Israel Matzav

Good riddance

Signing onto the Gaza 54 was apparently not an aberration for the People's Republic of Massachusetts' William Delahunt, who has recently announced his retirement after a case he messed up as District Attorney in 1986 came back to haunt him.

Liberal Massachusetts congressman Bill Delahunt may be announcing his retirement from Congress now, but this race ended on January 19. That’s when Scott Brown carried the 10th congressional district with 61 percent of the vote, winning in nearly every town — including the capital of Camelot, Hyannisport.

If Delahunt dreamed of clinging to his congressional seat after that, those hopes were dashed by the nightmare of the Amy Bishop shooting scandal, which broke a few weeks later. And in a way, it’s a fitting end to a forgettable career.

Bill Delahunt entered Congress under a cloud and he’s leaving amid scandal.

He was not exactly known for doing much heavy lifting. The AP reported the following when Delahunt announced his candidacy: “News reports about his campaign finances revealed that he has vacationed at Hedonism II, an adult-oriented resort in Jamaica.”

His 1996 “victory” in the Democratic primary was the original hanging-chad story. In a very close primary, the first two vote counts went to prominent Democrat Phil Johnson. But a judge with ties to the Delahunt campaign reversed those vote counts and declared Delahunt the winner.

As a congressman, he “represented the ‘hack’ wing of the Massachusetts Democratic party,” says longtime GOP consultant Charlie Manning. “If he’s done anything of note, I can’t think of it, other than hanging out with third-world thugs.” The Wall Street Journal called Delahunt a “Venezuelan subsidiary in Congress.”

Read the whole thing. He sounds totally despicable. And we here in Israel will be quite happy if he never comes back here. Good riddance!

posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 11:01 PM