"bodies were overflowing the storage areas at the office and being stacked in refrigerator trucks parked outside.... he had drawn widespread praise for his painstaking work after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks"
Yeah, he did a GREAT JOB!
Just one more nail in the coffin of the cover up.
"SJC backs firing of medical examiner; Says missing body justifies action" by Jonathan Saltzman, Globe Staff | July 10, 2008
Governor Deval Patrick had the authority to fire Dr. Mark A. Flomenbaum as the state's chief medical examiner last August after his office misplaced a body, the state's highest court affirmed yesterday.
Patrick sacked Flomenbaum after his office misplaced the body of a Cape Cod man in late April 2007; State Police later found the missing remains buried in another man's grave. The Supreme Judicial Court pointed out that the Globe had reported in March 2007 that bodies were overflowing the storage areas at the office and being stacked in refrigerator trucks parked outside the building. The trucks were ordinarily reserved for holding disaster victims.
WTF is this, Iraq?
Flomenbaum was recruited from the New York City medical examiner's office, where he had drawn widespread praise for his painstaking work after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center.
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Meanwhile, the guv is cruising the countryside (how much fuel you burning and what is your carbon footprint, guv?):
"Patrick meets voters in Salem" by Matt Viser, Globe Staff | July 10, 2008
SALEM - The 10-year-old boy who briefly upstaged the Massachusetts governor appeared before the crowd of 300 in a tie, pressed shirt, and pleated pants. Jonathan Marrero recounted how upset he was when his elementary school cut its librarian and how he raised more than $2,000 to help restore funding.
"Not only can one kid make a difference," the child said as the crowd rose to its feet and began cheering. "But imagine a whole community." "Thank you, thank you," the governor said, grinning widely, as applause died down. "I hope you are not running for governor in 2010."
Indeed, the boy had stolen Governor Deval Patrick's message of grass-roots, community activism, which Patrick is pushing this summer in a campaign-style tour featuring town hall meetings across the state. Scores of people crowded into a park near the Peabody Essex Museum in downtown Salem for the first of the meetings on Tuesday night. The second meeting is scheduled for tonight in Hull at the Bernie King Pavilion.
Did you serve them a meal, guverner?
PFFFFFTTT!
In an hourlong appearance in Salem, residents asked questions about a local power plant, funding for special education, and gas prices. The friendly audience listened intently as the governor highlighted recent accomplishments, such as an energy reform and a $1 billion life sciences initiative, and promoted a partnership he said he now enjoys with legislators he had clashed with in his first 18 months in office.
No one in the audience asked about his failed casino proposal that soaked up so much attention on Beacon Hill this year. The event was much like a campaign stop, with Tom Petty blaring on the speakers as politicians, including the governor and Lieutenant Governor Timothy P. Murray, shook hands and walked to a makeshift stage. People held aloft hand-painted signs to promote their causes as Patrick stood in front of a large American flag.
Barney Keller, the spokesman for the state Republican Party, trained a video camera on Patrick the entire time, hoping to capture an embarrassing YouTube moment. The left-leaning website BlueMassGroup.com also had a representative there, blogging live. Local politicos, families, and teenagers whipped out disposable cameras to snap photos of the governor.
The town hall highlights the governor's efforts to take his message directly to voters. Patrick's operation frequently calls him "the governor of the whole state." He has reopened a Western Massachusetts office in Springfield.
Oh, yay!
By visiting communities, Patrick also is almost assured a prominently placed news story in local papers and can engage directly with residents instead of through a media filter that he suggested distorts his message.
He is complaining about his media coverage?
Oh, please!
Also see: The Globe Luuuuvvvs the Guv
"We need an active and engaged media for democracy to be strong," Patrick told the residents gathered in the Salem park. "But I need a direct relationship with you. You need to hear from me in unfiltered terms, and I need to hear from you in unfiltered terms."
Yeah, WE KNOW!!!
That's why this country is going down the tubes -- because WE DON'T HAVE IT!
Attendees seemed charmed by the governor. "He's here, he's interested, and he's listening," said Paul Wennik, 71, a retired music executive from Salem. "These municipalities are going through hell right now, and he's really committed. This is the most accessible governor I've seen in years."
Minutes after the event ended, the Republicans sent out a statement attacking it as a "gimmick." "Governor Patrick still didn't explain why he has failed to deliver Candidate Patrick's promised property tax relief," Keller said.
But ultimately, Patrick's message was overshadowed only by the young boy, and the governor said he didn't mind at all. "I wish we weren't asking 10-year-olds to go out and raise money to keep the librarian in the school," Patrick said to the crowd, and then turned to the boy. "I love that you stepped up."
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I'm really starting to DISLIKE this guy!
After all, if goes to rich Hollywood folk or corporate and lottery favorites, or Wall Street, it's O.K.!
I mean, WHY DO YOU THINK THEY ARE HERE? To GET their CUT!!!
"Three biotech companies are relocating to Boston
Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino plans to disclose this morning that three small-to-midsize biotech companies are moving to the city, bringing hundreds of jobs. A city spokeswoman declined to name the companies. Boston has tried to court biotech companies for several years with its LifeTech Boston Initiative, which it calls a one-stop shop to help companies with site location, financial assistance, permitting, zoning, workforce development, and transportation. The city sent a delegation to the Biotechnology Industry Organization convention in San Diego last month and hopes to create 10,000 biotech jobs by 2010. Boston has been hampered by a lack of lab space - with a vacancy rate of less than 2 percent - but new space is opening up, including the 18-story Center for Life Sciences and some buildings on the South Boston Waterfront, where at least one of the companies is moving. (Boston Globe July 10, 2008)."
Yay, a success for the guverner -- and a LOSS for the Massachusetts taxpayers, as usual!
