Only in Massachusetts do voters put up with liberal tax and spend politicians who don’t feel an obligation to pay their own taxes. Only in Massachusetts.
Boston Herald
Herald audit: Pols trip up on taxes
Six of the Hubâ??s 36 elected representatives charged with managing public finances at the State House and in City Hall have failed to pay their own taxes, a Herald review found.
Boston City Councilors Chuck Turner, Maureen Feeney and Felix Arroyo have let property taxes go unpaid for years at a time, although all are currently paid up, according to county and federal real estate records.
Among Bostonâ??s legislative delegation, tax woes also have dogged state Reps. Dianne Wilkerson, Gloria Fox and Marie St. Fleur.
Marie St. Fleur, you may recall, was Attorney General Tom Reilly’s pick for Lt. Gov on the Democrat ticket. She lasted a whole day because the Boston Globe did due dilligence that Tom Reilly should have and discovered in a matter of hours that St. Fluer owned significant back taxes. St. Fleur, a co-sponsor of the wildly unpopular and soundly defeated bill to grant state tuition tax breaks for illegal immigrants, also didn’t feel the need to repay her student loans. Ouch.
Chuck Turner is a name that may be familiar to some of you. He is the pile of garbage that slandered and smeared the US military in the early days of the Iraq war by falsely claiming GI’s were raping Iraqi women. He held an infamous press conference at Boston’s City Hall with an equally loathsome “community activist” named Sadiki,
Boston Globe publishes bogus GI rape pictures
Boston residents got more than they bargained for this morning when their copy of the Globe came complete with graphic photographic images depicting U.S. troops gang-raping Iraqi women.
Problem is the photos are fake.
The photos accompanied an article about Boston city councilor Chuck Turner, who distributed the graphic photographs yesterday at a press conference with activist Sadiki Kambon. Turner told reporters the photos showed U.S. soldiers raping Iraqi women.
“The American people have a right and responsibility to see the pictures,” Turner said.
Kambon, who is director of the Black Community Information Center, said at the news conference he received the photographs by e-mail from Akbar Muhammad, a representative for the Nation of Islam.
Only in Massachusetts.