Marty gets a Limo!?

I'm so sick and tired of people making millions off tax payer dollars. If you thought Billy Bulger wasn't bad enough, check this out from Lowell. Marty Meehan gets a limo driver.

What's not covered for 'public officials' these days in this state? Do they get cooks? Do they get state-paid maids? You've got to wonder if we'll ever get to a point where enough is enough in this state. But herein lies the problem with socialism. When everyone is seemingly on the dole, don't expect anything to change.

Meehan's frivolous behavior is disturbing because this impacts the tax payer two-fold. It's reasons like this that college tuition is so high. Washington State University built the largest jacuzzi on the continent just to have it. Boat loads of tax payer dollars are forcefully taken from their hands and used to purchase 'needs' like limo drivers, Jacuzzis and build new hockey and basketball arenas for the sports teams. Dorms are falling apart and so are, that matter, the classrooms. College professors aren't seeing the money, either. Couple that with the fact that admissions standards are down to whether or not you have a pulse and the money, and there's really no reason for a college professor to give a crap. Milli0ns and billions of both tuition and tax payer dollars a year are wasted on Colleges and Universities. At least at Private Colleges, you know what you're paying into and making the choice based on the services provided. You pay tuition for UMass whether you like it or not.

Social droolers like Billy Bulger and Marty Meehan are all beginning to escape back into college life. There, they can steal as much as humanly possible from the tax payers and go relatively unnoticed. Stealing out in the open wasn't efficient enough, so now they're taking the gravy train under ground. Ask to see the budgets for many state colleges an universities. You'll be appalled. When guys like Marty and Billy see them though, they lick their chops.

Bulger walks off scotch free.

Voters in Massachusetts should be in an absolute uproar over this.

The US attorney's office let the clock run out this week on a federal grand jury in Boston investigating whether William Bulger had committed perjury or obstruction of justice, concluding that there wasn't enough evidence to seek indictments and take a case to trial, the sources said.

"Bill Bulger has been a political football for six years," his lawyer, Thomas R. Kiley, said yesterday.

Bulger, his wife, and children "have been through hell as a result of the focus on Whitey," Kiley said. "If they can get some peace that's a great thing."

US Attorney Michael J. Sullivan could not be reached yesterday, and his chief of staff, Robert Krekorian, declined to comment on the end of the investigation.

Whitey Bulger, 77, a longtime FBI informant, was warned by his retired FBI handler, John J. Connolly Jr., to flee shortly before his January 1995 federal racketeering indictment and has eluded authorities since. The international manhunt for the gangster, who is accused of 19 murders and is one of the FBI's 10 Most Wanted fugitives, alongside Osama bin Laden, has brought intense scrutiny to his family.

William Bulger, 73, of South Boston, who became president of the University of Massachusetts in January 1996, was pressured by Governor Mitt Romney to resign in 2003 after he was publicly grilled about his relationship with his gangster brother by a congressional committee investigating the FBI's mishandling of informants.

William Bulger told the committee that he didn't know where his fugitive brother was hiding and had not aided him in any way since he fled.

One law enforcement official said yesterday that investigators suspected William Bulger knew more than he was revealing and believed "if you put pressure on him, then potentially he or his family would give up where his brother is."

That's right, he's gotten away with all of it. I've never seen such a blatant miscarriage of justice perhaps ever. Billy Bulger is thumbing his nose at everyone today. Not only did he get off scotch free, he pocketed MORE money for his pension. How this guy's not in jail is an atrocity.

Helmets for Sledders, No Fluff in School, Now: Protect Teens from Tanning!

Is it me or is the nanny-state legislation spitting out of Beacon Hill at a ridiculous rate?

Here's the latest bill, to 'protect' teenagers from tanning booths:

BOSTON - Tanning booths are the latest area where teenagers need to be protected from themselves, according to lawmakers and health officials pushing legislation they say will reduce the number of new skin cancer cases.
New harsher penalties went into effect this weekend for teenage drivers who speed or drag race on public roads. Now, some on Beacon Hill want to prevent teens from recklessly exposing themselves to ultraviolet rays at an age in their lives when they can be most harmful.
The legislators are slated to testify at a hearing Thursday on a bill that would prohibit youths under 16 years old from using tanning booths and would require parental consent for 16- and 17-year-olds who want an indoor tan.

”Let’s not make it so easy for young people to expose their skin to dangerous rays,” said Sen. Pamela Resor, one of the bill’s sponsors.

Pension Piggies

This certainly won't be the last hike. Here piggy, piggy!

The Massachusetts Board of Retirement agreed yesterday to hike pensions of
about eight of the 17 active and retired college presidents who asked for the
increases to mirror a boost that former University of Massachusetts president
William Bulger won in court.

In November, the Supreme Judicial Court
boosted Bulger's annual pension by $17,000, to $196,000, after factoring in his
housing allowance. State pensions are calculated based on a percentage of the
average of a worker's top three earning years before retirement.
The 17 other
college presidents had asked that their housing allowance be counted as salary
in calculating their pension.

"We made the decision based on the Bulger decision, which said housing
allowance can and should be factored into a pension," said state Treasurer
Timothy Cahill, who chairs the board.
The pension board agreed to set a
retroactive date of July 2002 to begin factoring in the housing allowance.
That's when the board was first notified about the issue.

About 8 of the 17 presidents retired after July 2002 and will be eligible
for the higher pensions.
Among the former or active college presidents who
requested an increase is former Holyoke Community College president David
Bartley, who asked for a $12,000 increase of his $138,000 annual pension.
Bartley retired in 2004.

Not to be crass here, but why is it Treasurer Tim Cahill is a complete and total pussy about everything he's involved with? If Cahill wants to be Governor someday, and let's be honest, if Deval Patrick continues on the road he's on, he may have a shot at the Donk nomination in 2010, then he should step up to the plate for the tax payers and put his foot down. That would make a statement. He should file a counter suit to this or do SOMETHING other than roll over and scream "uncle!!!!"

As for Billy Bulger.. how the feds haven't caught him or jailed him yet is completely beyond me. No one has done more to spit in the face of tax payers than Bulger. Not Dukakis, not King, not that cross-eyed vegtable Tommy Taxes or anyone. It goes to show how backwards your state is when someone like Bulger can get away with what he's gotten away with.

Why the MassGOP hasn't been, isn't, and perhaps will never be all over this, is a tragedy.

And the Train Keeps On a Rollin'

The Deval Patrick administration LITERALLY can't get through a day without something ridiculous happening. This was in today's Globe.

Two commissioners on the state's quasi judicial labor relations board are accusing Governor Deval Patrick's chief labor aide of interfering with the agency on cases involving two unions that endorsed Patrick and donated heavily to his gubernatorial campaign.

The two commissioners, Paul T. O'Neill and Hugh L. Reilly, asserted in interviews with the Globe that Suzanne M. Bump made an inappropriate call about a case involving the Boston Teachers Union and pressured the commission to approve a pending petition by Service Employees International Union, Local 1199.

Of course, Bump and company denied it.

"There is not a single instance of my telling them to make a decision on anything," said Bump, a former legislator from Braintree who served as Patrick's liaison with labor during the campaign.

In late January, O'Neill and Reilly said, Bump made an irate phone call to commission chairman John F. Jesensky after the agency made its initial ruling that the Boston Teachers Union was violating the law with its threats to call a strike. They said she complained to him that she had not been given notice before the decision was made in the case.

Bump "clearly communicated her extreme displeasure, and we clearly got the message that she was unhappy," O'Neill said in an interview this week. Jesensky, who was also appointed by Romney, declined to comment, but O'Neill and Reilly said the chairman briefed them on the call.

About a week later, O'Neill and Reilly said, during a review of the commission's budget, Bump expressed strong support for a petition pending before the commission by Service Employees International Union, Local 1199, which spent more than $600,000 last year in support of Patrick's candidacy.

Under state law, the Labor Relations Commission is an independent, quasi judicial panel that resolves labor disputes and enforces state labor laws. The commission falls within Bump's agency for budgetary reason, but under statute is "in no respect subject to the jurisdiction thereof."

The two commissioners said Bump's discussion of the SEIU contract and the teachers dispute constituted "inappropriate" interference. Reilly said it also raises "ethical improprieties." O'Neill said the agency plans to take their complaint to the governor.

The Deval Patrick Administration is truly the gift that keeps on giving.

Governor Patrick Coming to Western Mass To Hammer Legislators

In an effort to turn up the heat on state legislators who aren't supporting taxes on new businesses, Deval Patrick's going to be touring the state having more of those silly town meeting moonbat pow-wows to push his new policy. In fact, he's planning on 'suggesting' names of some legislators who need to be 'lobbied' according to Mass Live. That'll go over like a fart in church.

"At the outset, we believe that our supporters and supporters of these ideas ought to be talking to their own legislators," Patrick said late yesterday afternoon. "As we do our own polling and we develop a sense of who is supportive and who is on the fence and who's elsewhere, then we'll be targeting particular legislators - you bet."

Patrick said he hopes legislators don't resent it.

Call me crazy, but I think they will. Just a tad.

Petrolati said yesterday it would be counterproductive to effectively raise taxes on businesses, especially when the state's economy is slowing.

"What I'm hearing is that people don't want new taxes," Petrolati said.

For once in my life, I agree with Tommy Petrolati. Hell is chilly tonight. While Patrick is partly right that many legislators are out of touch with their districts, on this particular issue (business taxes), most aren't, which is a political anomaly in this state.

Really though, what happened to "Together" We Can? Deval's made himself enough enemies in these early months. It probably wouldn't serve him well to make more.

Moonbats in Full Flight

Deval Patrick's new web site has garnered a little criticism over the past 48 hours or so, but for anyone curious as to how this web site was any different from his campaign web site.. well, uh....

Yes, everyone, 9-11 never happened, at least according to the 'community activists' on Deval Patrick's web site. Don't believe me, follow this link.

Secretary of State Bill Galvin has even chimed in with his feelings on the matter here. Apparently the web site has been publishing your address, phone number and all sorts of personal information. If the left hates the Patriot Act so much, they must be having a hemorrhage over this one!

It's that time of year where the moon bats like to spread 'em!...... The wings that is.

Oink, Oink

How or why can anyone justify adding to fmr. Senate President Billy Bulger's pension? Treasurer Tim Cahill announced yesterday that retired college Presidents would be receiving substantial increases in their pensions.... even thought they don't need it.

According to Cahill, the five-member state Board of Retirement will meet Thursday to take up requests from 16 retired and active college presidents seeking to benefit from former University of Massachusetts President William M. Bulger's legal victory in November to boost his pension by $17,000.
Former Holyoke Community College President David M. Bartley and former Springfield Technical Community College President Andrew M. Scibelli applied to increase their annual pensions by between $12,000 and $15,000, Cahill said. The board will probably vote unanimously to approve the requests, along with similar bids by other current and former college presidents, Cahill said.

"I don't think any of them need it," Cahill said. However, he added, "It's certainly theirs as much as it was Bulger's."

Bartley's current pension is $137,566; Scibelli's is $136,522.

Tiny Tim..... if they don't need it, THEN STEP IN AND TELL SOMEONE THAT! I thought this state was a little strapped for cash or is it only strapped for cash whenever someone other than a Democrat needs some extra dough in their retirement fund? Kind of like how we were strapped for cash when Mitt Romney wanted to use State Police helicopters to help local police in Boston and the state legislature turned around and said the idea was nuts because we didn't have the money to do it. Deval Patrick suggested doing the exact same thing the other day and now he's a genius.

I'm seriously beginning to question the sanity of the people of this state that they'll just let their public officials not only enforce a ridiculous double standard, but steal this much from tax payers. This is a complete travesty and level headed (and even some not so level headed) people everywhere should be appalled.

Byron Rushing: Rolling out the "Welcome" Mat

State Rep. Byron Rushing is insane. I don't think anyone, even some Democrats would debate that. For years now, Rushing has decided to file a piece of legislation that pretty much says we should just forget all that immigration law stuff and 'welcome' anyone into the state who wants to come here.

Well, it's back. And thankfully, it's got about as much of a chance of passing through the legislature as a bill that would put my naked likeness on the top of the golden dome of the state house does.

Democrats were mum on the proposal, which Rushing, one of the Legislature’s more liberal Democrats, has filed annually since 1990. Sen. Therese Murray, (D-Plymouth), who is expected to become Senate president, couldn’t be reached. Democratic Gov. Deval Patrick declined to comment.
Rushing said if his proposal was in place two weeks ago when more than 300 workers at Michael Bianco Inc. were arrested, events might have unfolded differently.
“Our first reaction would have been to help these people, and there would have been no pause,” he said.

Well, "Mum" might be a pretty nice way to put things, but this is Massachusetts and these days, I'll take what I can get.

Byron, Byron... oh Byron.

Trav Resigns, Murray New Senate President

Trav's done in the Senate. Now he's going to go into the influence peddling business, oddly enough with Atty. Tom Kiley, who was counsel for another Senate President you may have heard of, named Billy Bulger. But nope, it doesn't stink. Not even the fact that he's auctioning his services off on ebay.

Our new Senate President, Therese Murray, has an impressive past, even by Beacon Hill Standards. Here's some highlights:

--Was a "mitigation manager" for Stanley Dukakis for $1,022 a week

--Made sure the family is taken care of on the state payroll: Nephew Michael Whalen works for Treasurer Tim Cahill for $32,000 a year. Then there's her daughter Lauren. Can't forget about her! She was hired as a human resources coordinator by Attorney General Tom Riley at $46,000 a year. According to some she left on Jan. 10th because of course, your budget doesn't get cut when Mommy's the President of the Senate.

-- Today in the Boston Herald, Senator Steve Panagiotakos (D-Lowell), who's taking over Murray's post of the head of the powerful Ways and Means Committee said: “She will stand up to anyone. But Terry’s not confrontational for the sake of being confrontational. She’s someone who wants to get things done. She knows as much as anyone about the inner workings of state government.” She sure isn't (she gets others to do it for her) and sure does. Take a look at this.

Let the fun begin.

Thankfully, the Mass GOP tried to at least hold off the vote for a little while over questions surrounding misuse of taxpayer fund at Tourism Massachusetts. Regardless, that didn't hold much up and Murray was elected President today, 34-5, right down party lines.

Senate President to Resign

It's expected that Senate President Robert Travaglini (D-Boston) will resign tomorrow.

No, he's not taking the Health Care CEO job-thingy. Nope, he's doing what every good Democrat does; starting his own lobbying firm. Nope, no 'cooling off period' here. He's just going to jump right in, head first and start getting goodies while the goodies getting is good!

Hack-A-Mania!!!!!

So Deval Patrick finally cans friend, donor and campaign chairman!

.....and then hired a few more hacks.

Now I'm a little befuddled as to where this money is all coming from to hire new staffers? Joe Landolfi is replacing Nancy Fernandez Mills, who's not really being fired, just being placed somewhere else in the administration, likely doing nothing, but retaining her salary. So that's not really a replacement, that's an addition. Dave Morales who was Senate President Robert Travaglini's 'chief of staff' and will go from $80,000 a year in that job and his salary will be bumped up to $100,000 even.

It's likely Patrick will use his firing of his wife's 'Secretary' Amy Gorin, whose salary totaled $72,000. So essentially, Patrick is adding $207,000 in salaries right? They're being funded basically out of the dropping of a $72,000 salary. Apparently, there are even more appointments on the way. So far, we've got $135,000 is new money that needs to be allocated for the governor's office and at this pace, it'll top that substantially.

Deval's putting a spin machine together with your money. Excellent.

Speaking of spin machines, The Republican just decided not to cover the reshuffle. At all. It wasn't anywhere on the paper. No mention, nothing. It might as well not have happened out here in Springfield.

Diane Patrick's Cheif of Staff Resigns

Amy Gorin, former Deval Patrick campaign co-chair and chief of staff to Massachusetts First Lady Diane Patrick, resigned from her post.

The resignation comes after controversy regarding Gorin's being placed on the tax payer-funded pay roll at a salary of $72,000 per year.

Gorin, Patrick's former campaign chair, also came under fire early last year when a testimonial posted on Deval Patrick's Campaign web site blog featured Gorin not disclosing her identity as the chairman of the Patrick campaign, instead showing herself to merely be a random supporter.

The official press release can be found here.

"Cost Avoidance" Massachusetts Style!

Governor Deval Patrick announced yesterday, that he is filing a "cost avoidance" bill with the Legislature according to Boston.com. The "cost avoidance" bill will only cost taxpayers $1.47 BILLION dollars. The money wlll be used to build "emergency" projects. "Emergency" projects like a new psyc hospital, and a few new bridges.

Who's avoiding the cost again?

Masscahusetts Burning? Swan Compares MA to Mississippi

According to State Representative Ben Swan (D-Springfield), Massachusetts is as racist, if not more racist than Mississippi.

Swan said in a sworn statement filed in connection with the case that he once preferred the Deep South to Springfield.

"When I first moved to Springfield (in the 1950s) I wanted to go back to Mississippi because of the racist attitudes I encountered," Swan said.

Yesterday, he testified he believed there have not been equal opportunities for blacks to get elected here, due to fund-raising and networking handicaps.

I'm curious to know whether or not in Mississippi it's o.k. for public officials to not pay their taxes? In any event, the plaintiffs will rest their 'case' tomorrow. Thank the lord.

Dukakis tells Media to leave Diane Patrick Alone

He won't ever go away. Former Governor and 1988 Democratic Presidential Nominee Michael Dukakis was at it again, letting us all know we should stop picking on Deval Patrick about his wife's depression.

The best quote from this story:

"Former Gov. Michael S. Dukakis, whose wife waged a public battle with booze, pills and depression and wrote two books about it, said the media should just leave Gov. Deval Patrick and his wife alone as she battles her own illness."

The press would have left Mikey and Kitty alone, had they, you know, not done everything they could possibly do to let everyone know about it. If Patrick wants privacy, he shouldn't be calling multiple press conferences to tell everyone not to bother his wife.

Deval Patrick's Popularity Plummets

This one's from Deval Patrick Watch:

Apparently Deval's approval ratings are dropping quicker than a hooker's drawers. His approval rating is down a whopping 20 points and his disapproval rating up 22. Yikes.

Read the story from CBS here.

Marge Eagan: Deval Patrick Showing True "Grit"

Is it utterly impossible for Democrats to look at their own and raise an eyebrow?

In the latest 'How Dare You' piece by a member of the liberal Boston media, Margery Eagan is quick to point out all the mean-face, Republican evil-doers who also apparently hot-dogged on the job in an attempt to justify Governor Deval's recent issues. This one though, took the taco:

Perhaps you have heard about Mitt and Ann Romney’s “my family is better than your family” presidential tour, where they go on about their perfect marriage, family, teeth, hair and home? It’s nauseating, really.

I’ll take grit over Mitt and Ann in Wonderland. Any day.

'Grit'? Sure. Nothing screams 'grit' like $72,000 a year salaries for Secretaries of non-public officials, flashy curtains, Cadillacs, or calls on fancy cell phones regarding favors for former employers. When I think of those things, I think of ripped blue jeans, beards and flannel shirts.

And yes, Large Marge, some people have families that aren't completely screwed up. Are you jealous or something?

Deval's Missteps Getting National Attention

Yikes, Even Reuter's is giving Deval Patrick some rough treatment these days. An interesting, all encompassing summary of Deval's more than shaky start.

This Week's Events

Here's this week's calender of events! Remember, if you want us to post an event, contact us at Massfederalist@gmail.com! For future reference, PLEASE send in the Name of your event, what it is (meeting, dinner, lunch, cage match), where it is, what time and WHO to contact and at what number or email address.

Wednesday, March 14, 2007

Event:	Republican Club of Southeastern Massachusetts
Where:	Wamsutta Club 427 County Street New Bedford
When:
Cost:	$15.00 per person
Contact:	Janet Doe - Janet.Doe@verizon.net,
Wednesday, March 14, 2007
Event:	Acton Republican Town Committee
Where:	24 Liberty Street Acton MA
When:	7:30 pm
Cost:	Free!
Contact:	David Stone dkstone@flagshipventures.com,
Thursday, March 15, 2007
Event:	Joint Meeting Yarmouth Republican Town Committee and the Dennis Republican Town Committee
Where:	7 PM at the Dennis Senior Center Dennis MA.
When:	7:00 pm
Cost:	Free!!
Contact:	508-398-9621,
Friday, March 16, 2007
Event:	Sandi Martinez Kick-Off
Where:	The Skellig 240 Moody St - Waltham
When:	7:15 pm
Cost:	$50 pp $90 cple
Contact:	Michael J. Benn,

WESTERN MASS REPUBLICANS CALVIN COOLIDGE BANQUET
MARCH 22, 2007LOG CABIN RESTAURANT, 500 Easthampton Road Holyoke, MA

The Price is $40.00 per person, $35.00 per senior
For more information, contact MARCIA EVANS at (413) 221-7577

***IMPORTANT***
Make sure you send in your admission and RSVP *BEFORE* the dinner. They will NOT be accepting walk-ins , not even from ME!

Yes, I know this isn't this week. Doesn't matter. This is the BIGGEST GOP bash west of Worcester every year and one heck of a time. Reed Hillman, Nearly the entire Republican State Senate Delegation will be there as well as an impressive delegation of people from the House, including Rep. Mary Rogeness (Longmeadow) & The always animated Rep. Donald Humason, and Rep. Todd Smola.

DON'T MISS THIS EVENT!