J. James Marzilli may be eligible since he lost reelection
"Ex-senator wants double pension; Marzilli resigned amid criminal case" by Michael Levenson, Globe Staff | December 24, 2008
J. James Marzilli Jr., the former state senator from Arlington who resigned in disgrace after being charged with harassing or attempting to grope women in downtown Lowell, wants the state to nearly double his pension.
We ought to tar and feather his arrogant ass and chuck him in the harbor, that's what we ought to do!!
In a request submitted to the state Board of Retirement, Marzilli, a 50-year-old liberal Democrat with 23 years of local and state service, cites a state law that allows elected officials under age 55 with more than 20 years of creditable service to boost their pension if they fail to win reelection.
I'm telling you, I'm neck deep in them and they are the worst! Pious, pontificating, prejudicial purveyors of self-righteous political correctness.
On June 5, two days after his arrest, Marzilli announced he would not seek reelection in the September Democratic primary, and he did not actively campaign for his seat. But his name was on the ballot and he was defeated in the race, losing overwhelmingly to Kenneth J. Donnelly, a retired firefighter from Lexington.
Yesterday, the state retirement board voted, 4 to 0, to postpone action on Marzilli's request until his criminal case is resolved. But the request, which would increase his annual pension from $14,000 to $27,000, stirred immediate outrage from some fiscal watchdog groups, who said the law should be changed to prevent politicians who lose elections from collecting higher pensions.
Isn't the state running enough of a deficit?
"They get an additional pension if their constituents get sick of them and throw them out? Am I hearing that right? Only in Massachusetts," said Barbara Anderson, executive director of Citizens for Limited Taxation. "Enough with the pension nonsense."
Yeah, that's right, Barb!
Michael J. Widmer, president of the Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation, echoed the sentiment. "This is another pension excess that is causing increasing outrage to taxpayers," he said. "You have these thousands of employees who earn legitimate pensions and then these kinds of abuses undercut support for the entire system...."
Marzilli could not be reached for comment....
Of course not.
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Marzilli served three years as an aide to the House Rules Committee, two years for the town of Arlington, and 17 years as a state representative before being elected to the state Senate last year. He was arrested June 3 after authorities said he tried to grab the crotch of a woman on a park bench in Lowell, harassed another woman in the city, and fled police who tried to question him.Why does the elite Globe minimize the politicians sicko psychosis (see below)?
Soon after his arrest, he checked into McLean Hospital for what his lawyer said was a diagnosed case of bipolar disorder. In July, Marzilli pleaded not guilty to several charges including disorderly conduct, resisting arrest, and annoying and accosting a person of the opposite sex.
Yeah, and Foley said he was drunk; these guys always have an excuse at the ready -- one that would cut no ice with you or me!
Last month, he resigned under pressure from his colleagues after it was revealed that he had represented the Senate at an energy conference in Germany in October. His harassment case is to go trial in April. If Marzilli is convicted, he could lose his pension under a state law that allows the retirement board to revoke the pension of anyone convicted of crimes "applicable to your office or position," said Nicholas Poser, a Boston pension lawyer....
Ralph White, a retirement board member, said the panel would take a wait-and-see approach....
Incredible!
FLASHBACK (for those who have forgotten):
"Senator faces list of assault allegations; DA says Marzilli 'out of control'" by Michael Levenson and Brian R. Ballou, Globe Staff | June 5, 2008
LOWELL - State Senator J. James Marzilli Jr., arraigned yesterday on charges that he tried to grope a woman and harass another on busy streets in downtown Lowell, faces further investigation as more women came forward with accusations of inappropriate sexual contact.
Middlesex District Attorney Gerard T. Leone Jr. said law enforcement officers are investigating a report of an assault in Arlington last year, one in Brighton two years ago, and additional reports in Lowell Tuesday.
On Tuesday afternoon, the veteran lawmaker fled police who tried to question him, causing cars to swerve out of his way and pedestrians to scramble as he darted through city streets.
Why didn't they TASER HIM?!?
Seriously, readers, that is what YOU or I would have gotten!!!!
And this sick asshole was a HAZARD to the PUBLIC!!!!!!
Marzilli was arrested in a parking garage, where he was cut off by police cruisers chasing him. After officers threatened him with pepper spray to make him submit to handcuffs, according to a police report, he broke into tears and cried that his "life was over."
Awww, boo-hoo-ho0, you ELITE SCUM!!!
They only "threatened" him with "pepper spray," huh? NO TASER?
Friends and political allies were shocked at the apparent unraveling of a career that had taken Marzilli from the trenches of political organizing in the 1980s to the state House in the '90s and the Senate last year. A self-described ultraliberal, Marzilli has been a darling of unions, environmental groups, and social service organizations whose causes he championed.
They are the WORST! The worst!!!
"This does not conform to the behavior of the Jim Marzilli who we know and love," said George Bachrach, a former Democratic state senator from Watertown and a longtime friend who hired Marzilli to run his campaign for governor in 1994. "I feel many of us who had positive relationships with Jim professionally feel deeply for him now personally."
Actually, if you keep reading, this behavior DOES CONFORM to this guy!
He just never did it in the State house!
Marzilli, an Arlington Democrat who served for 17 years in the House before being elected to the Senate in a special election last year, is up for reelection this fall. He is facing two Democratic opponents and had been considered certain to win the seat.
Well, NOT NOW!!!
Instead, he could face up to five years in state prison if he is convicted of the most serious charge against him, attempt to commit indecent assault and battery.
Marzilli, 50, pleaded not guilty yesterday in Lowell District Court to that charge and four others.
But not the man we know! Pfffffttttt!!!!
Authorities said he tried to grab the crotch of a woman on a park bench in Lowell Tuesday afternoon. He also pleaded not guilty to a separate charge that he harassed another woman in Lowell Tuesday morning.
So I count at least six incidents, and there are probably dozens more for this sickie!!!
Prosecutor Richard M. Mucci asked that Marzilli be jailed until a judge could determine whether he poses a threat to the public. Marzilli's actions were "frightening and out of control at this point, because he is accosting local women in Lowell," Mucci said.
Judge Neil Walker denied the request, but ordered Marzilli to stay out of Lowell. Because he posted $1,500 bail Tuesday night, Marzilli was allowed to go free and was ordered back in court for a pretrial hearing next month.
Aaaah, the PERKS of PRIVILEGE and POWER!!!!
Think you or I would have been released and ordered to stay out of Lowell?
"He intends to continue to fight the charges," Marzilli's lawyer, Terrence W. Kennedy of Everett, said yesterday. "He is innocent."
You gotta love lying lawyers, hey!!!
Marzilli's wife, Susan Shaer, sat in the back of the courtroom during the proceedings. Shaer - who is executive director of Women's Action for New Directions, an antiwar group - later took her husband's arm as they departed the building and walked down the courthouse steps.
Now, I do feel sorry for this woman. If she didn't know about this.
If she did, well....
After Marzilli's court appearance, Leone said Marzilli was also being investigated for "inappropriate touching of a female," in Brighton two years ago, other incidents in Lowell Tuesday, and one in Arlington a year ago.
Oh, so it is a PATTERN of BEHAVIOR going back YEARS, huh?
Arlington Police Chief Fred Ryan said the investigation in Arlington began after a woman came forward yesterday to report "inappropriate and unwanted touching," by Marzilli in a home last year.
Less than a month ago, Leone concluded there was not enough evidence to charge the senator with inappropriately touching another woman in his hometown in April.
See what power and position can do for you?
Meanwhile, we frame innocent people on bogus "terror" charges -- if they ever get a hearing at all!!!!
"We are aware of the possibility of other matters, but we are developing those as we speak and are urging others, if they know of or have been victimized, to come forward," Leone said yesterday.
Marzilli's most recent troubles started at about 11 a.m. Tuesday, when, according to a Lowell police report, he approached a woman on a downtown street in Lowell and said: "Oh, baby, you're so beautiful. Your body is so perfect."
The report said that the woman turned around and saw a man, whom she later identified as Marzilli, and said, "What is your deal?"
The woman said she walked away, but Marzilli followed her and repeated similar comments, according to the police report. She became angry, and told Marzilli, "take $20 out of your pocket and go to Merrimack Street after 5 p.m. and get yourself a hooker."
As the woman walked toward a parking garage, she saw two police officers on detail and told Marzilli that she would tell the police if he continued to follow and threaten her, the report said. The woman said that Marzilli then put his hands in his pockets and left her alone.
The report said that about four hours later, Marzilli approached another woman on a park bench about a block away.
That woman told police she had seen Marzilli in the area last week "wearing dirty clothes" and looking "unkempt and possibly homeless," according to the report.
Given the way politicians have treated the people, I really don't want to hear about his psychological problems, I really don't!
This nation and I have been TRAUMATIZED by the god-damn lying MSM and their service to the elite agenda, and I have no sympathy for those who have gutted us and imposed such tyranny here!
This is what he did while on TAXPAYER'S EXPENSE, huh?
Pretended to be a dirty old bum and harass women?
But on Tuesday, he was dressed in business attire, with slacks, a shirt, and a tie, the report said. Marzilli asked her if she remembered him, to which she replied yes. He then told her that he thought she was beautiful. The woman told police that Marzilli then reached toward her with his hands and attempted to grab her crotch, but she grabbed his hand to stop him and told him, "Don't you dare."
Marzilli then made a lewd remark, the report said.
What, he didn't like the rejection? Now you know how WE FEEL, shitter!!!!!!!
The woman went to a nearby apartment complex and reported the crime to staff at the front desk. Two maintenance workers flagged down police, who caught up with Marzilli. Police said the senator told them that he was flirting with the woman and that his name was Martin Walsh of Medford.
He's not mentally-deranged!
This shows WILLFUL KNOWLEDGE of DOING SOMETHING WRONG!!!!
Martin Walsh is also the name of a state representative from Dorchester. Yesterday, Walsh said he was disappointed that Marzilli had used his name. "Obviously, I don't want my name associated with that," Walsh said. ". . . He could have used any name. I don't know why he did that."
And this scumbag tried to FINGER SOMEONE ELSE!
What a SCUMBAG SICKIE!!!!
How about sending this shit to Iraq and saving one of our soldiers!?
After police started interviewing Marzilli Tuesday, they said, he started acting nervously and ran away. He ran past a hot dog cart, causing several people in the area to dash out of his way, police say in the report.
Marzilli ran down the center of busy Market Street, between cars, and in the opposite direction of one-way traffic, causing several vehicles to swerve to avoid him, police said.
But NO TASER!!!!
Around here, they tell the kids if you even run we'll taser you.
I know because it happened to my friend's high-school aged son when he stopped one night. The cops told him, don't go anywhere or we'll taser you!!!
Officers caught up with Marzilli in a parking garage, where they saw him zigzagging through parked cars on the first level, before an officer cut off his path with his police cruiser.
Police said that Marzilli resisted arrest several times and that they twice threatened to use pepper spray to get him to place his hands behind his back.
Neither you nor I would have had the chance to resist arrest "several times," readers.
Pffffftttt!!!!
Marzilli told police that "his life was over and that we were destroying him," according to the arrest report.
Yup, BLAME OTHERS, asshole!!!! What a LIBERAL SCUM SHIT!!!!!!!!!
The officers told Marzilli that he would be able to post bail and would be out by the end of the day, but Marzilli replied "you don't understand . . . I'm a state senator," the report said.
And therefore, ABOVE the LAW because your shit don't stink, right, scum?
Placed in the back of a police cruiser, Marzilli said: "I can't believe this is happening. . . . She was flirting with me. . . . I was flirting with her."
