Healey plays dodgeball (MA Lt Governor)

[MaineDem]

First impressions, my excellent teachers in the Weymouth public schools used to preach, can never be taken back, so it's best to make a good one. Poor Kerry Healey apparently never got that lesson. If she did, she'd never be making a fool of herself at the same time that voters are just starting to wonder if she might be gubernatorial material.

Let the facts speak for themselves. A few years ago, before Healey was elected lieutenant governor, her husband, Sean, relocated his fabulously successful asset management firm from Boston to his very own community of Beverly, one of the more upscale areas in the state.

His company bought an old estate in Prides Crossing, 1.6 miles from his house. It renovated it as offices. After construction had begun, he received a $1 million tax incentive from a state program designed to lure business development to blighted or decadent areas. Prides Crossing may be decadent all right, but not in the way lawmakers had in mind.

Healey won office in 2002. The state inspector general issued a report in January 2004 citing problems in the tax incentive program, one of them being the funds given to Sean Healey. So what's a good wife and lieutenant governor to do?

http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2005/10/18/healey_plays_dodgeball/