Bob Trane suing The Somerville Journal

[nvidia99999.livejournal.com]

A friend e-mailed me this. It seems rather odd and childish. Bob Trane is suing the Somerville Journal over a cartoon? In my opinion, it does not send a good message about Trane, frankly. Comments?

Bob Trane suing The Somerville Journal

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[tt02144.livejournal.com]

"According to Sciortino the remaining signatures were stolen from his State House sometime before May 6. Two judges refused to allow him on the ballot."
"In court, Sciortino’s lawyer Ed Colbert said Sciortino had 186 signatures....But before Sciortino could submit them to the Secretary of State, Colbert said, the papers had been stolen."
"The papers are missing,” (the judge) said. “We don’t have any information other than that they were on [Sciortino’s] desk and now they are not....”
"Sciortino reported the papers missing to the State Police on May 19, almost two weeks after he first noticed they were gone."
"According to Sciortino's attorney, 12 nomination papers containing 72 signatures were taken by an unknown person from his State House office."
I would personally have more respect for someone who stood up and simply admitted that they had been lost or misplaced. To immediately refer to them as 'stolen' is simply passing the buck for your own mistake (all candidates routinely copy the signatures immediately, why hadn't Sciortino at least done that?). And who, other than Trane, could be the purported thief? The inference is that it is his opponent.

[ron_newman]

Copies of signatures are not legally accepted. You have to submit the originals.

[marylu.livejournal.com]

infer away. but that's YOUR inference. It's completely inaccurate, though, to say that Sciortino "just about outright stated" Trane was responsible. He stated nothing of the sort.