‘A spark of conscience’?
Not at all. James DiPaola got caught trying to pull a pension scam. He would have pulled it off if it hadn’t been for the Globe calls. It had nothing to do with a man wrestling with rights and wrongs. So please spare me the ‘conscience’ crap, unless you subscribe to H.L. Mencken’s definition of it: “Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking.” …

Now DiPaola is retiring in January. He’ll get $98,500 each year for the rest of his life. Less than two months after getting re-elected. He’s 57. It’s all still an outrage. But the people of this state keep re-electing these clowns. …

Oh, look. A top Democratic leader is signaling the boys on Beacon Hill aren’t going to be rushed into reforming the thoroughly corrupt probation department. Lawmakers technically weren’t caught selling jobs, he says. … That’s the new threshold for taking action in this state, I suppose. … But the people keep re-electing members of the one-party-state cabal. So why should Murphy et gang care?  ¶ 6:44 AM