Biggest Loser in 9th Congressional
Was Boston Globe

Pro-Abortion Lobby Failed Dramatically to Defeat Lynch

By Atty. J Edward Pawlick
October 2001

The biggest loser in the 9th Congressional race last month was the Boston Globe.

It had repeatedly attacked Stephen Lynch in front page stories in one of the most ferocious campaigns it has ever waged against a political candidate.

Yet Lynch garnered the win with almost as many votes as the combined total of the next two candidates.

The second biggest loser was the abortion rights movement, which, with the militant Emily’s List taking the lead, had made a tremendous effort to defeat Lynch, according to the Globe. But the newspaper failed to point this out in their paper.

Many political analysts predicted this will give conservative candidates more courage in the future to stand up to the Globe and the pro-abortion forces.

The second highest candidate was Cheryl Jacques, who had received the endorsement of the Globe, and third was Sen. Brian Joyce, both of whom are pro-abortion.

The attack from the Globe began on Thursday, June 21, when it wrote on the front page of  “City & Region” this headline, “Gay activists mobilizing against Lynch US House bid.”

On Friday, June 22, it wrote as its third most important story of the day, “Tax records show Lynch had long debt.” It made it front-page news that Stephen Lynch had lost money on some rental properties he bought during the boom years and had trouble paying $2000 in taxes to the state and $4000 to the federal government.

On Saturday, June 23, it reported, “Lynch defaulted on student loan.” Further down in the story, it reported that Lynch paid back all of the $26,000 in loans he got in the 1980s to attend Wentworth Institute and he paid back about $11,000 of a $26,000 loan he had to attend night school in the 1990s. He didn’t default until May 2000 and hadn’t made any payments since August. He donated a part of his liver to his brother-in-law this March. Any collection lawyer will tell you, a man with this history will pay the balance of his debt.

But the reporter, Yvonne Abraham, even compared him to City Councilor Peggy Davis-Mullen who failed to file state tax returns and failed to report some of her income on her U.S. returns.

In its Saturday story, the paper began by saying that Lynch “had failed to pay thousands of dollars in overdue federal and state income taxes.” A reader could only guess that that referred only to the $2000 and $4000.

Abraham reported that Lynch even marches in the St. Patrick’s Day Parade in South Boston.

This was known at the Globe as the “total annihilation” of any candidate who dared to be pro-life. The only problem is it didn’t work.