(MA Dem gov. candidate) Deval Patrick Blames Opponent for Newspaper Leak

[DeepModem Mom]

Editor&Publisher: Candidate Blames Newspaper Leak on Opponent
Published: October 13, 2006

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- Massachusetts Democratic gubernatorial nominee Deval Patrick blamed Kerry Healey for newspaper stories on Friday that revealed his brother-in-law had raped his sister in California in 1993 and is now being required to register as a sex offender.

"It's pathetic and it's wrong," Patrick said in a statement he read to reporters his campaign had assembled to talk about stem cell research matters. "By no rules of common decency should their private struggles become a public issue, but this is the politics of Kerry Healey and it disgusts me and it has to stop."

Patrick took no questions and his staff did not detail why he linked Healey to the revelation, made in stories printed in Friday's editions of the Boston Herald and The Boston Globe....

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The newspapers reported that Bernard Sigh was convicted in 1993 of raping his wife, the former Rhonda Patrick, in San Diego. Sigh pleaded guilty, served a short prison sentence and was put on five years probation.

Sigh, 54, reunited with Patrick's sister after he served his prison time. The couple moved to Milton in 1997.

The Massachusetts Sex Offender Registry Board sent Sigh a letter this week alerting him he is required to register. The board is part of the Executive Office of Public Safety, a state agency overseen by the Romney administration....

http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003254182

[rodeodance]

1. I feel for his sister to have this drudged up years later.

[DeepModem Mom]

3. What a desperate -- and cruel -- political move this is -- disgusting! nt

[rodeodance]

5. guess we can only hope that the voting public sees the slime that it is.

[Mass]

9. The public sees it as it is - It is a desperate move from Kerry Healey

After two weeks of slime about Patrick concerning his role as a lawyer, she is still trailing by double digits. Sure, it is closer than the 30 % she was trailing by a couple weeks ago, but I do not think anybody expected it would stay this way.

[Mass]

7. And particularly their kids who did not know the story.

Talk about family values.

[Submariner]

2. Kerry Healey is slime

All she can run on is negative ads because she is a loser. She needs to get out of politics, she has no leadership qualities.

[C_U_L8R]

4. This is exactly what's wrong with republicans

this personal family matter has absolutely
NOTHING to do with Deval Patrick's ability to lead...

but speaks volumes about what a slimy fuckhead Healy is.

[rodeodance]

6. Healey says she/staff not involved. and will not use the info. But, other

other groups have?



....Healey, the state's lieutenant governor and the Republican candidate for governor, said neither she nor her campaign was involved in the revelation, something she said she checked with her staff after learning of the stories.

"I think this is a personal, family matter for Deval Patrick," Healey said after presiding over a police officer awards ceremony at the Statehouse. "I don't consider this a campaign issue, and I will not be using it in my campaign."

[rodeodance]

8. obviously the sister has been trying to put this aside:--more

....Patrick said the couple's two children were unaware of the incident until the stories were printed. Patrick's sister, now 51, was described as an avid churchgoer who, along with her husband, now counsels couples in crisis.

Healey has been hammering Patrick over criminal justice matters since the two emerged as their respective party's general election contestants. She has labeled her opponent, who headed the Justice Department's civil rights division under President Clinton, as "soft on crime,"

In particular, she has accused him of favoring criminals over victims, citing his work handling a death penalty appeal for a cop killer and also his advocacy on behalf of a convicted rapist who was seeking parole.

Patrick has criticized the administration for local aid cuts that have forced a reduction in police officers at a time when violent crime has surged. He has also derided Healey as a "theorist" who has a doctorate in criminal justice matters but no practical experience.........

[AlCzervik]

10. so Healy thinks this will make Patrick look bad? Is she nuts?

this thing makes Healy look cruel beyond belief.

[rodeodance]

11. ...On Friday, Healey opened a fresh line of attack,

......On Friday, Healey opened a fresh line of attack, criticizing Worcester Mayor Tim Murray, the Democratic nominee for lieutenant governor and Patrick's running mate, for handling appeals of people challenging their classification by the Sex Offender Registry Board. Murray is a defense attorney, but he said he took some of the cases at the request of the court.

"I know that the court needs people to take these cases, and that it's part of our adversarial system," Healey said. "The question is, simply, is that the priority that you want to have your next governor and lieutenant governor to have?"

She said such appeals delay the public from learning the whereabouts of the most dangerous sex offenders.

Arguing that Healey has "launched an assault" on the legal profession, the Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly announced Friday that it was endorsing a candidate for governor for the first time, and would back Patrick.

"What is Healey's message? That criminal-defense attorneys somehow should be associated with, or blamed for, the actions of their clients? That protecting important constitutional rights is somehow a seedy business?" the newspaper said in an editorial that will be published Monday.

[stepnw1f]

12. Healey is just another Sick Republican Willing to Do

whatever it may take to weasle into office to screw Massachusetts. She will definitely lose because of this...

[Judi Lynn]

13. This personal matter between the candidate's sister and her husband

should be off-limits to some beanbag's pathetic political campaign. My God.

This link says she IS getting desperate:

Healey's Hail Mary

Trailing in the polls, will the LG try an "October Surprise" of her own?

By: ADAM REILLY

10/4/2006 2:29:30 PM



In the Massachusetts governor’s race, it’s looking like Republican nominee and Lieutenant Governor Kerry Healey will need a doozy of an October surprise to catch Democratic nominee Deval Patrick, who’s running far ahead of the LG in every poll taken to date.

So what might Healey try? Look for Patrick’s time at the US Department of Justice (DOJ), where he headed civil-rights enforcement for then-president Bill Clinton, to get some serious scrutiny — especially aspects of his résumé that bring race into the equation and, as an added plus, remind people Patrick is African-American. For example, a poster on the liberal, pro-Patrick blog Blue Mass Group has already reported receiving an automated phone poll that posed this question: “When working for the US government, Deval Patrick got two cop-killers off the hook. Would that make you more or less likely to vote for him?” (As an NAACP Legal Defense Fund attorney, Patrick got one man convicted of killing a police officer off death row and fought unsuccessfully to do the same for another.) Meanwhile, liberal blogger Sam Seidel reported receiving another automated poll that asked: “If you knew that Deval Patrick had been referred to as a ‘quota king’ in one of his previous jobs, would this impact your view of the candidate?” (During his time at the DOJ, Patrick was a steadfast defender of affirmative action; anti-affirmative-action crusader Clint Bolick seems to have created the label in question.)
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http://www.thephoenix.com/article_ektid24219.aspx

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Pathetic ass. She's in the right party, all right.

[DeepModem Mom]

14. Thanks for this link, Judi Lynn. nt

[Judi Lynn]

15. Thanks for the O.P. You've educated those of us who haven't had time

to hear about this governor's race, yet.

It's very useful to see what's going on there. Hope she continues to show everyone how little she has to offer. The last thing in the world they need now is another idiot Republican governor.

[DeepModem Mom]

16. I have a good friend who's been involved in the Patrick campaign...

since the beginning. She turned us on to his potential early on.

[rocktivity]

17. That has absolutely nothing to do with Deval Patrick

which anyone with at least two functiong brain cells will figure out. This is the "opposition research" we've been hearing about? Foul--and I do mean "foul"--play. When the CANDIDATE is the secret sex offender, give me a call.

:boring:
rocknation

[Cha]

18. AT least Deval Patrick is answering

back quickly and letting the people know how down right dirty and rotten it is!

[OKthatsIT]

19. I agree...nothiing else needs to be said.

[OKthatsIT]

20. Why sex offense for life? Between husband and wife?

I realize no man has the right to force himself on his wife...but shit happens between people that need to be worked through.

I've been kicked and punched by my Ex...in his fit of rage. I know several STRONG women who have had to deal with this GAPPED RAGE done by men who loved them. We live and learn, grow up....forgive. If the man has sincerely worked on himself, there's hope.

We often progam women to 'walk away' from an abuser. In most situations, this is the best rule of thumb...but there are some situations where it's more important to heal, than abandon healing potential.