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Politics : Bill Clinton Scandal - SANITY CHECK -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Daniel Schuh who wrote (7616)	10/7/1998 8:50:00 AM
From: Bill	Respond to of 67261

<< Lee Atwater apologized for Willie Horton, you know. Even if it was a matter involving your favored kind of "facts" and "substance", he felt a little guilty about it somehow. >> When it comes to spreading lies, you never fail to disappoint. Lee Atwater had nothing to do with the Willie Horton ad, and thus did not apologize for it. The truth is that he told Dukakis he was sorry about the negative tone of the campaign and about his personal aggressiveness. The Horton ad was a gem of a regional RNC group. It was Dukakis who should have "apologized for Willie Horton."

To: Daniel Schuh who wrote (7616)	10/14/1998 9:23:00 AM
From: Bill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 67261

Re: Willie Horton, he's got company on the political stage. Hard to feel sad for leaders of this PAC by Howie Carr 10/14/98 It's a busy time of year in Massachusetts prisons. All the murderers, rapists, perverts and robbers have to get their absentee ballots back to the cities and towns that they terrorized all those years. Isn't it wonderful living in the People's Republic of Massachusetts, one of only three or four states in the union that have extended the franchise to imprisoned felons? But just voting is no longer enough for local jailbirds. Now a bunch of hard-core murderers are trying to establish a PAC -- a political action committee -- that could make contributions to candidates. Hmmmm, whom do you think the Prison PAC would go for in the governor's fight this year -- Paul Cellucci, who favors the death penalty, or Luther Harshbarger, who doesn't? Anyway, ConPAC is tied up in court now, and I'd forgotten all about it until last week when I was flipping around the tube and suddenly came upon a killer lamenting his sad existence. Meet Michael Shea of the Bay State Correctional Center in Norfolk. "I was very successful in the automotive business," he was saying, very improbably, on Channel 2, "fleet manager for General Motors. I got very involved in drugs, I was convicted in 1982 of first-degree murder." And that's all he said about how he ended up in stir. Now Shea was talking about how he came up with the idea of ConPAC. ". . . when the Weld administration privatized health care and put out the health care of 24,000 prisoners to the lowest bidder and people started dying." Say what? This guy is concerned about how "people started dying?" Isn't he in for murder one? Now he's squeamish about death? The next day I did a little checking on Mr. Shea's up-close-and-personal experience with the Grim Reaper. He's in for a little piece of work he did in June 1983. It seems he became obsessed with a young lady who did not return his affections. Which left him no choice. He climbed into her apartment, took a knife and sliced the woman from beneath her waist all the way to her abdomen -- a 14-inch gash in all. He fled to L.A. As for his successful career in the automotive business -- that must have been all those motor-vehicle and drunken-driving charges against him. He was also in the printing business -- counterfeit bills. Channel 2 being Channel 2, it wasn't enough to sugarcoat one despicable monster. The next member of ConPAC to appear was a middle-aged fellow with a Fu Manchu moustache, one Joseph Labriola. He was described only as "a lifer," so you knew he had to have done something particularly gruesome. It turns out that Mr. Labriola is -- or was -- a professional killer. His last assignment came in 1973, when he accepted a $16,000 contract to take a cocaine dealer off the board, permanently. All it took was six rifle shots. "We've made mistakes," Labriola was gracious enough to concede, without elaboration as to the nature of the error of his ways. Anyway, though, Shea and Labriola are apparently not the only ones seeking to set up ConPAC. Another of the plaintiffs is one John Currie, a 45-year-old cop killer. Back in December 1980, he shot a 61-year-old Milford police sergeant from his car. The cop was on a paid detail, and had just transferred $50 in pennies from one bank to another. Currie was driving the car while his pal fired. His lawyer argued that he'd tried to convince his partner not to shoot. It took the jury two hours to convict, and that included one hour for lunch. Another plaintiff: Michael Fountain. He too is in for a professional hit. Fountain and somebody else whacked a guy in Somerville over some stolen jewelry. Like most of these guys, aspiring political kingmaker Fountain is a criminal jack-of-all-trades. A month before the Somerville hit, he was charged with a home invasion. Of a rectory in Weymouth. Remember 10 years ago, when some reporter tracked down Willie Horton at his prison in Maryland and asked him who he was planning to vote for, Bush or Dukakis? "Why, Dukakis of course," Willie responded. Does anyone have Willie Horton's phone number down at that Maryland prison? Willie, who are you voting for this year, as if I didn't know?