*REVISED* LEGAL SOURCES OPEN UP ABOUT D.A.’s EX-PARTE LETTER; RETIRED JUDGE: ‘IT’S TOO POLITICAL’
BY DAN VALENTI
PLANET VALENTI NEWS AND COMMENTARY
Part One of a two-part series
This story has been updated with new information.
(FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, MONDAY JUNE 14, 2021) — For news hawks, Berkshire County D.A. Andrea Harrington is the gift that keeps giving. Daily she makes another headline to a story that erodes faith in her competency to serve.
In Part 1 of this two-parter, THE PLANET presents highlights of our conversation-cum-coffee with a retired county judge. We call him Judge Crater.
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JUDGE CRATER
With respect to the ex parte letter Harrington recently sent to Paul Dawley, chief judge, district courts, asking for Judge Jennifer Tyne to be bounced from a case, Judge Crater referred us to the American Bar Association website, Rule 2.9. THE PLANET has updated our earlier version to clarify Crater’s remarks and to correct our presentation of the point he was trying to make.
ABA Rule 2.9 says this:
(A) A judge shall not initiate, permit, or consider ex parte communications, or consider other communications made to the judge outside the presence of the parties or their lawyers, concerning a pending* or impending matter,* except as follows:
(1) When circumstances require it, ex parte communication for scheduling, administrative, or emergency purposes, which does not address substantive matters, is permitted, provided:
(a) the judge reasonably believes that no party will gain a procedural, substantive, or tactical advantage as a result of the ex parte communication; and
(b) the judge makes provision promptly to notify all other parties of the substance of the ex parte communication, and gives the parties an opportunity to respond.
(2) A judge may obtain the written advice of a disinterested expert on the law applicable to a proceeding before the judge, if the judge gives advance notice to the parties of the person to be consulted and the subject matter of the advice to be solicited, and affords the parties a reasonable opportunity to object and respond to the notice and to the advice received.
(3) A judge may consult with court staff and court officials whose functions are to aid the judge in carrying out the judge’s adjudicative responsibilities, or with other judges, provided the judge makes reasonable efforts to avoid receiving factual information that is not part of the record, and does not abrogate the responsibility personally to decide the matter.
(4) A judge may, with the consent of the parties, confer separately with the parties and their lawyers in an effort to settle matters pending before the judge.
(5) A judge may initiate, permit, or consider any ex parte communication when expressly authorized by law* to do so.
(B) If a judge inadvertently receives an unauthorized ex parte communication bearing upon the substance of a matter, the judge shall make provision promptly to notify the parties of the substance of the communication and provide the parties with an opportunity to respond.
(C) A judge shall not investigate facts in a matter independently, and shall consider only the evidence presented and any facts that may properly be judicially noticed.
(D) A judge shall make reasonable efforts, including providing appropriate supervision, to ensure that this Rule is not violated by court staff, court officials, and others subject to the judge’s direction and control.
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Judge Crater then gave THE PLANET a tutorial.
“[Rule 2.9 (A)] covers Harrington’s letter [to Dawley]. If you look at the exceptions, none apply to her letter,” Judge Crater said. “For a prosecutor to do what the district attorney has done clearly violates the law, and she should have known that. I mean, that’s basic, Law School 101.”
Judge Crater highlighted (A): A judge shall not … permit or consider ex parte communications, or consider other communications made … outside the presence of the parties or their lawyers concerning a pending or impending matter.
“That’s pretty clear. ‘Shall not’ leaves no wiggle room.”
The ABA provision cited by Crater pertains to judges. Was he suggesting that Judge Dawley should not have received the letter? That appears to be the case, though he never came out with it in so many words. Better legal minds than THE PLANET‘s, and that’s a large universe, pointed out the distinction. Judge Crater was linking Harrington’s letter to Judge Dawley’s acceptance of it.
“I don’t know where [the D.A.] got that idea [to write the letter] or who advised her to do it, but she doesn’t seem to realize the seriousness. That’s the most concerning part for me. [Harrington] doesn’t appear to grasp the significance of an illegal, ex parte communication and how it jeopardizes the fair administration of justice. … It seems far too political to me. I’m glad I’m out of it.”
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We thank Judge Crater for his opinion.
On Wednesday, Part Two.
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Hello blogger Dan Valenti, fellow blog posters, and all of the blog readers out there,
Berkshire District Attorney Andrea Harrington has made mistakes since she was elected to her post in the Fall of 2018. She is seen as both political and controversial to her critics. She is seen as progressive and with the in crowd to her supporters. The legal community has called on her to at least admit her mistake(s), and at most, for her to resign or face the consequences of her alleged and known actions. To be clear, she – similar to all politicians – has her enemies and they are smelling blood. I feel sorry for anyone who is put in difficult situations in politics, but I also feel that she has put herself in said difficult situations in politics.
I wish to add that prior to Mayor Linda Tyer, and prior to Berkshire D.A. Andrea Harrington, respectively, Pittsfield, Massachusetts had the same distressed socioeconomic, violent crime, drugs, poverty, and so on, problems that it has today in 2021. I never understood why critics of the current Mayor of Pittsfield, and critics of the current Berkshire D.A. write or say that their progressive and in crowd politics is hurting the community and county when it has been this way in Pittsfield for decades on end.
Inner city Pittsfield has long scared the living daylights out of me since I was a young man since 1993 when I graduated from Pittsfield High School 28 years ago. On of my biggest fears in my then young adult life was that I would end up being stuck in inner city Pittsfield due to me being part of the distressed socioeconomic underclass and working poor class that makes up a majority of Pittsfield’s disadvantaged residents. To make matters worse for me, my dad was a Pittsfield area politician and he also worked at the Pittsfield courthouse for over 31 years until early-2002. Not only did I fear facing a life of being dependent on low to moderate wage work and social services, but I also had to deal with corrupt Berkshire County and Pittsfield politicians who were mean to me and my family back then. Inner city Pittsfield and Pittsfield politics both threatened my survival for many years of my then young adult life.
Mayor Linda Tyer and Berkshire D.A. Andrea Harrington are around my age range, and they, unlike me and my family, stayed in Pittsfield to try to rebuild the city and county from it post industrial GE past into a better area for the next generations of families and young adults who live in Pittsfield. I couldn’t do it, but they could, and now they are facing everything I saw firsthand and feared being captive to decades ago, except that the Lovely Linda lives in a wealthy gated community, while the Lovely Andrea lives in upper class Richmond like former Governor Deval Patrick, while I would have ended up in the zone or the ring of poverty around North Street. Lucky for me, my family and I have lived in southern New Hampshire for 17 years now, but inner city Pittsfield and Pittsfield politics still causes me unpleasant feelings of anxiety after all of this time.
Best wishes,
Jonathan A. Melle
It does not make a difference if it was “this way” 20 years ago. If Tyer campaigned saying she was going to be on top of all the bad stuff and then totally failed she deserves all the criticism she gets. With her though, it seems to be a wholesale lack of effort as she seems to be focusing on handouts to her friends from the taxpayer coffers.
Yes,Pittsfield had some of the same violent crimes,drugs, poverty, problems back then as today.
The citizens want to know what they are going to do about the problems they have today which is on steroids. You can’t change the outcomes of the past, but you can alter the future with actions starting today.
J2S
Good point. If the “same problems” are occurring, it’s a testimony to present-day failed leadership. The past, that too, but the past is no longer relevant because it is not actionable. “Now” is the time for action.
Dan Valenti
Perhaps an investigation into the who?how much?and lack of prosecution of fiduciary embezzlement petrated upon Dalton taxpayers through Dalton Fire department?
Next commissioners meeting is 6/29@6:30 ms Harrington is quiet on the subject. MSP attached to her office did the investigation, as Dalton police department is known corrupt.
Why are the taxpayers who are suffering ever increasing taxes being left in the dark?
No one knows about what the real Pittsfield is like more than I do. My dad was a Pittsfield area politician, and I saw a lot back then when I was a young man. I studied and have a Master of Public Administration degree, which means I understand how Pittsfield politics operates for its own gain at the expense of the people and taxpayers. I understand that inner city Pittsfield mostly consists of the city’s underclass and working poor residents, while the ruling and wealthy elites live in the outer edges of Pittsfield – (or in Naples, Florida) – including the sitting Mayor who lives in a wealthy gated community close to the Hancock border. I understand that one has to either kiss the dirty behinds of the Good Old Boys (& Girls) club of insider, incestuous, corrupt provincial political hacks, and/or be related to the “All in the Family” clan to have a living wage job in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. I understand that if one speaks out about Pittsfield politics’ disservices and insider baseball, he or she will lose their job in a New York minute, and be on the blacklist until they sacrifice all of their integrity, self-worth and pride at the alter of the Pittsfield politics’ mystery man from Naples, Florida whose rolodex is at the bottom of Silver Lake. Lastly, I understand that the outcomes of Pittsfield’s past cannot be changed, and the Pittsfield’s dark present and future can be with actions starting today, but I am not holding my breath!
JM,
You sound very in tune with the political atmosphere here in Pittsfield and beyond.It is good that you learned at a younger age because many younger people aren’t or don’t get involved. Unfortunately some of what you learned was at the expense of a family member.
None of what the judge said has any real bearing on the DA. Those are rules for judges, not DAs. The entire article is nonsensical.
She is bound by rule 3.5 as spelled out in the letter.
Rule 3.5: Impartiality & Decorum of the Tribunal
Advocate
A lawyer shall not:
(a) seek to influence a judge, juror, prospective juror or other official by means prohibited by law;
(b) communicate ex parte with such a person during the proceeding unless authorized to do so by law or court order;
She communicated ex parte with judges in an attempt to influence an official (a judge) in hopes of removing another judge while her office had cases pending.
Citing 2.9 is ludicrous as it pertains SOLELY to the judges conduct.
Her actions are the violation, so the only issues at hand are actions pertaining to a lawyer.
If the judge is saying that Dawley somehow violated the rules of professional conduct by reading her letter and reviewing the cases, it’s a good thing your judge friend is retired.
Harrington is planning to argue that the communication is not ex parte as the pendency of the cases is tenuous.
Since she is Bart arguing the cases, she is not unduly trying to exert influence.
She doesn’t understand the word “proximate”. As the DA she is ultimately responsible for ALL cases, not just the ones she litigates personally.
Withdrawing the letter will do no good whatsoever as you can not unring that bell.
Her only course of action was to self report but it’s too late.
I’ll bet she gets a censure from the MA Bar overseers and the the DA Association (NDAA).
LEGAL
Good points. Perhaps I didn’t explain it clearly enough or understood it well enough. I take it that 3.5 has to do with the D.A.’s letter. It appears Crater was referring to the ABA guidelines the judge who received the letter. The two are connected. THE PLANET could have done a better job explaining it.
Maybe a legal eagle can explain more to me but I understood the ABA rules were professional guidelines for ethics. They are not laws like .. ahem I don’t know … say driving without a license.
There is usually no criminal penalty but professional censure for transgressing the attorney rules. Usually, the Board of Bar overseers gets involved only to professionally censure the attorney; e.g. there isnt a criminal element to the censure. Am I correct about that? There is usually only a slap on the wrist unless it’s fraud with client funds?
Also, the rule cited refers to the rules for Judges – so is there a suggestion that the judge who reviewed AH’s allegations acted improperly? I don’t think anyone is suggesting that they did, but not sure why Crater quoted the judge rules since Harrington isn’t a judge. Did she cause the judge to commit an ethical transgression? Is that why Crater is referencing those rules instead of Attorney ABA rules?
Sadly, the Board of Bar Overseers in MA is about as diligent as the compliance guy in the movie Boiler Room. I wouldn’t expect much comeuppance there, even if they wrote a strongly worded letter – what else would they do? As far as I know they don’t censure judges, that is another agency, but again, I could be wrong.
It looks terrible for AH but not likely to be the smoking gun her detractors wish for.
That may be. The ex parte letter from the DA was a mistake, and it could very well be the judge who accepted the letter compounded the error.
I can’t imagine anyone wants to touch this with a barge pole.
The bar association is on a campaign to remove judge Tyne, as she and vrabel are honest. Hard for the connected to fix cases with an honest jurist. Although friday Tyne questionably allowed the coaching of commonwealth only witness in a bench trial the defendant has waited 7 months for. Perhaps Harringtons efforts and Dawleys threat bore fruit.
Good grief, the plot thickens.
If that is true then you are suggesting that Berkshire County lawyers want to get rid of judges who are not ‘’persuadable’? And they will try and get judges fired that they don’t like? On some ways that is what happened, already.
Who is on the good list and who is on the bad list?
We really are Venezuela now.
You are soooooo wrong
The ABA rules are actually duplicated in MA law. They are slightly different but are materially the same when it comes to these issues.
ABA
https://www.americanbar.org/groups/professional_responsibility/policy/ethics_2000_commission/e2k_rule35/
Rules of MA
https://www.mass.gov/supreme-judicial-court-rules/rules-of-professional-conduct-rule-35-impartiality-and-decorum-of-the
Thanks. I didn’t know if the professional conduct was binding in terms of a criminal charge. I have watched every law and order but never picked that up. Lol.
Next time stay at a holiday inn
Berkshire County can only hope that she gets thrown out of office and disbarred.
She could also do her part, to help re-populate the BHC.
2022 isn’t that far away
Hopefully Berkshire county finds a good candidate, who cares not what Boston wants.
Question? This reads like like pertains to judicial conduct. “A JUDGE shall not…”
Where is the rule or how does it apply to a district attorney?
I’m not defending her actions. Clearly she tried to circumvent legal channels to have a judge removed. But please explain how the rule above applies to the DA.
It doesn’t pertain to her save how it works in concert with with 3.5.
“ A lawyer shall not:
(a) seek to influence a judge, juror, prospective juror or other official by means prohibited by law;
(b) communicate ex parte with such a person during the proceeding unless authorized to do so by law or court order;”
Under (a) she has tried to influence a judge or other official(s) be means prohibited by law. That prohibition exists in concert with the law 2.9 (a) that says a “judge shall not….”
She is not covered by 2.9 (a). This whole article and this judge is suspect because they clearly paid no attention to the actual facts at hand. Also it’s not the ABA rules that are of concern. It’s the rules of professional conduct as per the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Rules. In many cases they are identical but the enforcement authority and some of the rules are different.
For example, the ABA may sanction but the Board of Bar Overseers for MA might as well but under 4.01.(3)
LEGAL
Yes, as I understand it, the two provisions work together.
I believe it should say “a lawyer may not”
During a proceeding a lawyer may not communicate ex parte with persons serving in an official capacity in the proceeding, such as judges, masters or jurors, unless authorized to do so by law or court order.
https://www.mass.gov/supreme-judicial-court-rules/rules-of-professional-conduct-rule-35-impartiality-and-decorum-of-the
They are citing TWO different sections of the law. One for judges, one for lawyers.
Yes. And I think Judge Crater was referring to both, in linkage.
This is what happens when a political agenda infiltrates every aspect of our society. Our justice system has been impacted by this far left agenda as have our schools, culture, businesses, military, and sports. Their sole purpose is to change our society into Marxism and they will do whatever it takes to accomplish that goal.
Apparently some people minds are also infected with a “political agenda.” That is where it all starts and now with mass political agenda infections of peoples minds it is unlikely there will ever be a “normal” again. Surely not in our lifetimes. You can blame one side or the other but it is going to take both sides down.
As I stated above, everyone was so butt hurt over trump they simply saw, “Progressive Female” and swooned
BRAVO!
Liberals/Progressives are still crying, because they still have Trump induced butt hurt diaper rash
Ya know MT, there are some Trump supporters you can recognize just by there language. You are one of them.
You are confusing Trump supporters with free thinkers.
Not all people are not Zombies chanting Orange Man bad
Trump definitely wears a diaper
You voted for Pee Pads and Knee Pads
Pat, could you explain how this is Marxist because I genuinely don’t understand? Thanks.
It’s all Marxist. The whole far left agenda is Marxist. The far left appointed District Attorneys that were spread across the country are promoting a Marxist agenda of getting rid of or seriously defunding police while letting criminals run amok. Most people now know it. The CRT (Critical Race Theory) they are teaching in schools is Marxist. Berkshire County people are not seeing what is right under their nose because they are not curious about much as long as their creature comforts are being met or so it seems.
” or so it seems” ………..to you. You, so it seems, tend to see things through Fox colored glasses and if they say Marxist, well then you will repeat…. “Marxist.”
It’s more Communist than Marxist.
How often do you watch FOX?
Dumb
Unbelievable. Your view is so warped.
DAs are elected, not appointed. Just ask your buddy Hannity/Carlson/Ingram/whomever.
Some states they are appointed, as judges are here.
The liberal democratic capitalist believe the justice system is in need of an overhaul.Trump illegally investigates like Nixon did….Trump mental illness is at hand with the Trump fascist trying to control democracy
You need to be brought to Bellevue Hospital for a psychiatric evaluation by force ASAP! You have only one foot remaining on the ledge looking down before….
Too bad they shut down Belchertown State, TSC would have fit right in there.
Who knows, maybe TSC is an Alumnus?
You watch Fox media and think its news.I watch and know it promotes Putins oligarchs.Trump had a overthrow of democracy and you dont even know it happened….who owns your thinking and why do you tepeat what Fox teaches you…..Moronic stuff but Fox beat me to that knowledge Lol
Next diaper change, put some salve on your TDS butt hurt rash.
Saw Fox say Markism again.You do know Pat that Fox is the Jesus media channel.
Does TDS fuel your addiction to Fox News?
You have it bad Pat,it sick how your thinking is Fox marxist
Pat, I don’t care how many ‘thumbs up’ you get, your claims about leftists and Marxism are ridiculous. Why don’t you get real and spread the blame a little more even-handedly.
O.K. I will, it’s dumb people like You who vote them into office
You are not dumb and neither am I.
Yeah. Kind of like refusing to have hearings on an Obama SCOTUS nomination nine months before a presidential election, but pushing a Trump SCOTUS nomination through ONE month before a presidential election. That’s just political badness Republicans would NEVER pull on our justice system, right? It’s only the Supreme Court.
Sotero and Henchman Holder gave guns to Mexican drug cartels and US street gangs to further their “gun control” agendas.
Border Patrol agent Brian Terry was murdered with one of the guns, along with hundreds of Mexicans in Mexico.
That’s not political badness, that’s accessory to murder.
What about-ism…
Right, MrsMiaWallace, the SCOTUS nomination debacle was patently unethical and unfair.
The Eagle is a error prone nightmare.
If they said the sky is blue you can bet they are wrong.
They can’t get a simple purchase and sale article right.
Lee and Lenox already own this building. The Mount hopes to BUY it.
No more Fanto
Fatso is a hack “journalist”, fits in well where he works
Two weather highlights right on top of each other
I saw this in the Eagle today and one of the stories about the high heat was from weeks ago, but they are still running it.
This is what happens when you vote for political affiliation and body parts (How many of you voted for her because she’s a woman? admit it) You all swooned over “Progressive Female”
Anyone who pay attention knew she was incompetent and only wanted whatever political office she could get… Didn’t she run for State Senator the year prior and lose?
She’s a political hack and unlike Tricia FB, you can’t hide it as well in the DA’s office. You actually need to do your job and do it well.
I wonder how Andrew McSkeever will manipulate this? He’ll be out of a job soon enough and luckily we all learned how little journalistic integrity he actually has. He’d fit in great at the Eagle.
Everyone who voted for her should be ashamed of themselves and lose the right to vote. Disgusting, low information voters.
I did vote for her. I was/am still upset about the Baran case. Also the hounding of the teenager who was eventually sent to jail for two years for selling pot. Not cool.
Not many knew she carried so much baggage.
Yeah we did. She carried tons of baggage and zero experience.
The Baran case is the original sin of the Berkshire DA’s Office. What happened to that young man and his family is unforgivable. But Tony Ruberto has passed and Dan Ford is retired. They bear the responsibility for Bernie’s suffering.
Sawin was a drug dealer, period. He was not hounded or entrapped. He was dealing while his case was pending! At the time he was convicted, the policy of the office was to prosecute cases factually supportive of a school zone violation with no discretion, period, and without regard to who the defendant was or where they grew up. That doesn’t always lead to great outcomes, but at least the white rich kid from Great Barrington was treated in the same manner as the black poor kid from Pittsfield. And remember, pot was still illegal then.
The war on drugs has been a trillion-dollar failure, but failing to enforce drug laws in one jurisdiction is not a solution. The reason why decriminalization of drugs in Portugal works is that it applies to the whole country. If law enforcement in Berkshire County decided against enforcing the drug laws, it would not cure the problem. There would still be a demand for drugs and dealers from all over would set up shop here without consequence.
The DA is a failure because there is no depth of experience upon which to draw in order to create policy. All she knows is what others have done, said, or studied.
Expertise is important. Politics is a curse when dealing with people’s lives. That’s why the over-simplification of a no cash bail policy is foolish, political pandering. If she had a lick of sense, AH would know that bail is a tool that can be used properly if based upon a sensible policy.
Understand that the decriminalization of drugs in Portugal was not about drugs but about HIV/AIDS.
Portugal has socialized medicine, free healthcare for most. Since the cost of HIV/AIDS treatment was very expensive and most of the new cases were illegal drug users, they found it cheaper to treat addicts than to treat HIV/AIDS patients.
So poor Wrong Way is doing what she does best, approaching the problem from the wrong way and applying the wrong solutions to the problem.
By trying to decriminalize opioids, she is creating a market for drug dealers.
“In 1999, Portugal had the highest rate of HIV amongst injecting drug users in the European Union. There were 2,000 new cases a year, in a country of 10 million people. In 1997, 45% of HIV reported AIDS cases recorded originated among IV drug users,[3] so targeting drug use was seen as an effective avenue of HIV prevention. The number of heroin users was estimated to be between 50,000 and 100,000 at the end of the 1990s.[4] This led to the adoption of The National Strategy for the Fight Against Drugs in 1999. A vast expansion of harm reduction efforts, doubling the investment of public funds in drug treatment and drug prevention services, and changing the legal framework dealing with minor drug offences were the main elements of the policy thrust.”
“The drug policy of Portugal, informally called the “drug strategy”, was put in place in 2000, and came into effect in July 2001. Its purpose was to reduce the number of new HIV/AIDS cases in the country, as it was estimated around half of new cases came from injecting drug use.
The policy consisted of multiple methods to reduce the spread of HIV, among which were: Harm reduction efforts; information to the public and in particular to populations most at risk about how HIV is spread; establishing treatment facilities and easier access to substitution treatment for drug addicts; establishing so called dissuasion commissions to persuade drug addicts to go into treatment, and, most importantly,[citation needed] all drug treatment and control units were reorganized into one comprehensive unit. In addition, the existing practice of giving drug addicts a waiver for drug possession was codified in a new law. The law (Drug Law 30/2000) maintained the status of illegality for using or possessing any drug for personal use without authorization. However, for persons addicted to said drug, their case was now deemed an administrative offence.[1] The authority to impose penalties or sanctions in these cases was transferred from the police and justice system to so-called dissuasion commissions if the amount possessed was no more than a ten-day supply of that substance.[2][1]”
This is an excellent post. Thankyou Drug Store.
Awesome, well-researched post. My point was from a law enforcement perspective. Try as she might, AH does not understand the interface between harm reduction strategies and public safety policy.
Will Shirley also be out of a job? Right from the get go she was on board with the DA. I went back and read this article about the race.
https://theintercept.com/2018/09/20/berkshire-county-district-attorney-election-andrea-harrington/
Shirley hated the prior DA’s office because she has so many relatives in trouble with the law and because she herself was charged with failing to report sexual assault on a disabled woman. Judy Knight got her acquitted and then she turned around and supported Harrington. You be the judge.
DSV Task Force email is addressed to Helen Moon.
The biggest news in America is that the mentally ill Trump said he will be President in 47 days.His supporters Fox Media and Qanons and racist and most important Elite Fascist and the new Republicans Senators and congress Qanons with McConnell leading the way are waiting for his return.This board wont talk about it or agree one way or the other….the Qanon Republicans expect it….So crazy what Trump has made former white union guys believe.You guys deny the mental illness.
TSC, all the accusations about the fraud election are turning out to be the truth. The audit in AZ is about complete. That’s going to butt hurt your TDS even more.
“This game is called media fact checkers.”
“How does it work?”
“I cheat then tell everyone that I won, and you’re a liar”
So far, 25% of ballot boxes in Maricopa county AZ do not match.
How could that be TSC?
Dont have a clue what that means.Please explain how democrats did the cheating there
I’m sure Fox News will fill you in on it TSC
So you are full pillow guy .
Its’ easy. The Dems simply imported balots, sent in proxys, controled the voting machenes and threw out Trum balots.
So easy…like using grammatical conventions in writing.
Exactly. And if they can do it so esily theyll try it over and over.
Absurdity, you saw all the evidence at the Supreme Court
Supreme Court didn’t look at any evidence TSC. They chose to ignore it.
Dumb,they told Rudy to present his case.He couldnt.There was no evidence.
There was evidence and witnesses in every state it happened in. The criminals working at polling place in Georgia got caught on video tape. As I recall, a mother/daughter team scanning same piles of ballots multiple times.
I’d find you a link TSC, but you don’t/won’t even believe your own eyes
The whole cheat scandle is not for me or any state Supreme court or United States Supreme Court or the states secretary of states.The cheat is directed at the brainwashed innocence of Fox viewers.There is a war on democracy and you lead it.Billionaires need you and they know how to keep you.Its repeating a lie until the innocent believe that lie.You and the pillow guy think you are patriots saving the country from Marxist as fasist take your vote away. Fascism must win now and they know it.Democracy is now in the hands of the fascist and you wont know until its gone.
This might burst your little bubble and give you more TDS diaper rash TSC.
I don’t have cable TV and my little antenna don’t get Albany stations/Fox.
I’m glad you keep us all aware of what they broadcast.
If he is planning on coming back in 47 days he must be planning another insurrection in 46 days. Putin just bought a 72 inch Trini Tron to watch it all on and is sending his own camera crew to film it for his archives.
If the cheaters have nothing to hide, why are they fighting every recount and investigation?
Maybe they know what the audits will reveal, and the truth is not the liberal/MSM narrative.
So will you be at the next insurrection? Troy Sargent won’t be.
Ashli Babbit won’t be there either. She was murdered by Leftist security assassin, that the left won’t even let be identifed.
It wasn’t an insurrection, that is MSM and leftists spin on events of 1/06/2021.
The Capital Police won’t release footage of the mostly peaceful protest, as it does not fit their narrative or agenda.
The MSM was crowing about “the officer who died after being beaten ….”, when in fact he died of natural causes. How long did that go on for?
Even Communist News Network, your source of “news” Annalprobe, came clean albeit 3 1/2 months later.
4/19/2021
“Washington (CNN)US Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick suffered strokes and died of natural causes one day after responding to the January 6 insurrection at the US Capitol, Washington DC’s chief medical examiner has determined.”
https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/19/politics/brian-sicknick-death-us-capitol-riot/index.html
Right. CNN is full of commies. That makes sense. Joe McCarthy would be proud of you.
Communist News Network ratings are down 70%
What insurrection? Protestors were invited inside by capitol Police.
“Senator Johnson says one-third of the protesters who entered the US Capitol at the West Terrace doorway were waved in by Capitol Police.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/06/senator-ron-johnsons-staff-looking-thru-14-hours-jan-6th-video-footage-38-800-protesters-waved-west-terrace-door-capitol-police-video/
The protester were doing exacly what Trump asked them to do, stop the results from being cetrified.
Yes!
When did Trump say that and what were his exact words?
I didnt think you had it this bad.
Reading Your posts is not that bad TSC, it’s really kind of funny.
I saed it before and I’ll say it agian: Trump knew it and was proven visionery in predicing the results of the election. He knew it could not be a fare eletion if he lost. What he saed came true exacly.
OMG pay for a “Grammarly” subscription!
Oh I get it. Theres nothing wrong with my grammer that the gospel of Trump cant fix. What is more important, using the right words or telling it like it is? You’re words are’nt all that great either. Like missusing ‘whomever’.
Yeah, yer “grammer” are gud.
Funny, MRS. M, but have you ever seen Tony Clifton and Andy Kauffman together at the same time?
Good point, boss!
I resemble that remarck.
He ran the last one
Trump will soon be POTUS, whether he gets help from the White Surpremecists or not.
Its the misfit party of ignorance….how can Trump win without all the morons
Trump won with or without the maroons.
Maroons? Do you drink or just smoke joints all night?
You gotto be kidding. Whats’ wrong with drinking? What a maroon.
All night is the point. Keep up.
Very fake information.
Can’t we stay on topic? Good God, I can’t even read Melle’s posts because everything always comes back to him. And when Pat mentions CRT or Marxism off-topic, it pulls the whole blog down. Please, folks, stay on topic here!
MMW, I’m afraid there’s a lot of spectrum disorder endemic to this blog, as is to be expected.
Spectrum disorder? Spectrum does carry MSNBC and CNN.
It appears our officials are using the victims of domestic violence as a cash cow, story time & maxi pads is all I have seen them do. It’s like the TV commercials for the neglected animals. All us dogs are in a corner shivering & they be like cha ching $175k.
Listen up, I did more work this year than the Officials.
I had to take up law studies – in order TO SAVE MY OWN ASS!
DONATE NOW WE URRGGEE YOU, WE’RE DOUBLING DOWN ON FUND RAISERS….
YOU KNOW WHAT YOU USELESS WIND BAGS AND YOUR STUPID IMAGINARY CELEBRITY FY! NOBODY WANTS TO BE A IGNORANT, GLUTTONOUS THIEF MORE THAN YOU. YOU’RE NOTHING BUT A PAWN. NOBODY WITH % SENSE ADMIRES YOU! GET OUT OF THE WAY – SOME OF US AINT PLAYING GAMES – I HAVE IMPORTANT THINGS TO LITIGATE.
SOMEONE POINT TO A COURT THAT I CAN TRUST!
Can’t tell if you are talking about the DA or the mayor.
There must be a law prohibiting retired judges from owning a newspaper/within their jurisdiction – it can not POSSIBLY be ethical. I know it’s illegal, and I will find the language- hold on……
ERIN
There is no such law, nor should there be. A retired judge has no jurisdiction. He or she is a private citizen, entitled to all its privileges, including owning a newspaper.
What about the influence a retired judge has with the judicial branch, colleagues – jurisdiction – judges have top respect from EVERY sector – jurisdiction, meaning the place where he held session – what about the influence on lawyers and it speaks of a need for research. Birdland owns legal offices, there’s NO WAY this doesn’t lead to bias, I have experienced it re: a wrongful eviction. Probate/Housing/District Courts are at risk – you’ll see. There’s NO WAY anyone can think a retired judge is neutral regarding local news – WE ALL SEE IT Dan.
Human nature will be what it is … and will be. That lies beyond the reach of any law, rule, dictate, imposition, or requirement. That is both our sacredness and our profanity as human beings.
Yet it is worth mentioning and recognizing so that one can be prepared. So many strange things happen in Pittsfield and some folk are totally perplexed. But others, knowledgeable of the political power structure, know full well how and why these things happen. As sad as that is.
Is there a casual connection between Hellman Shearn + Arienti LLP & Birdland, and Berkshire Museum etc al?
Is it ethical. How would we know. Potential for abuse of power, yes.
We need the news to be unbias.
Did we get the unbiased story about the Norman Rockwell art sale?
The Eagle actually did a deep dive on that Art Sale story. I remember reading that initially there was to be strong oversight on what was going to happen to all that money. Then, I also remember reading that, oh no, there was NOT going to be any such public oversight. Somebody changed their minds after the fact. And the coverage has been slim since then. Jimmy Ruberto might be on the board and may be able to answer you questions though.
Norman Rockwell, Taconic Foundation, Berkshire United Way, Berkshire Museum, BCC, BHS, Country Club, Wynnshield, and many many more – all connected people dual roles.
Yes, the Eagle did. Larry Parnass did a good job with his coverage.
Until he didn’t. The power of money. If you remember the Eagle, Mayor, Hinds, and TFB were all for the sale.
Dan, please do a series on Critical Race Theory (CRT) next as so many in this area are seriously unaware of just what it is teaching to our impressionable youth.
Under consideration.
This I gotta see.
MR K
And see you will. Thanks for your participation here.
Its called history pat or are you Qanons making more stuff up.
Yes Pat, the brainwashing that waited until college in the 1960s is after the very young now.
It’s not just race, but politics, and demeaning any critical thinking or dissent.
“Springfield, MO – A Pershing middle school teacher abused and berated a child in her classroom for asking why straight kids weren’t allowed to have her “unicorn cupcakes.”
The abusive teacher screamed at the child and called him an “ignorant, straight jerk.”
When the child pushed back on her, she doubled down and called him a “dick,” “weasel” and “butthead.””
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/06/new-teacher-berated-6th-grader-straight-jerk-will-no-longer-returning-springfield-public-schools/
So disgusting. Where are they getting these crazy teachers? From the far left crazy indoctrinating colleges. Everyday there are more and more unbelievable stories about what they are teaching these kids.
I taught for years and was never indoctrinated. I learned CRITICAL THINKING SKILLS. You sorry flucks should try it.
Home Economics?
You were a gym teacher.
CRT is really pretty simple at it’s source – it was just taking a critical view of the notion of race, and like all the ‘Critical X Theories’, it provides an analysis from a non-right-wing perspective. Unfortunately, it has taken on a life of its own as a meme, much like BLM now means much more than simply ‘Black Lives Matter.’
Burn Loot and Murder
Not clever.
But true.
Did you forget the riots, er “peaceful protests”, all last summer?
“Shopping” after hours for big screens and sneakers through the broken windows……….
Still going on but you wouldn’t know it by reading or watching the news
But true
Have your unarmed sons murdered by cops.
Then I’ll go out on a looting and arson spree.
That would bring my son back, and make the country all warm and fuzzy.
LOL
Finally, the truth. It’s a theory. Period.
Teaching white children to ashamed of their race is systemic racism.
The three Rs
Reading is racist
Riting is racist
Rithmatic is racist
The 4th R isn’t though, Rioting
Taken almost verbatim from Tucker Carlson.
Who’s he?
At last week’s “State of the Streets” address Harrington spoke once more about her “learning trip” to Portugal two years ago. Decriminalizing all drugs a la Portugal is clearly on her radar. The people who live in and on our streets do not need encouragement to do more drugs. Our community will not benefit from injection sites and supplying “safe” heroin. Please can someone in the media question the DA on her new campaign treasurer, a self described lobbyist for injection sites whose social media posts advocate for injection sites, decriminalization and safe supply. Where does the DA stand on these issues?
Stephen Murray
“I lobby government on harm reduction, mostly advocating for supervised consumption sites.”
https://neverusealone.com/staff/#mission
https://truthpharm.org/our-team/stephen-murray/.
https://www.ocpf.us/Filers?q=andrea%20harrington&cat=A
Stephen Murray
@stephenHRNRP
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May 30
We are not in an opiate crisis. We are in an OVERDOSE crisis. This has been caused by the drug war, lack of safe supply and prohibition. #harmreduction
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Scientific American
@sciam
· May 30
“The iron law of prohibition” refers to the problem of reducing drug supply without reducing demand. The banned substances are then replaced with more concentrated, impure and deadly drugs. https://scientificamerican.com/article/were-overlooking-a-major-culprit-in-the-opioid-crisis/
This is an avenue for profit, nobody cares if they die.
It’s the growth industry for the far progressive left. None of it helps civilization. It just tears it down so a new industry can be created to fix
the mess they created.
Just seen an accident at north and school st. Cant make it up.
Nick is keeping track for the revision coming soon that may land him another 200 hour a week job.
Accident over under is 4 for this semester.
Drug companies are responsible for the addiction.You cant be this uninformed…just cant be.
The person who consumes drugs to an abusive degree is the one ultimately responsible. That person is the only one who can decide to get sober.
And forks and spoons make you fat
You may be on to something. In China for instance, they eat with chopsticks and obesity is uncommon. Please continue your study of the matter.
Obesity is now quite common in China.
Yeah ok, the cartels cut them in from the stuff most are shooting up.
Reading your posts could make people take drugs
If Berkshire County wants to address the heroin problem, they should start by making sure that the correct person is summoned to court & check if that person is also a care provider for elderly/disabled/children. Unfortunately they called the wrong person & that drug dependent person, the rightful owner of the charge – was let go? And is now dead. Someone else’s docket number was sent to me & I was forced to appear! WTF is going on around here?
Is there anyone in Pittsfield who CANNOT get their choice of drug anytime of day or night with minimal effort? Does anyone besides me wonder why after spending 3 Trillion dollars over the last 50 years on drug enforcement the problem gets worse every day? Is it possible we are doing something wrong?
600,000 cancer deaths happen in the US every year. The leading cause is outdoor air pollution. But yeah let’s stop fighting the war on cancer. Let’s stop regulating and punishing people who put cancer causing products in our environment.
Obesity drinking smoking way more than outdoor air? Aside…..accident near the bike lanes today school and north. And you Can’t Make It Up.
Make sure Nick “200 Hours” Russo is notified.
errr…. OK I guess. (side eye)
Package stores close at 11 PM, don’t open until 8 AM.
Government makes a lot of $$$ off booze, pot also now.
Cigs and lottery too
Lottery money was $upo$$ed to go fund our $chool$.
But the our Senators and Reps are bigger looters than BLM
Reagan did it to fund his illegal wars.
TSC
Fair point. The Iran-Contra mess, case example.
Sotero and Kerry did worse giving Iran pallets of US currency
Build the wall
Arkancide?
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/06/14/reporter-broke-story-clinton-lynch-tarmac-meeting-dead-alleged-suicide/
The ghost of Epstein is killing people
Yup, rack another one up to the Clinton Crime Cartel
What does that mean?
Ask Vinny Foster, Seth Rich and……….
O’Biden – what an embarassment on the world stage….
https://thefederalist.com/2021/06/14/biden-bumbles-through-g7-summit-leaving-a-trail-of-gaffes-in-his-wake/
It could get worse if “knee pads” takes over for him.
When she was yelling , “Don’t come here!” in central America, …….she was just having a Willie Brown flashback .
I saw bit of the G-7 opening roundtable. British PM Boris Johnson had to correct Syracuse Joe after Johnson introduced the table. Biden said he forgot to mention the president of South Africa. Johnson had to correct him. Joe didn’t look well or all with it. Then, later, he confused Syria and Libya three times. It was painful to watch.
Dan, if You remember super Tuesday, Biden introduced his Wife as his Sister.
But he got the D- (mentia) nomination.
I should point out that he will be meeting Putin on Wednesday with the unity and support of the NATO leaders all solidly behind him, which hasn’t happened in awhile and is a breath of fresh air.
Joe won’t know where he is or what day it is.
Will they let Jill lead him around and poke him when he makes a gaffe?
Electric collar around the neck that zaps him when gaffes occur is the next step. Media will say it’s a tens unit for neck pain.
That’d just make Joe pee his pants, and Jill would have to change him.
You can bet they are all behind him in unity waiting to bend him over.
Dementia Joe will give NATO a free ride. U.S. taxpayers pay for countries who won’t pay up.
The difference between Joe and Donald is that is Joe screws up it was old age and if Trump screws up it was intentional.
Not sure it bothered the people there as much as it bothered Trump supporters.
Joe is doing great.
If you say so TSC
“Biden Appears to Get Lost at G7, World Leaders *Laugh* at Him as Jill Biden Comes to His Rescue”
“Biden answered a quick question for a reporter about how he believed the talks were coming, before his wife Jill Biden seemed to come to rescue. You can hear a loud outburst of laughs, although Biden didn’t seem to make any joke.
There are also scattered reports that Biden is the butt of jokes being told by world leaders at the G7 summit, which is entirely believable”
https://republicandaily.net/2021/06/biden-appears-to-get-lost-at-g7-world-leaders-laugh-at-him-as-jill-biden-comes-to-his-rescue/
If you actually watch the tape unedited you will see that he handled the situation quite tactfully. Fox’s edits are designed to make him look like a buffoon.
Dementia Joe doesn’t need help looking like a buffoon.
No, his handlers are doing a great job. Even Australian media slammed the US media for their actions of covering for Joe’s issues.
I’d love to see Biden and TSC have a conversation
You’re as brainwashed and narrow minded as those “white supremacist Fox news loving” people you spew hatred against.
Love Trumps Hate….
LOL
“This is horrible. At some point his [Biden’s] cognitive dysfunction has to be considered a national security threat if only because of the confidence it must give our enemies “President confuses Syria with Libya three times.” Tammy Bruce
Joe thinks and believes he will be the nominee in 2024. Apparently he has not been informed by his handlers that is not the plan…
Trump thinks he is going to be president in August 2021. Apparently he has not been informed that without a better insurrection that will not happen.
Once again, if you actually watch the tape you will see that he did not confuse Syria and Libya. It is only (e.g., Hannity’s) setup that makes it look like he confused them.
Dementia Joe was lost.
The China syndrome; the sequel
Taishan Nuclear Power Plant. On the coast Southern China. Plants only 3 years old.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/imminent-radiological-threat-chinese-nuclear-plant-leaking-china-releasing-gas-on-surrounding-area-french-company-warns-u-s-government?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=benshapiro&fbclid=IwAR3xbxMfRGhCTaW0ddSNB39GSyqEkJYeJ_bvA17PQUXxGLfDl2XMgx_snQs
‘Imminent Radiological Threat’: Chinese Nuclear Plant Leaking, China Releasing Gas On Surrounding Area, French Company Warns U.S. Government
This will kill us all a lot faster than climate change not to mention all of the bio-weapons that China is cooking up in their labs.
Fuaci was the one in on the creation of Covid. He funneled money to the Chi-Com researchers. He was not as smart as the H-Beast, who bleach botted her emails.
He should be hung for teason.
Yet Biden has the nerve to say that climate change is the greatest threat to the world after a pandemic just killed more people than a world war. The man is so bought off by China.
Biden is NOT for sale.
China already owns him!
Ever heard of Three Mile Island? How about Chernobyl? How about Fukishima? Why do Biden and Dr Fauci keep doing this? Shameful.
I’ve heard of Three-Mile Island. I was working at the Times-Leader in PA at the time as asst. wire editor and TV writer. We had a Harrisburg Bureau. Our guy called into the newsroom and said there was “something going on” at the plant. He said the power company called it “an isolated incident” and that there was no danger to the public. Next thing you know, our guy calls with the news that Gov. Thornburg had ordered a standby for a 25-mile evacuation in the area around the plant. I told our bureau to buttonhole the PR guy from the facility, tell him he wanted straight info. The funny thing is that at the time the movie “The China syndrome” was in theaters, portraying the nearly-exact event.
I bought a stash of potassium iodide back then.
Glad I never needed it
Are you sure you did not accidentally ingest it with your oatmeal one morning? I ask because something definitely is wrong with your cognizant abilities..
You are delusional.
His emails just became public. The little weasel was in bed with the Chi-Coms
This is all well and good except the abused WILL NOT TELL – BECAUSE THEY ARE AT IMMEDIATE RISK OF HARM- ASK MY FATHER. HE CAN NEVER WALK AGAIN, YOU FAILED US CHRISTINE MACMILLEN from LifePathMA.org.
https://www.recorder.com/June-15-is-World-Elder-Abuse-Awareness-Day-and-LifePath-is-urging-action-40962858
As I listen to the ongoing debate, it strikes me that people on both sides exaggerate, make extreme statements and spend their energy making crazy unsupported statements. Can’t we just stick to the facts (even if we don’t agree on what the facts are) rather than making over-the-top statements? How does using insults and making things up help the discussion?
How can we stick to the facts if the far left keeps insisting that the truth isn’t “fact”. They are shape shifters and mind benders and young people without critical thinking skills are putty in their hands and the far leftists know it. They have substituted Critical Race Theory for critical thinking skills in our education system so that we end up with young people who are incapable of thinking for themselves because they have been brainwashed.
But everything you said in your first 3 lines applies equally to the right. The left does not have a monopoly on lies.
Jerry,where’s the quality?
I don’t get it.
The logic of the left.
Imagine this. A guy wearing the same shirt, but it swaps out the gender, male for female.
This is from an article that posted today on HuffPo, Yahoo!, Teen, Vogue,
Imagine the outrage if the shirt was worn by a guy and it said, “She said she wanted more space so I locked him outside.”
There’d be no fawning over this person, it would be #metoo #timesup
Cancel culture, the weapon of the left.
PS you can get that shirt made for $10
I did see a guy and his wife at market the other day. The guy had a T-shirt that read: “If a man says something in a forest and there’s no woman around, is he still wrong?”
Everything is a conspiracy. Everyone is out to get the republicans. I saw a kid with an ice cream cone the other day. I am sure he stole it from some republican kid.
Paranoia anyone?
You be wrong. He nicked it off Biden.
Even North Korea isn’t this “nuts” according to a young woman who defected from North Korea and attended an American university.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/north-korean-defector-ivy-league-nuts
Wow! Korean students experience at US university is telling.
https://redstate.com/bonchie/2021/06/14/north-korean-defector-delivers-a-shocking-rebuke-of-americas-woke-culture-n396730
I found the same story. Chilling. She came here to get away from the indoctrination of North Korea and ends up with the even more extreme lunacy of American universities. They even told her that reading Jane Austen made her racist.
Did she admire the way Trump had his DOJ spy on his own countryman.
Yes, that news story was covered by Fox but not CNN, MSNBC or the 3 broadcast networks.
There is a reason why all the liberal stations didn’t carry that story. It sure makes their party look bad.
Dan, I lived through the same thing that Jill & Joe are going through. The DENIAL of the truth killed my family! I’m not a Biden supporter, just an outsider looking in; just sayin. I weep for the future of the US!
The USA is toast. We made too many powerful enemies outside and have too many powerful traitors inside. Even if the inside traitors stopped destroying their own country from within, it is probably too late. The hackers will disarm any resistance we may put up.
Tick tock on that one baby…brought it on ourselves
If I were in Putin’s shoes this Wednesday in Geneva Switzerland, I would respond to Biden’s criticisms of Russia’s annexation of Crimea from Ukraine in 2014 with the fact that then U.S. Senator Biden voted for Bush #2’s 2003 invasion of Iraq whereby the U.S. Government still controls around 85 percent of Iraq’s oil reserves, which are the second largest oil reserves in the world next to Saudi Arabia. If I were in Putin’s shoes, I would ask Biden how he was right to vote for the 2003 invasion of Iraq and the U.S. Government’s ongoing control of Iraq’s vast oil reserves, while Biden believes that Putin is wrong for Putin’s 2014 invasion and annexation of Crimea from Ukraine. If I were in Putin’s shoes, I would also remind Biden that the U.S.A.’s economy centers around exporting military arms to the world’s governments, and that when Russia’s economy collapsed in the early 1990s after the end of the Soviet Union, the U.S. Government took over Russia’s market share in arms exports to the world’s governments. In closing, if Biden really believes that Russia should follow the rules of international relations, I believe that Putin should hold up a proverbial mirror to Biden’s face!
JM I think you are either a bit tired or a Putin lover. The US went to the UN and received international support on Iraq, I don’t believe Russia did before invading a country. I also don’t think the former head of the KGB needs any advice on how to handle anyone, I am pretty sure he is well trained. Your concern should be directed towards our President who I believe is in over his head.
Andrea engaged in ex parte communication Judge Tyne did not.
In 46 days the mentally ill Trump will return as Lifetime President of fascist America. The scariest day in history is at hand.Who would have ever believed the silence around the destruction of a once blessed nation for all people who lived under evil and now the end is near.I for one believe democracy loses and you fascist win.White power,white power,white power…..America becomes what it fled.
Sorry to hear the Stooge is terminally ill with lung disease. I had a friend who died from lung disease after Viet Nam and exposure to the brush killer,nasty stuff.
If true, I share your sorrow.
Yeah,I heard him say it on the air this morning to the Verizon tower expert and councilor to be Gagliardi.
He said that years before on w b r k Maybe that’s why he does his political infomercials on zoom.
No, he does it because he’s lazy and his political guests who are the greatest thing since sliced bread don’t have to tread to that awful drive to puke t v,especially in the winter. Sturgeon is nothing but a taker.
I barely even thought about race until the ulta-liberal elite started shoving it down our throats like its the biggest issue in our country. Not every white person watches FOX, not everyone is a white supremacist (Despite historically the DEMOCRATS WERE) and not every person of color is a victim of systemic racism.
As a female person of color I am disgusted by your constant race baiting diatribes. You’re as bad as Helen. GROW UP
Total nonsense
In the waiting room for hours & hours on end I lost over 4 units of blood waiting for a doctor and a bed in the ER. After my pregnancy was over I was offered to be transferred to the maternity unit for privacy.
Ask S. Bump if the audit includes the S.H.I.P program MRC – clients are being used.
Biden heaps all kinds of praise on Putin and puts down Republicans all in one conference. Such hypocrisy from the party that couldn’t stop saying that Trump was in collusion with Russia.
But I guarantee you Biden will NOT invite him into the Oval office like the last guy did. A KGB agent invited into the Oval office? Seriously? Yah, Trump did that. He sure did Pat. And back then you probably heaped praise on him for doing it.
I’m not talking about where he met with him, but what he is saying to him. Heaping praise on Putin? No, not with all that is going on with Putin and China and the hacking that is going on. Biden should be scolding NOT praising Putin.
You are right. YOU are not talking about Trump bringing a high level KGB agent into the white house Oval Office. I am. Cuz it is true. And no telling what harm that may have caused us. But you go on and keep blocking that reality out. Fox/Putin want you to.
Letter: Commitment to fair prosecution should be shared
To the editor:
I was interested to read the detailed statement from District Attorney Andrea Harrington relating to issues in support of victims of crime, particularly domestic abuse, and gender-based violence, as well as working for medical treatment for mental health and substance use needs while avoiding overly prosecuting low-level cases. She notes changes such as replacing cash bail with hearings designed to focus jail time for those credibly accused of committing violent crimes and firearm offenses.
These are issues of justice reform that are providing change in other communities. Working for change is complicated and often resisted. District Attorney Harrington states a commitment to listening and working in good faith with the broad legal community. I encourage reading her entire statement and hope her commitment to efforts to promote fair prosecution and a more humanizing justice system, will be widely shared.
Kit Dobelle, Pittsfield
Kit Dobelle, who served as United States Chief of Protocol from November 3, 1978, to September 26, 1979, under President Jimmy Carter. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edith_H._J._Dobelle
All types of crimes have increased under the watch of this district attorney. Violent crime is on the rise in Pittsfield especially.
Nice job copying the DA’s letter almost word for word, Kit. Did you have a thought of your own? Do you actually read the paper you sent the letter to? If so you would have seen the story on DA Harington’s overuse of dangerous hearings to jail people for months with no chance of bail. You sound like a nice old lady who got suckered. The DA’s duping of the public continues. https://www.berkshireeagle.com/news/local/amid-explosion-of-dangerousness-hearings-data-elusive-for-effect-on-poor-people-of-color/article_d8e2adce-b8cc-11eb-b892-43043bf076c3.html
Chief of Protocol is a party planner. It’s normally reserved for big donors who aren’t allowed to do anything important. It’s the reason she and her husband held the same post. It’s a legacy donor position.
Maybe Nipples can get a job doing this, hopefully it’ll keep her from ruining more cases.
Andy is really scraping the bottom of the barrel.
Agree, pathetic. Andy is just the messenger tho. A fish rots at the head.
Bridge Time in the rec hall
I know. Why pay attention to the judges and lawyers who have pointed out that Harrington is an incompetent District Attorney and unethical to boot? You know better! Are you just another white lady that does lunch who thinks you are doing good by supporting an unqualified person to be DA? You are conned as were the supporters of Trump. Andrea Harrington is a complete narcissist and cares only about herself.
Are you serious? Evan Dobelle went on to an abbreviated tenure at the University of Hawaii and eventually came to a humiliating end in academia in 2013 when he skedaddled out the door at Westfield State University in Massachusetts in a remarkably tawdry tale. Google him. I can’t even. These are Harrington’s supporters?!
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/09/24/fifth-presidency-evan-dobelle-faces-many-allegations-ended-his-fourth
Has anyone else heard about the juror from the George Floyd case that was a member of a certain organization that was anti police? I heard today for the first time that the trial may get thrown out>. Please tell me this isn’t true.
Love Charles Simic. Return to a Place Lit by a Glass of Milk. Thank you, Dan, for that. Anyway, AH having a big fundraiser at Proprietor’s Lodge tomorrow night. Backers include: Key (I cry in court) Hollister with John Gobel; Laurie (I used to carry Lenny’s briefcase) Levinson;The Honorable Andrea Nuciforo ( how is he honorable) with extra special guest, The formerly Honorable Francis Spina! Wowser. Of course these invites went out before the latest chapter in how to be an incompetent DA in 10 easy lessons. Curious to know if anyone actually shows. Oh, Judge Spina, what a tumble you have taken.
The illusion only lasts so long.
A long list of almost was
are now accepting any invitation for a free meal. Fake stories
And false glory.
If the list included some up and coming bright attorneys, I’d be surprised.
No point hooking your wagon to a dying horse- you’ll just end up smelling like a dirty rotting horse. Which never washes off.