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By Howie Carr | Sunday, May 13, 2012 | http://www.bostonherald.com | Columnists
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When was the last time Gov. Deval Patrick came down on the side of law-abiding, taxpaying citizens?

He used to be able to at least fake some minimal concern for working people — how’s that property tax cut he promised you back in 2006 working out?

But now Deval can’t even be bothered pretending to care about anybody who doesn’t have a rap sheet.

The feds — his pal, Barack! — force the Secure Communities program down his throat, and Deval immediately issues a stern warning — not to the criminals, but to the police.

Don’t you dare use this crackdown on violent illegal aliens, he tells cops, to “gin up unnecessary fear” in the so-called community — the violent illegal-alien community.

Then his hand-picked hack gambling czar, lifelong coatholder Steve Crosby, conducts the traditional nationwide search and appoints one of Deval’s dear Harvard Law pals as interim director of the new casino commission. So what if the tubby paper-shuffler with the Billy Idol hair was accused — but never charged — in a 2007 sexual assault case involving a 15-year-old boy in Florida, after which he settled a civil lawsuit with the child’s family?

After the usual outcry, he has to quit his new job. And what does Deval say?

“I hope he’ll come back” to the administration. Where he makes $120,777 a year.

Next there’s the EBT program, rife with abuse. Deval stubbornly resists any reforms, dismissing every scandal as an “anecdote.” God forbid anyone stop drug dealers from doing whatever they please with our welfare money.

Then his Department of Public Health decides to ban ... bake sales, in the public schools. After all, they’re run by non-criminals, people with jobs. A much more serious problem for the state than EBT card fraud. Maybe undercover staties should start infiltrating booster clubs.

Busted yet again, Deval says, “Nobody’s interested in banning bake sales.”

Every weekend, the state police are running roadblocks to catch drunken drivers. No particular problem with that, but when Deval’s hacks are lugged ... well, consider Ron Bell, his $97,500-a-year “special assistant.” Busted in Boston, Bell gets picked up on waivers by Deval’s pal, Mayor Willie Lantigua.

And Friday, illegal alien tosspot Uncle Omar is reissued his driver’s license, which he has absolutely no right to have. But then, how can you discriminate against the president’s boozy uncle if you don’t take away the lieutenant governor’s license after he wrecks his state car while going 108 mph at 5:20 in the morning?

And incidentally, the public has no right to Crash Murray’s cellphone records to see who he was calling or texting at that un-Godly hour. Can’t have citizens finding out whether an uber-hack was breaking the law — or maybe even organizing a bake sale.

Friday, somebody faxed me a letter from the ABCC chairman — “RE: EBT CARDS MAY NOT BE USED AS PAYMENT FOR ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES.”

I was shocked by the letter’s mean-spirited tone. How dare anyone in state government tell illegals they can’t use their handouts to buy booze? Somebody’s got some ’splainin’ to do here.

Then I realized, the ABCC chairman works not for Deval, but for the state treasurer, Steve Grossman. Who does this Grossman think he is, a taxpayer?

Somewhere, Gov. Patrick is steaming. Probably somewhere out of state.
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