Boston Herald Howie Carr column
By Howie Carr, Boston Herald | |
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The big breakfast is at the
This year an SRO crowd is expected because the Democratic primary is only a week away, so every politician in the state has to show up. It's required, just like when you get a subpoena, which is a word you should probably think twice about using with this crowd.
Outside in
Oddly, the bumper stickers never brag, "
But the most amazing thing about this year's breakfast is the free pass the three female candidates for statewide office --
It's outrageous enough, the way
But what's even more appalling is how these three female pols have thrown in with thug-infested Local 25, which has been running its own personal War on Women for decades. Earlier this month some of its members were accused of trying to shut down a non-union TV crew in
But that's not all. Just ask a woman who used to operate a vending truck on the sets of movies filming in
Flynn began moving up in Local 25 after beating a 1981 organized-crime murder rap. He eventually muscled out another
Flynn wanted to give the vending concession to one of his wiseguys,
According to Herald stories at the time, Flynn assigned the murder contract to Martini but word of the plot got back to
According to Herald stories, Cashman nixed the hit, saying that whacking a dame would bring down too much heat on the mobbed-up local. Instead, Cashman ordered his gunsels to just give her a good beating, which they did.
Cashman himself later went to prison.
Nice people, you say, but what does this have to do with the leadership that endorsed Marsha, Maura and Deb?
The connection is the current president, one
According to the indictment,
And now
Do you think anyone will inquire tomorrow of Marsha, Maura and Deb how they can allow O'Brien and his misogynistic minions to run phone banks for them?
One last thing. Wednesday is
After all, the whole breakfast is From the People Who Brought You Cement Overshoes.
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