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AG Who Hired Ayotte: "Bothered to the Core"

by: Dean Barker

Sun Oct 24, 2010 at 10:49:23 AM EDT


John Gregg of the Valley News:
But Philip McLaughlin, the then-attorney general who first hired Ayotte as a prosecutor in 1998, said in an interview last week that while he thinks Ayotte is a "fine attorney," he was troubled by the e-mails.

"When you get on the attorney general e-mail and have those exchanges, it seems to me to be obvious that you have jeopardized the public's right to believe you do things completely apolitically," McLaughlin said.

"I don't know how any adult could read those e-mails and conclude that there was no political consideration. It bothered me to the core when I read it," McLaughlin added.

But really, read the whole thing. Fair use keeps me from quoting so many other key grafs.
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Ayotte is no dimwit (0.00 / 0)
Imagine a Kelly Ayotte, mulling over her future, when news of a potential capital murders case arrives.

What goes through her head? Would it be very different from anyone in a similar situation?

I don't think so. (Though an AG with no political ambition would not juggle these considerations. This would be prefered.)

What is bothersome, to me, is that she began a process of using seasoned political operatives as a sounding board on how her decisions as AG, "play" in the court of public opinion.

How can Ayotte justify "working the case" while concurrently "message testing" her actions. Remember, we have this e-mail. How much more is there that we are not privy to? Whether on the clock or not, Ayotte was walking and chewing gum at the same time on this.

She turned the murder of a cop into a trial ballon.



Whack-a-mole, anyone?


Agreed - Ayotte is a smart person. (0.00 / 0)
Far too smart to believe the crazy things she says to pander to wingnuts.

Kelly Ayotte is a global warming denier.  I doubt that sentiment is genuine; I just think she's willing to let the planet take one for the team.  Is that worse than actually drinking the kool aid?  Maybe.

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"Cunning" is a better word, I think. (4.00 / 1)
That her cognitive faculties are up to speed is not in question.  It's her moral sense that seems disconnected.
One should be reluctant to take the life of another being.  Defense of another can't be retroactive.  To suggest that it can is to demonstrate a flawed relationship with time.

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