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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMass. GOP Candidate For Governor Busted In Humiliating Fake Story
http://www.liberalamerica.org/2014/10/30/mass-gop-candidate-for-governor-busted-in-humiliating-fake-story/If you recorded Maddow tonight, you saw this story. Republican candidate for Governor of Massachusetts Charlie Baker brought on the waterworks (tears) in a debate on Tuesday. Its not really being questioned whether or not the tears were genuine. It doesnt matter. Why is that? Because the entire story appears to have been a fabrication, or at the very best, a huge stretch.
Baker was asked when was the last time you cried. He became emotional and related a tale of a fisherman he encountered over the course of the campaign. He said that the man was from New Bedford and had two sons both had been high school football stars who received scholarships. From the Boston Globe:
A father, who also happened to be a fisherman soaked in sweat and salt water, prevented his sons from taking college scholarships because he wanted them to become fishermen, too.
I ruined their lives, said Baker, quoting the father, as the candidate emotionally recounted the anecdote during Tuesdays debate.
The backstory on this emotional story is the federal regulations that are objectionable to the commercial fishing industry.
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Unfortunately for Baker, townspeople in New Bedford have never heard of a fisherman with two football star sons who turned down scholarships.
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Let me make this easy for you, Charlie Baker. The dude doesnt exist! Stop your lying, your crocodile tears, and just go ahead and lose this race.
Baker was asked when was the last time you cried. He became emotional and related a tale of a fisherman he encountered over the course of the campaign. He said that the man was from New Bedford and had two sons both had been high school football stars who received scholarships. From the Boston Globe:
A father, who also happened to be a fisherman soaked in sweat and salt water, prevented his sons from taking college scholarships because he wanted them to become fishermen, too.
I ruined their lives, said Baker, quoting the father, as the candidate emotionally recounted the anecdote during Tuesdays debate.
The backstory on this emotional story is the federal regulations that are objectionable to the commercial fishing industry.
<...>
Unfortunately for Baker, townspeople in New Bedford have never heard of a fisherman with two football star sons who turned down scholarships.
<...>
Let me make this easy for you, Charlie Baker. The dude doesnt exist! Stop your lying, your crocodile tears, and just go ahead and lose this race.
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Mass. GOP Candidate For Governor Busted In Humiliating Fake Story (Original Post)
HomerRamone
Oct 2014
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mahina
(17,654 posts)1. How could he have imagined he wouldn't be busted for this?
Stupid!
I can not imagine anyone fishing for a living in Mass whose kids got a scholarship who wouldn't have been over the moon for them. Come on!
PCIntern
(25,544 posts)2. although I agree with the first part of your post...
you clearly didn't know some of the people I knew growing up in Lower Bucks County, PA. Many of them thought 'edumacation' was a waste of time, energy, and money. Especially since all those 'Commies' were running the schools and colleges.
TheCowsCameHome
(40,168 posts)3. Charlie will be crying Tuesday night,
with good reason.
Marrah_G
(28,581 posts)4. He is an asshole