When the Globe ran the Deval Patrick sympathy story this weekend, there was speculation on these pages that the Globe had a new scandal under wraps to hit Tuesday or Wednesday. Well a funny thing happened on the way to that scandal, the Deval Patrick Campaiginstration's hubris got them embroiled in an unscheduled controversy over the invasion of privacy on the new DevalPatrick.com.
Well today the Globe gets back to its regularly scheduled scandal du semaine.(Scandal of the week for all you francophobes). The quid pro quos have begun.
Two commissioners on the state's quasi judicial labor relations board are accusing Governor Deval Patrick's chief labor aide of interfering with the agency on cases involving two unions that endorsed Patrick and donated heavily to his gubernatorial campaign.
The two commissioners, Paul T. O'Neill and Hugh L. Reilly, asserted in interviews with the Globe that Suzanne M. Bump made an inappropriate call about a case involving the Boston Teachers Union and pressured the commission to approve a pending petition by Service Employees International Union, Local 1199.
Patrick has been fond lately of saying that the special interests have no hold on him. I guess he doesn't count labor unions, who donated heavily to his campaign as special interests.
In late January, O'Neill and Reilly said, Bump made an irate phone call to commission chairman John F. Jesensky after the agency made its initial ruling that the Boston Teachers Union was violating the law with its threats to call a strike. They said she complained to him that she had not been given notice before the decision was made in the case.
Bump "clearly communicated her extreme displeasure, and we clearly got the message that she was unhappy," O'Neill said in an interview this week. Jesensky, who was also appointed by Romney, declined to comment, but O'Neill and Reilly said the chairman briefed them on the call.
Read the whole story, Ms. Bump tries to blame all her problems on "Republican commission members", sorry Ms. Bump, but that dog won't hunt. You tried to use budget dollars to influence a decision.
This whole case goes to the levels of hubris running around the Patrick Campaignistration. They truly feel that they are better than the rest of us. Why else would they need a Caddy, $10,000 Drapes, $72,000 daytimer keepers, calls to sugar daddies Ameriquest, and a website that releases private data. It's because everything they do is right because they believe they are righteous.
I'll leave you with the song that must be going around Deval Patrick's head:
