For John, BLUF: Lowell Blogger Views on the Mayor imbroglio. Nothing to see here; just move along.
Other blog takes on the issue of Lowell's Mayor, Patrick Ó Murphy:
UPDATE: Lowell 20/20.
Room 50, Cappadocia in Lowell and Paul Bellay, as well as Lowell Doughboy, have not weighed in, nor have Corey Sciuto or Tom Wirtenan or the Downtown Neighborhood Association or the Lowell Shallot.
Regards — Cliff
Expanded thoughts...
ReplyDelete"I respect the mother and child's privacy. They have a right to their privacy. I wish not to question that. The Mayor is not a private person. The public respects the privacy of the marriage and birth, we get that. But his wife knew the Mayor had civic obligations to the city, and it wasn't like his wife didn't foreseen this obligation. They were married, while Patrick Murphy was mayor.
While my parents were never engaged in civics beyond being regular voters, my in-laws, especially my father-in-law was. My father-in-law belong to many organizations, and sacrificed many evenings at the expense of his family to help out the community. There was always a meeting somewhere at 6:30 in the evening. Fortunately both my in-laws worked in Lowell, and didn't have long office hours on projects that would keep them in a cubicle until 7:30 at night.
Public office is a service and a sacrifice. Sacrifice. That's part of the job. If your confidence as mayor is being questioned, and you are unavailable to your fellow councilors for weeks on end (and you're not the one having the baby), well that's also poor judgement."