You know those annoying sticky-note ads now routinely plastered all over your newspaper (well, assuming you actually still get one)? Dan Kennedy reports a sticky ad on this week's Cambridge Chronicle front page that readers may not be so quick to discard.
Channel 4 tweets the judge didn't buy the toothpaste defense: Cambridge state Senator Anthony Galluccio was ordered taken away for one year for probation violations - the positive alcohol readings on his home Breathalyzer.
Naturally, the guy who holds five patents on components of Sensodyne toothpaste lives in Cambridge. And naturally, he was put out to read state Sen. Anthony Galluccio's claims that the sorbitol in the toothpaste is why his at-home breathalyzer set off alarms at the probation office.
Joe Dwinell reports that by waiting a couple minutes, he blew a 0.0 on a breathalyzer after brushing his teeth with the same toothpaste the Cambridge state senator claims set off his at-home tester (not the same one the Herald used, though).
For good measure, Dwinell also downed some Coors Lite and a shot of 80-proof Bushmills single-malt whiskey to see what would happen.
Channel 4 reporter David Robichaud tweets:
Just saw a wino with a paper bag over a tube of Crest.
UPDATE: Watch a video demonstration of the device that sic'ed police on Galluccio; in the comments.
Channel 4 reports on the deal the hit-and-run Cambridge state senator got today for plowing into the back of a family's van and then running off and hiding from police: Six months' house arrest and loss of his license. Also: random alcohol testing.
The State House News Service reports Dan Hill of Charlestown will run in the Democratic primary against the hit-and-run state senator.
Hill, 36, is a lawyer who lives and practices in Charlestown. On his law-firm Web site, Hill says he specializes in alternative energy, environmental law, housing and development and municipal law.
Just before dawn on Oct. 4, the Cambridge Police gave State Senator Anthony Galluccio a lift home. According to the report, not only was he apparently too soused to drive, he was too drunk to tell the friend who had taken his keys and was giving him a lift that he had moved - the friend drove back and forth on Sunset Road, looking for his house, although Galluccio now lives on Trowbridge. The police drove out to Sunset as well, before Gooch sobered up sufficiently to direct them to his current residence.
The Herald posts a story unlikely to help convince people that Sen. Galluccio hit and ran merely because he had flashbacks to earlier arrests.
To make sure the state senator doesn't just walk out of court again, after his latest crash. Next Wednesday, Thursday and Friday outside the State House. Details (one of the kids in the mini-van he hit has yet to regain the use of his arm). Schedule yourself for the vigil.
The Globe talks to the guy whose vehicle was rear-ended by the twice-convicted-but-still-innocent-this-time state senator. The Herald talks to a family member who says the man's son has had to drop out of youth sports because of injuries in the hit and run.
File under Bad Timing? Wicked Local Cambridge reports the Cambridge state senator is hosting a reception on Wednesday: "Complimentary hors' doeuvres, wine, and beer" with a donation of $125 to $500.
Especially given, you know, his driving record and all, and the fact, that, oh, he's a lawyer and stuff. Wicked Local posts state Sen. Anthony Galluccio's apology. We good now?
Channel 7 reports state Sen. Anthony Galluccio is charged with rear ending a car in Cambridge on Sunday and then just driving away. He turned himself into police Monday morning, the station reports.
In 2005, Galluccio was charged with causing a four-car accident in Boston. A clerk magistrate determined that there was insufficient evidence to charge him with drunken driving, even though he acknowledged having some alcohol that night.
The Tab has the results from today's special election for Jarrett Barrios's old senate seat.
In cased you missed it, local blogger Ed Prisby is on the front page of the Globe today, in a cautionary tale about how your posts can come back to haunt you (in his case, in a court hearing on whether a Cambridge city councilor and then candidate for state Senate was drunk during a Boston car accident; a court clerk ruled he was not).
Prisby blogs about the article:
What if you're a victim in a car accident caused by a politician? And you blog about the accident and the aftermath? Could your blog posts be used in an attempt to discredit your testimony in any court hearings on the accident?
Edward Prisby reports on what happened when his blog posts came up during a hearing on whether to bring drunk-driving charges against Cambridge City Councilor Anthony Galluccio (no charges were brought) - and why that made him stop blogging for awhile:
Cambridge City Councilor Anthony Galluccio dropped out of the race to replace Middlesex, Suffolk and Essex state Senator Jarrett Barrios - who decided to replace himself after dropping out of the race for Middlesex DA.
Neil McCabe has the details.
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