Handle X: It’s All $$$ In Her Pocket

It didn’t take long for fuming Mary Souza to go on the attack after Judge Charles Hosack issued his ruling that validated incumbent Mike Kennedy’s victory – by 3 votes instead of 5 – in the 2009 City Council election. In her OpenCDA.com blog, Mary claimed she would have been shocked – shocked, I tell you – if Hosack had ruled in favor of her man, Jim Brannon. Then, she began the zany connect-the-dots that she and others on her blog are famous for. With Hosack in her keyboard cross-hairs, Mary explained that the judge was compromised because he has deep roots in the community. In fact, she huffed, he is a member of the Tubbs Hill association with Kennedy attorney Scott Reed. He lives on Sanders Beach. He’s “good buddies” with city and county elected officials. And worst of all? Sez Mary: “He is known as a Democrat”/ DFO , Huckleberries. More here .

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