The candidate working for GOP state committee towards present occasion chair Amy Carnevale is being aided by Sandy Tennant, the 72-year-old operative behind the notorious topless booze cruise of 1999 that ended the political profession of ex-Congressman Peter Blute.
Maria Pia Perez bragged not too long ago on social media on that she is being aided by Tennant. Perez has been endorsed as a part of the slate supported by Jim Lyons, the previous chairman who was ousted by Carnevale final yr.
Lyons misplaced his job as occasion boss after 4 years by which he plunged the state GOP deep into debt, employed non-public detectives to probe his fellow Republicans, spawning a number of federal and state investigations whereas he didn’t win a single open seat or defeat any sitting Democrats.
Perez’ platform prominently mentions her concern about “A Return to Pagan Antiquity.” Tennant, alternatively, is greatest recognized for his weekday partying with Blute, then the boss of Massport. When one of many scantily-clad younger girls on the boat, the Nauticus, noticed the Herald photographer, she flashed him.
Blute stepped down from the highest spot at Massport the following day.
It remained unclear final evening whether or not Gidget — the girl photographed flashing the Herald in Boston Harbor on August 17, 1999 — is concerned in serving to Tennant struggle “A Return to Pagan Antiquity.”
Perez of Lynn is working within the Third Essex Senate District in Tuesday’s election.
Reached by cellphone Sunday, Tennant stated he would name or textual content the Herald again about his help for Perez. He didn’t return a message by presstime.
Perez, who couldn’t be reached for a remark at her Lynn house, writes in an extended on-line essay about her candidacy, “We are living in a time that’s ushering in a Dark Age. … We are seeing in our society a return to Pagan antiquity.”
She goes on so as to add that “in the post-Christian West, we have abandoned our Judeo-Christian heritage, and life is becoming cheap once again.”
Super Tuesday in Massachusetts shall be as a lot concerning the high of the ticket as the underside.
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