win the Senate primary next month, but there are worse things in life than losing an election.
Just ask John Buonomo.
Article URL: http://www.bostonherald.com/news/columnists/view.bg?articleid=1211009
Death Pool today.....
Yes, there was a lot of this around during the "boom" (read "bubble") years; it wasn't just poor people buying houses to live in.
listening now on netbook up in Vermont (in Rutland, just tonite and part of tomorrow). Tough time getting recep in car; WVMT and WRKO mixing with other signals. WCRN OK but can be lost at times. Sometimes the 99.7 from the Lake Sunapee area comes in...but right now listening on WCRN site’
And yes Howie Bob Elliot is still alive
sources say the “former terrorist” can’t speak at UMASS tomorrow night as his fed parole officer won’t let him leave the state of Maine
Fri column ping
ie Carr | Friday, November 13, 2009 | http://www.bostonherald.com | Columnists
Photo by Herald file
Can we talk, Tim Cahill and Charlie Baker?
It’s time to flip a coin. I’m serious. Heads or tails. The winner runs for governor, and the loser gets to be the other guy’s running-mate on the Republican ticket. If both of you get together right now, you can begin planning the transition in January 2011.
Not even ACORN will be able to pull it out for Deval. Or even the Globe - assuming there still is a Globe next November, that is, after all the layoffs next January.
No way Deval Patrick can be reelected in 2010. Let me rephrase that - no way he can get over 50 percent of the vote. But if two candidates are on the ballot against him, then he only needs 34 percent of the vote. Sadly, despite his disastrous term, he could still conceivably get 33 percent-plus-one. There are that many moonbats infesting this benighted Commonwealth, that overly medicated, guilt-ridden, non-working trust-fund crowd living off the monthly check from either their parents or their uncle (Sam, that is).
Which brings us to Charlie Baker, Republican, and Tim Cahill, the former Democrat who is now an independent. Both of them are running for governor. They’re making Deval’s day.
The only shot the Together-We-Con governor has is if he can split the 60 percent anti vote. Divide and conquer - the oldest story in the book.
Even then, it’s not a sure thing. Look at New Jersey last week - bustout Democat Gov. Jon Corzine, a slimy Goldman Sachs moneychanger, almost pulled it out over his GOP challenger. He came close only because of an “independent” candidate who was endorsed by the state’s largest dying broadsheet, a wretched Democrat organ called the Star-Ledger (a sort of the Globe of Newark).
The Republican was elected when the “independent” faded at the end. This is what usually happens to third-party candidates - are you listening, Tim Cahill? Nobody wants to waste his vote.
Now, you can’t blame Cahill for being offended by the fact that Charlie Baker wants him to become his number 2. After all, what is the highest office Baker has ever been elected to? Selectman, in Swampscott.
Cahill, on the other hand, has run, and won, statewide, twice. The first time, in 2002, he was one of two guys named Cahill in the Democratic primary. That’s impressive, but as Tim knows better than anyone else, he won because one of his daughters came up with a catchy slogan, “Tim for Treasurer.”
Still, he won. As the old saying goes, I’d rather be lucky than good.
But in the Dreaded Private Sector, it’s another story. Charlie Baker turned around Harvard Pilgrim. Then there’s Cahill, who in his days on the Quincy City Council owned a coffee shop named Handshakes, which was more commonly known as Fisticuffs, due to the lack of brotherly love at the joint.
So you can understand why Charlie is as adamant about Cahill stepping aside.
Meanwhile, Deval has had a hip replacement. What he also needed, as his dithering over the UMass terrorist proved, was a spine transfusion. The state can’t afford four more years of this buffoon.
Heads or tails? Your call, Tim.
Article URL: http://www.bostonherald.com/news/columnists/view.bg?articleid=1211550
I was briefly in Whitehall NY today (just west of Rutland VT)...Champlain Canal, etc. I noticed a place called Howie’s Bar and Grill. Hey! Didn’t eat there, maybe should have?\
Didn’t have a camera with me though.
Anyway someone took a pic of it and posted online (I don’t think I can post Flickr pix)...and no, there was no snow on the ground when I was there..
http://www.flickr.com/photos/sbknite/2289273145/
Big shoe.
What happened to Mihos? Did I miss something?
Yeah, I don’t know if Howie’s turning away from Mihos or if he’s just referring to the fact that Tim Cahill turned down Baker’s request to be his running mate...but yes, no mention of Christy in Howie’s piece...?
>>he was one of two guys named Cahill in the Democratic primary
The other was Beverly’s Mike Cahill, former state Rep., who just won election to the City Council (and people wonder if he may try to get his state rep. seat back now that incumbent Dem rep Mary Grant says she’s won’t run for re-election)
Trying now to remember what it was I heard about Baker that made me mentally scratch him . . . RINO, I'm pretty sure, but how specifically? Any idea?
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