Willy Horton Tavares
I think Mitt is far enough removed from this not to suffer political collateral damage—and it doesn’t hurt to have been threatened himself by this beast—but the story isn’t going away.
Things are heating up in the Bay State over the Romney-appointed judge who released without bail a convicted killer who is accused of the murder of a young couple in Washington state. Mitt Romney is calling for the judge to resign:
Twenty months after he put a career prosecutor on the Massachusetts Superior Court bench, confident in her law-and-order credentials, Mitt Romney called yesterday for the judge to resign because she released without bail a convicted killer who went on to allegedly kill again.
Eric Fehrnstrom, a Romney spokesman, said yesterday that Judge Kathe M. Tuttman should never have freed Daniel T. Tavares Jr. on personal recognizance in July, after he was charged with assaulting two prison guards. Tavares, 41, was near the end of a 16-year sentence for stabbing his mother to death in 1991 and had threatened in a letter - intercepted by prison officials in February 2006 - to kill Romney and other state officials, Fehrnstrom said.
That’s how far gone things are in this neck of the woods. Even seeming law-and-order judges think nothing of turning career criminals out on the street on their own recognisance. If they kill again, ah, well, it’s the least we can do for social justice, non?