Live Coverage: Massachusetts Election 2010

Unfortunately, the results also show how blind many Massachusetts voters really are. The Congressional seat of John Tierney is a good example. His wife gets indicted for laundering $8M in cash through her & John’s joint bank accounts over a two-year period for the mafia, of which her brother is a member. That’s $10,000 per week! Just before the election, in a plea bargain with the DoJ (a Pulitzer Prize for some reporter if they investigate that deal), she pleads guilty to laundering a lesser amount, but still considerable. There’s no way to justify sending this man back to Congress. Either he know his wife was running money at almost ten times his Congressional salary through their accounts and looked the other way, which would make him part of the criminal conspiracy. Or, he truly didn’t know that for 2 years his wife was running money at almost ten times his Congressional salary through their accounts, in which case no one that oblivious and incompetent should be sent to Congress. Yet due to the Globe and others like NPR burying this story, almost no one in the 6th Congressional District knows about this. Terrible, but not surprising, for Massachusetts.

I would like to find local race results for state reps and state senators. I have not found anything on line which reflect those results. Why are they so hard to find and where can I find them?

Any word on the sheriff’s race – Garvey vs. Chojnacki?

What I hope I hear very little of tonight is any politician with the arrogance to give responsibility for the voter numbers on any “get out the vote” action. Every one of our politicians needs to realize that these voter numbers, on both sides, are a sign of voter concern!