Three mini-columns in the present day:
John Fish, the billionaire proprietor of Suffolk Building, wildly overplayed his hand attempting to jam by that $900-million Turnpike Plaza-gate rip-off. However now he claims that like King Lear, he’s a person extra sinned towards than sinning.
Fish’s mouthpieces have issued a seven-page affidavit during which he affirms his innocence, however not earlier than tooting his personal horn about his extraordinary charity work each as “chair” of Brigham and Ladies’s Hospital and as “chairman” of the board of Boston School.
Attempting to clarify his incontinent sucking-up to the hack lifer Scott Bosworth, Fish tries to alibi for not less than a few of his incontinent missives.
In a seven-page affidavit, listed below are a few of his alibis:
Eight completely different occasions Fish admits texting Bosworth, however then provides the next sentence: “This alternate had nothing to do with the Service Plazas procurement.”
Two different occasions Fish admits texting Bosworth, however then provides the next sentence: “We didn’t talk about the Service Plazas procurement.”
Fish additionally acknowledges including slobbering emojis to his bum-kissing texts: “Two thumbs up emojis… thumbs up emojis… two thumbs-up emojis and a strong-arm emoji.”
There’s an outdated saying: The fish rots from the top. That is all very fishy, the way in which he’s proclaiming his innocence. Methinks he doth protest an excessive amount of.
Or, as Ralph Waldo Emerson as soon as wrote of a personality very very like John Fish: “The louder he spoke of his honor, the sooner we counted our spoons.”
The late Edward Kennedy
Sen. Edward Kennedy of Lowell, who died this week at age 74, charges a footnote in native political lore as probably the most profitable “straw” candidate ever in Massachusetts.
A straw is a candidate who’s put right into a combat to empty votes away from a stronger candidate and throw the race to the candidate who put the “straw” into the combat.
In 1988 U.S. Sen. Edward Kennedy was working for reelection. His nephew Joe Kennedy was looking for reelection to the US Home.
In Middlesex County, the courthouse gang that had lengthy dominated the county hackerama was determined to retain management of the three-member county fee. However it seemed just like the “reformers” would possibly prevail and take energy.
The late Paul Sullivan of Tewksbury, who later grew to become a WBZ radio discuss present host, was the hacks’ candidate for county commissioner. However to empty votes from the suburban reform candidate (whose identify I can’t even recall), hack County Commissioner Mike McLaughlin had a brainstorm.
McLaughlin stated, let’s put a straw candidate within the Democrat main from Lowell named… Edward Kennedy. It’ll idiot all of the dumb liberals in Cambridge and Newton.
What may probably go fallacious?
Kennedy, an ex-city councilor, was the proper straw candidate. He didn’t marketing campaign, he raised no cash. He despatched out no mailings. He had no endorsements. He did what was anticipated of him — completely nothing.
On main election evening, he swept to a simple victory. McLaughlin had a younger hack working for him by the identify of Marty Meehan, a neighbor of Ed Kennedy’s in Lowell. Meehan was instructed to go over to Kennedy’s home and inform him he’d received.
In response to Lowell lore, Meehan went to Kennedy’s home and knocked on the door. Kennedy had been chopping his garden, had come again inside, had a few beers after which dozed off on his dwelling sofa in a tee shirt. That was how Meehan discovered him.
It was such a shaggy dog story that it even was written up in The New York Instances. One of many defeated, actual candidates defined what occurred with Edward Kennedy:
“Folks assume he’s Teddy Jr. When our individuals had been calling city halls for outcomes, all of them thought he was some nephew or one thing.”
That was 1988. All these years later, Middlesex County has lengthy since been dissolved. Sullivan and Kennedy are useless, McLaughlin is an ex-con after a federal conviction for corruption, and Meehan, the espresso boy, is making $755,121 a yr as president of UMass.
As for the facility of the Kennedy identify in Massachusetts, nicely, in 2020, the final of the Kennedys in workplace, Joe Kennedy III, was defeated within the Democrat main for the Senate by Ed Markey, who shamelessly modeled himself after the “First Household” that he has all the time been often known as a “Ok Mart Kennedy.”
And by the way in which, did you ever see Ed Markey and Ed Kennedy in the identical room?
MassGOP Kultists decide new knight errant
Grifters are all the time scouting out their subsequent mark, and the Kool Assist Kult of the Massachusetts GOP appears to assume they’ve discovered their subsequent massive rating.
His identify is Michael Minogue, he’s a billionaire, and he simply introduced his candidacy for governor final week.
The Kult’s chief, former GOP chairman Jim “Jones” Lyons, gushed throughout Minogue on social media, and all I can say to Minogue is — name the bunco squad earlier than it’s too late!
The Kool Assist Kult has extra angles than a Nigerian prince.
Lyons and his crackpot minions had been ousted from the trough in 2023, after going roughly 0–48 in contested state races from 2019 to 2022. In addition they nearly bankrupted the state GOP, spending the celebration’s meager funds on, say, non-public eyes to stalk GOP state committee members in addition to squandering lots of of 1000’s of {dollars} on pathetic losers like DoorDash Diehl.
Now, the Kult seems at Minogue and sees their subsequent Rick Inexperienced — the dim-bulb entrepreneur who offered “jobs” for thus lots of them.
Minogue’s web price dwarfs Inexperienced’s. He has much more dough than that loopy outdated man in Milton the Kult tapped who claims he talks to the Virgin Mary each afternoon.
Minogue’s marketing campaign may imply much more dough for them than these COVID welfare applications a few of them cashed in for as much as $80,000 for his or her, uh, companies.
And there’s no jeopardy in choosing Minogue’s pockets. I imply, COVID was simple cash, however look what occurred to one of many Kult’s prime guys, ex-Sen. Dean Tran.
He’s now doing federal time at Devens FMC, close to his outdated Senate district.
Mr. Minogue, the Kult is gonna inform you they’re the one true Trumpers within the Mass GOP. Yeah, proper. Simply ask Jim Jones Lyons which candidate he was with in 2016. Ask Rick Inexperienced the identical query.
Extra importantly, ask them what number of elections they received once they had been working the Mass GOP. (To repeat, the reply is zero.)
Caveat emptor, Minogue, as a result of grifters gotta grift.
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