Amy Gorin
Posted on 02/27/2007 12:27:11 AM PST by Coasty
Draped in controversy, is it curtains for Deval? By Howie Carr Boston Herald Columnist Sunday, February 25, 2007
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?
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Amy Gorin
You up early or is this normal for you?
How long has Gov Patrick been in office? 6 weeks? Does he have a shot at the fastest meltdown for a Governor in US history?
Yeah but Howie, he's a Democrat so none of this matters in a place like Massachusetts :-)
I've been up all night .I'm kind of a night owl.
Stupid voters get only what they voed for, I feel no pity, NONE, NONE, NONE.
Just as I pictured her
3/15/07: Think I just heard Howie say that Ms. Gorin has
RESIGNED...
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