Scandals by Leaders of Mass. Democratic
Party Came Fast and Furious this Week
The scandals
in the leadership of the Mass. Democratic Party are coming so fast
and furious this week that it will be a time before anyone puts them
all together.
Just a few:
Speaker
Sal DiMasi has been closely linked for years with the 59-year-old
homosexual activist, William Conley, who was arrested by UMass police
last month for seeking to pay for homosexual sex with students at
UMass. So far this year, Conley has been paid $31,560 to be a lobbyist
for the Mass Gay & Lesbian Political Caucus. He honored DiMasi
at a fundraiser for the homosexual group this last week “to celebrate
our override victories and thank Sal for his outstanding leadership
on lesbian, gay, bisexual and transsexual issues.”
On
the Wednesday night before DiMasi was honored, the House sustained
the Governor's veto of a new independent “Commission on Gay
and Lesbian Youth” (of which Conley is a board member) because
DiMasi was unable to get the 2/3 vote he needed in order to overturn
the veto. Gay activists wanted the new Commission, which would be
independent of normal government oversight and
they pleaded for DiMasi's help. At that point, DiMasi called for a
15-minute recess and strong-armed several members to change
their votes. Thus, he was able to overturn the veto.
When
the second vote was finally taken, Democrat Reps. Callahan, Kennedy,
Koczera, Spiliotis, Tobin and Welch had switched their votes from
“No” to “Yes”. Pedone and Deleo who abstained
on the first vote, weighed in this time with a “Yes”. Rep. O’Flaherty,
who had voted “No” in the initial vote, was convinced by DiMasi to
sit this one out. The Speaker had his override
with the final count being 104-44. No one knows what the Speaker did
to get the Reps to change their votes. Did
he reward them or threaten them?
The
Boston Globe has not reported
on this new Commission, nor has any other media. All that the Globe
reported on that Friday was under the headline “Romney Abolishes Commission
on Gay and Lesbian Youth”, but they gave only two sentences to the
fact that a larger, more extensive Commission was replacing it. They
have not reported the arrest of Conley, either, who is a sexual predator
sitting on the Commission. MassNews has gone through the effort of
obtaining the transcript of the debate on Beacon Hill
that created the new Commission, and has uncovered the details on
this Commission.
Click Here
to See the Roll Call of the First Vote
Click Here
to See the Roll Call for the Second Vote
The
FBI affidavit against the corrupt Police Department of Mayor Tom Menino
involves the entire Democratic leadership including DiMasi, Travaglini
and “other public officials” which the FBI has not yet named.
Mayor
Menino and other officials knew that the ringleader of the corrupt
cops was taking cocaine (as well as 35 other cops) but did nothing
about it for many years until the FBI’s sting operation exposed it.
The mayor did not want to anger the local union.
AFL-CIO
Dictating to Massachusetts
Legislature About Homosexuality
Before the Constitutional
Convention on gay marriage convened a little over a week ago on July
12, the AFL-CIO had already warned the legislators they must vote
in favor of gay marriage. The union did so by endorsing opponents
of the five Democrat Reps who had announced they are against gay marriage.
For everyone else
the union is withholding their endorsements until September, a clear
signal that the vote on gay marriage is a litmus test for a union
endorsement.
This conduct began
in 2002 when the legislature first voted to help gay marriage by violating
the state Constitution. In 2002, they simply adjourned before taking
a vote (which they were required to do) on the Constitutional Amendment
which was before them. While they were voting to adjourn, a low chant
was heard throughout the Chamber, “this is a labor vote . . . this
is a labor vote . . . this is a labor vote . . .” Many spectators
were frightened by the menacing union thugs who had “lobbied” the
legislators at the State House in preceding days. On the day of the
vote in 2002, the thugs again appeared and their chant was clearly
heard by the legislators as they were voting.