Black men and Cadillacs
I LOVE THIS CAR!!
By Andrea Estes, Boston Globe Staff
Governor Deval Patrick (Democrat Negro/Mass) unabashedly defended his use of a $46,000 Cadillac DeVille for state business, saying yesterday that he abandoned the more customary and less expensive Crown Victoria used by former governor Mitt Romney because “they don’t make it anymore.”
Crown Victorias are still being made, they said, but do not meet security standards mandated by State Police.
A State Police spokesman said the new Crown Victoria’s side airbags interfered with special security equipment that would be installed in the governor’s car. He would not describe the equipment.
As the focus intensified on the new governor’s spending habits, the administration also found itself fielding questions about hiring a $72,000-a-year aide to handle scheduling and interview requests for Patrick’s wife, Diane, a law partner at Ropes & Gray. The new aide, Amy Gorin of Wellesley, and her husband, Norm, led the governor’s fund-raising committee.
Patrick is the first governor since Michael S. Dukakis, who left office in 1990, to hire a staff member for a spouse.
“Mrs. Patrick has a full-time job as a practicing attorney, so staff assistance relative to her official duties as first lady is necessary, ” said Patrick spokesman Kyle Sullivan.
In appearances and interviews yesterday, Patrick gave a series of defenses for his use of the luxury DeVille.
He said that in conjunction with State Police, he made the decision that the $1,166-a-month car was “useful and appropriate,” and that he was too busy with state financial issues to focus too much on which car he used.
Hey if I were some high ranking dude, I would be driving a BMW or Mercedes not a piece of shit Cadillac, I don’t give a shit how broke my state was or how many people bitched about it. There I said it!!
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