Like Santa Claus, Gov. Charlie Baker is making an inventory and checking it twice.
The distinction is, St. Nick’s had a bunch of names on his checklist, of all the great little girls and boys.
Charlie’s checklist has just one title on the high of it, and it’s written down twice.
JUBINVILLE. JUBINVILLE.
Continuing the Yuletide theme, Ebenezer Scrooge did the proper factor by Tiny Tim, who was 7 years outdated.
Charlie Parker (as Joe Biden calls him) did the proper factor by Tiny Bob, Tiny Bob Jubinville, who’s 76 years outdated.
That’s proper. On his approach out the door, Charlie Parker has nominated Bob Jubinville for the lifetime job of clerk Justice of the Peace of the Framingham District Court, which pays $174,532 a yr.
Jubinville won’t ever must retire. It’s state regulation. Clerk magistrates don’t even have to indicate up, as a result of they’re those maintaining the time playing cards.
Right now Jubinville is on the Governor’s Council. He’s an elected member – my governor’s councilor in actual fact. His present pay is $36,025.08 a yr.
So his new job works out to a pay elevate of $138,506.92 a yr. If, that’s, Bob can get the votes. Do you recognize who votes on clerk Justice of the Peace nominations?
The Governor’s Council, of which Bob’s been a member for a decade, since he was a younger whippersnapper of 66.
Sonny McDonough, the legendary governor’s councilor, as soon as famously mused on these sorts of patronage plums being doled out by a governor on his approach down the State House steps:
“Lame duck is my favorite dish.”
It positive is for the Jubinville household. Because, as I informed you, there are two folks named Jubinville on Santa Parker’s lame duck present checklist this yr.
The different title is Sarah Jubinville, Bob’s 46-year-old daughter. And guess who simply grew to become a choose in September, nominated by Charlie and accepted by… the Governor’s Council.
Sarah was an assistant clerk Justice of the Peace in Plymouth Superior Court, the place she made $119,414.86 a yr. The clerk down there, by the way in which, is Bob Creedon, who was a state senator, whose brother Mike was a choose, earlier than which he was a state senator, earlier than which he was a state rep.
But I digress. Back to Sarah Jubinville.
Now she’s making $207,855 a yr. So Sarah in 2022 has gotten a pay elevate of $88,440.14 in 2022. She’s set till she turns 70, when she’ll must retire, kind of, as a result of after the hack choose reaches the magic quantity, she or he goes on “recall,” which implies, they acquire the 80% kiss-in-the-pension after which hold working at a day by day charge.
Did somebody say… nationwide search?
Now, some folks may marvel why whilst shameless a hack as Charlie Parker would hand a lifetime no-heavy-lifting job to somebody who’s 76 years outdated. The reply is… hackerama.
Once Jubinville is formally accepted (the vote subsequent Tuesday might be 7-0), he might be recognized amongst his fellow $174,532-a-year clerk magistrates as “the kid.”
You assume I’m kidding? Ask Arthur Tobin of Quincy District Court – 92 years younger and nonetheless going, properly, he’s nonetheless grabbing a paycheck.
Sal Paterna in Dedham – 83 years outdated. Joe Faretra in East Boston – 82 years outdated. That’s a giant age for clerk magistrates – William Lisano in Lowell and Henry Shultz in Newton are additionally each 82 years outdated.
Shultz was appointed by Gov. Frank Sargent, who left workplace in 1975.
Jubinville will not be a foul man, as Jerry Williams used to say. I get alongside advantageous with him, at all times have. He’d have been a idiot to not take a $174,532-a-year retirement.
Actually, I feel he’d have most popular grabbing one of many different current clerk vacancies, in all probability in Stoughton or Wrentham. They’re nearer to his dwelling in Milton, for one factor, however rather more importantly, these are very sleepy courthouses. The caseloads are negligible, and what which means is that nobody will discover in the event you’re… within the district, let’s say.
Framingham, alternatively, is an precise metropolis. There’s extra folks, there’s the Pike. Framingham celebrates variety.
Still, I feel Bob Jubinville can deal with the arduous challenges of the job. Consider an earlier Framingham clerk, Tony Colonna, a former state rep who obtained the job in 1963.
Thirty-seven years later, Tony was nonetheless going robust – properly, possibly not so robust, as a result of by then he’d been accused of assaulting, first, a feminine assistant, after which a member of the family (with a knife).
But Clerk Colonna nonetheless hung in there till he was 85. He “retired” in April 2001 and died 5 months later. The subsequent man in Framingham fell off the roof of his home and died. I’ve a sense Jubinville is having all ladders faraway from his storage.
Then there was John Flaherty in South Boston, a former truck driver (and state rep). He was appointed in June 1946 (the identical month Jubinville was born). He died, on the job, 58 years later, in 2004.
He was succeeded by a lady whose maiden title was Flaherty (no relation) whose father was a choose who had been a state rep, and who has since been appointed to a judgeship herself. Stop me if all that is beginning to sound acquainted.
Tuesday might be a busy day for the Council. They’ll even be having a listening to on one other judicial nominee, Hank Naughton. He was a… state rep.
As James Michael Curley used to say, the Council is “a hock shop.”
The subsequent query is, who will succeed Jubinville on the Governor’s Council? It’s as much as the Legislature. Jubinville took workplace after the dying of Kelly Timilty, after which twice needed to fend off one among her brothers, Bart, to carry onto the seat.
I’m guessing somebody named Timilty has already made a name to House Speaker Ron Mariano. Maybe a couple of of them – the Timiltys have by no means been averse to wedging one other snout or two of theirs into the general public trough.
Once you get on the Governor’s Council, who is aware of? Maybe you will get fortunate too. Before Jubinville, in 2019 it was Jen Caissie, the final Republican on the Council, now the clerk within the abandoned Dudley District Courthouse. Jubinville voted towards Jen, by the way in which. But she nonetheless despatched in a letter of advice for him at his listening to Wednesday.
No arduous emotions, I assume, not at $174,532 a yr. For life.
Living properly is the most effective revenge. Merry Christmas.
Source: www.bostonherald.com”