SPRINGFIELD - The state's newly appointed child advocate, Gail Garinger, is scheduled to attend the opening session of a two-day child safety conference at Western New England College this morning.
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Garinger also said she believes the highly publicized case of Haleigh Poutre, the Westfield teen-ager who was the victim of child abuse, "was one of the factors that played in" to the creation of the child advocate position.
Poutre, 14, was hospitalized in September 2005. She was in a comatose state with severe brain injury. She began breathing on her own around the beginning of 2006, and the state then ended its plans to remove her from life support.
Child advocate to outline goals
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The Huffington Post noted a report today that suggests the Republicans are already working to diffuse those rumors.
How interested is Florida Governor Charlie Crist in being John McCain’s VP runningmate? So much so that veteran GOP dirty trickster Roger Stone — who coordinated a few dirty stunts in support of Crist during the 2006 gubernatorial campaign — is quietly peddling a so-called “Charlie Crist sex tape.” That’s what Stone called it during a telephone conversation. And no, it is not a tape of Crist having sex with a guy. In fact, it isn’t even X-rated. The video was seemingly staged to kill the rumors that Crist is gay.
Stone claims the tape — which he discussed recently with Politics1, but didn’t show to us (”I’m saving it for the national shows”) — “shows Charlie fooling around in a hotel elevator with his girlfriend … They’re making out.” Adds Stone: “It was captured on a security camera in the elevator” last month. And Stone just conveniently happens to have a copy of the hotel’s elevator surveillance tape, just when Crist’s name is in play for the VP spot. Hmm. As for Crist’s purported girlfriend — presuming it is the same one he took as his date to the White House Correspondents Dinner in DC a few weeks ago — she’s still married (and not to Crist). Disclaimer: Always be skeptical of anything from Stone.
Far-right GOP base balks at a possible McCain running mate
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