Posted on 10/04/2006 10:04:11 AM PDT by excludethis
BOSTON - Democratic gubernatorial candidate Deval Patrick acknowledged Wednesday he had more contact with a convicted rapist than he had previously told reporters, after a report showed he corresponded with the man in the 1990s and wrote at least two letters to the parole board on his behalf.
Patrick, who last week said he had written just one letter more than a decade ago on behalf of convicted rapist Benjamin LaGuer, said he had to correct himself after going back and "doing his homework."
The Boston Globe reported Wednesday that Patrick had twice written to the Parole Board, in 1998 and 2000, supporting the release of LaGuer, who maintains he was innocent of raping a 59-year-old neighbor two decades ago.
DNA testing in 2002 linked LaGuer to the crime scene.
On Wednesday, Patrick said that he believed at the time he wrote the letters there were credible allegations of racism among the jurors. Before the DNA testing, the case had attracted intellectuals including former Boston University President John Silber and historian Elie Wiesel.
Patrick said he now believes LaGuer is guilty, based on the DNA evidence.
"He raised serious issues and I think they have been taken seriously. They deserve to be taken seriously," he said.
Recent polls show Patrick with a strong lead over Republican Lt. Gov. Kerry Healey in the Massachusetts governor's race.
TYPICAL...U OF T GRAD...LIVE IN MASS.
Are you telling me you live in Mass and you think Duvoid is toast?
lOVE TO SIT AND CHAT BUT THERE ARE OTHERS....
Hah! Backing off now. If only you are correct. I'd love to see Duvoid go down but I've got a bad feeling about this.
I do wish the Gubermint would fund some Spanish classes so I can understand when they ask me if I want paper or plastic at the grocery store. It's about time that I assimilate. /s
Well, being that he's a Massachusetts Dim, that should cinch his victory in November.
"He's toast...heard it on talk radio WRKO"
Toast??? Unlikely, you forget what state we live in. Have you forgotten Michael Stanley Dukakis?
maybe the problem with education in this country is that of the 3 R's they teach only one actually begins with the letter R
reading
writing
arithmetic
Um...thanks. You think that's the only problem?
OK, so lemme see if I've got this straight.
The Donkey candidate for Governor of Massachusetts tries to get the parole board to release into society a criminal convicted of a brutal kidnap and rape of an older woman, and he's a hero.
A queer Republican congressman sends some explicit homo-erotic email and IMs to a former page, who is above the age of consent, and who is receptive to the overtures, and the entire Republican leadership in congress must be resign.
What am I missing here?
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"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." -Manuel II Paleologus
I don't know about this candidate, but I was told by my own Congressman Lee Terry (actually a staffer) that a congressman could not use his office to take a legal stance on a parole hearing.
The only thing he could do through his office was to offer some advice on the best way to appeal to the parole board and to intervene if the victims family was not afforded a chance to be heard by the board.
Bus-Ted!
Sounds like Massachusetts deserves him.
Deval Patrick's letters to the parole board are on Howie Carr's site in all of their sickening detail. Just scroll down a bit from the top of the page. Patrick loved the monster.
http://www.howiecarr.com/
Dont forget that Michael Ducakis released rapists like Willy Horton! Rape is a "Choice" issue in Massachusetts!
"Massachusetts - where perverts and predators don't die of loneliness!"
"Massachusetts, the Gay State"
I have seen it on the car bumpers...
"A queer Republican congressman sends some explicit homo-erotic email and IMs to a former page, who is above the age of consent, and who is receptive to the overtures, and the entire Republican leadership in congress must be resign. What am I missing here?"
The Dims don't care that he's a sodomite or that he was e-mailing a boy, underage or not. They only care about their "culture of corruption" smear agenda.
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