Corrupt democratic gubernatorial candidate Deval Patrick praises Ameriquest CEO Roland Arnall
Patrick backs Ameriquest owner for ambassador’s post
By Frank Phillips, Globe Staff | November 10, 2005
Democratic gubernatorial candidate Deval Patrick is urging the US Senate to approve a controversial ambassadorial nominee whose mortgage firm’s lending practices are under investigation in 30 states and whose wife helped finance a GOP television ad blitz that targeted John F. Kerry in last year’s presidential campaign.
Patrick last month wrote the Senate Foreign Relations Committee praising Roland Arnall, the principal owner of Ameriquest Capital Corp., whom President Bush has nominated to be US ambassador to the Netherlands. Patrick lauded the Los Angeles businessman’s ‘’rectitude” and said that Arnall has demonstrated leadership and creativity in moving to correct his company’s practices.
‘’This is a good man,” Patrick wrote in an Oct. 19 letter addressed to Senator Richard Lugar, an Indiana Republican who chairs the committee, and to the ranking minority member, Senator Joseph Biden, a Delaware Democrat.
But his support for Arnall puts Patrick at odds with fellow Democrats and Kerry supporters, just as Patrick is trying to get traction in his campaign for the Democratic nomination for governor. The Democratic National Committee in Washington opposes the Arnall nomination, calling it an example of ‘’corruption and cronyism” in the Bush administration. Kerry also opposed the nomination.
Patrick said this week he did not consider the political repercussions when he responded to a request from Arnall to write the letter.
‘’My support for this guy was not a political calculation,” he said in an interview. ‘’My support was based on his friendship and his character. If it was based on his politics, I would not have written that letter.”
Arnall put Patrick, a former top US civil rights enforcer, on the Ameriquest board of directors in August 2004, to help resolve a wide-ranging investigation by regulators and attorneys general across the country. The privately held firm has over the years been forced to defend itself against allegations that it uses predatory lending practices directed at low-income minorities and the elderly.
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The rest of the article is well worth reading.
This just goes to show what lowlife corrupt scum runs for office. Arnall put Patrick on the Ameriquest board of directors in August 2004 “to help resolve a wide-ranging investigation by regulators and attorneys general across the country.”
How can Patrick so sell out?
Values have been reduced to $$$$ and power.
However, the real problem isn’t that Patrick is scum.
The problem is that Patrick thinks he can still get ELECTED to Governor of Massachusetts!
As the last election proved AGAIN, the American people really don’t care about corruption.
My e-mail to , ,
To Mr. Patrick and staff:
According to an article in the Boston Globe, Deval Patrick praised Ameriquest CEO Roland Arnall and supported his appointment to ambassador.
Nobody in their right mind would endorse a scumbag like Arnall unless paid off.
Patrick is a disgrace to the democratic party and ought to be expelled.
Most disgusted by the politician scum that runs for office,
Christine Baker
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I don’t know whether political parties ever expel anyone. If they had any values, they would kick out a-holes like Patrick in 2 nanoseconds. But it’s really just about $$$ and power everywhere.
There’s no integrity in any political party.
You’d think that having the information available on the web, it would be easy to not only document and publicize the corruption, but to put pressure on the politicians. I just don’t see it happening.
A stunt like Patrick’s Arnall praises should immediately result in him having to withdraw because he and his supporters SHOULD know that he doesn’t have a snowball’s chance in hell to get elected. His supporters ought to RUN!
There should be similar postings at thousands of blogs. Patrick’s office should get thousands of e-mails demanding that he immediately retract his support of Arnall and send a new letter to the Senate, demanding that Arnall NOT be appointed.
But, that’s not going to happen. The Ameriquest victims are *mostly* whiners and complainers, cowards afraid to offend anyone, scared sheep limiting their activities to anonymous rants.
America 2005.
Posted by Christine on 11/12/2005 at 03:53 PM
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