Deval Patrick

Thank you very much.

On January 3rd, 2007, less than a year after the bill signing, Romney offered a handshake to his successor, Democrat Deval Patrick, and turned to leave the governor's office for good.

Oh, I almost left you without the key to the door.

Here, this is yours.

The same thing, Obama did the same thing when he pardoned all these people,

you know, at the end of, like, Deval Patrick's nephew.

These people aren't violent criminals.

They just were just poor youths from the ghetto trying to make a living.

in a number of cities and states.

Deval Patrick, I think it was in 2012, says, I'm going to have $50 million for SIB pilots in Massachusetts having to do with homelessness and criminal justice.

A number of other states as well.

And sort of not to be beaten by any of these folks, in August, Michael Bloomberg in New York City announces he's going to do the first American SIB.

I was looking at the numbers.

As recently as 2006, Deval Patrick did better in Bristol County than he did statewide.

You did almost 20 points worse in Bristol County than you did statewide when you ran.

Donald Trump won this city, Fall River, as you know, first republic in 100 years.

That's the other thing.

So he's like a fellow traveler to this Panamanian judge who was appointed by Deval Patrick.

So now he's retired, the judge from Panama originally.

He's retired in basically disgrace.

You worked for two of the three people I'm going to mention.

Deval Patrick, Charlie Baker, and obviously you didn't work for Maura Healey, but those three, the last three governors, all of whom, whether you agree with or disagree, I think are fairly principled people, at least in my personal experience.

I shouldn't say fairly.

They're principled people, I think.

My recollection is Deval Patrick did one pardon, a commutation in his whole term, which was the first in something – I didn't look this up.

I should have looked.

First in like 20 years.