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2019-11-15 -Lurid Crime Tales-
Deval Patrick Fired State Officials To Protect Rapist Ex-Brother-In-Law From Registering As Sex Offender
[The Federalist] The Democratic presidential primary’s freshest face, former Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick fired leaders of the Massachusetts Sex Offender Registry in 2014 for trying to register Patrick’s brother in-law for a 1993 California rape conviction.

Earlier this year, Bernard Sigh, Patrick’s ex-brother in-law was sentenced to eight years in prison for raping his ex-wife in a 2017 attack, three years after the head of the Massachusetts Sex Offender Registry Board rose the issue of registering Sigh as a sex offender to Patrick for a prior spousal rape conviction in California. In response, Patrick sacked the official in an effort to avoid having a family member register as a sex offender, calling it a "family matter," and therefore "marital" rape, according to Stanford Professor Michele Dauber.

Patrick became the latest candidate to officially enter the 2020 Democratic presidential contest this week with less than three months away from the first-in-the-nation Iowa caucuses after nine major candidates have already dropped out.

The former Massachusetts governor has less than one month to meet the Democratic National Committee’s qualifying thresholds to earn a spot on the December debate stage, where only six of the field’s 19 candidates including former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg have qualified so far.

Patrick’s late entrance in the race showcases Democrats’ concerns that no candidates currently in the race can pick up the necessary momentum needed to oust President Donald Trump next fall. The field’s frontrunner and former Vice President Joe Biden is plagued by scandals involving the Biden family’s shady dealings with Ukraine being brought to light by the Democrats’ partisan impeachment inquiry, while Senators Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts and Bernie Sanders of Vermont are running on far-left platforms proving difficult to sell to American voters.

Patrick, 63, served as governor of Massachusetts from 2007 to 2013 and has since worked in the private sector at Bain Capital and in media as a CBS contributor.
BAIN! That eeeevil firm that Romney worked at???
Posted by Besoeker 2019-11-15 05:30|| || Front Page|| [11 views ]  Top

#1 So you can fire public servants?
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2019-11-15 06:11||   2019-11-15 06:11|| Front Page Top

#2 Only when they're doing the right thing.
Posted by Dron66046 2019-11-15 07:17||   2019-11-15 07:17|| Front Page Top

#3 ^That explains why they're doing things right so seldom?
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2019-11-15 11:23||   2019-11-15 11:23|| Front Page Top

#4 ...it's Pavlovian. Reward, punishment. Doing the right thing gets you nothing but often punishment. Doing what is wrong often gets you a rewarding gig on major Party organs.
Posted by Procopius2k 2019-11-15 15:45||   2019-11-15 15:45|| Front Page Top

#5 ^Often works with lower animals.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2019-11-15 15:52||   2019-11-15 15:52|| Front Page Top

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