Hat Trick

No, not the hockey kind. The win of our local sports collective over another municipality's sports collective prompted Stretch to send me a link that led to this:

Nice hack trick, Sal DiMasi

Mistah Speakah should have gone for the plea deal, just like his corrupt fellow speakers before him, Felon Finneran and Good Time Charlie Flaherty. Omerta’s dead, just ask Steve Topazio. He threw Sal, his “mentor,” under the bus. So what if Sal had nobody to trade up — anything would have been better than putting yourself in the cross hairs of the jury.

Three convicted speakers in a row. It’s a hack trick, a three-peat.

Yes, good ol' Massachusetts just indicted the third Speaker of the House in a row. Much like Tom Finneran and Charlie Flaherty before him, Sal DiMasi is going for a perp walk. Unlike Finneran and Flaherty, though, DiMasi thought he could beat that rap. He found out the hard way that he's no Tom Finneran - no sweetheart radio deal and up to 25 years in the pokie!

Now, I'll eat my Fruit-of-the-Looms if DiMasi serves anywhere near 25 years - hell, I'd be surprised if he serves a tenth of that. One can only hope that current Speaker of the House Robert DeLeo has the common sense that G-d gave gravel and is keeping everything 100% legitimate.

What got me the most was the quote from Deval Patrick from this story:

Meanwhile, Gov. Deval Patrick, who testified during DiMasi’s trial on how he ceded to the pol’s hard sell on a low-priority item, yesterday described the fallen speaker’s case as an “outlier.”

Three Speakers of the House in a row to be indicted and DiMasi is an outlier? Actually, DiMasi would have been an outlier if he hadn't been as crooked as a dog's hind leg.

Governor Patrick, that word you were using, I do not think it means what you think it means.

That is all.