Treasurer’s ‘outsider’ claim is Cahill-arious
Tim-foolery
By Howie Carr | Sunday, October 3, 2010 | http://www.bostonherald.com | Columnists
The late Tim Cahill keeps saying he’s an “outsider” - it’s like a death rattle in his doomed campaign. Outsider, outsider . . .
Yeah, right. Just ask Democrat Rep. Garrett Bradley, the Hingham hack who is thisclose to Cahill. How tight are they? Together they collected $94,000 from a New York law firm that has represented the treasurer in lawsuits.
Tim, the lifelong Democrat now masquerading as an independent, collected $58,500 in campaign contributions from people connected to the firm of Labaton Sucharow LLP. Bradley took in $35,500 from the same outfit between 2005 and 2008. Bradley last year told a reporter that the contributions from The Outsider’s law firm were a result of “friendship.”
That reporter wasn’t me, by the way. Last week I placed multiple calls to Bradley’s law office, his State House office, his district office and his Hingham home. None were returned.
I wanted to ask Rep. Bradley about one Chester S. Smith II. Amazingly, he’s on the state payroll, as is Mrs. Garrett Bradley, age 39. She’s an assistant DA working in Plymouth county - $47,502 a year.
When you run hack Heather Bradley’s name on various people-finder sites on the Internet, Chester S. Smith II comes back connected to her. In 2003, at the age of 60, just after Tim Cahill was elected treasurer, Chester S. was hired at the Lottery as a “sales representative.” He now makes $59,196.30 a year. Another nationwide search!
I called Chester S. Smith II’s home twice. The woman who answered the phone hung up on me as soon as I identified myself. Too bad. I wanted to ask “Chet” if he was any relation to a second Chester Smith on the state payroll. All I know about that Chester is that he works in the probation department - which used to be run by a guy from Quincy whose wife and daughter happen to work for a certain “outsider” named Cahill.
Rep. Bradley is a made member of the white-collar crime family known as “House leadership.” He even has one of those phony-baloney titles that were invented by former House Speaker Felon Finneran before he pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice charges in a racist gerrymandering scheme. Last year Bradley collected $80,343.25 as “first division chair,” whatever that means. Thanks, Felon!
Bradley’s campaign treasurer is Jack Linskey, age 72, and he has a 41-year-old son named Adam who has contributed at least $200 to the “first division chair” over the years. Would you care to guess the name of the politician who employs Adam Linskey?
(Hint: He’s an “outsider.”)
That’s right, Adam Linskey is listed on Treasurer Cahill’s payroll as a “project assistant” for $19,289 - not much, but as you may have noticed, the economy is in a tailspin for everybody except Democrat hacks.
Garrett Bradley’s brother Michael used to have an $80,000 hack sinecure at the Division of Industrial Accidents. And when the despicable ex-Transportation secretary Jim Aloisi needed a place to dump his sister Carol, Garrett Bradley raced to the rescue with a hack job in his office.
You can see why Bradley and Cahill are such great pals. They’re both outsiders. Tim, as we know, is going to be very outside next January, when his term expires. Now Bradley has an opponent, Tim Finnerty, a Hingham Republican who actually works for a living. Gulp. You can see why Rep. Bradley has gone on the lam.
Give me a call, Garrett. I’m pretty sure you have my number.
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Carr LOVES Romney and anyone pushing RomneyCARE.
WRKO and Carr are the Boston Globe, shapeshifted.
Howie was on a roll ripping Cahill on his show Friday. Too bad we don’t have someone who can do what Howie does up here in Maine.