Patrick's Frequent Absences Draw Globe's Attention

Patrick has no interest in being governor (0.00 / 0)

It's been clear for a long time that Patrick is unhappy in the corner office.  He spends all his energy planning his next move:

A) Obama wins and Eric Holder resigns.  Patrick is the new AG?

B) Obama wins, Brown wins, and Kerry becomes SOS.  Patrick is the new Senator?

C) Obama wins, Warren wins, and Kerry becomes SOS.  Patrick is the new Senator, faces Brown in a special election?

D) Romney wins.  Patrick has to come home to clean up his own mess.  [Cue "wah wah wah" sound effect].

Putting the public interest aside, which the governor clearly has done, wouldn't he better serve his own political interest by focusing on his current job?  Talk about fiddling while Rome burns.  I can picture the Senate hearings now:

Senator: Now governor, I see that you are really dedicated to becoming the nation's top prosecutor, but can you explain to the American people how your own crime lab fabricated drug analysis results, leading to the freeing of hundreds of accused and convicted drug dealers?  

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by: Bravehaht @ Sun Oct 14, 2012 at 19:08:49 PM UTC

She began working while Romney was gov. (0.00 / 0)

It seems like a check on her resume would have ended this all a long time ago.

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by: Patrick @ Sun Oct 14, 2012 at 20:03:06 PM UTC

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Are you saying Patrick inherited the problem from his predecessor? (5.00 / 1)

This is the tired refrain from the Left- blame the last guy.  Isn't there a way we also can blame Bush, Cheney, and the Enron hurricane emachine?  

Gov. Patrick has been in charge for over 5 1/2 years.  When does he start taking responsibility for what happens in executive agencies he controls?  Obviously, he's hoping that day never comes.

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by: Bravehaht @ Mon Oct 15, 2012 at 00:33:16 AM UTC

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Are you saying she didn't start working under Romney? (0.00 / 0)

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by: Patrick @ Mon Oct 15, 2012 at 02:32:46 AM UTC

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I'm saying the crime occurred on Patrick's watch (5.00 / 1)

The AG charged her for crimes in 2011.  By my calendar, that's after Deval Patrick's second term as governor began.  For all the talk of cleaning up after Romney, it seems he didn't get around to the crime lab managed by his own cabinet-level secretary.  

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by: Bravehaht @ Mon Oct 15, 2012 at 20:19:29 PM UTC

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So this administration bears no responsibility for her work? (5.00 / 2)

Somebody else hired her, so we don't need to supervise her work?  Clearly Patrick's Commissioner of Public Health disagrees, because this is what he said when he resigned:

"It is clear that there was insufficient quality monitoring, reporting and investigating on the part of supervisors and managers surrounding the former Department of Public Health drug lab in Jamaica Plain -- and ultimately, as Commissioner, the buck stops with me."

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by: Elizabeth Mahoney @ Mon Oct 15, 2012 at 13:08:40 PM UTC

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No, I'm saying she was hired on Romney's watch. (0.00 / 0)

Are you seriously suggesting that allowing a fabulist to hired into a position of trust was inconsequential?

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"That it ceased to exist, I'll grant you, but whether or not it failed cannot be definitively said." - Metropolitan (1990)

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by: Patrick @ Mon Oct 15, 2012 at 23:07:20 PM UTC

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Word on the street is..... (0.00 / 0)

that Governor Deval Patrick is actively planning a run for POTUS in 2016.  All this travel is for his (future) campaign, not Barack's or anyone else's...

We are headed for a 'Fiscal Cliff' and the country just elected a dope whose motto is 'Forward'.  

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by: Vote3rdpartynow @ Mon Oct 15, 2012 at 15:20:24 PM UTC

He doesn't want (0.00 / 0)

to be President...President has to deal with the Congress...he wants to be a Supreme.

"I acknowledge having racist and classist and sexist feelings of white male superiority." -John Howard

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by: ElectricStrawberry @ Mon Oct 15, 2012 at 19:34:32 PM UTC

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Deval running for senator (0.00 / 0)

If Kerry became SOS and Deval ran in special election for senator, he would not be facing Brown in the election as previously mentioned.  Brown's seat is separate from Kerry's.

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by: pattylocke @ Thu Oct 18, 2012 at 13:19:59 PM UTC