Failure to Appear?
By Jim Conley • Mar 10th, 2008 • Email This Post to a Friend •
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In looking over the Brookline Selectmen’s meeting agenda for tomorrow, I don’t see where police review panel member Douglas Louison is scheduled to appear and advise of the potential conflict between serving on the panel and serving the legal interests of Brookline Police officers [see previous post]. Reportedly, Louison said that he would make such an appearance.
No that it matters; the panel is utterly bereft of moral authority, given Police Chief Daniel O’Leary’s efforts to stack populate the panel [see previous post].
In other news, Brookline PAX is scheduled to give Arthur Conquest an award this evening. Bets me what it’s for. Maybe it’s the fulfillment of Selectman (and PAX standardbear) Jesse Mermell’s gratitude to Conquest and the police for “providing this important opportunity to talk about race in Brookline.”
Yeah, that’s it.
Jim Conley is publisher of On Brookline.
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This reminds me that Pres. George W. Bush initially designated Henry Kissinger to be Chair of the 9/11 Commission. But Hank had to decline because he was not prepared to make public his clients to demonstrate no “cornflake of int’rest.” So there was reason to disturb the late Walt Kelly’s Pogo to head to D.C. from his Okefenokee Swamp. (To be bi-partisan, former Sen. George Mitchell had been designated by Democrats to be Co-Chair and he declined for similar reasons.)
We here in Brookine take pride in transparency (public records and open meeting laws and the Whistleblower Policy) as implemented by the conflicts rules. Perhaps we may expect “exit, stage right” in the fashion of Hank and George?
May we assume that the voting on the PAX award for Arthur Conquest was UNANIMOUS?