Sunday, December 15, 2002
`Well, we fooled them again': Are the old boys rallying around Billy Bulger? Sure looks like it. Just like the old days. Or the current days. Whatever. I expected it from Tom Finneran and the Trav. But I sincerely hope Mitt wasn’t one of those who proudly slapped Billy on the back last week at a breakfast gathering. Here’s my favorite quote from the Globe story: ''‘At a minimum, the UMass trustees should be asking hard questions about whether Bulger's thwarting an investigation or ever aided a fugitive,’ said Dan Glickman, director of Harvard's Institute of Politics and a former Clinton Cabinet secretary. ‘He's got to be very careful with how all this support looks. If he looks like a guy who is not going to do anything to harm a family member, I think people will have different opinions. But if it looks like the old-boy system is at play - `well, we fooled them again' - that's a terrible mistake.’”
