Mass. Voters Re-Elect U.S. Rep. John Tierney

By The Associated Press
Nov 3, 2010, 12:38 AM
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BOSTON — Voters in Massachusetts’ 6th Congressional District have re-elected Democratic U.S. Rep. John Tierney to an eighth term, rejecting a challenge by GOP newcomer Bill Hudak.

Tierney’s campaign was complicated in October when his wife Patrice Tierney pleaded guilty to charges that she helped her brother conceal income from an illegal offshore gambling business that generated millions of dollars.

Rep. Tierney said his wife was betrayed by her brother, and believed his income came from selling or licensing software to legal Internet gambling businesses.

Despite Tierney’s woes, Hudak was unable to convince voters it was time for a change.

Late in the campaign Hudak sued Tierney charging Tierney’s campaign with defaming him in television ads. He later dropped the suit.

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Tyrone

Unfortunately, the results also show how blind many Massachusetts voters really are. The Congressional seat of John Tierney is a good example. His wife gets indicted for laundering $8M in cash through her & John’s joint bank accounts over a two-year period for the mafia, of which her brother is a member. That’s $10,000 per week! Just before the election, in a plea bargain with the DoJ (a Pulitzer Prize for some reporter if they investigate that deal), she pleads guilty to laundering a lesser amount, but still considerable. There’s no way to justify sending this man back to Congress. Either he know his wife was running money at almost ten times his Congressional salary through their accounts and looked the other way, which would make him part of the criminal conspiracy. Or, he truly didn’t know that for 2 years his wife was running money at almost ten times his Congressional salary through their accounts, in which case no one that oblivious and incompetent should be sent to Congress. Yet due to the Globe and others like NPR burying this story, almost no one in the 6th Congressional District knows about this. Terrible, but not surprising, for Massachusetts.