Posted on 02/25/2007 5:20:43 AM PST by raccoonradio
It’s the $72,000-a-year secretary for your wife, stupid.
That’s what’s people are really going to remember about Gov. Deval Patrick’s very bad week. What a first and lasting impression to leave - Mrs. Patrick, who has a full-time mid-six-figure job, now gets a chief of staff, a woman from Wellesley named Amy Gorin who was one of Deval’s earliest rich moonbat supporters.
Amy Gorin needs another $72,000 like Deval needs, well, a Cadillac DTS.
The way he ignores the issue, Deval must grasp what a public-relations nightmare Mrs. Gorin has become. In this week’s podcast - Deval’s direct communication to the moonbats - he starts out saying amiably that he wants to address “a subject of great concern to the people throughout the Commonwealth and, no, I don’t mean the official car or the new desk at the governor’s office
Note the two words he didn’t use: Cadillac and drapes.
Even more significantly, he ignored the festering Amy Gorin problem, which only got worse this weekend with the news that she accompanied Deval and his wife, Diane, to Washington, D.C., for a National Governors Association junket.
Because it really bugs people, especially working people (as opposed to moonbats), who have real jobs that don’t pay 72 large a year. I got calls all week about it, including one from a guy who works at Stop & Shop, which is embroiled in contract negotiations with its union. “We’re fighting over nickels and dimes,” this guy said. “And he wants to pay $72,000 for his wife’s secretary?”
Diane Patrick is a partner at Ropes & Gray. This is a law firm that puts the white back in white-shoe (figuratively, of course). They represented the Somerset Club when the Boston Licensing Board tried to pull its liquor license. And now they’re getting pelted with spitballs from the cheap seats, just because a partner’s husband has morphed into Chuck Berry in the old song “No Money Down.”
“I saw a Cadillac sign saying ‘No Money Down.’ Dealer came to me, said trade in yo’ broken-down ragged Ford, I put you in a car that’ll eat up the road.”
Coupe Deval should be tooling around in his Caddy in Hollywood today, not D.C. He should be picking up an Oscar for Best Short Subject: his administration. You know you’ve got a problem when you want to change the subject, and the only thing you can think of to talk about is your plan to jack up taxes by $400 million a year.
I’m sure that Deval wants to make sure that Diane has the very best, just as his hero Mike Dukakis provided for Kitty, at the taxpayers’ expense, naturally. Recall Dukakis’ words at a 1984 press conference in Room 157 at the State House:
“I don’t know about the pillow talk at your house, but I go to sleep at night with Kitty’s advice, counsels and urgings ringing in my ears.” Does Deval need his own dose of pillow talk? I think not. Amy Gorin stays.
But now the Legislature has figured out the play. There’s yet another patsy in the Corner Office. How quickly things change. Seven weeks ago, when Deval was sworn in on the steps of the State House, the solons were terrified.
They looked out toward Beacon Street and the Common and saw a veritable Hempfest of moonbats. Deval’s shock troops - trust-funded middle-aged zonked-out-on-prescription-meds bloggers.
But Deval squandered his moment. The moonbats are depressed; they’re gobbling Xanax like M&Ms. Meanwhile, Deval unveils his new budget Tuesday night. The two Ways and Means committees begin their joint hearings Thursday morning.
From Tuesday night to Thursday morning. Saddam Hussein got more time to prepare a defense than they’re giving Deval. His budget is DOA, just like Mitt Romney’s, or Jane Swift’s.
Did someone say curtains?
Howie Carr column ping
he thinks he's royalty obviously.
king deval! seated on his throne.
left out of the article:
Deval Patrick, DEMOCRAT Governor of Massachusetts
snort, guffaw...
Here's a song for Deval
LOOK AT THAT CADILLAC by Mr. Nick's Blues Mafia
(local blues band)
It'll play once you get to the MySpace that is their
site:
http://www.mrnicksbluesmafia.com
(btw I will be playing blues under my real name
"Bob Nelson" today from 12-3 pm on
WMWM FM 91.7 in Salem.
We don't streamcast but a podcast of the show will be put up at http://www.wmwmsalem.com later today!
(I got a bit of a cold though...
if I find them may also play
CADILLAC--Bo Diddley
NO MONEY DOWN--Chuck Berry
this is great news! just what the people of Massechusettss deserve?
Howie is awesome!
Just what the heck did voters think they were getting when they voted for this Clinton retread?
Wicked pisser!
How long before the governor's wife's secretary has an assistant of her own? Somewhere in the $50K range...
'Erkil' thinks he's working for the UN... unfortunately, the majority in this stinkin' state wouldn't mind being governed by the UN.
It's to be assumed. There are maybe 5 Republicans in office in MA, between the Essex County sheriff and a few lonely
GOP members in the state legislature. OK, I'm exaggerating slightly but it's still 99.99999 per cent Dem domination.
Don't blame me I voted for Kerry...Healey. (the Lt Gov that ran against him, for those not familiar with MA politics. MA
actually had 16 years of GOP in the Corner Office but it's
back to harsh reality now...)
Well, if one considers Weld and Romney republicans, that would be true I guess. All they did, however, was administer the Kennedy lifetime contract. No hope for Massachusetts this century.
That's "wicked pissah" sir!
I feel your pain. I live in NYS. One of the red bits, which is most of Upstate, actually.
Thanks for providing that important piece of information.
And the residents know it. Which is why so many are fleeing...
Mass. may lose seat in Congress
Ditto for NYS, BTW.
Note to the nation: Vote for a 'Rat/RINO and all this, too, can be yours....
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