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Last-Call Anthony Galluccio’s record tipsy-turvy
By Howie Carr | Wednesday, October 7, 2009 | http://www.bostonherald.com | Columnists

If Ted Kennedy is now known as “the Last Lion of the Senate,” then how should we refer to state Sen. Anthony Galluccio of Cambridge?

How about “the Last-Call Lion of the Senate”?

Sen. Galluccio, it’s not too late to enter the special election to fill the Lion’s shoes. And based on your history of driving escapades, who better to replace the Lion than the Last-Call Lion?

If only Last Call had had a blonde in the car Sunday afternoon, he’d be the front-runner for next spring’s Profiles in Courage Award.

For the record, Tony Galluccio has in fact passed at least one bar in his life - the Massachusetts Bar. What made Milwaukee famous has made a loser out of him.

The good news is, Last Call has been able to beat even more bad-ice-cube raps than the former Mr. Rachel Kaprielian. The only way Last Call could have gotten any more brooms would be if his first name were “Judge.” Galluccio has even gotten a gubernatorial pardon for an OUI, from ex-Gov. Bill Weld, another Cambridge pol who well knew that drinkin’ doubles don’t make a party.

Galluccio’s latest misadventure occurred at around 5:40 Sunday afternoon in Cambridge. That’s always a dangerous time to be out on the roads around here, at least if the Patriots play an early game, which they did Sunday.

According to the police report, Galluccio rear-ended a car with three passengers at the intersection of Garden and Linnean streets. Galluccio immediately sped off like a bat out of hell - I wonder why. The police are baffled, especially since one of the passengers in the other car was injured. Aren’t Democrats supposed to be compassionate?

Instead, Galluccio went on the lam. He vanished, until Monday afternoon. It was the first time a Massachusetts solon had his picture on a milk carton since Gulliver O’Leary of Melrose fled the jurisdiction ahead of an embezzling indictment. Like Galluccio, Gulliver would take a drink under extreme social pressure.

I called the Last-Call Lion yesterday at the State House, but he never got back to me. Too bad, I wanted to ask him if he remembered the late Sen. Denis McKenna of Somerville.

As was said of Brendan Behan, Denis had a thirst so great it would cast a shadow. Nobody could ever figure out how he kept getting loaded because they never saw any bottles in the trash can in his office. Then Denis died and they moved the file cabinets and found hundreds of empty pony bottles.

Don’t worry, though. This won’t happen again - at least not at 5:40 next Sunday. The Patriots don’t kick off until 4:15.

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