Come on everyone. Please, elect someone besides this guy. Christy Mihos if you must, but not this guy.
Some members of the Globe editorial board on coming down in the right place.
I honestly don't care whether Deval Patrick gave $5 or $5 million to help convicted rapist Benjamin LaGuer get a DNA test. By giving the money, at least he was trying to get at the truth. And I honestly don't care that he helped a cop killer in Florida escape the death penalty. For good or bad, that's what defense lawyers do.
But there is something profoundly and fundamentally wrong with Patrick's letters to the Massachusetts Parole Board on behalf of LaGuer, aggravated by his ever-changing explanations of them. The bottom line is this: If Deval Patrick had his way, a thug who bound a 59-year-old woman and repeatedly raped her over the course of eight hours would have been granted parole. There's no other way to see it.
That, and that alone should put serious and real doubts into the minds of voters, but Mr. McGrory isn't done:
It's important to note that these letters were not simply an expression of concern that LaGuer's trial was tainted by racism, or a request for a new trial, or a plea for definitive DNA testing.
No, they were a recommendation that the prison doors be flung open and that the rapist be set free, based, it seems, on the fact that he was ``thoughtful, insightful, eloquent." A consultation with the victim's family? Why bother.
And all this from someone that actually supports Patrick. Read the rest.
Let's elect someone better.
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