Someone will probably vote for The One in their name. They prob don’t check IDs.
Fri col. ping
Tim’s crash course in futility
By Howie Carr | Friday, September 7, 2012 | http://www.bostonherald.com | Columnists
Photo by Angela Rowlings
Lt. Gov. Crash Murray said in Charlotte yesterday that he is “seriously considering” a run for governor in 2014?
In what state? Surely not Massachusetts.
Did someone ask him to recite the alphabet backward after he made his statement?
Murray must be suffering short-term memory loss. Just the other day he was answering questions for the feds about his chief political operative, the very ethical Mike McLaughlin. McLaughlin is in a photo finish with one, maybe two grand juries. Murray and McLaughlin talked by cell phone over 200 times in the two years before “the troubles.”
Anybody facing that kind of jeopardy shouldn’t be looking for a campaign manager, he should be looking for a big rock, to hide under.
Instead Crash Murray paints an even bigger target for the feds on his backside. What a dolt. It’s amazing it only took him three tries to pass the bar exam.
“I’ve learned a lot working alongside Gov. Patrick. Seen a lot.”
Before you know it, he’ll be saying he’s being “urged” to run.
And I’ll bet he is. Mainly by prosecutors at the U.S. attorney’s office, and also by Mike McLaughlin’s lawyers. A plea bargain to rat out a guy who’s running for governor, no matter how hopeless his campaign, is worth a lot more than delivering the head of a lame-duck ex-Worcester city councilor.
“Obviously it’s something that I’m going to consider and look at seriously.”
At first I thought he was talking about becoming a CW — a cooperating witness.
If Murray really means to run, this could save Mike McLaughlin five years. Unless, of course, you think Mike’s a stand-up guy. He’s 68, so you figure the odds.
Let’s review. Murray crashed his state Crown Vic at 5:20 a.m. last November, 20 miles from home, after which he gave three or four conflicting stories about what happened. He was clad in pajamas and he was going 108 mph at the time of the crash. He has since stonewalled release of his state cellphone records, to prevent disclosure of who he was talking to that morning (he claims nobody, but still won’t turn over the bills).
And then of course there’s McLaughlin, who was paying himself $398,000 to run the Chelsea Housing Authority, where he worked a full 15 days last year.
Now, consider what the Republican Governors Association did to then-Treasurer Tim Cahill in the run-up to the 2010 election. They basically had nothing on Cahill, and yet he was fricasseed. What do you suppose could be done to Crash Murray, by either a Democrat or a Republican?
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