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Devil’s in the details for Boy Mumbles
By Howie Carr | Wednesday, January 7, 2009 | http://www.bostonherald.com | Columnists

Top 10 complaints of BPD Detective Mumbles Menino Jr.:

10. Didn’t get a call on the Chuck Turner bust.

9. How many times do I have to tell Pops, I’m in the “intelligence unit,” not the “intelligent unit?”

8. His wife Lisa keeps saying, if you’re making all this money, smart guy, how come we still live in Hyde Park?

7. Three words: Boom Boom Room.

6. When is Pops gonna lower the boom on that @#!$%& Baby Flats for dropping all these dimes?

5. Why can’t I have a liquor license - everybody else got one.

4. Pops still won’t let me “work” the overnight detail on Chesterfield Road.

3. Do you really think I’d have shaved my head if I’d known I was going to look like Dr. Evil on the front page?

2. When Jane Swift got that cheap-o apartment from one of the Fishes, nobody gave a damn.
1. Is it too late to go out on a disability pension?

I don’t care how much money Detective Menino makes, it can’t be much fun going through life knowing that behind your back, everyone is calling you “Mumbles Junior.” Did you see the photo of them on the front page yesterday: Fred Flintstone in a suit and Dr. Evil. They could make a movie about the Meninos, except they already have. “Dumb and Dumber.”

As corrupt as City Hall has become, this story about his son’s part-time gig is the worst blow yet to Mumbles, because it is so easy to understand. I mean, we’ve all heard the stories about Mumbles Junior’s abuse of details - but at some point, a pol’s kid has to stand on this own.

Unless, of course, you’re Mumbles Junior.

Can anybody knock off Mumbles this year? Probably not. No one’s gonna have nearly as much dough - for years now Mumbles has been touching everything but the third rail. The last couple of weeks of the year he grabbed over 100 large in contributions. But if you look at the Herald message board yesterday, you can see how much pent-up resentment there is about the kleptocracy that’s been running the city, like, forever.

Man, are the citizens up in arms. And I have a feeling a lot of those postings yesterday were cops, guys who personally know Mumbles Junior. They were coming up with all sorts of new angles to this thing. Like, how this Suffolk Construction deal is helping Mumbles Junior get his 40 quarters in - so he can collect Social Security, on top of his city kiss in the mail. The posters also mentioned how quickly Boy Mumbles made detective.

Not a good way to start the year. As one of the posters asked, more Tums, Tommy?
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