from The Boston Globe
Energi of Peabody has been very good to state Senator Brian A. Joyce. The private company, which sells insurance to the energy industry, has provided enough legal work to help the Milton Democrat more than double the size of his law firm, Joyce Law Group.(Read the full story here.)
I know Town Meeting is taking place, the town Elections are done, comments on the seating chart are funny, and the 40B on Hillside is a huge topic; but can I ask why there has not been 1 comment posted on this site about this article. Why is this behavior by our elected politicians ever deemed acceptable? Look at every powerful politician in this state for the last 20 years, have any of them left politics in an admirable way? Every questionable event that this article points out has no response that one would find as reasonable. All I ask if you have time please read he this article and post your thoughts, our town deserves better.
Peter, I completely agree. I won’t take away any good things he might have done but there are also many others who can help the communities they serve without lining their own pockets this blatantly. He seems to have crossed many lines over the years that now challenge the integrity of any previous “good” things he may have done. When the Boston Globe continues to run stories questioning your behavior as a democrat in this state you know you have really crossed the line. Maybe with the clout of his ex-governor neighbor dwindling there won’t be so much protection (just speculating) if (not when – this is Mass. and a democrat after all) this gets investigated appropriately.
Thanks for your posting Peter. I too was wondering and waiting to see how others might react to this article. I guess some of us might still view our Senator with rose colored lenses, but others have known this about our Senator for a long time. The Milton Mall was a tangled web and when it came unglued it became clear as to who was behind it as well as who stood to benefit from it. It wasn’t the Town of Milton. I had my suspicions when he started a clamor about a hotel down on Granite Ave. It came out of the blue. One can only wonder who was on his client list then.
Sorry, I think the headline is a pretty apt summary of the article’s allegations.
There’s a difference between crossing a line, and skirting close to it. You want to move the line and make it less fuzzy? Fine. That’s good and noble. I suspect Sen. Joyce might even join you in that effort. But slurring someone for knowing where the line is currently drawn and staying on the right side of it is hardly fair . . .
The ethics review may very well be the start of a full blown investigation of the commercial megawatt wind turbine business in Massachusetts. The taking of citizens health and property rights in Falmouth and twenty other communities. The 113 million dollar bonding of the ocean wind terminal ( New Bedford Marine Commerce Terminal) while the federally permit site was already built at Quonset Point, Rhode Island. No commercial megawatt wind turbines were built in Massachusetts in 2014
Puzzled by Frank Haggerty’s comment above? A Google search is revealing. When Harvard Law School posts something online about its 2015 Public Interest Auction event, Mr. Haggerty responds with a comment about wind turbines and Brian Joyce. When Common Cause posts an item online about corporations having sway in our democratic process, Mr. Haggerty responds with a comment about wind turbines and Brian Joyce. Mr. Haggerty’s Facebook page is chockablock with ominous entries about both wind turbines (Mr. Haggerty likens them to “Guantanamo torture techniques”) and Brian Joyce. And something darker is revealed too: because Falmouth installed wind turbines, Mr. Haggerty inserted himself in that town’s exclusively-local issues (a proposal to permit members of the Board of Selectman to attend meetings remotely!) with rants described by one newspaper’s editorial as “bigoted” and “offensive”: “His mean spirit has no place in Falmouth—or anywhere else.”
Be careful, MyTownMatters and Milton, about letting Frank Haggerty stick his toe in your door . . .
I think it is wise for all concerned to let the Ethics Commission do its work before coming to any conclusions regarding Brian Joyce.
From what I have read since a local reporter’s story about Senator Joyce’s alleged conflicts of interests appeared in a weekend edition one of the daily newspapers it has become evident that those regulations are purposely vague. Those regulations must be rewritten to remove any vagueness. Clearly, that vagueness serves no one’s interest. It has come back to haunt Brian Joyce and it has caused many to lose confidence and trust in their government.
All that aside, there are some who I have read on various blogs who are nearly drooling over Joyce’s troubles. They hate his ambition . Really? That ambition allowed the Milton School Building Committee to get a 90 percent reimbursement for the recent school building projects. But to quote Bobby Kennedy, ” ambition is wrong when the other guy has it…”
Let cooler heads prevail.