New Healey ad links Patrick record to women's fears of rape

Kerry Healey, struggling to close a gender gap with Democratic rival Deval Patrick, is unveiling a scathing new television ad linking Patrick's past efforts to seek parole for a convicted rapist with womens' fears of being attacked.

The ad is drawing fire from women who support Patrick and victim advocates who said the Republican candidate for governor is pandering to women's fears in an attempt to draw votes and is ignoring the fact that the vast number of sexual assaults are committed by relatives or acquaintances, not strangers.

The ad, set to begin airing on Thursday, features grainy images of a woman walking alone in a deserted parking garage and is shot from the perspective of a potential stalker or assailant while a female narrator asks "Have you ever heard a woman compliment a rapist?"

The ad includes a clip of a television interview during which Patrick described LaGuer as "eloquent" and "thoughtful." LaGuer was convicted of holding hostage and raping a 59-year-old neighbor in 1983. Patrick supported LaGuer's efforts to seek a DNA test, which later confirmed his guilt, after which Patrick dropped his support.

The ad concludes with the narrator saying: "Deval Patrick, he should be ashamed -- not governor."

LaGuer was convicted of holding hostage and raping a 59-year-old neighbor in 1983.

Eh, looks like the rapist was an aquantance after all, thanks NOW for making our point.

DNA testing has become the end all, be all, of trials. If there's not a DNA test, the results are in doubt, and if there has been, it's officers cheating or something else.

I remember one group pushing a poll done of prison inmates with the banner of "60% of inmates wrongly convicted" 60% of inmates self-identified themselves as being innocent. Makes me seriously wonder what was wrong with the other 40% - was their crime videotaped, dna tests conducted, and two jurors present during the crime (for which they'll be appealing their presence on the jury?)

Why any politician would get involved with a rapist is just plain stupid. That it was a liberal suckered in is hardly surprising.

Don't associate with criminals if you don't want it to come back and bite you in the butt. The ad is truthful, unlike many liberal ones, and perfectly on point - governors pardon people, and had he felt the person was so innocent as to risk his political career to push a rapist, then obviously he would have been let free well before any DNA tests were done.

Sorry, ladies, but it's a fair ad, it relates what happened, and were this a Republican, you'd be cheering in the streets (and tacking on the charge that he wouldn't have permitted the raped woman from having an abortion.)

This is a great ad. People in MA are blindly supporting Deval Patrick because of who he is (black, Democrat, Clintonian) rather than his actions or positions on issues (drivers licenses and in-state tuition for illegal aliens; not complying with the voter mandated tax rollback). This morning a Deval supporter called into a talk show to defend Patrick on the soft on crime issue. The host asked him if he had read the articles in the Boston Globe. The answer was no.
The more this goes on, the more Deval's lead shrinks....

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