SCRATCH ANOTHER ONE – AT 10:07 A.M. ET:  It looks like Scott Brown country may lose another far-left Dem congressman, with an opportunity opening up.  From the Boston Herald:

U.S. Rep. William Delahunt blew nearly $560,000 in campaign cash last year - much of it on lavish meals and a family-friendly payroll that includes his ex-wife, son-in-law and daughter - stoking speculation the Quincy Democrat is emptying his war chest and won’t seek re-election.

Nickolai Bobrov, who is married to Delahunt’s daughter Kara, has raked in $47,732 since landing on the payroll as the congressman’s campaign manager in July, including a $10,000 payment that month marked retroactive for “consulting services April-July,” according to campaign finance records.

Bobrov also is listed as treasurer of Delahunt’s Campaign for Change political action committee, according to the Center for Responsive Politics.

COMMENT:  We are moved by this affirmation of family values.  Why, the congressman is just showing us what a little warmth can do.

Delahunt one of the most left-leaning members of Congress.  He took a major hit recently when it was revealed that he had been the D.A. who dropped the ball in 1986, when Amy Bishop (who recently murdered three fellow professors at the University of Alabama) killed her brother with a shotgun.  The shooting was put down as an accident, despite the fact that Bishop fired the gun three times.  Had Delahunt done his job and properly prosecuted the case as a murder, the recent Alabama tragedy might have been avoided. 

Scott Brown did well in the district Delahunt represents.  If Delahunt pulls out, it could provide another opening for a strong Republican.

February 26, 2010