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Howie Carr thread week of March 20, 2011
howiecarr.com ^ | 3/20/11 | raccoonradio

Posted on 03/20/2011 2:47:11 AM PDT by raccoonradio

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To: Kenny Bunk

LOL!


21 posted on 03/26/2011 7:29:03 AM PDT by rockabyebaby (We are sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo screwed!)
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To: rockabyebaby

Never mind the LOLs. Send me the reward money.


22 posted on 03/26/2011 8:25:24 AM PDT by Kenny Bunk (America might survive Obama. But it cannot survive with the kind of people who would vote for him.)
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To: Kenny Bunk

Well I think we’d need more proof that you have captured whitey - just seeing him in aisle 7 isn’t going to cut it!


23 posted on 03/26/2011 8:59:08 AM PDT by rockabyebaby (We are sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo screwed!)
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To: rockabyebaby; Andonius_99; Andy'smom; Antique Gal; Big Guy and Rusty 99; bitt; Barset; ...
Special Sat column ping. N.C. won, Raybo (Flynn) got robbed (while at funeral for the mother of Tom Finneran), and Geraldine Ferraro (not on death pool AFAIK) isn't coming down for breakfast.

Stealth hackerama: Just how big is it?
By Howie Carr | Saturday, March 26, 2011 |
http://www.bostonherald.com | Columnists

And so farewell, Philip F. Laverriere Sr., out of his $145,000 anti-poverty hack job at the age of 85 after the Lawrence newspaper caught him lounging away his afternoons at the local Elks Club, playing video poker and smoking cigars.

The Eagle Tribune said the Navy veteran of World War II told them he’d been spending his afternoons at the Elks for three years.

“That’s a lie, I never said that,” Laverriere was saying this week. “I was probably going to the Elks in the afternoons for only a month.”

Laverriere’s agency — the Greater Lawrence Community Action Council — controls $30 million annually in federal and state “anti-poverty” funds.

How’s that war on poverty working out in Lawrence?

His office was on the same floor as Rep. Nikki Tsongas’. Apparently she never noticed anything amiss.

Somebody dropped a dime to the paper, as well as to Tsongas and some other pols.

Guess who followed up.

“This is devastating,” Laverriere was saying. “I have no recourse to anything they’re saying about me. My wife wants to sell our house and move out of this town, but I’ve lived here all my life. I feel terrible for my daughter. She’s worked at that paper for 26 years — it’s tough for her now.”

You can almost feel sorry for the guy, busted in the twilight of a lucrative lifetime in the hackerama. But the larger question here is, how many people like Phil Laverriere are out there feeding at the trough, serenely gliding under the radar screen? I mean, he’s been the executive director since April 1, 1974. Appropriate, eh?

Had you ever heard of the GLCAC? Did you know how much dough they controlled, for such pressing issues as “immigration assistance” and “child care” and other things that Americans used to take care of themselves, without going on the dole?

“I don’t know what I’m going to do for health insurance now,” Laverriere said. “I got five weeks vacation coming.”

I asked him about sick days. I was thinking of Tom Kinton, the greed-crazed Massport hack who’s walking out the door with a $200,000 pension and another $459,000 in what are described as unused sick days, not to mention his “life insurance.”

“I have 1,825 hours of sick time, but I can’t cash them in.”

Bummer. Tom Kinton, I’m sure, feels your pain.

Meanwhile, the board has appointed a new interim boss of GLCAC, a guy named “Chick.” He’s a veritable kid — only 73.

Something tells me there’s a lot of Philip Laverrieres out there. We just haven’t heard about them yet.

And this morning they’re all thinking to themselves, “There but for the grace of God...

Article URL: http://www.bostonherald.com/news/columnists/view.bg?articleid=1326120

24 posted on 03/26/2011 12:34:28 PM PDT by raccoonradio (..)
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