A Kennedy hypocrisy classic from the dim bulb of the RFK clan, Max. I wonder what enviro-wacko brother RFKJr. thinks about this? No comment from Uncle Teddy, he is busy opposing a wind farm off the coast of Cape Cod. It may be good for the environment, but that should not come at the expense of Teddy’s view from the family compound. From the Boston Herald’s Inside Track,
Professed environmentalist Max Kennedy is due in court on the Cape today to answer chargeshe violated town conservation rules by clear-cutting a coastal bank on his Hyannisport property.
Kennedy, son of Ethel and the late Bobby Kennedy, was found responsible for cutting the vegetation in violation of restrictions the town Conservation Commission had set. He was assessed a $150 fine, which he did not pay, and he has to appear today for an arraignment.
“He is supposed to show up,” said town conservation agent Darcy Karle. “As a courtesy I contacted his attorney and told him that Mr. Kennedy needed to show up and pay the fine or a warrant for his arrest would be issued.”
Do we need to tell you this is not Kennedy’s first run-in with the town conservation types? Kennedy, an avowed tree-hugger who formerly ran the Watershed Institute at Boston College and briefly flirted with a congressional run in 2001, was fined twice in 1998 for clearing brush and trees on his Cape property.
To build a touch-football field. Of course.
Kennedy is also currently in violation of wetlands protection laws for a pier he built off the back of his Maywood Avenue home. Karle said Kennedy constructed the pier without first submitting the proper paperwork, and that lights on the end of the dock are in violation.
Kennedy had asked for a hearing on Sept. 27 to answer to all the charges, then didn’t show up.
Kennedy is currently under orders to replant shrubs on the bank and to remove the too-bright lights at the end of his pier. His attorney did not return our call. But do stay tuned . . . .