David Boeri talks to our newest Governor's Councilor, Charles Cipollini of Fall River, who has no plans to stop voting against every single one of the governor's picks for the judiciary, including openly gay Supreme Judicial Court nominee Barbara Lenk, for whom he provides an analogy:
I like spaghetti. And if they change the definition of the spaghetti to give me a bunch of worms on the plate and say, 'That's spaghetti,' I'm not going to accept it.
Obviously, Cipollini doesn't know what vermicelli means.
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Even in context, that comment
By oddjob60
Wed, 04/27/2011 - 8:33am
Even in context, that comment makes no sense to me.
And "ha!" about vermicelli.
The quote
By anon
Wed, 04/27/2011 - 8:50am
I think it means that he's either a political slimeball, or an over-the-hill idiot.
The context
By Roslindalian
Wed, 04/27/2011 - 1:03pm
The context is that this guy doesn't like gay people. He is analogizing not accepting worms being called spaghetti to not accepting gay people getting married as actual marriage. Indeed, the context of this was his "concern" that the nominee would not be able to impartially adjudicate questions concerning "real" marriage. This guy makes a mockery of the Governor's Counsil.
Or penne!
By eeka
Wed, 04/27/2011 - 1:25pm
:o)
eeka, get your mind out of the gutter!
By Jeff F
Wed, 04/27/2011 - 11:11pm
penne = (feather) quill
Was funnier my way!
By eeka
Thu, 04/28/2011 - 8:21am
Yeah, I know penne = pens and pene = penis, but still. You got it, didn't you? ;-)
Brilliant
By anon
Wed, 04/27/2011 - 9:03am
Brilliant, Adam!
Cipollini = mobster
By chicken
Wed, 04/27/2011 - 1:17pm
So he's making threats now? He thinks its funny just because he takes it back?
What a piece of shit.
discrimination
By anon
Wed, 04/27/2011 - 3:05pm
Did he just admit on record that he is discriminating based on sexual orientation? I'm not a lawyer. How illegal is that?
Potentially legitimate concerns obscured by C's apparent bigotry
By Dan Farnkoff
Wed, 04/27/2011 - 4:33pm
Not sure how often judges make this mistake, or even how big a deal is it, but according to this Globe piece it seems that Lenk forgot either to recuse herself or to notify her colleagues when her wife, a lawyer named Debra Krupp, appeared before the appeals court to argue a case in 2010.