Special Tue column ping
Felon Finneran’s disbarment: Check
By Howie Carr | Tuesday, January 12, 2010 | http://www.bostonherald.com | Columnists
Let’s go down the Felon Finneran checklist:
Convicted of obstruction of justice - check!
Stripped of his $32,000 state pension - check!
Forced out in disgrace from his $400,000 lobbying job - check!
Denied a presidential pardon for lying under oath about his racist gerrymandering schemes - check!
Disbarred as morally and ethically unfit to practice law - check!
In prison where he so obviously belongs - sadly, no.
Fired from his pathetic, failed, ratings-challenged train wreck of a radio show - no, no, no.
Well, to paraphrase Meatloaf, five outta seven ain’t bad.
How unfortunate that yet another escape hatch has been closed to Rep. Chromedome. How’s that new radio contract coming along, Mistah Speakah? The Advil-addled hack doesn’t seem to have a lot of options here, especially not with an endless stream of bent pols looking for no-heavy-lifting radio jobs to prove to their parole officers they too are avoiding association with other known criminals, like, come to think, Finneran.
Not that this will be a permanent disbarment, of course. You will notice that it’s retroactive to January 2007. I believe that this wretched reprobate can apply for readmission to the bar after five years - in other words, 2012.
I would never say that the fix will be in, but didn’t Felon Finneran’s top aide at the State House used to be a guy named William F. Kennedy? And isn’t this same William F. Kennedy now the chairman of the Board of Bar Examiners - surely not a bad friend to have under such regrettable circumstances as this, no?
Plus, if a lawyer who connived with Jerry Angiulo, and who went to prison for it, can get his ticket back, then why not Felon Finneran? I refer of course to William Cintolo, who is now defending Sal DiMasi, who followed Tommy Taxes into the speakership and now into the dock in the U.S. District Court. Oh, and by the way, Sal’s roster of clients included two of Jerry’s LCN soldiers - the Vinnies, Ferrara and Federico.
Small world, isn’t it?
I know the Felon’s cronies are crying in their beers, claiming that he’s been railroaded for nothing. Maybe, but then, they didn’t lug Galluccio for any of his really terrible booze-fueled accidents, did they? Just like they never bagged Al Capone for the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre.
The worst thing the Felon ever did (that we know of) was overturning the mandate of 1.5 million Massachusetts voters to stop the cut in the state income tax to 5 percent. So much for democracy, when a palpably corrupt, now convicted criminal, who on his best day never got many more than 7,000 votes, can give the finger to all of us who actually have to go out and work for a living, unlike Finneran and everyone he’s “helped” over the years.
I still want this talentless crook out of radio, but that’s going to happen, in time. And I really thinks he needs to do at least a short bit. And I have faith that’ll happen too. It took a while to get Galluccio, after all, but we did.
In the meantime, the Felon is disbarred. Thank you, Jesus.
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Wed column ping
Why vote for Scott Brown? Let me count the ways
By Howie Carr | Wednesday, January 13, 2010 | http://www.bostonherald.com | Columnists
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You may be a Scott Brown voter if:
* Unlike Martha Coakley’s campaign, you know how to spell “Massachusetts.”
* You’ve already voted absentee, and you’re urging all your friends to do the same by Friday, just in case.
* You think maybe Martha should be spending more time chasing criminals and less time chasing old ladies in their garden clubs.
* You know at least a few people who voted for Obama in 2008 who are now planning to use their ballot Tuesday to “repent.”
* You’re wondering why last week liberals were so angry that the word “Negro” was listed on the 2010 census form, but now that Harry Reid uses it . . . nothing to see here, folks, move along.
* You’re appalled that ex-Lynn Mayor Chip Clancy, who was fired by the voters in November, is now at age 59 going to collect a $79,200-a-year public pension, with survivor’s benefits for his wife, who by the way has a hack job of her own in the court system making $84,869.90 a year.
* You belong to a union, and they’re telling you to vote for Martha Coakley, and when you ask your pinky-ring thug business agent about the 40 percent tax she wants to impose on your “Cadillac” health plan, he slowly takes the stogie out of his mouth and says, Forget about it, da boys will take of all-a youse.
* You’re puzzled as to who killed the three U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan on Monday, because Martha Coakley said there aren’t any terrorists there anymore.
* You heard that the Amish are going to be exempt from the Obama-Coakley health rationing, and you’re wondering, how does one become Amish?
* You can’t believe any Republican would ever agree to let David Rodham Gergen moderate another debate.
* You’re angry that, when you had to take a pay cut in 2009 to keep your job, the Democrats on Beacon Hill jacked up the sales tax by 25 percent.
* You know Martha Coakley lost the debate when you hear her Kool- Aid drinking sob-sister supporters comparing her performance favorably to . . . Shannon O’Brien’s.
* You’re wondering why the cops, who should know Martha Coakley best, are all endorsing Scott Brown.
* You’re thinking that maybe, just in case, you should lay in some champagne for Tuesday - and does anyone else need anything while you’re up in New Hampshire?
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