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February 3, 2009 - 08:37 pm
NEWS FEED: Blue Mass Group

What Is So Hard About Solving the Economic Problem?

By chimpschump

FULL DISCLOSURE: I do not own any WAMU stock. And, for obvious reasons, this is cross-posted at REDMASS.

Stimulus, my anatomy! The Democrats want to give away money, and raise taxes to pay for the giveaway. The Republicans want to reduce taxes on the corporations, and reduce payroll taxes for one year.

Both are truly STUPID ideas. That's STUPID, with a capital ASS, which both Democrats and Republicans have on backwards.

Herewith, after much consternation and consideration, I present the Chimpschump Five-Point Economic Moneysaving Plan (hereafter CHEMP-5):
1. The federal government will immediately buy all the mortgages that have failed, are failing, or are about to fail, because of crooked mortgage brokers (I typed this expression into Google, and got 49,000 hits - pick one!) who suckered stupid people into buying houses at unrealistically low variable interest rates, then sold, repackaged, diced, sliced and tie-dyed them, such that nobody could trace who did what to whom.

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Fri, 11/21/2008 - 08:15

Turner arrested

By Jeremy P. Jacobs, PolitickerMA.com Reporter

Boston City Councilor Chuck Turner was arrested Friday morning in connection with the ongoing investigation into state Sen. Dianne Wilkerson, WBZ-TV is reporting.

WBZ-TV reports that Turner was arrested at Boston City Hall.

Stay tuned.

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Tue, 11/11/2008 - 12:11

Turner confirms subpoena, says FBI showed undercover tape to his aide

By Jeremy P. Jacobs, PolitickerMA.com Reporter

Boston City Councilor Chuck Turner said Monday that the FBI captured undercover footage of one of his aides during its investigation of state Sen. Dianne Wilkerson, the Jamaica Plain Gazette reports.

Turner, a Roxbury member of the Green-Rainbow Party, told the Gazette that the FBI recently showed the undercover footage to Paulette Tillery, the aide being filmed in the tape. The tape only shows the agent speaking to Tillery outside the City Council chamber.

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Thu, 11/06/2008 - 15:01

Chang-Diaz: Election Day was ‘thrilling’

By Jeremy P. Jacobs, PolitickerMA.com Reporter

State Senator-elect Sonia Chang-Diaz said Thursday that her experience voting on Tuesday is something she won't soon forget.

"I am going to have to say, [it was] one of the best days I have ever experienced on any campaign. It was just a thrilling, thrilling day," the Jamaica Plain Democrat told PolitickerMA.com. "From standing in my own polling station line, to talking with voters, it was just a thrill."

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Wed, 11/05/2008 - 18:44

Wilkerson: I’ll resign ‘as soon as I can’

By Jeremy P. Jacobs, PolitickerMA.com Reporter

Facing charges that she accepted $23,500 in bribes, state Sen. Dianne Wilkerson said Wednesday that she will resign from office as soon as she can.

"I am committed to resigning my office as soon as I can do so consistent with my need to effectuate an orderly transition," Wilkerson, a Boston Democrat, said in a statement.

Wilkerson said that she will resign after finishing "hundreds of active constituent matters," clearing out her files and helping her staff find new jobs.

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Tue, 11/04/2008 - 13:44

Schilling blasts Wilkerson

By Jeremy P. Jacobs, PolitickerMA.com Reporter

Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling recently blasted state Sen. Dianne Wilkerson for her arrest on charges of accepting $23,500 in bribes, the Boston Herald reports .

Schilling also criticized Beacon Hill for perpetuating a culture of corruption.

"All the corruption and the crap we're dealing with in Massachusetts, every day you open the paper another politician is indicted. It's embarrassing," Schilling said, according to the Herald.

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Fri, 10/31/2008 - 19:24

Chang-Diaz ready to ‘go to the mat’ for Suffolk-2

By Jeremy P. Jacobs, PolitickerMA.com Reporter

BOSTON -- Sonia Chang-Diaz told reporters Friday that she was shocked and saddened by state Sen. Dianne Wilkerson's arrest on bribery charges this week and that she is slightly relieved Wilkerson decided to end her campaign, which Chang-Diaz said is in the best interest of the district.

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Fri, 10/31/2008 - 10:49

Black ministers meeting with Wilkerson

By Jeremy P. Jacobs, PolitickerMA.com Reporter

The Boston Herald is reporting that a group of black ministers are meeting with state Sen. Dianne Wilkerson at a church in Roxbury.

“We’re going to have a dialogue with her right now,” Rev. Jeffrey Brown, founder of the clergy group’s Ten Point Coalition, told the Herald.

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Thu, 10/30/2008 - 20:11

Wilkerson responds, says she won’t resign

By Jeremy P. Jacobs, PolitickerMA.com Reporter

State Sen. Dianne Wilkerson rejected the state Senate's request for her resignation Thursday night, saying that the Senate voted hastily and her decision to stay in the seat shows she has the best interest of the district mind.

In a statement, Wilkerson said that she is respectful of the Senates unanimous call for her resignation but that she believes the Senate acted too quickly.

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Thu, 10/30/2008 - 17:36

Walsh applauds Senate Wilkerson vote

By Jeremy P. Jacobs, PolitickerMA.com Reporter

John Walsh, the chairman of the Massachusetts Democratic, applauded the state Senate on Thursday for its unanimous vote asking state Sen. Dianne Wilkerson to resign.

"I commend and support the Senate's bipartisan action today," Walsh said. "Its swift and unanimous vote was appropriate and necessary."

The state Democratic Party endorsed Sonia Chang-Diaz in her general election match up against Wilkerson after Chang-Diaz won the Democratic Party.

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