Massachusetts Republican Governor in Major Sex Scandal

[David Mott]

One thing you have to consider is that even though he calls himself a
Republican he is not based on how he governs. He is a New England liberal
republican. So i could care less whether he is caught concerning this and
loses the next election.
SATIRICUS REX <sati...@aol.com> wrote in message
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> Excerpt from the Wednesday, Aug. 25, 1999 Associated Press news story by
Leslie
> Miller:
>
>
> BARED BREASTS LAUNCH SCANDAL INVOLVING MASSACHUSETTS REPUBLICAN GOVERNOR'S
> ADMINISTRATION
>
> BOSTON (AP) -- It was smooth sailing for Republican Gov. Paul
Cellucci's
> administration until a stunt actress named Gidget bared her breasts to a
> newspaper photographer while aboard a taxpayer-funded booze cruise.
>
> The raised tank top opened a Pandora's box of daily allegations
ranging
> from cronyism to abuse of power to uncontrolled spending within the
Cellucci
> administration.
>
> Reports surfaced Wednesday that a recent Cellucci appointee had
approved a
> state contract for his recently disbarred divorce lawyer, and another
appointee
> had been found to have sexually harassed an underling.
>
> Cellucci said Wednesday he is undisturbed by all the turmoil in his
> administration.
>
> "We've got over 60,000 people working for us," he said. "So will there
be
> problems occasionally? Sure. It's our job to deal with those problems.
That's
> what we're doing."
>
> The troubles began on Aug. 17, with a boozy Boston Harbor cruise
chartered
> by Massachusetts Port Authority director Peter Blute, a former
congressman. He
> was accompanied by a controversial GOP fund-raiser and a number of young
women,
> including Gidget Churchill, who lifted her top after spotting a Boston
Herald
> photographer waiting on shore.
>
> "That was a bad thing to do," Cellucci said after returning from a
Florida
> vacation Saturday, looking tanned but not particularly rested.
>
> Blute resigned hours after the booze cruise photos hit newsstands, but
that
> was just the beginning.
>
> On Friday, David Shagoury, chief of staff for state Economic
Development
> Director Carolyn Boviard, resigned amid allegations that he and Ms.
Boviard
> were having an affair. The 33-year-old Shagoury -- immediately nicknamed
> "Shagadelic" by a local columnist -- had reportedly threatened to punish
> employees who gossiped about the alleged affair, which Ms. Boviard, 44,
denies.
>
>
> The same day, Nancy "Hasty" Evans quit her job as planning director
for the
> Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority. The Republican appointee said
she
> could no longer tolerate cost overruns that ran into hundreds of millions
of
> dollars.
>
> On Tuesday, Cellucci appointed his chief of staff, 33-year-old
Virginia
> Buckingham, to the top Massport post, immediately drawing criticism that
Ms.
> Buckingham is far from qualified for the position.
>
> He was also criticized for his choice of replacement for Ms.
Buckingham as
> chief of staff -- Stephen O'Neill, a Cellucci aide who had been his driver
as
> recently as 1991.
>
> "They've always got a shortage of qualified Republicans, but they're
> reaching down really low," said Dan Payne, a Democratic consultant.
"Cellucci
> has not distinguished himself with strong people around him. There are no
> adults he can turn to and say, `Get this class in order'.". . . .
>
> [G]leeful Democrats say they've seen the scandals coming for a long,
long,
> time -- ever since Republican Gov. William Weld strayed from his campaign
> promise in 1990 not to hire any political hacks, or "walruses," as he
called
> them.
>
> Six years later, it was revealed Weld's patronage appointees called
> themselves "The Walrus Club," and the administration kept a priority list
of
> job candidates who had supported Weld or the GOP.
>
> Cellucci had been Weld's lieutenant governor until July 1997, when he
> became acting governor after Weld resigned for an unsuccessful pursuit of
the
> ambassadorship to Mexico.
>
> "There is no one in the business of politics in Massachusetts,
Republican,
> Democrat, Independent, reporter, official or independent observer, who was
> surprised by this," said Michael Goldman, a Democratic political
consultant.
>
> "Fairly or unfairly, they've had such a good run, and now it's turned.
> That's the way it works in this business."
>
>
>
>

[SATIRICUS REX]

[SATIRICUS REX]

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David Mott (mot...@NOSPAMmediaone.net): "One thing you have to consider is
that even though he calls himself a Republican, he is not based on how he
governs. He is a New England liberal Republican. So i could care less whether

he is caught concerning this and
loses the next election."

Oh, my! What ever happened to Ronald Reagan's 11th Commandment?

Sheesh! So, the Massachusetts governor was practicing his own "passionate
conservatisim" as opposed to Bush's so-called "compassionate conservatism."

-- SATIRICUS REX ?:^)
Inspirator of Operation Trojan Donkey & the Vitameatavegamin of Politics,
the Proper Tonic for Not-So-Happy, Pep-less People who are pooped out on
Politics

"IN VITAMEATAVEGAMIN EST VINO MIRABILIS!" -- SATIRICUS REX

[David Mott]

You must not be from the New England....I understand. Compassionate
Conservatism? Celluci? Are you really kidding? The 11th commandment is
null and void up here in these parts.

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