Chuck Turner: Pride before the fall

Mike Ball considers the case of the now convicted city councilor, concludes Chuck Turner fell victim to his own myth:

He has long been great on bluster as well as leveraging his race, age, class and whatever tools he finds lying around. Unfortunately the 70-year-old Harvard grad has often done so without those messy facts or provable details.

Turner will appeal the verdict, even as people in the 7th district start talking about potential replacement candidates.

Meanwhile, John Carroll ponders the oddity that is today's Herald front page: Rather than leading with Turner's downfall, the front page of what's become the Baker house organ is plastered with the shocking news that a member of the Kennedy family opposes Cape Wind. Shocking, that is, to somebody who has paid absolutely no attention whatsoever to Cape Wind and/or the Kennedy family over the past decade.

[A]pparently the editors would rather whack Patrick than yuck about Chuck.