The Christmas weekend slaying of a Woburn police officer by a recently paroled inmate renewed criticism in some quarters that Democratic Governor Deval Patrick, who had been in office two years when Domenic Cinelli was freed, is soft on crime.
But over the past 20 years, the percentage of inmates paroled while serving a life sentence like Cinelli’s peaked in 2004, when all seven members of the state Parole Board had been appointed or reappointed by Republican governors, according to data obtained from the agency. Mitt Romney, a Republican, was governor that year but did not have a majority of the appointees on the board until late 2005.
Mitt Romney served a single term. He left office in January 2007, some four years ago. The Governor's Council, the board that approves nominees to the Parole Board, is controlled entirely by Democrats who rejected Romney's first two appointments to the Boards as too draconian on crime. Romney also didn't have an exploding scandal regarding patronage at the Parole Board, but let's just ignore that inconvenient truth in our attempt to whitewash Patrick's poor record on crime.
Denying citizens the enumerate right to keep and bear arms while releasing dangerous, violent criminals back into society - that's the Massachusetts way!
That is all.
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Romney was quite instrumental in making sure while the Dems released the criminals, the citizens would be disarmed. *spit*
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