Remember, all this is coming in the Boston Globe, of all places. It's hardly as "right wing" as Fox news.
Duval follows up the last week's worth of revelations with this:
"I apologize to anyone who feels we didn't come forward with all the facts," Patrick said
Feels? Feels? I don't "feel" that you didn't come forward with all the facts. You bloody didn't come forward with all the facts, period, full stop, no added descriptors needed.
Oh, and it just gets better:
That thank-you note, he said, was turned over yesterday by a well-known Boston minister who had been in contact with LaGuer. That minister, according to Patrick campaign aides, was Minister Don Muhammed of the Nation of Islam.
A local minister… The local NATION OF FRIGGIN ISLAM minister.
And then this:
Asked again whether he would recommend LaGuer for parole, he answered: ``No is the answer because I'm running for governor, and now everything is overly scrutinized.
Not, no because this guy is clearly an animal and needs to be kept behind bars in order to protect innocent people, but instead, no because the voters might not like it if I said yes like I really want to. Total schmuck.
"It was a misstep, but apologizing goes a long way toward resolving the problem," said former Boston city councilor Michael McCormack. ``That should be the end of it."
Maybe it would be, but we won't know because Mr. Patrick didn't apologize. He said he was sorry if any of us felt that he had not come forward with all the information. He didn't apologize for not, you know, actually coming forward with all the information. He didn't apologize for something as simple as being duped by a criminal into supporting him until the evidence proved that criminal guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. He only apologized for our misconceptions at his actions. Well brothers & sisters, that is not an apology.
Former governor Michael S. Dukakis said Patrick was handling the situation well.
``You have to deal with this kind of stuff quickly, which I think he is doing, and then you've got to make sure that you and the other candidates are talking about the real issues," Dukakis said. ``He's got a terrific field operation out there. I think what will happen here is that folks out there walking the streets and knocking on doors will be energized even more."
Oh swell, Dukakis is planning to park his tank near the governor's office again. That's just great. Am I wrong, or was it Dukakis that pushed the "temporary" tax increase that Patrick has vowed to leave in place despite that sticky word, "temporary", and that tiny matter of the voters of the state actually, you know, voting to have the "temporary" tax removed?
Healey also appeared yesterday at a news conference with the prosecutor in a Florida murder case in which Patrick argued a sentencing appeal in the mid-1980s. Tom Hogan, a Republican who said the Healey campaign had contacted him and flew him to Boston, also read a letter from the daughter of Ronald Smith, who was not yet 2 when Carl Ray Songer killed her father, Trooper Ronald Smith.
She wrote that she remembered, as a teenager in 1985, ``being in that courtroom and watching Deval Patrick defend my father's killer."
Healey made the case the subject of a campaign ad that began airing this week.
Patrick said of Healey's ad, ``I don't apologize for the work I've done, and I will not have it trivialized or minimized by someone who has never been inside a courtroom."
Sorry buddy. Too late. I'm trivializing & minimizing it and, one traffic violation aside (Kittery Prison Blues song inserted here), I've never been inside a courtroom. What are you going to do about it?
I do not want this man elected. Not in the state where I live.
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