Posted: 2/15/2010 3:28:15 AM EDT
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American Thinker US Representative William Delahunt said yesterday that he is considering retiring from his congressional seat representing the South Shore and Cape Cod, although he portrayed his deliberations as routine and said they are not related to challenges from Republicans who are energized by Scott Brown's upset victory in last month's special Senate election. "Every election cycle, I take my time, I think it through, and I think, not about whether I can win or lose, but: ‘Am I in a position to make a difference?' '' Delahunt, a Quincy Democrat, said in a telephone interview. "Can I achieve what I want to achieve outside of public life?'' The timing of this story is interesting because yesterday the Boston media was also full of stories of one of Delahunt's more dubious achievements in public office, his role in the 1986 decision classify the shotgun death of Amy Bishop's 18 year old brother, Seth, as an accident. Bishop, 43, is accused of murdering three colleagues at the University of Alabama, Huntsville on Friday after she learned she had been denied tenure. Filing criminal charges against Bishop for her first shooting fatality certainly might have made a difference in the lives of three people last Friday. The file in the Braintree, Massachusetts police department has oddly gone missing, but as is often the case in such circumstances, the officers involved remember the case well. Violent crime is uncommon in Braintree and then 19 year old Amy had to be arrested at gunpoint outside the house as she was brandishing the shotgun and seemed to be attempting to flee the scene. Then there were the discrepancies in the witnesses' statements as to what exactly had happened inside the house. Supposedly Amy had asked for help to learn how to unload the gun and it went off –– some three times. The final factors that made the incident memorable was that the mother was on the town's Board of Personnel and that no charges were ever filed because detectives were dismissed from the case. Cops can have long memories about cases that give off the stench of a cover up. Braintree officers who remember the 1986 shooting said that former police Chief John Polio dismissed detectives from the case and ordered the department to release Amy Bishop after a telephone conversation with former district attorney William Delahunt, who is currently a U.S. congressman from Massachusetts. "The police officers here were very upset about that," said Frazier, who was a patrolman at the time and spoke to officers who remembered the incident that day, including one who filed a report on it. Amy was released into her mother's custody. The shooting of the brother, Seth Bishop, an 18-year-old accomplished violinist, was logged that day as a "sudden death" and later considered accidental, but detailed records of the shooting have disappeared, Frazier said. Getting off three shots is one way to unload a shotgun while a blast to the midsection can certainly be called sudden death. Massachusetts in the 1980s was not a bright spot in American criminal justice. Misguided compassion resulted in the infamous Willy Horton case. Delahuunt himself faced questions about his role in another murder by a furloughed prisoner during his first Congressional race in 1996. There was also the witch hunt of he Fells Acre Day Care case, in which innocent people were convicted of child molestation as well as numerable controversies over decisions to parole felons and of course summering under it all the decades long history of the Boston Archdiocese covering up incidents of priests molesting children and adolescents But justice delayed is not always justice denied. Stories about Martha Coakley's prosecutorial overreach in continuing the unjust treatment of those convicted in Fells Acres as well as her seeming reluctance to prosecute a local policeman accused of a chilling brutal child rape were part of the local background against which the Brown campaign played out. Whether this 1986 incident is a one of misguided compassion towards a family that had suffered one tragedy and hoped private counseling would suffice with a serious behavior problem or just a crass cover up among members of the local power structure, renewed interest in the case comes at a bad time for the multi term Congressman. Richard Baehr adds: Delahunt is one of the most far left members of Congress, a shill for Hugo Chavez and his allies in Latin America. His district went 61% for Scott Brown, and he is out of tune with the voters. The Amy Bishop murders at the University of Alabama over the weekend may have been the final straw. It seems everyone in his district thinks he help cover up her murder of her brother, Seth, back in 1986 when he was the local DA. |
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Quoted: Translation: I can't win, but I can keep my campaign money. I'll wait until the wind blows in a different direction. And that's BS...they should have to return every damn dime. In person. During the winter months. Barefoot. Maybe then there'd be some decency.... |
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Quoted: American Thinker The Amy Bishop murders at the University ofAlabama over the weekend may have been the final straw. It seems everyone in his district thinks he help cover up her murder of herbrother, Seth, back in 1986 when he was the local DA. Yeah, there is a whole lot of stink coming out about that.  |
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Quoted: First I've heard of it...and ya know what? Dems don't CARE. They made a bigger stink about a Brown supporter wanting to impale Caokley with a curling iron than they did about Coakley letting a child molester walk. For 2 YEARS!Quoted: American Thinker The Amy Bishop murders at the University ofAlabama over the weekend may have been the final straw. It seems everyone in his district thinks he help cover up her murder of herbrother, Seth, back in 1986 when he was the local DA. Yeah, there is a whole lot of stink coming out about that.  |
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- Three shots from a pump-action shotgun is an "accident"? - Girl runs out of house with shotgun after killing her brother and tries to car jack a passing vehicle. - Girl's mother works for police department. - Girl's mother has "relationship" with DA. - Arresting officer's statement contradicts then police chief's statement. - Original case paperwork "lost". - No formal investigation made into homicide. - Girl later goes on to be a suspect in a mail bomb case at Harvard. - Girl later goes on to be mass murderer at UA Huntsville. Sounds like democrats were involved. I hope all the slimebags involved in letting Amy Bishop off the hook the first time in 1986 fully appreciate that they are complicit in all her crimes done since. That wench should have been sitting in prison or a mental hospital 20 years ago. At least no students were injured. |
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- Three shots from a pump-action shotgun is an "accident"?
- Girl runs out of house with shotgun after killing her brother and tries to car jack a passing vehicle. - Girl's mother works for police department. - Girl's mother has "relationship" with DA. - Arresting officer's statement contradicts then police chief's statement. - Original case paperwork "lost". - No formal investigation made into homicide. - Girl later goes on to be a suspect in a mail bomb case at Harvard. - Girl later goes on to be mass murderer at UA Huntsville. Only Democrats could cook up something like that... 
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Translation: I can't win, but I can keep my campaign money. I'll wait until the wind blows in a different direction. I find your ideas intriguing and would like to subscribe to your newsletter. Wonder if some lives could have been saved had this asshat done his job. The good doctor looks like a moonbat. |
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This was big news on the radio (Michael Graham/Jay Severin shows) when I was up in Taunton last week. There were also rumors then (now confirmed) that Partrick Kennedy in RI will not seek re-election. He is a real dumbass and had serious approval rating problems (<35%) in RI.
Been there done that. You all need to remember that this is Peoples Republik of Mass-of-two-shits and that Martha Coakly is also a dumbass and that Scott Brown was only elected to fill the remaining two years of Kennedys term. The political winds could shift again in two years when he runs again. One can always hope that people everywhere are finally tired of empty promises, out of control spending, and high taxes. We could see a repeat of the 1994 elections if the Repubs can get their collective shit together ASAP. I think the Dems have lost any support from Wall Street this year. Didn't take a rocket scientist to see that would happen. |
I'm thinking he's looking at that case but more importantly,he's looking at his campaign treasure chest and glancing over at the MA election map:the only places in his district that voted for Coakley are the festive end of Cape Cod and the islands.
He needs to go take a nice,sunny holiday with his pal: 
The only MA political news that could make me happier would be Biden stepping down,Hillary shifting over and Kerry getting that Sec of State job he's always wanted.OK,Barney choking on a cock would have me doing a little dance too. |