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?
DemocRATS are particularly good at spending money - other people's money.
It's a trend--it's 10 seats now; I remember when it was 12 and at one point it was 14. (Also many years ago the Republican party was much, much stronger...)
>>In 2000, Massachusetts was projected to lose a seat -- it had lost a seat after every census since 1960.
Top 20 Counties in Real-Estate Tax Burden
I live in one of those NYS counties. Don't anyone tell me to hold my nose and vote for a RINO.
As angry and disgusted as the people of Massachusetts may be with this foolishness it will in no way diminish their affection for the Democrat party. And this Deval person will easily be reelected.
Eh. He ain't goin nowhere.
Think, Howie. They had Billy Bulger as the Senate President for quite a few years. That's all you need to know about politics in this state.
Louisiana is worse.
(Only kidding on that last line.)
You consider Cellucci and Swift Republicans? Weld and Romney were the pick of the litter! Well, Romney anyway.
Wasn't it 16 at one point -- maybe when I was in high school, in the 60s?
Have no fear this moronic Governor will fit in just fine with the moonbats in Mass. Imagine an electorate that keeps voting in the likes of "the swimmer" Teddy, and John (I served in Viet Nam" Kerry......unbelievable.
Chancey Gardener.
Almost....
Isn't it really, "Wikket Pissah"?
At least thats how we said it in college....
Deval is simply amazing in his ability to miss the fact that outside of Cambridge, the people of MA are really pretty normal folk.
Yeah, they tend to be more socially liberal--but the taxes and housing costs have made us more fiscally conservative than most of the country gives us credit for.
I bought drapes for my house 15 years ago. They work fine, and who can afford to buy new ones with kids about to go to college? And a Caddillac? Not in my driveway when a Chevy does just fine.
I am actually surprised he didnt go for the hybrid SUV.
Laugh out loud article. Don't blame me either...I voted for Muffy!
Coupe Deval! Hi-La-Ri-Ous Add me to the throngs that are voting with their feet. I am moving out of Mass after the school year is over. Add to all the state level fun, local towns overriding 2 1/2 to "Save the Town". We had a Nobel prize winner "just dropping by" resident leading the raise taxes charge here earlier in the month.
Bye Massachusetts...
LOL!!!
Deval Patrick could probably murder someone while in office and get re elected because he's a dem in MA. Oh, Wait that's been done already-never mind.
I can't remember more than 14, but then again I am getting old and drool allot.
Hey Howie! Good column butt...
That one was just too easy. Writing your column is going to be easier than usual for the next four years.
Watch your pronounciation. It's pissah, not pisser.
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