Great Moments in Hypocrisy.
By Jim Conley • September 28th, 2007 • Email This Post to a Friend •
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Remember back in May of 2003 when Brookline Town meeting passed a resolution admonishing the US Government on the Patriot Act by saying: “Brookline is a politically diverse and democratic community whose residents are committed to preserving the human rights and civil liberties enunciated in [the US Constitution]“?
I wonder if there’ll be a similar resolution admonishing Town Administrator Richard Kelliher and Police Chief Daniel O’Leary for their flagrant violations of the 4th and14th Amendments. You know, because they said one of our Selectmen was a person of interest to the Boston Police; and then couldn’t provide any evidence in support of the claim.
And yet nothing happens.
Nor will it. Looking in on the Selectmen’s meeting of Tuesday, it was hard to miss that Kelliher still operates, as Mark Twain put it, “with the calm confidence of a Christian holding four aces.”
Update: I’ve been reminded that there’ll be no fresh resolution at this town meeting because our liberal lions have been wrapped up in an effort to prevent the Town from plowing the sidewalks after a winter storm. I’m not kidding.
The more objectionable members of the so-called liberal group Brookline HAX, erPAX, has made it their cause celebre to ensure that the elderly enjoy their wade through the white stuff. Why, to pay for plowing means one of our town managers might get less of a pension.
It’s like a separate universe.
Jim Conley is publisher of On Brookline.
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And what might Mark Twain have said about TA Kelliher’s employment contract? Kelliher may be hoping that his 3-year term expiring June 30, 2009, will not be extended by December 1, 2008, so that he can then resign, get paid for seven more months of his term, get severance, and set up a law or consulting practice without having to operate in the public fishbowl of Representative Town Meeting. Maybe, just maybe he may be folding with his four aces, with the employment contract ace up his sleeve.