{"id":445,"date":"2008-10-28T20:54:36","date_gmt":"2008-10-29T00:54:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/?p=445"},"modified":"2008-10-28T22:13:23","modified_gmt":"2008-10-29T02:13:23","slug":"the-end-of-wilkerson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/2008\/10\/the-end-of-wilkerson\/","title":{"rendered":"The End of Wilkerson"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sen. Dianne Wilkerson appeared in court today on charges that she’s been taking bribes<\/a>. \u00c2\u00a0She already lost the Democratic primary and has been running a last-gasp write-in effort to retain her seat. \u00c2\u00a0This headline should finally sink her ship.<\/p>\n

I’m not at all sorry to see her go. \u00c2\u00a0I’ve been a critic<\/a> of her for years. \u00c2\u00a0She’s been a classic big-government legislator, voting for regulation and oversight at every turn. \u00c2\u00a0But, she always seemed to think that she was above the law. \u00c2\u00a0All of those election regulations she voted for, they apparently applied to other<\/em>\u00c2\u00a0candidates, not to her.<\/p>\n

As for the criminial implications, I have a couple of thoughts:<\/p>\n

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  1. Will the charges inspire Mayor Menino or Councilors\u00c2\u00a0Charles Yancey, Sam Yoon, Stephen J. Murphy, and John Connolly to finally disavow Wilkerson<\/a> and endorse the Democratic nominee Sonia Chiang Diaz? \u00c2\u00a0Or will they consider to pretend that she’s a good representative for the City of Boston?<\/li>\n
  2. I was always very suspicious of Judge Bolden’s actions<\/a> in 2006, during the last election cycle. \u00c2\u00a0He “lost” the filing of a legal decision against Wilkerson, and didn’t “find” it until after she had won the close-fought primary. \u00c2\u00a0 It always looked shady. \u00c2\u00a0If Wilkerson is convicted of accepting bribes, it will make Bolden look even worse. \u00c2\u00a0I wonder if the AG will take another look at that episode?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
    UPDATE<\/strong>:\u00c2\u00a0Suddenly the Councilors’ support of Wilkerson<\/a> seems less strange. \u00c2\u00a0And more suspicious.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Sen. Dianne Wilkerson appeared in court today on charges that she’s been taking bribes. \u00c2\u00a0She already lost the Democratic primary and has been running a last-gasp write-in effort to retain her seat. \u00c2\u00a0This headline should finally sink her ship. I’m not at all sorry to see her go. \u00c2\u00a0I’ve been a critic of her for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-massachusetts","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}