Rep. Emile Goguen Is a Hero to Most

            Rep. Emile Goguen is a hero to most of his hometown, the hard-hit industrial city of Fitchburg, Worcester County, in the central part of the state.
            Many worried when homosexual activists sent thousands of dollars and many “volunteers” from across the country to defeat Goguen in the primary election of 2004. But Goguen remained steadfast and won both the primary and general election (in which he was unopposed) by over 70% of the vote both times. (The largest and most important homosexual organization, the Human Rights Campaign, sent vast contributions to Massachusetts, including a last minute “emergency” donation of $500,000 when they realized how bad things were for them here.)
            Goguen served for 28 years on the Fitchburg City Council and has been in the legislature since 1991. He has his own homeless shelter, which he personally supervises on a daily basis.
            Sally Pawlick is so impressed with Goguen that she is rooting for him to star in a movie modeled after the Christmas favorite, “It’s a Wonderful Life” --- about a real-life hero who has changed the world for many. Unfortunately, many sophisticates in Boston do not understand what life is like in a struggling city like Fitchburg.

Washington Post Sends a Reporter and Photographer to Attack Goguen
            When the Graham family at the Washington Post saw the problems that Pinch Sulzberger was having with the opponents of homosexual “marriage,” they dispatched a reporter and a photographer to write an attack piece on Rep. Goguen. But he welcomed them, as he does everyone, and invited them to follow him wherever he went at home or at the State House. As a result, the article appeared on May 22, 2004, but it was not an “attack” story, but a “pussycat.” . It was an editorial masquerading as a news story. Its principal source was an anonymous "State House insider," who said the following about Emile’s Resolution to “remove” the four judges who voted for “gay marriage.”
            "It's not taken very seriously on Beacon Hill," said the insider, apparently Mike Barnicle, the discredited Globe reporter who was terminated a few years back for fabricating his stories. The “insider” was quoted in the Post’s lead sentence as saying that Goguen’s Resolution to remove the four judges was "moronic." That was really important, up-to-date news, an anonymous tip from a discredited newspaperman, who was terminated a few years back for writing fiction, instead of news.
            The Post also insulted Fitchburg, saying, "Drive the streets of this industrial city, a city with a lot of brick and boarded-up store fronts, a city just waiting for Richard Russo to write a novel about it, and the only signs of political life are some discontent about the prospect of widening Route 12." It made many in Massachusetts wonder if the reporter had ever strolled the streets of Washington lately. He has a lot to do at home without worrying about Fitchburg. But Emile says he was a nice man. And Emile meant it sincerely.