Posts Tagged ‘Deval Patrick’

Can you say “pandering to the elderly”? Tim Cahill can.

Sunday, June 27th, 2010

According to Margery Eagan in today’s Herald, both Deval Patrick and Charlie Baker support “some type of road testing for the elderly.”  Independent gubernatorial candidate Tim Cahill?  Not so much:

“I don’t want to take away licenses from able-bodied people or force them to go through a driver’s test,” he said.  What the Legislature did, he said, is “fine.”

Hey Tim… The point of road tests for the elderly people would be to figure out which people are not “able-bodied.”  Anybody who can look at the string of completely avoidable accidents involving elderly drivers and think that this isn’t necessary is a moron.  I don’t vote for morons.

Letter published in yesterday’s Herald

Friday, April 17th, 2009

I was the “lead” letter to the editor (i.e., the one in the grey box in the center of the letters page under a photo of the front page I was writing about) in yesterday’s Boston Herald.  It’s here on their Web site; here’s the text in case it’s no longer accessible there.  Following their text is the text of the original letter I sent them, before they edited it. (more…)