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Inmates must have soft spot for our Patrick By Howie Carr Boston Herald Columnist Wednesday, October 11, 2006 - Updated: 12:06 AM EST Talk about micromanaging. When Deval Patrick was working for Bill Clinton, he busied himself with prison issues that - well, before we go any further, let me warn you that this is an R-rated column this morning, or at least the next few paragraphs are. If you don’t want to read Deval’s thoughts on the constitutional rights of prisoners to - how shall I put this? - pleasure themselves in front of female psychologists, go no further....

The devil you know is better than the Deval you don’t. What a bounce this guy gets from Tuesday’s victory - he’s up 64-25 in the first post-primary poll. But this is the way it always begins for Deval, in a rush of euphoria and beaming liberals feeling less guilty about their trust funds. It usually ends not so well, in the corporate world with a seven-figure severance, or in the public sector with Senate hearings and denunciations of Deval’s “Gestapo tactics” and running “roughshod over citizens, over communities.” You know who said that about Deval Patrick at a U.S....