Posted on 04/07/2007 9:21:31 PM PDT by raccoonradio
Departing U.S. Rep. Marty Meehan of Lowell is a politician aptly described as “cute,” as they say at the State House. If you’re unfamiliar with the term, the closest synonyms are probably “slick” or “sneaky.” And Marty Meehan is definitely sneaky.
Case in point: an expensive four-color mailing Marty sent out to constituents in December inviting them to a global warming “TOWN MEETING” last December at the school he’s about to take over, UMass-Lowell. The “special guest” was then Gov.-elect Deval Patrick. It was a nice opportunity for Marty to bond, as it were, with Deval, whom the former Tom Reilly coatholder had opposed in the September primary.
Even though Marty was sitting on a $5 million political war chest, why should he have parted with any of his own dough to mail out this self-promotional claptrap to everyone in the Fifth Congressional District? So he used his congressional “franking” privilege - that means the taxpayers picked up the tab. But, of course, federal law requires that all franked correspondence carry a statement informing recipients that it was “prepared, published and mailed at taxpayer expense.”
And this is where Marty got cute. Check out where his legally required notice is printed - on an iceberg, in tiny letters. It’s miniscule white print on a white background. This photo is blown up, so trust us when we say that on the original, the disclaimer is barely discernible to the naked eye.
Cute, Marty, very cute. But sometimes a guy can get, as they also say on Beacon Hill, “too cute by half.”
>>This photo is blown up,
The photo has yet to hit the Herald web site. Will post it when it does. IF it does...
howie carr column ping
Marty Meehan. A schmuck’s version of what a schmuck is.
Anybody that does NOT do that is said to use hyperbole.. The only words to explain a hyperbolic situation would be hyperbole.. anything else is disinformation..
I don’t see the graphic on the Herald site yet so you may have to just check it out in your print version of the paper
(mine is still outside the door; yes I do subscribe...)
They don't deliver out here. I stopped my Globe subscription when they published those internet porn pictures depicting GI's raping Iraqi women.
The coffee shop at work stopped carrying the Globe, 'cause it doesn't sell, they do carry the Herald and USA Today. The biggest problem for the LSM isn't the internet, it's the fact that the newsrooms are infested with effete snots.
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