Bingo!
Wed column ping (also as you may have heard, the wife of the Congressman from my district, John Tierney, will plead guilty to tax charges...)
Steve Grossman’s PAC of ruffians, cheats and dolts
By Howie Carr | Wednesday, October 6, 2010 | http://www.bostonherald.com | Columnists
Steve Grossman never met a sleazy Democrat pol he didn’t love. How much does the candidate for treasurer love dodgy Democrats? About $1.5 million worth of contributions over the past 30 years.
It’s not quite accurate to say that as far as Grossman is concerned, if you’re indicted, you’re invited. But . . . but here are some of Grossman’s dearest Democrat pals:
# Sal DiMasi, House speaker from the North End, now awaiting trial on charges of accepting $57,000 in bribes: $500. Also, another $500 to DiMasi’s PAC.
# Dianne Wilkerson, former state senator from Roxbury, pleaded guilty to eight counts of attempted extortion after being videotaped stuffing G-man cash into her bra: $750. Will be sentenced to prison later this fall.
# John Buonomo, reprobate ex-probate registrar of Middlesex County, imprisoned at the Billerica House of Correction: $1,000.
# Rep. Robert Spellane of Worcester, sleazy philandering lameduck hack, a coatholder for convicted felon Speaker Tom “Felon” Finneran: $700.
# Rep. Antonio F.D. Cabral, also known as Rep. AFDC for his rabid support of gimme girls and guys, once had an $11,000 lien placed on his house for unpaid taxes: $500.
# Haitian-born ex-Rep. Marie St. Fleur, a serial tax deadbeat: $1,750.
# Rep. David Linsky of Natick, another non-filer of income taxes: $500.
# Tim Cahill, straw candidate in the governor’s race for Deval Patrick: $3,000. Gov. Patrick, Cahill’s boss, who over the weekend called Timmy to tell him to “keep your chin up,” collected $1,000 from Grossman.
# Attorney General Martha “Marsha” Coakley, the state’s chief law-enforcement officer, who says, “Technically, it is not illegal to be illegal in Massachusetts”: $1,000.
I called Grossman’s campaign and asked if he could give me a few words on each of the above statesmen. Instead, they responded with this thin gruel: “Steve’s donations to political candidates are a matter of public record. He is proud of the support he has givenboth charitable and political causes . . .”
Takeaway word: proud. But at least they gave me a statement. The problem, though, is that I have no state campaign records pre-2001. So I asked the campaign: Did Steve donate to the other two crooked House speakers - convicted felons Good Time Charlie Flaherty and “Felon” Finneran? I also asked about whether he gave to ex-Senate president Billy “the Corrupt Midget” Bulger.
That was the last I heard from Grossman’s outfit.
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