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Monroe Police Chief Tim Quenzer (center) and Deputy Chief Ken Ginnard (right) watch defendant Byron Scherf's video confession to the killing of corrections officer Jayme Biendl, during day five of Scherf's trial on Tuesday.
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Byron Scherf listens to testimony from Snohomish County Sheriff's detective Brad Walvatne.
"I'm responsible for the death of a corrections officer at the Monroe Correctional Complex. I strangled her to death at approximately 8:40 p.m. in the chapel," Byron Scherf said.
Prosecutors on Tuesday played jurors three videotaped interviews Scherf gave to detectives not long after Biendl was found dead inside the chapel at the Washington State Reformatory. Some jurors read the transcripts as the videos played and others seemed intent on watching the story unfold on screen.
Scherf is charged with aggravated murder. The convicted rapist already is serving a life sentence without the chance of release. Prosecutors are seeking his execution.
They allege that Scherf plotted to kill Biendl, 34. They said he took steps to guarantee that he would be alone with her in the chapel and out of view of any prison security cameras.
Scherf's attorneys have suggested that there are reasons to doubt that the slaying was premeditated. Defense lawyer Jon Scott in opening statements last week quoted Scherf saying that he was overcome with rage and blacked out as he was choking Biendl with an amplifier cord.
The defense had fought to keep Scherf's videotaped statements away from jurors. During three days of pretrial hearings last year, they raised questions about their client's mental state at the time he spoke with detectives. They suggested that Scherf agreed to speak with detectives only as a way to improve his living conditions at the Snohomish County Jail.
Superior Court Judge George Appel ruled, however, that the videos would be allowed to be shown during the trial.
Snohomish County deputy prosecutor Ed Stemler on Tuesday asked sheriff's detective Brad Walvatne how Scherf began talking about the killing.
Scherf initially had declined to talk to police. He later asked to speak with Walvatne and his partner, sheriff's detective Dave Bilyeu, who were assigned to photograph the inmate's injuries over the course of two weeks.
Scherf's first interview centered around improving his living conditions at the jail.
He said he'd be willing to give detectives "a full confession" if some of his requests were met. Scherf wanted to be able to shave and make more phone calls. He wanted soap, toothpaste and hot water in his cell. He also asked to be able to buy snacks from the jail's commissary.
"I want some things done, and if this doesn't happen, then everything's off the table," Scherf said.
Two days later, Scherf sat down with detectives in front of a video camera. Jurors on Tuesday heard how Scherf had been provided a lawyer, and had been repeatedly advised he didn't have to talk.
Scherf made it clear that he was there voluntarily and hadn't been promised anything. He said the detectives had been kind and professional to him.
"I'm here because I need to be here," Scherf said.
He spoke with detectives over several days. In the first video, a much-heavier Scherf is seen seated at a table, sipping a cup of coffee and fiddling with a pen as he described the hours leading up to the attack.
The inmate said he became angry over a comment he claimed Biendl made about his then-wife. Detectives tried to get Scherf to explain further, but he said that was between him and Biendl.
He also said Biendl's comment was the "straw that broke the camel's back" for him, and she paid the price for what he considered to be years of injustice while serving decades in prison.
He said he initially planned to stay behind and assault Biendl.
"I got to the point when I knew I was going to kill her," Scherf said.
He described feeling rage. He spoke of thinking he would need to take her communications radio, stripping her of the ability to call for help.
He said he first left the chapel, checking the immediate area for other inmates or corrections officers. He shut the locking gate to the entrance of the chapel. He knew that if officers saw the gate open, they'd get suspicious.
He said he went back into the chapel to the sanctuary. He snuck up on Biendl and cornered her on the stage.
Early in the struggle, Scherf said, he tore the radio microphone from her uniform, where it had been attached near her shoulder. The pair then fought over the radio holstered on her hip. Biendl at one point was yelling and using both hands, trying to hang on to the radio and to summon help.
"Do you remember what she was saying?" a detective asked.
"'Help, help, please help," Scherf said.
He detailed the struggle, saying it may have lasted three to four minutes. Biendl fought. She bit his finger so hard she drew blood. Scherf said the bruises all over his body -- about 70 different injuries -- were from her.
Once they were on the ground, Scherf reached for an amplifier cord. He used about "75 percent" of his strength in pulling tight the cord around Biendl's neck and then claimed he "blacked out" for several minutes, until after the corrections officer was dead.
He said he came to, sitting on a chair in the back of the sanctuary.
"Be honest with you it was a pretty big adrenaline pump," he said.
In a later interview, Monroe police detective Barry Hatch pressed the inmate about blacking out. He suggested Scherf just didn't want to share his real memories.
Scherf said he wasn't holding back.
"I intended to kill her. I took the steps to kill her and she's dead," Scherf said.
Detectives asked Scherf if he ever thought of summoning aid for the corrections officer.
"At that point I wasn't sorry she was dead," he said.
Later in that same interview with police, Scherf said he is sorry for what happened. He said he'd done some soul-searching and sought guidance in scripture.
He teared up when he told them that Biendl didn't deserve to die.
"The Bible says if you take a life, you give a life. That's all I can say," Scherf said.
Jurors later were told how Scherf on Feb. 14, 2011, sent a letter to detectives asking them to visit at the jail. When they got there, the inmate had prepared a written message addressed to prosecutors. He asked the detectives to help him put it in their hands.
On Tuesday, a tape of that conversation was played while jurors read from transcripts, following along. Scherf told the detectives he understood his request was unusual and perhaps raised legal questions, but he urged them to deliver "my statement to the prosecutor about what I hope to happen in this case."
Stemler then entered into evidence the message Scherf had wanted prosecutors to see two years ago.
He had Walvatne read it aloud to jurors.
Scherf noted that he already was serving life in prison. He urged prosecutors to charge him with aggravated murder and to seek the death penalty.
"I WILL plead guilty!" Scherf wrote at the time. "I have a moral obligation to do so. The Biendl family deserves no less. I will not put them through any more suffering than they are already enduring. They deserve swift justice and closure."
More testimony is expected today. Lawyers said Tuesday that the case could go to the jury later this week.
Writer Scott North contributed to this report.
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In 2005, Patrick announced his candidacy for Governor of Massachusetts. He was at first seen as a dark horse candidate, facing veteran Massachusetts campaigners Tom Reilly and Chris Gabrielli in the Democratic primary. The Patrick campaign gained momentum at the Democratic State Caucuses, where it organized their supporters, many of whom had never been involved in such party processes before, to win twice as many pledged delegates as the Reilly campaign.
In 2005, Patrick announced his candidacy for Governor of Massachusetts. He was at first seen as a dark horse candidate, facing veteran Massachusetts campaigners Tom Reilly and Chris Gabrielli in the Democratic primary. The Patrick campaign gained momentum at the Democratic State Caucuses, where it organized their supporters, many of whom had never been involved in such party processes before, to win twice as many pledged delegates as the Reilly campaign.
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|Deval Patrick
|Governor of Massachusetts
|In office
|January 4, 2007 - Present
|Term ends
|Years in position
|Mitt Romney (R)
|Base salary
|Elections and appointments
|Last election
|November 2, 2010
|First elected
|November 7, 2006
|Campaign $
|Term limits
|High school
|Milton Academy (1974)
|Harvard College (1978)
|Harvard Law School (1981)
|Date of birth
|July 31, 1956
|Place of birth
|Chicago, Illinois
|Office website
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|Campaign website
- 1 Biography
- 2 Political career
- 2.1 Governor of Massachusetts (2007-Present)
- 2.1.1 Tax, transportation finance legislation
- 2.1.2 Affordable Care Act ("Obamacare")
- 2.1.3 Gun control
- 2.1.4 Job creation ranking
- 2.1.5 Judicial appointments
- 2.1.6 Inauguration
- 2.1.7 Controversies
- 2.1.8 September 11th memorial speech
- 2.2 Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights (1994-1997)
- 2.1 Governor of Massachusetts (2007-Present)
- 3 Elections
- 4 Campaign donors
- 5 Personal
- 6 Recent news
- 7 Contact Information
- 8 See also
- 9 External links
- 10 References
After winning re-election in 2010, Patrick stated that he would not seek a third term as governor in the 2014 elections.[1]
Patrick was born on the South Side of Chicago, Illinois, into an African-American family living on welfare and residing in a two-bedroom tenement. In 1959, his father Laurdine "Pat" Patrick, a member of jazz musician Sun Ra's band, left his wife Emily,[2] son Deval, and daughter Rhonda (a year Deval's senior) in order to play music in New York City[3] and because he had fathered a daughter by another woman.[4]
While Deval was in middle school, one of his teachers referred him to A Better Chance, a national non-profit organization for identifying, recruiting and developing leaders among academically gifted students of African-American descent, which enabled him to attend Milton Academy in Milton, Massachusetts.[5][6] Patrick graduated from Milton Academy in 1974 and from Harvard College (with a concentration in English and American literature) in 1978. He then spent a year working with the United Nations in Africa. In 1979, Patrick returned to the United States and enrolled at Harvard Law School. While in law school, Patrick was elected president of the Legal Aid Bureau, where he first worked defending poor families in Middlesex County, Massachusetts.[7]
After receiving his J.D. from Harvard Law School, Patrick worked as a law clerk for Judge Stephen Reinhardt on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, then became an attorney for the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund (LDF) in New York City. While working with LDF, Patrick met future President Bill Clinton, then serving as Governor of Arkansas. Clinton was being sued over a voting rights case, and the two worked out a settlement. Also while working with LDF, Patrick married Diane Bemus, an attorney specializing in labor and employment law. In 1986 Patrick went to work as a private attorney for Hill and Barlow, a now-dissolved Boston law firm, and became a partner in 1990. He also continued doing volunteer work for LDF and for other civil rights causes. Patrick also represented Desiree Washington, a former Rhode Island beauty queen whom former heavyweight champion Mike Tyson was convicted of raping in the early 1990s. She filed a civil suit in 1992 in US District Court in Indianapolis, and Patrick was Washington's attorney. The suit was settled in 1995.
- Milton Academy (1974)
- Bachelor's degree in English and American literature - Harvard College (1978)
- Juris Doctor - Harvard Law School (1981)
Political career
Governor of Massachusetts (2007-Present)
Patrick was first elected Governor of Massachusetts in 2006 and won re-election in 2010.
Tax, transportation finance legislation
After striking down Patrick's proposed amendment to increase the state gasoline tax to account for the loss of toll road revenues, the state legislature overrode Patrick's veto of the transportation finance bill it was meant to accompany. Patrick vetoed the bill after the legislature denied his request to add an automatic 3-cent increase to the gasoline tax in the event that tolls on a section of the Massachusetts Turnpike expire in 2017. On July 24, 2013, the house voted 123-33 to overturn the veto, with the Senate voting 35-5. The votes were mostly along party lines with all 30 House Republicans voting to sustain the veto. The bill increased the gasoline tax by 3-cent per gallon, the cigarette tax by $1 per pack, and introduced a mandatory state sales tax (6.25 percent) be paid by computer software and services companies.
Despite his veto, Patrick called the legislation a "good bill," leading Transportation Committee co-chair William Straus (D) to note that most bills could be better, and that it was no argument to send the transportation bill back. House Republicans decried the bill, with Viriato deMacedo and Marc Lombardo arguing that the software sales tax would make the state less attractive to the tech industry, and George Peterson voicing skepticism over the amount of revenue to be brought in; and Minority Leader Brad Jones predicting that higher taxes on increasing gas prices would have a negative effect at the polls in 2014. At the time of its passage, the legislation was expected to bring $500 million in new taxes for use in expanding and revitalizing the state's transit network, as well as closing the budget deficit at the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority.[8][9][10]
Affordable Care Act ("Obamacare")
In December, 2012, Patrick declined to enter Massachusetts into the federal health-exchange system established under the Affordable Care Act, otherwise known as "Obamacare," in favor of setting up a state-based system.[11] Massachusetts is one of eighteen states - including Colorado, New York, Connecticut, Maryland and Washington - that decided to create and run individual health-exchange systems by the December 14, 2012 deadline. The exchange is an online marketplace for citizens to purchase health insurance.[12][13]
Gun control
Patrick has pushed for the national assault weapons ban to be renewed and has proposed legislation to prohibit gun owners from buying more than one firearm every 30 days.[14]
Job creation ranking
In a June 2013 analysis by The Business Journals, which ranked 45 of the country's 50 governors by their job creation records, Patrick was ranked number 7 (tie). The five governors omitted from the analysis all assumed office in 2013. The ranking was based on a comparison of the annual private sector growth rate in all 50 states using data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.[15][16]
Judicial appointments
As governor, Patrick is responsible for appointing judges to Massachusetts state courts. In Massachusetts, the governor select a judge to fill a vacancy on a court. Before a judge can take office, she or he must be approved by the Governor's Council. For an up-to-date list of all of Patrick's appointees, see Judgepedia's page on his appointments.
Breaking with the tradition of being inaugurated in the House Chamber of the Massachusetts State House, Deval Patrick and Tim Murray took the oath of office, and Patrick delivered his inaugural address, outdoors on the West Portico of the State House facing Boston Common. This allowed a larger part of the public to witness and take part first hand in the event, and was intended to signal more open, transparent, and accessible government.[17] The governor-elect was facing the Robert Gould Shaw Memorial, just across Beacon Street, a memorial to the first African American regiment in the American Civil War. He took his oath of office on the Mendi Bible, which was given to then-Congressman John Quincy Adams by the freed slaves from the ship La Amistad[18].
A series of regional inaugural balls, seven in all, were held to bring the inauguration to the citizens of the commonwealth. These celebrations took place on Cape Cod, in Worcester, Dartmouth, Pittsfield, and Boston.[19]
Early months
Early on in Patrick's administration, a series of decisions the governor later conceded as missteps brought substantial unfavorable press. Such decisions include spending almost $11,000 on drapery for the governor's state house suite, changing the state's customary car lease from a Crown Victoria to a Cadillac, and hiring a staff assistant (who had previously helped chair his election campaign) for the Commonwealth's first lady at an annual salary of almost $75,000. Emerging from a weekend of working on the state's budget and calling for cuts in services to taxpayers, Patrick responded in a February 20, 2007 press conference that "I realize I cannot in good conscience ask the agencies to make those choices without being willing to make them myself,"[20] Patrick subsequently reimbursed the Commonwealth for the cost of the drapery and furniture purchased for the state house, and the additional monthly difference in his car lease. First Lady Diane Patrick's staff assistant, Amy Gorin, resigned. [21] Later in the same month Patrick again came under fire, this time for contacting Citigroup Executive Committee chair, and former Clinton Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin on behalf of the financially beleaguered mortgage company Ameriquest, a subsidiary of ACC Capital Holdings of which Patrick is a former board member. Both Citigroup and ACC Capital Holdings have substantial holdings in Massachusetts.[22] Patrick attempted to deflect criticism claiming he was calling not as governor but as a private citizen. Later Patrick backed down, stating "I appreciate that I should not have made the call. I regret the mistake."
September 11th memorial speech
Patrick's 2007 September 11th memorial service speech was reviewed as insensitive by several newspapers and relatives of the victims due to his comment that, "It was a mean and nasty and bitter attack on the United States. But it was also about the failure of human beings to understand each other and to learn to love each other. It seems to me that lesson at that morning is something that we must carry with us every day." Jim Ogonowski, a brother of the 9/11 victim and a Republican congressional candidate, called the statements "completely inappropriate." [23][24]
Fly Club
During the election, Patrick's membership in the historically elitist Fly Club drew the sincerity of his progressive and populist political mantra into question. [25] Patrick claims to have left the club in 1983, when he realized the discrepancy. Still, the criticism he drew could be compared to that of his Democratic colleague, Ted Kennedy, for membership in another final club while at Harvard.
In 2008 Governor Patrick proposed legislation to allow casino gambling in the state to help generate revenues to address budget deficits and associated employment.[26] The plan faced opposition from Massachusetts House Speaker Salvatore DiMasi who questioned the governor's projections of new jobs, revenues to be generated and was opposed to what he referred to as a casino culture saying: "Do we want to usher in a casino culture– with rampant bankruptcies, crime and social ills– or do we want to create a better Massachusetts for all sectors of the society?" [27] Casinos and the Indian gaming lobby in Massachusetts have also received scrutiny for associations with the Jack Abramoff Indian lobbying scandal and efforts by the Mashpee Wampanoag people to secure rights to a casino outside of the federal Indian Gaming Regulatory Act. In both 2010[28] and 2009 Governor Deval Patrick was among the top campaign contribution recipients from casino lobbying interests,[29] and from financiers backing the Wampanoag casino interests.[30] The House rejected the governor's first plan but subsequent proposals have been moved forward in the legislature each year. By mid-2010, the house and senate passed a bill with plans for three resort-style casinos and two slot parlors. However, Patrick vetoed it as he previously stated that he would only accept one slot parlor and a require a controversial carve-out for an Indian gaming operations slotted for the Massachusetts Wampanoag tribe.[31] Patrick has been further criticized for being among the top recipients of casino lobbying money from the Wampanoag's who are backed by a major Malaysian gambling syndicate.[32]
Carl Stanley McGee
In February 2008, Carl Stanley McGee, who served as assistant secretary for policy and planning in the Patrick administration, was placed on unpaid leave pending the resolution of criminal charges against him in Florida. McGee was arrested on December 28, 2007 at the Gasparilla Inn & Club in Lee County, Florida and charged with sexual battery for sexually assaulting [33] a 15 year old boy who was also a guest at the hotel. McGee had been the Governor's point man pushing casino and Indian gaming legislation through the Massachusetts State House. By October 2010, McGee had been reinstated into the Patrick Administration.[34]
Obama plagiarism controversy
Patrick was the national co-chairman of Senator Barack Obama's campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2008[35] and stumped for his campaign.[36] In Feb. 2008, the campaign of Obama's rival Hillary Clinton accused Obama of plagiarism for lifting a portion of a speech Patrick made during his 2006 Massachusetts campaign for use in his Wisconsin primary stump speech. [37] [38]. Patrick later rebuffed this accusation, stating, "I am neither surprised nor troubled that he used the words I asked him to use of my own."[39] Obama said, "[T]he notion that I had plagiarized from somebody who was one of my national co-chairs, who gave me the line and suggested that I use it, I think, is silly."[40]
Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights (1994-1997)
In 1994, Clinton appointed Patrick Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights. As an Assistant Attorney General, Patrick worked on issues including racial profiling, police misconduct, fair lending enforcement, human trafficking, and discrimination based on gender and disability. He led what was (before the September 11, 2001 attacks) the largest federal criminal investigation in history as co-chair of the Task Force investigating the arsons of synagogues and African American churches in the South. He had a key role as an adviser to post-apartheid South Africa during this time and helped draft that country's civil rights laws.[41]
His tenure was not without controversy. Federal affirmative action policy was under judicial and political review, and Patrick was thrust into the President's policy defense. Patrick also enforced federal laws concerning treatment of incarcerated criminals, to the extent that one warden called him a "zealot".[42] He has also been criticized for his role in the 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals case Piscataway v. Taxman, wherein, due to budget constraints, a white woman named Sharon Taxman was laid off rather than an African American woman of identical qualifications, because the school wanted diversity on its teaching staff. Taxman sued and prevailed in US District Court, but Patrick encouraged the Justice Department, which had supported Taxman in the Bush administration, to withdraw from the case. Taxman, who was subsequently rehired, eventually settled her suit.
Patrick will not run for a third term as Governor of Massachusetts in the 2014 election.[43]
Patrick defeated Republican challenger Charles D. Baker and independent candidate Tim Cahill.
|Massachusetts Gubernatorial/Lieutenant Gubernatorial, General Election, 2010
|Vote %
|Deval Patrick/Tim Murray Incumbent
|Charles D. Baker/Richard R. Tisei
|Tim Cahill/Paul Loscocco
|Jill E. Stein/Richard P. Purcell
|Total Votes
|Election Results via Massachusetts Secretary of State
In 2005, Patrick announced his candidacy for Governor of Massachusetts. He was at first seen as a dark horse candidate, facing veteran Massachusetts campaigners Tom Reilly and Chris Gabrielli in the Democratic primary. The Patrick campaign gained momentum at the Democratic State Caucuses, where it organized their supporters, many of whom had never been involved in such party processes before, to win twice as many pledged delegates as the Reilly campaign.
Patrick secured the nomination in the September 2006 primary, winning 49 percent of the vote in a three-way race and carrying every county in the state. In the general election, he faced Lieutenant Governor Kerry Healey, a Republican, independent Christy Mihos, and Grace Ross of the Green-Rainbow Party and received 56% of the vote and a full 20 percentage points ahead of the second-place finisher, Kerry Healey. Patrick's margin of victory had long "coat-tails," increasing the Democratic party margin, already a supermajority, in both houses of the Massachusetts General Court, the state's legislature.
Campaign donors
Comprehensive donor information for Patrick is available dating back to 2006. Based on available campaign finance records, Patrick raised a total of $30,540,206 during that time period. This information was last updated on July 11, 2013.[44]
2006 and 2010
Ballotpedia collects information on campaign donors for each year in which a candidate or incumbent is running for election. The following table offers a breakdown of Deval Patrick's donors each year.[45] Click [show] for more information.
|Deval Patrick's Campaign Contributions
Governor of Massachusetts
Governor of Massachusetts
|Total Raised
|Total Raised by Opponents
|$16,652,626 (Republican)
$6,779,470 (Independent)
$114,917 (Green-Rainbow)
|$15,844,419 (Republican)
$4,233,482 (Independent)
$28,118 (Green-Rainbow)
|Top 5 contributors
|Massachusetts Democratic Party
|Massachusetts Democratic Party
|55 Court Street LLC
|Public Fund
|Unite Here Local 26
|Public Fund
|International Association of Fire Fighters
|Deval Patrick
|ADP Easypay Boston
|Patrick Victory Fund
|In-state donations
|Out-of-state donations
Deval and his wife, Diane Patrick (born 1951), a lawyer specializing in labor and employment law, married in 1984. They have lived in Milton, Massachusetts since 1989 and have two daughters, Sarah and Katherine.
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- Patrick's path from courtroom to boardroom Brian C. Mooney, The Boston Globe, August 13, 2006
- Transcript of Deval Patrick's acceptance speech The Boston Globe, November 8, 2006
- ↑ Boston Globe, "Patrick says he will serve out full term," January 4, 2011
- ↑ Ancestry of Deval Patrick
- ↑ Beating odds, a uniter rose from Chicago's tough side, The Boston Globe, May 24, 2006
- ↑ "Patrick shaped by father's absence", The Boston Globe, March 25], 2007
- ↑ Candidate Profile: Deval Patrick Beating odds, a uniter rose from Chicago's tough side, The Boston Globe, May 24, 2006
- ↑ A Better Chance Fall 2005 Newsletter, A Better Chance, October 30, 2006
- ↑ Massachusetts Governor, " Governor Deval Patrick," accessed June 15, 2013
- ↑ State House News Service, "UPDATE: Mass. Legislature enacts tax-raising bill," July 24, 2013.
- ↑ Associated Press, "Mass. Legislature overrides Patrick veto; gas, tobacco taxes going up next week," July 24, 2013.
- ↑ Associated Press, "Mass. lawmakers override transportation veto," July 24, 2013.
- ↑ The New York Times, "Most states miss deadline to set up health exchange," December 14, 2012
- ↑ The New York Times, "Most states miss deadline to set up health exchange," December 14, 2012
- ↑ The Daily Times, "Governor Susana Martinez to tackle state-based health exchange," January 9, 2013
- ↑ USA Today, "Where each state stands on gun-control legislation," January 14, 2013
- ↑ The Business Journals, "Governors and jobs: How governors rank for job creation in their states," June 27, 2013
- ↑ The Business Journals, "How state governors rank on their job-growth record," June 27, 2013
- ↑ review cool to inaugural speech plan The Boston Globe, December 14, 2006
- ↑ Patrick to take oath on bible The Boston Globe, January 2, 2007
- ↑ Gov. Elect Deval Patrick To Hold 7 Inaugural Balls CBS4 Boston, December 6, 2006
- ↑ "Patrick to repay taxpayers for decor $10,000 spent for drapes; governor to offset car costs.", Frank Phillips and Andrea Estes, The Boston Globe, February 21, 2007, retrieved March 17, 2007.
- ↑ Frank Phillips. "Patrick moves to shore up his staff" The Boston Globe, March 16, 2007) retrieved March 19, 2007.
- ↑ "Patrick's Bad Call'" WBUR, March 7, 2007) retrieved March 17, 2007.
- ↑ defends Sept. 11 speech, The Boston Globe, September 13, 2007.
- ↑ Mark Steyn, "Looking for love in all the wrong places", The OC Register, September 15, 2007.
- ↑ [1], The Boston Globe, August 3, 2007.
- ↑ Casinos considered for state, Boston Globe, December 13, 2007.
- ↑ DiMasi scoffs at casino job plan, Boston Globe, March 4, 2008.
- ↑ 2010 banner year for Mass gaming lobbyists & their pols, WampaLeaks, June 17, 2011.
- ↑ Gambling lobby spends big in Massachusetts, Eagle Tribune, March 10, 2010.
- ↑ The men and money behind the tribes, MetroWest Daily News, December 27, 2007.
- ↑ House, Senate give final OK to casino bill, but Patrick vows veto as it stands, Daily Hampshire Gazette, August 2, 2010.
- ↑ Genting and Wampanoag gaming syndicate eyes Raynham, WampaLeaks, June 14, 2011.
- ↑ Allegations vs. Dem hack fly under the radar,The Boston Herald, February 13, 2008.
- ↑ Government and Markets Seminar, Northeastern University, November 2011.
- ↑ In mostly civil debate, Obama parries Clinton by Susan Milligan, Boston.com, Feb. 21, 2008
- ↑ Patrick stumps for Obama by Christopher Loh, Boston Now, February 7th, 2008
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- ↑ In mostly civil debate, Obama parries Clinton by Susan Milligan, Boston.com, Feb. 21, 2008
- ↑ Boston University Law School Commencement Address by Deval Patrick, May 22, 2005
Quote: "I even helped to write the anti-discrimination laws for the new government of South Africa."
- ↑ Prison demands 'over the top' - N.Y. jail boss details 'aggressive' hounding by gov hopeful Boston Herald October 12, 2006.
- ↑ Boston Globe, "Grossman considering gun for governor in 2014," October 31, 2012
- ↑ Follow the Money, "Career fundraising for Deval L. Patrick," accessed July 11, 2013
- ↑ Follow the Money.org, "Home," accessed February 17, 2015
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Carolina Colors, a golf-course community in New Bern, was bought in April by the Cary-based Preston Development Company.
The company purchased the developed home sites and all undeveloped land in the 1,800-acre community from Ken Kirkman, owner of Carolina Creek, LLC., who started Carolina Colours after he acquired the 1,800-acre property from Weyerhaeuser Real Estate in 2004.
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"And the truth is there is not going to be another golf-course community in the future," he said.
Building large residential developments around golf courses has not been favorable in the real estate industry for about eight years, Rawl said.
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Preston Development paid off the mortgage on Carolina Colours, giving the community stability, he said.
"For about four years people have seen fearful things (in real estate financing)," Rawl said. "We have removed the economic calamity of property not having institutional financing."
Another reason for purchasing the property was to work with Kirkman again after working with him in 2002 on the Landfall community project in Wilmington, Rawl said.
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Preston Development, with a team of 10, will be involved in marketing and promoting Carolina Colours and Kirkman, who retains ownership of the golf course, will continue managing the property, Rawl said.
Preston Development and Kirkman plan to rejuvenate Carolina Colours from the stalled 2008 to 2012 real estate market that affected the entire industry, Rawl said.
Rawl began right away with the construction on the $750,000 swimming pool before he had signed the title to Carolina Colours.
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Kirkman was an attorney for Weyerhaeuser prior to purchasing Carolina Colours, and when Weyerhaeuser decided not to develop the property it was offered to Kirkman.
"They already came up with the plan (for development of the property)," he said. "But they came to me and in 2004 I signed an agreement."
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Carolina Colours, which has a large retiree residential population making up 60 to 70 percent of the community, also has 30 member activities each month including yoga, golf and bridge, Kirkman said.
"It's a very active community," Kirkman said.
When the housing market became difficult in 2008, Kirkland said available cash was running out to pay off the debts and delayed the construction of the swimming pool and tennis courts at Carolina Colours. He had already built the majority of the $3 million clubhouse and completed the $8 million golf course, he said.
Kirkland, who lives in Carolina Colours and has his office there, worked with Preston Development to purchase the property.
"We worked hard to get the transaction done," Kirkman said. "I couldn't have picked a better partner.… People living here can feel secure. There is no possibility of the developer going broke and people ending up with distress property."
Home sales have picked up since the second half of last year and look strong into 2014, Kirkman said.
The concept of Carolina Colours, where homes range in price from $200,000 to $700,000, has not changed since it was initially planned as a single-family residential community with golfing and swimming, Kirkman said.
"Our goal remains the same today," he said. "We want people to move in where there is really a well planned, active community."
There will be some commercial development that was also part of the initial plan but it will not be the focal point of Carolina Colours. Kirkman said 100 acres in the development was purchased by David Swain out of Wilmington to be commercially developed.
Kirkman said Harris Teeter has already put in a "significant investment" to locate there. Construction is expected to begin next year and the store plans to open in 2015. There is also interest from other retail businesses, he said.
Preston Development Company was named Developer of the Year five times by Home Builders Association of Raleigh-Wake County. The company has developed more than 35 communities including Prestonwood Country Club, Landfall, Cameron Pond (twice recognized as the North Carolina Community of the Year), Wakefield, Camden Forest, MacGregor West, Wessex and Weston Estates.
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Different sources give different dates for the building of the main meat market here (see below), but the older live meat market was relocated to Islington in 1855, and the opening of the new Smithfield was recorded in the Illustrated London News of 5 Dec. 1868. According to the information plaque in the central arcade, the open ironwork let in the light and air, while the louvered roof kept out the sun. Together with the fact that the market was on an elevation, this helped to keep the meat cool in the days before refrigeration. The complex was linked by the Metropolitan underground railway to the major train stations (note the tunnels beneath it, now used for parking, storage etc.). In modorn times, the main cold store was converted to a power station. Although the central arcade of the meat market building has been splendidly restored, the later additions at the westernmost end are currently in a sorry state, boarded up and under threat of demolition, to make way for new office buildings. This is, after all, a prime city location.
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Boise, G. C., rev. Valerie Scott. "Jones, Sir Horace (1819-1887)." Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Online ed. Viewed 3 August 2007. (Here, the central meat market is said to have been built 1866-67.)
"Market Buildings." Information plaque in the central arcade. (This gives 1868 as the opening date, and should be definitive.)
Weinreb, Ben, and Christopher Hibbert. The London Encyclopaedia. London: Macmillan, rev. ed. 1992. (Curiously, this has the building work starting while the old live market was still in operation, and ending long before the official opening: "In 1851-66 Horace Jones built a new market...," p.813).
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When I was 26 years old, I started to prepare for my Vision Quest. It's meant to be a time to commune with "God," "The Creator," or whatever your concept of a higher being may be. A Vision Quest is usually done alone on top of a mountain, or in a secluded spot in nature where you will not be interrupted or have any distractions. It is a pretty intense undertaking, but the personal rewards can be immense.
In order to get ready for the 4 days during which I would be alone on my Vision Quest -- eating no food and drinking no water, with the exception of some sage tea if it became absolutely necessary at any point -- I had to emotionally, physically, mentally, and spiritually prepare myself. I began my preparations a year prior to the actual Vision Quest. As far as the official instructions for preparations went, I was to observe the following:
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- Eat a fully vegetarian diet, except for fish.
- No smoking (I didn't have to worry about this one).
- Meditate daily in the morning while burning sage.
- Practice 20 minutes of yoga every morning.
- Take a cold shower once a day.
- Fast every Thursday for the entire day.
- Eliminate any vices that I held onto in my life.
Regarding that last point, the only vice that I had was my addiction to coffee; and I call it an addiction because I was convinced that I needed coffee in order to function. My work at the time required that I be at the office, brain in rapid-fire mode, by 7:00 a.m. Back then, there were no fancy coffee shops around every corner (like Starbucks is today) so I'd hit up the 7-11 and start my day with a 24 oz. cup at about 6:45 a.m. At 7:30, I'd move on down to the 20 oz.; then the 16 oz. around 9:00 a.m.; and finally, I'd wrap it all up with a quick eight ounces at 10:00 a.m. (All the while feeling pretty darn good about myself that I was drinking less and less as the morning progressed.)
This was my Monday-Friday routine. On the weekends I still drank coffee, but it was nowhere near that amount. When I was told that I would have to give up coffee, my one vice, I was horror-stricken. The chief who led the Vision Quest ceremony calmly and in a very matter-of-fact way asked, "Well, it is a vice, isn't it?" I soberly nodded. He said, "Then you get to give it up." After two full weeks of the most excruciating headaches, the shakes, the worst moods ever, the loss of a couple of friendships (which I later regained), I had escaped the claws of coffee. If this sounds like someone detoxing from the worst of narcotics … well, this is what I imagine that must feel like. Those two weeks were just awful. But I knew that I had to go through it in order to be fully able to prepare for my Vision Quest, so I did. And once I got past the coffee hurdle, the remainder of the preparation schedule was practically a breeze. The Vision Quest itself is a whole other blog post ….
Anyway, after my Vision Quest was over, I maintained a vegetarian diet, still including fish, for close to 5 years. I also kept up with many of the other practices that I was taught when preparing for my Quest. It was during this time that I rediscovered tea and fell in love with it. A cup of black tea has, on average, 1/3 the amount of caffeine as a cup of coffee, and I could definitely feel the difference. But in the end, it made me feel better overall. Tea to me felt a lot more gentle on the system. It even provided a relaxing side-effect which was very different, in a good way, from the energy overload that coffee can give. What I didn't realize when I was all hopped up on coffee was that I was actually getting the jitters every single day; I was so incredibly hyper in the mornings, I was practically buzzing around the office. No more. Today I don't only drink black tea; I also enjoy green tea for the antioxidant benefit, chamomile before bed, and a variety of herbal teas as well.
Now that it's been a good 14 years since my Vision Quest and my departure from daily coffee consumption, when I do have some every once in a while, I notice that even if I just have a regular-sized cup, I can actually feel it surging through my system. I don't like that feeling; I much prefer the gentle approach that tea has. There have been quite a few studies lately showing the benefits of coffee. For example, how coffee may ward off prostate cancer in men, and how it may fend off aggressive varieties of breast cancer. Just a few days ago, in fact, there was yet another, on how it can prevent depression in women. So for the health benefits alone, I'm not willing to say I'll never have another cup of coffee again. But what I think that particular lesson was about for me, was just to be conscious of what holds power over me and my life. I am a very firm believer that you can do fine if you have everything in moderation.
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'Nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war anymore.' - Isaiah 2:4
As violence continues to rage in Iraq, a new confrontation is looming with neighboring Iran. The government of Iran seems determined to acquire a nuclear weapons capability, and the U.S. is determined to prevent them, including by a possible military attack. While we agree Iran should not obtain nuclear weapons, we come together as religious leaders to urge that the U.S. engage in direct negotiations with Iran as an alternative to military action in resolving the crisis.
We are encouraged that the U.S. government is cooperating with European countries and international agencies. While we welcome the U.S. willingness to join multilateral talks with Iran, we believe that a strategy of direct U.S. diplomatic engagement with Iran without preconditions is the surest means of reducing the nuclear danger and enhancing security in the region. The United States should negotiate with Iran on a mutually acceptable settlement of the nuclear standoff while making it clear that Americans absolutely reject anti-Semitism and threats against Israel. In response to the real threat of Iran's nuclear ambitions, strategic combinations of pressures and incentives must be seriously and persistently tried, beginning with direct negotiations.
U.S. negotiations with Iran could also help resolve the crisis in Iraq. The U.S. should seek Iran's support for international efforts to rebuild and stabilize Iraq, in conjunction with an orderly withdrawal of U.S. troops, the removal of foreign military bases, and the renouncing of any proprietary American claims on Iraqi oil and reconstruction contracts.
As Christian, Muslim, and Jewish religious leaders, we are deeply concerned about the nuclear weapons danger in Iran, in the Middle East, and around the world. The teachings of the Abrahamic tradition command us to keep human life sacred and to act as stewards of creation. We consider all weapons of mass destruction—whether nuclear, biological, or chemical—immoral and unacceptable for use in any circumstances. In pursuit of that principle, we strongly support international diplomatic efforts to prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons.
Our nation and the international community must pursue this goal without using military force for at least two reasons:
Nuclear nonproliferation objectives in Iran should also be linked to broader denuclearization goals, including the creation of a Middle East zone free of weapons of mass destruction. We believe that the U.S. and other nuclear weapons states would be in a stronger position to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons if they took the necessary steps toward eliminating their own nuclear arsenals—which our signing of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty commits us to but is a promise yet to be fulfilled.
OUR SCRIPTURES call us to avoid war and to live as peaceably as possible with all. They teach us always to seek better ways to resolve our problems and conflicts.
We reaffirm our religious hope for a world in which "nation shall not lift up sword against nation." We pray that our government will be guided by moral principles, political wisdom, and international legal standards and will step back from seeing military action as an option in this crisis. We call on all our religious leaders, theologians, clergy, and laypersons to speak out against the option of war with Iran.
To attack Iran militarily would confuse noble ends (preventing Iran from developing nuclear weapons) with dangerous and irresponsible means. Especially given the continuing tragedy and chaos of Iraq, we must not make that mistake again. The moral wisdom of many religious leaders and the pragmatic warnings of many military leaders now offer a common message: Words, not war, with Iran.
This statement was initiated in July 2006 by Rev. Jim Wallis, executive director, Sojourners/Call to Renewal ; Rev. Bob Edgar, general secretary, National Council of Churches; Rev. Wesley Granberg-Michaelson, general secretary, Reformed Church in America; Dr. Susannah Heschel, associate professor of Jewish studies, Dartmouth College; Brian McLaren, author; Rev. William J. Shaw, president, National Baptist Convention; Dr. Sayyid M. Syeed, secretary general, Islamic Society of North America. (www.sojo.net/Iran [13])
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The song is terrible music. From a political point of view a song about racial perception involving the Confederate flag and gold chains it's just what we need as a society.
To paraphrase comedian Patton Oswalt: Those responsible for the Boston Marathon bombings are not even a fraction of one percent of the human race. You want to see humanity? Watch the video of people rushing toward the explosions' aftermath to help.
There will always be acts of terrorism from a limited few following whatever political cause they do, but there will also be a vastly greater number of decent people who refuse to bow down. As free as
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In the days following the Bingo Hall homicide, Daily News columnist Mike McHugh and I spent time at the crime scene and in the neighborhood of the victim. Parked at a house not far from where the victim lived, Mike thought he spotted a car that looked like the one described by authorities. Police arrived before we could even turn around. Being equipped with early knowledge of who detectives were looking at for the crime allowed Mike and I to follow the investigation in an unique way. I can say that the
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I found out like everybody else by reading an ad in Sunday's newspaper that Ed Brown was switching political parties. The change makes perfect sense for the sheriff who has always been far to the right of just about everyone I know. After a lifetime as a Southern Democrat, Brown announced he registered last week as a Republican. A holdout for jumping to the GOP, it's actually a long time coming for Brown. With his announcement, I could hear the death knell for conservative Democrats in the South who have migrated off the endangered list toward extinction. At least thousands of Republicans won't have to worry about not punching straight tickets anymore.
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