There was an ancient city in Babylonia named Ur. Legend has it that it was peopled by politicians who , when called to task, constantly said , "Ur,er, I didn't mean to do that." That's what the ancient scroll to the left translates to.I believe that's where the word "error" originated, though I could be wrong.
Elected under the slogan "Together We Can", Deval Patrick, a Democrat, was in big trouble two weeks ago because, with the state having a billion dollar deficit ( a gift from our last Governor, Mitt Romney) ....1. Governor Patrick hired a full time appointments secretary for his wife at $72,000.00 a year. The woman he hired was a political crony. His wife is a highly paid,top level partner at a major law firm and works full time at that job. Under fire, he refused to fire the new secretary saying "Together we can.....pay for the appointments secretary".
2. He spent $27,000.00 to redecorate his office in our bankrupt state. The outcry was so great that, after the public wanted to string him up outside the State House with the cord from his new $10,000.00 damask drapes, he said he'd pay for that himself ........and also $400.00 or so a month to help pay on the lease of his new state Caddy, as he decided the Crown Vic they had wasn't good enough. See, Together we can....keep Deval's lifestyle of the rich and famous at that level.
Where will he get the money? Well, he's rich ... and part of that wealth came from being , please sit down, a $360,000.00 per annum member of The Board of Directors of ACC Capitol. The board met for four or five minutes per year, maybe they were meetings, but who's counting....it was still four or five times a year.
FOLLOW THE MONEY.....
ACC Capitol owns Ameriquest Mortgage which is under big time investigation because of shady dealings. Ameriquest needs a loan, a BIG loan, and is trying to get it from Bank of America.
Bank of America has tremendous dealings within the state of Massachusetts and is regulated by the state.
Two days ago, on a request from Ameriquest, Deval ... saying he was acting as a private citizen, not as Governor ..... called Bank of America and gave a hearty reference for the thieving bastards of Ameriquest to Bank of America. Though he didn't say it, the implication is that "well, if you don't help out, next time we regulate you....let me be blunt "together we can't".
So, the headline in The Boston Globe was "Patrick says he erred in call to firm". There's that "Ur" word again.
Some are saying he got bad advice or none. Yeah, right! This guy was a big time corporate lawyer. He was a US attorney. It has nothing to do with advice. Shouldn't he know better? I'd bet that you do...and I don't even know you. It has to do with his sense of entitlement and his sense that he can do "together with us" whatever the hell he wants.
In his eight weeks as Governor, the one good thing he's proposed, which won't work anyway, is raising the dropout age to 18 from 16. This is an idea first espoused during the campaign by his Republican opponent, Kerry "Muffy" Healy.
Other than that, we basically pay this guy to apologise for stuff he knows is wrong and thinks he can get away with until he's caught.
No hits. No runs. Lots of Ur'ers, Deval!
Maybe thats why we pronounce it "MassURchusetts.
