Now, now, Senator Petrucelli!

Now, Senator Petrucelli, I know we have had our differences and you have ignored my request for that silly little pesky inconsequential INFRASTRUCTURE REPORT that will cost Massachusetts taxpayers a gazillion dollars. And then you were forced to lie about it....Oh!

My bad! Senator, What's $600 MILLION or $700 MILLION or $800 MILLION when it comes to lining your pocket?

Do we just call that obfuscation?

transitive verb

1a: darken b: to make obscure

2 confuse

intransitive verb

 to be evasive, unclear, or confusing

Examples of OBFUSCATE

1. Politicians keep obfuscating the issues.

The report can't be found....well, it wasn't really a report.....back of the napkin kinda thing....that just cost taxpayers a few bucks.....what's + $600 MILLION after all?


Senator Pertrucelli,

I am aging and just getting mighty confused about these issues.

First, you ignore me, then you come up with a different story about 'Well, it wasn't really a 'report'....blah, blah, blah....'

And then I find this article that you actually LIED about your college graduation.

Senator, you LIED!  Oh? Is it something else?

OK! So, you were 'doing the hard work,' but you were also lying about it.

So, how does that present a candidate that has the integrity, honesty and hard work that your constituents would support?

Oh? And there's that little nagging matter that just tugs --- how about that Charity? Is that legal? And those  contributions that a Suffolk Downs investor made? Was it $6,000 in one year alone to buy Boston children toys for Christmas from a Gambling Investor in Wyoming?

Senator, You must have a convincing way to gather $$$$ from Wyoming for kids in Boston!  Did you genuflect?

BTW, Can you explain to me how your conduct differs from prostitution?

I just get so confused with this stuff.

Anthony Petruccelli Senator

DEast Boston

Addresses

State House

Room 424

Boston, MA 02133

Phone: 617-722-1634

Fax: 617-722-1076

Email: Anthony.Petruccelli@masenate.gov

Committee Membership

• Chair, Joint Committee on Financial Services
• Vice Chair, Joint Committee on Consumer Protection and Professional Licensure
• Joint Committee on Health Care Financing
• Joint Committee on Ways and Means

From:  http://www.malegislature.gov/People/Profile/AWP0

State senator’s website cites nonexistent degree

By Andrew Ryan

Globe Staff / October 29, 2010   

State Senator Anthony W. Petruccelli, an East Boston Democrat running for reelection against a Republican challenger, erroneously claims on his campaign website that he is a graduate of the University of Rochester in New York.

Petruccelli, 38, attended the college from 1991-1995, but records show he did not graduate and “does not have a degree from the University of Rochester,’’ according to school spokeswoman Sharon A. Dickman.

Asked yesterday about the biography on his website, Petruccelli said he fell two classes short and never completed the requirements for a degree.

“I guess it’s a mistake that should be corrected,’’ Petruccelli said, adding that he walked in the graduation ceremony but received a blank diploma.

A 2007 Globe report about Petruccelli after he won a special election to the state Senate said he graduated from “the University of Rochester in 1995, from which he received a bachelor’s degree in political science.’’ Petruccelli said yesterday he has no memory of the article.

His official State House biography lists the University of Rochester under education but does not specify a degree.

The inaccuracy came to light when a Globe reporter asked questions about the resume of his challenger, Frank J. Addivinola Jr. The Republican’s website lists an undergraduate degree from Williams College and six graduate degrees. All seven of Addivinola’s degrees were verified, but the one listed as “ALM in Biology, Harvard University’’ is not entirely clear.

Addivinola received the master of liberal arts degree in 1996 from the Harvard Extension School, not the university’s more prestigious Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. A spokeswoman said yesterday that Addivinola followed the guidelines at the time for listing his degree. The school now urges new graduates to include “extension studies’’ in the description.

When the Globe asked Addivinola about his degrees, he said he had heard Petruccelli did not really graduate from the University of Rochester.

“While my opponent was in the classroom learning about theory, I was out in the neighborhoods working on the real thing,’’ Petruccelli said yesterday.

“I’ll put my record of serving and making a difference in people’s lives . . . up against seven degrees any day of the week.’’


http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2010/10/29/state_senators_website_cites_nonexistent_degree/