Over at the Alewife, Neil McCabe reports he took down a post about how Channel 5 found out about the Anthony Galluccio car crash. The post in question was about how a Channel 5 staffer did or did not express surprise that Galluccio would be staying in the state-senate race even though incumbent Jarrett Barrios had decided after all to try to keep his seat. Referring to WCVB program director Elizabeth Chang, he writes:
Blue Mass. Group has the scoop on a Boston clerk magistrate finding no probable cause to send Galluccio's case to a jury - along with comments from Ed Prisby, a Boston lawyer involved in that four-car accident with the Cambridge city councilor back in December. Prisby testified at the hearing today and is not happy:
This just in! Two of the people who were involved in that December car accident with Cambridge city councilor and would-be state senator Anthony Galluccio did not contact Channel 5 reporter Janet Wu to tip her off about the accident. Repeat, they did not call Wu first.
I know, let the full implications of that sink in for a moment. Besides, as the Alewife, which breathlessly reports this fact, adds: Developing...
So Jarrett Barrios will run for re-election instead of for Middlesex DA. Some calculation: Run against an actual prosecutor who has the endorsement (more or less) of the current DA or run against some guy who's suddenly facing possible drunk-driving charges? What does Mr. Galluccio say? Neither of the morning papers showed any indication of trying to talk to him.
Blue Mass. Group posts a copy of Anthony Galluccio's report on the multi-car crash he allegedly caused in downtown Boston in December. Not all that exciting, except he forgot to sign it.
You might expect that from a Republican blog. But today's hypocrisy charge comes from Bob on Blue Mass. Group.
At Mass. Revolution, Andy wonders why now for the investigation into whether Cambridge City Councilor - and state Senate candidate - Anthony Galluccio caused a multi-car accident in downtown Boston this past December while under the influence:
I sense that this is being played out because of the impending Senate race and I think that that is unfortunate for those voters in that Senate district.
Blue Mass. Group has sources and they're telling them that Anthony Galluccio might face charges in connection with a late-night crash in Boston this past December.
Earlier:
The Cambridge city councilor and his Boston car crash.
Anthony Galluccio, Cambridge city councilor and (sole) candidate for Jarrett Barrios's state-senate seat, explained his side of that December car accident at a meeting of the Progressive Democrats of Cambridge:
... He thinks the folks making noise about this incident now were motivated either monetarily or politically. ...
And, again, he denied being drunk; he said he was stunned by getting hit in the head by his airbag.
On Dec. 17, Anthony Galluccio, a Cambridge city councilor (and presumptive heir to Jarrett Barrios's state-senate seat) was involved in a car accident on Congress Street in Boston. Was he drunk? Galluccio denies it. But Edward Prisby, who was in one of the cars that was hit, is now blogging about what he says was a very drunk councilor:
... The driver was shortish and balding. I didn't recognize him. But I could tell he was drunk. Really drunk. Which isn't necessarily surpising to Boston at 2:00 AM. What was shocking was that he would get that drunk and then decide to drive. ...
"I'm really sorry," he stammered as he produced his ID.
"Your name is Anthony Galluccio," I asked?
"Yes," he replied. ...
Accident Victims Say Politician Was Drunk During Crash - Channel 5 report, which cites two other people in the accident who thought Galluccio was under the influence (he says he was disoriented by getting hit by an airbag).
Via Sam Seidel.
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