Posted on 02/15/2010 4:02:00 AM PST by Scanian
Saturday's Boston Globe reported that Congressman William Delahunt may not run for reelection.
"US Representative William Delahunt said yesterday that he is considering retiring from his congressional seat representing the South Shore and Cape Cod, although he portrayed his deliberations as routine and said they are not related to challenges from Republicans who are energized by Scott Brown's upset victory in last month's special Senate election.
'Every election cycle, I take my time, I think it through, and I think, not about whether I can win or lose, but: ‘Am I in a position to make a difference?' Delahunt, a Quincy Democrat, said in a telephone interview. 'Can I achieve what I want to achieve outside of public life?'"
The timing of this story is interesting because yesterday the Boston media was also full of stories of one of Delahunt's more dubious achievements in public office, his role in the 1986 decision classify the shotgun death of Amy Bishop's 18 year old brother, Seth, as an accident.
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Life is good.
This is probably the most bizarre event yet in the daily revelations and activities of God at work....
So, he's going to decide that he doesn't make any difference?
The reason is he was the prosecutor who refused to charge the Alabama killer professor for killing her brother with a shotgun in 1999. It is now becoming apparent she was also being investigated for a mail bomb attempt on another professor. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2451555/posts
She has some powerful ties to have wiggled out of these two incidents in Mass. Somehow related to the Kennedy’s?
They should be retired to hard time at the nearest Federal Pen or send them down to Sheriff Arpaio.
Forgot to do the ping thing on this one...more good news.
Everyone has read about the lady who killed the 3 other professors at the University of Alabama and her connection to Obama and Delahunt, right? (feel free to add any other appropriate links).
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2451555/posts
Local story here about two of those who were killed:
http://www.wral.com/news/local/story/7035570/
That is really what needs to happen. No more getting along in congress. A huge number of congresscriminals belong in prison.
Both sides need the fear of prison put into them so they fear breaking the law.
Can anyone imagine the fun if Sherrif Joe was tapped to be FBI Director in the next conservative administration?
"Am I in a position to make a difference?"
If the vast majority you have in Congress doesn't allow you to make a difference now there is no sense in staying.
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BRAINTREE SHOOTING SEEN AS ACCIDENT
Boston Globe - Monday, December 8, 1986
An 18-year-old Braintree student, described as an accomplished violinist who had won a number of science awards, was killed Saturday in his home when a shotgun his sister was attempting to unload discharged, police said.
Seth M. Bishop of Braintree died of a gunshot wound to the abdomen, according to a Norfolk County medical examiner and Braintree police investigators.
Police say they have determined that the 12-gauge shotgun was fired by Bishop’s older sister, Amy, and that the shooting was accidental.
Braintree Police Chief John Polio, in reconstructing the shooting yesterday, said that Amy Bishop , 20, had asked her mother, Judith, in the presence of her brother, how to unload a round from the chamber of the weapon.
Polio said that while Amy Bishop was handling the weapon, it discharged, wounding Seth Bishop. He was pronounced dead at 3:08 p.m. Saturday at Quincy City Hospital, 46 minutes after the shooting.
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The medical examiner, Dr. William Ridder of Milton, confirmed yesterday that Bishop had died of a gunshot wound to the abdomen. Ridder would not say whether he considered the shooting to be accidental.
Seth Bishop, a freshman at Northeastern University majoring in electrical engineering, was born in Boston and had lived in Braintree all his life.
He was a 1986 graduate of Braintree High School, where he was the winner in the science fair competition. He later won third place in the Massachusetts State Science Fair, held at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
An accomplished violinist, Bishop was a past member of the Braintree High School Orchestra and the Greater Boston Youth Symphony Orchestra.
In addition to his mother and his sister, he leaves his father, Samuel S.; his maternal grandparents, Joan (Morrison) and Grant Sanborn of Exeter, N.H.; and his paternal grandmother, Theno Papazoglas of Lynn.
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I said when it was reported that the files re: this lady’s murder of her brother from 20 years earlier had all of a sudden become “missing” - and others said the Chief of Police was responsible for the “missing files” that this was clearly going to reach much higher than than a mere Chief of Police.
Now it is becoming clearer and clearer how high these bizarre crimes reach.
Delahunt.
My bet is it reaches right to Obama and his supporters and to the very heart of the Demonrat party.
I’m telling you - it brings this old phrase back to my mind:
“Flee at once, all is revealed.”
Rats jumping overboard so fast it makes one’s head swim...
Also brings to mind: Matthew 10:26
“Therefore do not fear them, for there is nothing concealed that will not be revealed, or hidden that will not be known.”
Also, Jeremiah 16:17
“For My eyes are on all their ways; they are not hidden from My face, nor is their iniquity concealed from My eyes.”
Braintree police Chief Paul Frazier said at a news conference. Bishop, who was 19 at the time, fired at least three times from a shotgun, hitting her brother in the chest after they argued, he said.
She fled, pointing the shotgun at a car to try to get it to stop, then was about to point it toward police before an officer took her into custody at gunpoint, Frazier said. But before Bishop could be booked, former police Chief John Polio instructed officers to release her to her mother, who had served on a police personnel board, Frazier said.
On Saturday, it was revealed that Bishop shot and killed her brother in Braintree in 1986. Bishop, who was 19 at the time, fired at least three times from a shotgun, hitting her brother in the chest after they argued, according to the town’s police chief.
http://www.boston.com/news/local/breaking_news/2010/02/professor_accus.html
In the report, dated March 30, 1987, a Braintree Police captain said that Amy Bishop was released on the day of the shooting because she was too emotional to be questioned properly and because her mother said the shooting was accidental.
Local and State Police investigators returned to the home 11 days later to meet with Amy and her parents individually.
According to the investigation report, after Amy and her father had a disagreement, he left for a shopping trip and she went to her room. Amy decided to go to her parents’ room to teach herself to load the shotgun the family had acquired the previous year for protection after a break-in. She succeeded but could not remove the shells, and the gun fired in the bedroom. Amy then went downstairs to ask for help unloading it and inadvertently shot her brother while her mother watched, according to the report.
Their stories to the detectives contained some discrepancies. Amy’s mother said Amy asked her for help unloading the gun; she told Amy to be careful where she pointed it, and that Amy turned and accidentally shot her brother. Her mother said she screamed and called the police, as Amy ran out of the house.
Amy said she asked her brother, not her mother, for help unloading the gun, and that she was pointing it beside her leg for safety. She said her brother told her to point it up instead. As he walked across the kitchen floor, someone said something, and Amy turned and the gun went off.
Can’t throw 60% of the senators out of office, only 33% are up for election.
Past sins coming back to take a toll on the Marxists. Nice!
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