District Attorney Wil- liam Keating accepted money from a suspects attorney before an ar- raignment. Barney Frank takes the cake. Frank, who is getting absolutely beaten by Republican challenger Sean Bielat, is involved in a mat- ter that questions his judgment. In 2009, when the United States economy seemed it would crumble, Barney accepted a gift to fly on a $25 million jet to a tropical vaca- tion. The catch? The jet is owned by Donald Sussman whose com- pany received $200 million in federal bailout. Bielat who magnified the severity of the situation with a good clean blow added that Barney Frank only demonstrated that this is how career politics work. Bar- ney has brought into light that the only reason he has been in office for numerous years is because he uses his power as a politician to commit favors and win votes. A technique that is legal but displeasing. According to recent reports from local papers, individuals in Mas- sachusetts who are on welfare can purchase tax loopholes for companies that ship jobs overseas.’ Still, Democrats continue to use the bogus charge against Republicans, including in [Massachusetts].” The story goes on to say that this “labor-financed political committee accuses Republican Charlie Baker of ‘favoring tax loopholes that en- courage corporations to ship our jobs overseas’ and signing ‘a pledge to protect those loopholes’ [from the Americans for Tax Reform] while twisting the facts and with- holding the context of their claim. The crucial problem is that “the pledge a) says nothing about jobs, and b) does not rule out an over- haul of the tax code.” Hence, the attack from Bay State Future is just baloney, because the it proves that it’s a spin that operates on whether or not you are in favor of taxing cor- porations with foreign operations – which cover quite a large number of American companies. The text of the pledge is can be found at http:// www.factcheck.org/2010/10/a- new-twist-on-an-old-tax-attack/. Furthermore, the Bay State Fu- ture’s attack is centered on a pledge written for “Congressional Can- didates” and Baker’s running for governor, who cannot sign a pledge that “protects tax loopholes.” In fact, Baker never signed any pledge of that sort. Thus, we can say that the SEIU is full of it and enjoys twisting the facts when they try to manipulate the masses in the Bay State. Aside from the slight of hand tac- tics by the unions, there have also been attacks from the same group who accuse Baker of being fiscally irresponsible for his handling of the Big Dig project, during which he diverted funds from the state’s non- Big Dig funds and rainy day fund to pay for the Big Dig’s rising costs be- fore his boss’s, Governor Cellucci, re-election campaign. The attacks are, as described by Tom Keane of the Boston Globe, “unpersuasive” as there was little else he could have done under the circumstances considering it was an initiative started by the Democratic Party and Governor Mike Duka- kis. It’s critical to ask the following questions: “What else should Baker have done? Refused to find the money? Killed the project altogeth- er?” It’s also important to note the answer Keane gives: “Many today might say yes [to the idea of scrap- ing the Big Dig], but that was hardly an option at the time.” Besides, Keane notes that “[t] he way [Baker] did so was to use a financial device called grant an- ticipation notes which shifted costs to the future [which is the same as when] individuals use mortgages to buy a house, [and] that’s a sensible strategy for any large capital proj- ect.” When all this has been said, it’s evident that the Democrats and friends are again being desperate in their attempts to slander Baker. In sum, the Mass Gubernatorial Race 2010 has been tainted by the Democrats and their union friends, who are not above using misleading ads to help keep Deval Patrick in power. Ironically, he makes nothing but delusional promises and state- ments – in his recent ads – about not running to keep his job, which is what he is actually doing.