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Democrats organize to keep Kelly Timilty from running for re-election as a governor's councilor
By adamg on Thu, 02/11/2010 - 12:55pm
A group of Democrats say long-time Governor's Councilor Kelly Timilty forfeited the right to represent her district when she circulated a bogus, forged endorsement from Deval Patrick two years ago.
Mary-Ann Greanier said she decided to organize a letter and e-mail campaign to urge Timility to step aside after fellow Democrats expressed concern and outrage that Timilty might run again this fall. Greanier is chairwoman of the Democratic Town Committee, although she says her campaign to get Timilty to step down is not a town-committee effort.
Timility has yet to say whether she will be going for a rematch against Milton's Robert Jubinville, who is running again this year for a two-year seat on the council, which signs off on state funding and considers judicial nominations and parole recommendations.
Timilty paid an $8,000 fine for the forged endorsement - after first hiring a Boston political fixer to deal with the bad press she was getting.
Press release urging Timility to retire.
Map of council districts (Timilty is District 2, in brown).
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Timilty? How About Curley Ng Fe?
I understand that some people are outraged about Timilty.
But wouldn't they first want to look over in the next district -- at the ballistic hair device?
Good point, but ...
The people asking Timilty to hang it up all live in her district. Sorry for not making that clear.
Kelly Timilty
For those of you who would like to deny Councillor Timilty her right to run for re-election to the Gov. Council, please keep in mind that she paid her fine. Get over it and move on, Deval can fight his own battles and don't be so confident of her opponent being all that good. Why would somebody making over $200k annually, run for a job that pay's 25K. The math just doesn't add up.
It's not a fulltime job, so why not?
Just ask the Curling Iron Lady from Watertown, who managed to get elected as both a governor's councilor and a Watertown councilor.
Jubenville is no option
She's made mistake and owned up to it. She's a much better option than Bob Jubenville. There are too many questions to why this lawyer wants a say in judicial nominations. What’s his perspective on keeping our communities safe? Do we want someone who defends convicted child rapists/killers (Charles Jaynes), from weighing in on pardons for them? Just search on the web “robert jubinville + attorney” see for yourself.