Posted on 09/07/2009 12:04:48 PM PDT by GOPsterinMA
And as little time as possible to pass bad bills. As a matter of fact, we’ll make it that you cannot be fired for missing those 2 months a year just as if you were in the military. Just to be fair, and make it more attractive for regular people to become candidates.
That’s what we need - regular people. Vets would be a good start!
He doesn’t have to run, he will get apointed anyway. He is after all, a Kennedy. /sarc (sort of)
“Is [Joseph Kennedy III] old enough?”
For the U.S. House (where he would run to replace Congressman Michael Capuano were Capuano to be elected to the U.S. Senate), certainly.
Ouch
Getting killed by running into t atree while playing touch football on skis while drunk is as close to a typical Kennedy death as they come.
Just my personal opinion, but I don’t think it was an accident. I think it was the quickest way to avoid a trial that likely would result in a conviction.
BWAHAHAHAHA! That comparison made me belly laugh!
Pam Kelley’s family lived in Hyannisport near the Kennedys. Her older sister Kim was the longtime girlfriend of Bobby Kennedy, Jr., a heroin addict. She became David Kennedy’s girlfriend in the summer of 1973, and spent time with him in Colorado.
The lovebirds returned to Massachusetts, and decided to go over to Nantucket to meet Joe, then 20. On Monday morning, before they were to catch the ferry, they decided to go for a final swim. Joe borrowed a jeep to go out to the jetty.
This is Pam’s description of what happened next, from “The Kennedys: An American Drama,” by Peter Collier and David Horowitz:
“We were all sort of standing up in the jeep. Joe was cutting through the woods, spinning the jeep in circles. We were yelling and laughing and acting crazy. There was a rest area on the other side of the highway and Joe started to cross over to it. He didn’t see this station wagon heading toward us until the last minute. Joe swerved and we hit a ditch with our tires on the right side, breaking the jeep’s axle and flipping us. We held on to the roll bar for a couple of flips and then had to let go. Me and David were right together… in the air. I remember tumbling and seeing David’s face. I hit the ground. When I tried to get up, nothing happened.”
She was paralyzed. She would never walk again. Joe Kennedy, too, paid a price for his Teddy-like driving. A judge who had been a Harvard classmate of his late uncle and namesake Joe Jr. suspended his driver’s license. Years later, a radio talk-show host speculated that Joe’s favorite ice cream flavor was “fudge cripple.”
David too was heartbroken by the latest island atrocity involving Kennedys and young girls.
“You finally find someone to love,” he is quoted as saying in the Collier-Horowitz book, “and you lose her. It’s the shits.”
That was the bad news for David. The good news was, when he was in the hospital recovering from his own fractured vertebrae, he was introduced to morphine. Soon he too was a junkie, like his older brother Bobby. In 1984, David would be dead of a drug overdose at the Brazilian Court in Palm Beach.
Joe Kennedy is now retired from politics, at least temporarily. A few years ago, on the beach at Hyannisport on the Fourth of July, he set one of his sons on fire with some illegal fireworks.
No charges were filed.
He's the best chance MA has at redeeming itself somewhat.
As AG, Martha Coakley oversees all the Non-Profits in MA. There are several less well known scams that Joe-4-Oil is running and she knows where all the bodies are buried.
You mean, there wasn’t going to be a coronation by fiat?
Just dying the gray hair would make a big difference I think.
You’re right - that’s the first thing I noticed. Haircut would help, also! ;)
"...........The nonprofit organization provides free heating oil to the poor, but Kennedy likely would have faced campaign questions about fuel it received from Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez — a persistent U.S. critic. He also has settled into a comfortable lifestyle since leaving Congress in 1999, taking home a $545,000 salary as Citizens Energy’s president as of 2007, and being spared the barbs he has faced from some local columnists recently for his past temper tantrums and high pay.Isn’t this the administration that created a political witch hunt over CEOs with high pay? A salary of over a half-million dollars at a charitable non-profit seems a bit excessive, especially for a trust-fund recipient like Joe. The Chavez connection would probably have mattered less to Massachusetts voters, but could have created a problem for Democrats in general as they flocked to support Kennedy..........."
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