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Governor's councilor refuses to redefine worms as spaghetti

By adamg on Wed, 04/27/2011 - 7:34am

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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By oddjob60 on Wed, 04/27/2011 - 8:33am.

Even in context, that comment makes no sense to me.

And "ha!" about vermicelli.

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By anon on Wed, 04/27/2011 - 8:50am.

I think it means that he's either a political slimeball, or an over-the-hill idiot.

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By Roslindalian on 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.

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By eeka on Wed, 04/27/2011 - 1:25pm.

:o)

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By Jeff F on Wed, 04/27/2011 - 11:11pm.

penne = (feather) quill

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By eeka on Thu, 04/28/2011 - 8:21am.

Yeah, I know penne = pens and pene = penis, but still. You got it, didn't you? ;-)

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By anon on Wed, 04/27/2011 - 9:03am.

Brilliant, Adam!

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By chicken on Wed, 04/27/2011 - 1:17pm.

He has a battle on his hands, “because there are four dead rubber stampers on this council.”

So he's making threats now? He thinks its funny just because he takes it back?

What a piece of shit.

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By anon on 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?

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By Dan Farnkoff on 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.

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