Watching Finneran essentially on trial, the one he avoided the first time around, is frankly painful. He's a desperate man trying to avoid losing his license to practice law by saying anything and everything. His approach is undignified.
It's no surprise to see that he has apologists, including some who are part of our state's inept Republican Party. He's obviously not afraid to admit he needs to keep his license, a message to all that the talk radio thing didn't quite work out as planned. I'm starting to wonder if he will be returning next year after all.
Here's something I don't believe for a minute:
Yesterday, Finneran testified before a Board of Bar Overseers panel that some of his actions during the legal controversy were committed at the direction of his House attorney and that he was consumed by budget battles, not redistricting, at the time he was questioned under oath about the redistricting plan."We had much more severe issues to deal with," he said of the first year of the Romney administration, when the state budget was $3 billion short. "It was in the rearview mirror."
Whether in Massachusetts or anywhere else, legislators are always more concerned with district boundaries than just about anything else. When lines move, careers are made or destroyed. It's about life and death in politics.
Finneran knew damn well what he was doing at the time. Any assertion to the contrary only compounds the lie that got him convicted of perjury in the first place. That provides all the more reason to strip him of his license.
Image: Boston Herald
