>>not many years past his drug and alcohol treatment and his testimony in cousin William Kennedy Smith's 1991 Palm Beach rape trial
I think this is when Howie Carr started calling him Patches.
It was important that he give his testimony to get his cousin off those charges: Patches, I'm depending on you son, to pull the family through. My son, it's all left up to you.
He hasn't filed papers yet but a guy named Edmund Leather announced on a RI radio talk show that he's running against Patches (announced the day BEFORE the incident)
2004:"About 40 Republicans, including East Providence-resident Edmund Leather, boarded a bus to Derry, N.H., last weekend to volunteer for the Bush-Cheney campaign."
That was interesting....wondered where the name of 'patches' came from....I haven't read anything about the kennedys in a while, last book I read was last year, "Teddy Bare" it was about the Mary Jo thing....
Been reading alot of Bush history.....