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I forgot to post this last week when it came out in the Boston Globe. Sorry. Consider this a Holiday gift for readers of this group. It's a revenge story, read on if you like those, skip it if not. Interpretive remarks are all mine, based on years of observation.
The Boston Globe had a story on Dec 11th (JK's b-day, if memory serves) about the Massachusetts Turnpike Authority ("MTA") canceling a contract this Big Dig agency had with Creative Response Concepts ("CRC".) It turns out that CRC was the PR firm that had done work for the evil Swift Boat Liars. Apparently, the MTA thought that they could sneak this contract past everyone in the aftermath of the election and get away with it. A spokesman for Sen. Kerry's office blasted the deal by saying the deal was "just the latest breathtakingly stupid decision by the Republicans in charge of the Big Dig."
The Sr. VP of CRC, Mike Russell, responded with this zinger, "I'm sorry the Kerry campaign is coming unglued over this, but the bottom line is the election is over. There was no political motivation in the hiring of CRC, nor was there any political motivation in our efforts to get the word out about this terrific project." (Which, by the way cost taxpayers both in MA and nationally $15 billion dollars and leaks like a damn sieve.)
Nobody locally would comment on whether or not there was political pressure put on the Republicans who run the MTA to hire the consulting firm. I can just see all the local Rethug bastards swearing on a stack of Bibles that this wasn't a political bag job, oh no, we just, ahm, picked their name out of a hat. No, no we ahm, opened a yellow pages and threw darts and it just happened to land on their names. Morons.
Now local Rethug bastard Andy Card is chief of staff for *, and GOP Evil-Genius-in-training Ken Mehlman cut his teeth on MA politics. (Card was a rep here, then sold his soul to *, Mehlman went to Harvard and helped out Bill Weld, when he was sober, on his campaigns.) And CRC represented nothing political in any way, just the Republican National Committee, the Christian Coalition and Regnery Publishing, which published the SBVT book of epic lies, and, oh yes, Rethuglican Gov. of MA, Mitt Romney's epic book 'Turnaround' about how he single-handedly saved the Winter Olympics in 2002. (But there was no payoff, this was a deal on the up-and-up. Yeah, if you are a f*cking lying bastard with ethics you couldn't find with a National Geographic expedition.)
Turns out somebody noticed. Lots of local Dems, like oh Ted Kennedy and John Kerry noticed and got totally pissed. I would have loved to have been a fly on the wall when that phone call went out. That contract lasted 3 weeks, probably cost Romney and his flying band of the mentally challenged whatever miniscule amount of respect they had left with other powers in the state and made 'em look like an idiot. I, of course, loved this.
I saw a story with a date of 12/19 from the St. Louis Post Dispatch where one of the SBVT Liars was whining about MA punishing CRC and vowing to continue to pump out negative stories about Kerry. Honestly, what a bunch of f*cking retards. I'm just waiting for the day they crawl back under their rocks with the rest of the vermin.
Now this is what I call a heart-warming Christmas story. Well, it warmed my heart anyway. Happy Holidays everyone!
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