Don’t Be Fooled By Phony Outrage

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Regardless of how safe Democrats may feel in Massachusetts, this week has been an unmitigated public relations disaster for our crooked friends on Beacon Hill.

Extending far beyond Boston talk radio and blogs, their corruption has dominated headlines this week throughout New England.

To have their dirty dealings exposed by the FBI just days before the election has greatly damaged the Dem’s public image. Yes, most of them are still safe in their seats, but public disgust may yet send a handful of new Republicans to Beacon Hill.

Citizens For Limited Taxation has a few Republicans in mind, by the way:

CLT’s 2¬Ω PAC “Focuses on Four”

Legislators who don’t respect their voters and deserve defeat

CLT’S 2¬Ω PAC has endorsed 33 candidates for the State Legislature.

However, we are asking the voters to particularly focus on four of these candidates. These individuals are running against four incumbents who represent a total of twenty-one towns/cities in Massachusetts.

All twenty-one communities voted “Yes” for the income tax rollback to 5% on the 2000 ballot. The Legislature “froze” the rollback “temporarily”at 5.3% in 2002.

Since then the four incumbents have consistently voted to thwart the will of their own constituents on the rollback. Collectively on twenty four votes over the last few years, they have failed to honor the wishes of the people they purport to represent and return the income tax rate to 5%.

Fortunately, there are four individuals running strong campaigns this year against these four incumbents. They have also vowed to make the rollback to 5% an essential part their campaigns.

They are: Chelmsford Senate candidate Sandi Martinez, running against Sen. Fargo (D-Lincoln); House candidates “Lonnie Brennan”of Georgetown against Rep. Barbara L‚ÄôItalien (D-Andover), Kevin Kuros from Uxbridge challenging Rep. Paul Kujawski (D-Webster) and Billerica‚Äôs Tony Lucacio opposing Rep. William Greene (D-Billerica).

All have received the maximum donation from our PAC. We urge the voters in these areas to support them. Defeating these four incumbents on November 4th will send a strong message to Beacon Hill that the voters deserve respect and are not happy.

Obviously, this isn’t going to bring revolutionary change to Beacon Hill, but it’s a start. Anything that undermines single-party corruption should be welcomed by the public.

Meanwhile, don’t be fooled by phony “outrage” coming from shady pols, especially Therese Murray (D- Single Party Purgatory). They’ve all thrown Dianne Wilkerson under the bus, hoping her taint won’t bring them down with her.

But we still don’t know what the FBI has on the other Dems. Nor do they.

Though Wilkerson is now suspending her write-in campaign, most likely because she doesn’t have a prayer of winning, the damage has been done.

Wilkerson image: Stuart Cahill, Boston Herald

Beacon Hill In Meltdown Mode

Could things be any worse for the Corruptocrats on Beacon Hill?

Just days before the election, senators are meeting to determine the fate of Bay State Bra Bandit Dianne Wilkerson (D-Robbery). They could move to oust her, but she might retaliate and finger them for their own crooked behavior.

In a particularly precarious position is mean-spirited, anger-filled Senate President Therese Murray (D-Ragebury), who may prove to have had a role in the alleged Beacon Hill bribery/extortion racket.

This makes it tough for SE Mass papers like the Patriot-Ledger, which normally lionize Murray and support corrupt, single-party rule. Today, however, that paper did report on her troubles.

Especially hilarious is watching Mayor-For-Life Mumbles Menino claim his hands are clean.

At this point, we don’t even know what impact this could have on the elections, where area Democrats now caught up in this meltdown are the very ones who’ve pushed hard for Barack Obama.

That may not affect the Massachusetts vote, but remember that Boston television and radio outlets dominate New Hampshire, where the race between Obama and McCain is very close.

With Wilkerson and the rapidly-growing corruption scandal now dominating headlines for almost two days, this can’t be good for their cause.

Meanwhile, The Felon’s sick attempt at defending Wilkerson and Beacon Hill’s corruption is making news today. From the Boston Herald’s Media Biz column:

And as Finneran defended the scandal-plagued Wilkerson yesterday, co-host Wendy Murphy let him have it.

“The fact that you want to say ‘just cause somebody’s giving me money and I happened to help them with their special legislation doesn’t mean the money was a quid pro quo’ – you can say that all day long and I hope it helped you sleep nights,” Murphy said.

Finneran cut her off and shot back: “Don’t even get up to a line let alone cross a line on that bull (expletive). I’m dead serious.”

Finneran’s foul language didn’t make it onto the air, said program director Jason Wolfe, but it was heard loud and clear on the Internet, where listeners can tune into WRKO-AM (680) live.

“When you nail him he just gets angry and resorts to abusive language,” said savewrko.com blogger Brian Maloney . “Wendy went for his throat and he couldn’t take it because he’s trying to defend the indefensible.”

Finneran didn’t return a call to MediaBiz yesterday.

Potential WRKO hosts should be required to take a character test. With last week’s arrest of Reese Hopkins, the station can add alleged child molester to its roster of ex-personalities.

Yesterday wasn’t the first time Finneran lost it on the air.

Back in February, Finneran fumed “bull (expletive)” twice on his show but the producer pushed the “dump button” in time and the profanity wasn’t heard on terrestrial radio. Offensive on-air language can mean a steep FCC fine.

Finneran has failed to attract a large audience, and it’s pretty clear why.

Mumbles, Wilkerson images: John Wilcox, Boston Herald

Dianne’s Inconvenient Timing

It sure is fun to watch some of our local liberal bloggers pretend Beacon Hill Corruptocrat Dianne Wilkerson wasn’t arrested in a FBI bust this morning.

Yes, that sure didn’t happen. Meanwhile, let’s see if we can milk the skinheads story long enough to provide sympathy for Obama!

Good thing we still have talk radio, at least for now.

The sad truth is that for every corrupt Alaskan Republican, there are 100 crooked Massachusetts Democrats. Wait, make that 1000, as they’re in every town and city in the commonwealth.

That’s why making hay out of the Stevens conviction isn’t going to fly if you’re going to ignore this even more brazen act.

According to The Globies, they’re SHOCKED (!!!) on Beacon Hill that one of their own would be stuffing crooked ca$h into her undergarments.

The only shocking thing about it is that she was actually caught.

Overlooking Gold Nugget Topics

Sure, we have plenty of local talk at this point, but how many area topics do they actually cover?

Vay Cay Jay, for example, would never lower himself to this level as he’s still hoping to be taken seriously as a pundit on national issues. Sadly for him, it will never happen.

Beyond that, we’ve got New Jersey hip hop promoters, felons, YouTube kooks and local yokels who actually believe Beacon Hill corruption should be defended with at least silence, if not outright support for these crooks.

That leaves Howie Carr, who could do us a favor and really dig into these matters, but seems instead to prefer switching to fluffy topics after quickly glossing over the headlines and making a few wisecracks.

For some time, I’ve pointed to Senate President Therese Murray (D-Perpetually Angry At The World) as an example of how local talk misses the mark.

Here’s a Beacon Hill corruptocrat who begs to be scrutinized and parodied, but instead is largely ignored by area hosts, most likely because it takes actual effort to examine her antics.

While Boston papers will occasionally highlight her weaknesses, on the South Shore, “Terry” gets a free ride, if not outright glowing coverage.

Running unopposed in her Plymouth/Cape district this November, Murray, is spending much of her time travelling, to Denver for the convention, followed by a trip to Russia and soon after, an “official” holiday in Ireland. Nice work if you can get it.

And all of that holidaymaking can make for wrinkled clothing, as Dave Wedge reports in today’s Herald:

Planes, strains and . . .

Obama’s big night might have gone off without a hitch, but many media members and delegates considered the entire week a logistical nightmare.

Getting around the Mile High City was often a disaster, with a lack of cabs and massive security perimeters around the Pepsi Center and Invesco Field that made getting to and from the venues an all-day chore. And then there was the airport.

Many delegates and journalists missed flights out of Denver on Friday due to ridiculously long check-in lines and understaffed airlines. Massachusetts Senate President Therese Murray, Boston City Councilor Sam Yoon and TV reporter Liz Walker were among those affected, as their luggage never made it onto their plane.

Murray was particularly distraught at Logan International Airport on Friday because she’s leaving for Russia this week and needed outfits dry-cleaned.

What a tough life. Until a viable political opposition is formed in Massachusetts, along with media outlets willing to cover the upstarts, expect the Bay State to continue its downward spiral.

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Don’t know about you, but I follow the issues closely, yet was still stunned to learn Beacon Hill’s Kleptocrats had taken away our home heating fuel deduction. Not fun to discover when working on a return.

Had to do some digging to find much about it, there’s a reference to the deduction’s expiration here.

With home heating oil now in the budget-obliterating $3.50 per gallon range, leave it to our corrupt legislature to take away a thoughtful deduction that helped low and middle-income taxpayers reduce their state liability.

With so few deductions available on a Mass state return, it’s amazingly easy to owe more to the Commonwealth than the IRS! No wonder young people so commonly leave for greener pastures.