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Tag Archives: Tim Cahill
Irish Pols 2, Puritan Prosecutors 0
Lost in the wake of the Marathon bombing and the senate race was John O’Brien’s good news-bad news week. The good news for the former Probation commissioner was he was found not guilty of bribery charges brought in the state court. The bad news was a superseding indictment in federal court charging him with seventeen counts of bribery.
In the realm of political culture, is this just another case of Puritan prosecutors like Carmen Ortiz and Martha Coakley attacking Irish politicians like John O’Brien and Tim Cahill?
Policy Learning in the Cahill Case
A few small items caught my eye on the Boston Globe’s story today Cahill to pay $100,000 to settle case.
First was there policy learning in this case? Policy learning is a change of thinking in a relevant community about a policy. In that sense I would be confident that Attorney General Martha Coakley has succeeded in persuading politicians that running state funded television ads touting one’s credentials during an election is no longer acceptable conduct (it had been for years).
Curse of the AG’s office
Last spring, I noted that it’s not easy being Attorney General, particularly if you are interested in moving on to higher office. Can Martha Coakley beat the curse of the AG?
If you put that question to a jury, I suspect they’d deadlock.
Coakley v. Cahill Culture Clash
So was Attorney General Martha Coakley’s decision to indict former State Treasurer Tim Cahill for allegedly using Lottery ads to enhance his gubernatorial campaign a good or a poor decision? Our opinion on that should not depend on yesterday’s inconclusive outcome. Nonetheless at least some of the twelve jurors failed to see the criminal menace in Cahill’s actions that Coakley insists is there.
ProfessorU on Emily Rooney
Professor Ubertaccio joined Glen Johnson of the Boston Globe and Pat Wilmot of Common Cause to discuss the charges against Tim Cahill on the Emily Rooney Show.
Criminalizing Politics
Will Justice be served if Tim Cahill goes to jail for spending taxpayer money on lottery ads in the midst of the 2010 campaign?
Martha Coakley Indicts Tim Cahill
This blog is interrupted by Breaking News:
Cambridge, MA: AG Martha Coakley announced today that she has indicted the entire Cambridge city council.
The Perot Primary
Now that the date of the New Hampshire primary is set for January 10, 2012, we can focus on when the Perot primary will be scheduled. In 1992 it was held on February 20 when Ross Perot announced on Larry King Live that he’d run for president if his supporters could get his name on the ballot in all 50 states. Perot outpolled the two-party nominees that summer before his campaign imploded.