The feds didn’t make Stat Smith do the perp walk. There were no handouts of him stuffing absentee ballots down his pants, let alone into mailboxes. Hey, it’s not as if he’s Chuck Turner or Dianne Wilkerson or anything.
Stephen “Stat” Smith is the state representative from Everett. Or at least he was until last Tuesday, when he tendered his resignation as part of a plea bargain with federal prosecutors after he got caught passing around absentee ballots the way other people in Everett hand out football cards. House Speaker Bob DeLeo has got to find someone to take Stat’s place on the Joint Committee on Election Laws.
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Interesting to see this article (where a politician caught trying to corruptly influence an election) gets a slap on the wrist while on the front page of the Globe a young man who previously plead guilty and admitted fault is now facing another trial despite behaving in an entirely honorable manner. One political case where a favored political figure, essentially, walks away and the other a clearly political prosecution aimed at simply appeasing some state police passions for vengeance. "Fair" treatment by government? In either case? Hardly. Good on the Globe and Cullen for elaborating on this farce of a prosecution of Smith. A politician caught in corrupting an election? Does it get any worse? And he walks. Disgusting, corrupt, political prosecutions in both cases. Welcome to "liberal" Massachusetts where "fairness" and equity are the guiding principles. Will people ever understand that what needs to be "bridled" most isn't the private sector but a public sector eager to abuse their power in infinite ways such as these two events. One "connected", politically favored, person gets one form of "justice" and someone with no "juice" becomes a happy target for a prosecutor seeking political "prestige" from some quarter. Disgusting.
matewsky had to be involved,he would never say no to smith