From the Bovard blog:
Kimberly Atkins, a reporter for the Boston Herald, called me yesterday regarding Deval Patrick, the Democratic candidate for governor in Massachusetts. Patrick played a notorious role in the Ruby Ridge scandal, overruling a Justice Department panel regarding FBI sniper Lon Horiuchi. Horiuchi was the guy who gunned down Vicki Weaver as she held her baby in the cabin door on an Idaho mountaintop in 1992. Patrick decreed that applying the death sentence was not
Thank you James Bovard-san. I had no idea Deval Patrick was right there, trying to influence one of the biggest miscarriages of justice in history.
This election we can choose between the Green–a lady of higher consciousnes who wants Massachusetts to stop global warming, the independent–a snappy energized guy from a rich Greek family who wants to cut taxes and reduce spending, the Republican–an extremely unpleasant looking woman who hasn’t said much other than lunge for Deval’s jugular vein, and Deval–a handsome, strapping specimen of masculinity who promises to solve everyone’s problem, if only he had a little extra cash.
I liked the independent, Mihos; his commercials were amusing if not altogether g-rated with animated caricatures of the two leading candidates stretching their heads into their own asses.
But anyway, guess who’s probably going to win?! You got it, the handsome, smooth talking dude. He’s ahead in the polls. My bet is that he’s going to tax this state into its death throes. Funny, have you seen the potholes up here? The insane taxes do nothing for safe roads.