Kevin Murphy Has Chutzpah!

I was schooled, at a young age, "Never shit in your own back yard." Of course, I wasn't part of an elite class of folks that could get away with shit, by having others 'fix it' for me.

Kevin Murphy strikes me as a guy that flicks on the spotlight, on his way to squat.

The Blog of Record, today (Link), gratuitously lays bare some of Murphy's 'sins.' I doubt Murphy cringed while reading. Each of us will have a different cringe factor, according to our own sense of civics. Shady Lowell, likely, cheers! You, dear reader, should mull them over and talk to as many city councilors, as you can manage.

This blurb stuck out to me.

* His outspoken criticism of the Deval Patrick administration has him on the outside looking in when it comes to district pork.

I realize, beating up Deval Patrick in Lowell doesn't take any 'chutzpah.' It's, actually, about as rote of a political posture as any could take. However, it's not very astute, on Beacon Hill, as the Blog of Record points out. But, easy political pickings, locally. Any sign of that new courthouse?

I say that to say this. By a show of hands, who went to the Lowell Democratic Caucus, yesterday? *hand up* Okay, if you were there, you heard Steve Grossman say that he would be back soon, to do a 'round table,' hosted by Tom Golden & ...... our next City Manager (?) Kevin Murphy!
(Note: Grossman did not refer to Murphy as our next CM. Bad word arrangement on my part.)

What happens, if Grossman loses?

If Kevin Murphy wants to be political, in such a reckless way, maybe his cheer leaders on this new Council should take that into account. After all, they will be stuck picking up the pieces. As will the next Council, and the next ...