I Told You So

Well Well Well, it looks like the Patrick administration has it tail between its legs again. Eileen MacNamara of the Globe is reporting that ICE DID INDEED BRIEF THE PATRICK ADMINISTRATION ON THE NEW BEDFORD RAID MONTHS AGO (http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2007/03/14/a_lapse_in_planning/)

In my prior post about the raid, I stated that knowing Massachusetts like I do, that the fault lies somewhere here, and not with the feds. Shocker of shockers, looky here: ( I paraphrase the important stuff)

"Federal immigration agents first briefed senior members of the incoming Patrick administration about plans to raid a Massachusetts sweatshop that employed undocumented workers last December"

"Patrick himself was told in February that the raid would target the defense contractor that was using a largely undocumented female workforce to make safety vests for US soldiers in Iraq. Commissioner Harry Spence of the Massachusetts Department of Social Services was told a raid was coming several days before it occurred. The night before the sweep, Bruce Foucart, the ICE agent in charge of the operation, spoke with Spence to coordinate law enforcement and child protection aspects of the raid"

" As late as yesterday afternoon Nancy Fernandez Mills, communications director for the Patrick administration, was insisting that "the governor was not told and did not know the raid was happening until it was going on" and that "DSS did not know about this raid until it was in progress."
Told that, in fact, members of Patrick's Cabinet had briefed him about the operation weeks ago and that Spence had participated in a conference call with ICE the day before the raid -- a fact the commissioner himself acknowledged in yesterday's newspapers -- she reconsidered: "I'd like to retract that statement until I talk to someone who actually knows something about this timeline."

This is laughable. Harry Spence needs to be canned. Kerry, Kennedy and every other hack sucking from the public trough that started breast beating about this will do what they always do- put their head in the sand and ignore it. Typical Massachusetts hack reaction. No one will call them on it.

I don't give a rats ass about Dianne Patrick. Deval needs to answer for this. Get up, get moving and roll a goddamn head you putz. Spence needs to be fired.

Governor you are a joke. You obvioulsy can't find your ass with both hands and a map, and it looks like your administration suffers from the same problem. You had no problem getting in front of the cameras to blame ICE for your misconceptions, you should have the guts to get in front of it and apologize YET AGAIN for your lack of follow up.

But you won't. You've got plenty to hide behind and since you're only working part time, where will you find a spare moment.

Its my hope that this continues to be in the Boston media spotlight and they don't let up. Illegals are a giant issue in this state and humanitarian issues aside, need to understand the law is the law and you have consequences for your actions.

Governor, you should be ashamed of yourself yet again.

Please please please give us another one of those patented apologies. Its been a long day and I need a laugh.