Corruption? What corruption?
Mike Ball reminds us of all the stories circling around Boston, most of which seem unlikely to affect upcoming elections:
- The Mayor's top aide deleting thousands of emails, including those likely relating to subjects of federal corruption cases.
- A mayoral candidate with a long history as Council president in foiling public access to public meetings and records.
- A Senate candidate who refused to prosecute or even investigate corruption.
- A Councilor running for re-election under federal corruption indictment.
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Why is why the brazen
Why is why the brazen political attacks are falling on deaf ears.
There's no one candidate to be proud of, no expect anything else from.
Let things run its course
Flaherty was found guilty in front of a court; Menino and his staff have been accused, tat is a big difference. Flaherty's violation of open meeting laws cost the city hundreds of thousands of dollars.
It wasn't just him
As president, he did the right thing and took responsibility for the actions of the entire council. And running a closed meeting is a lot different than hiding correspondence that will most likely reveal that Kineavy and Menino were part of Diane Wilkerson taking money in exchange for a liquor license. Two very different things in my book.
law is law
There are a lot of crimes he did not committ but that isn't he issue.
The issue is that Flaherty knowingly broke the law, the open meeting law in a country that requires transparency in government. Then he spent years defending it and spending money defending it. Sure he didn't kill anybody but don't minimize the nature of the crime.
Menino's aid who deleted the e-mails
just took a leave of absence for no other reason than his involvement in the scandal.
Furthermore, Kinneavy and City Hall have some splainin' to do about their document production under subpeona in the Federal case against city councilors. I think the US Attorney will come down hard, even as Attorney General Coakley looks the other way and spends her time campaigning instead of enforcing the laws of the Commonwealth.