divall patrick made a visit on the day of the fires at governor of
massachusetts who's been dub multi time guest on this program
and he is in a situation where he is running for reelection twenty ten and to
me was incredible to read in not nada of majority of the commentary but some
commentary saying if this was in an election year he wouldn't get out of bed
with his five o'clock or look more like
ten o'clock shadow and come to not conclude to this part of the state for a
fire
if they're what what's your reaction to add a little hard to say he did get a
nice photo op you know ki
he was dressed like a western massachusetts person he was wearing a
parka and boots and jeans and a plaid shirt
because i have people dresser well i don't know he should have the precision
like everyman but i do want to say one thing ended if we're looking at a at an
election season there's an interesting backstory developing here
and is it and that is that there's a district attorneys race
next year dr bhasin ten and michael k lane who is in charge of this
investigation will be running against david sullivan who's the register
probate now these are two guys who are both very very popular
michael kaelin as the assistant district attorney of course has a lot of
prosecutorial experience but let me tell you he cracks this case that'll be a
feather in his cap
move this soap from this is interesting we
i know both days and mike and you're right there both incredibly likable
everybody likes are both of them and i i think it's going to be interesting how
that ships out but without talking about
north hampden inside baseball for the majority of our audience is this a case
that for a young assistant district attorney like mike
could put him on the national scale if he solves serial arsonist that made
front page news is it that type of thing believe that occurred
it you think it could be sure and alcohol might that play out i mean the
tell me how how might it play out williston northampton on the map
or at the entrance already on the map it's one of them
most livable cities in the nation's you know it's one of the best arts towns
where the best ten arts towns in the in the country and in northampton is on the
map nationally
so this this could this could really help michael kaelin's career
what's your prediction based on
while we're being told that
under the radar some of the previous arsons were solved but they let the
people who just are around anymore we don't have the names right what's your
prediction about where this could go i mean arson is inherently
very difficult a difficult type of crime to solve
and is that mostly because you're burning the evidence that that's what i
was a vampire we've been told that arson is very difficult to solve largely
because the evidence is destroyed name
within the act of the current how likely is it that there may be eventually
somebody going to jail for this
it's hard to say that's a question that i did asked about patrick during the
press conference and i didn't get a straight answer i said
i asked what the percentage of our sins are solved
and i was given merely an assurance that this particular crime will be solved
nobody really answer that question after the have you found out what percentage
of our sins are solved no i havent and what would be what would be uh...
unexpected number i mean is one out of we even one out of four to me seems like
it would be high given the fact that
you can't it's very easy to disappear that the evidence disappears the person
disappears
well word on the street is that the police are very close
tracking this case is a right yeah that's the those of the rumors i've
heard dot i don't know what is really hearing in the sense of how i don't hear
any rumors that incredible i don't i don't know i mean when we were covering
the local mayoral election them at the root of the election was over ten
minutes
prior and i was still asking the mayor of what she thinks your chances are is
at the same reason is going to be the last few years out of your covering the
election lot hip we were going to bed i didn't i didn't know that together
didn't wait this incredible i just didn't know
flock to visits and i think it's great what you're doing and i think the media
here you're rushing around
from day tonight is that right yes i'm busy all the time to serve this
particular incident has really kept us very very busy
and one thing i'm doing under clinton media not only providing original
reporting but im curated links i'm i'm directing readers to all of the good
reporting that's being done on the topic whether it's being done by newspaper
reporters
by television stations
to radio producers so so i want to create a one-stop shopping for for
people who are interested you know what about all the bad reporting that that's
being done on the fires welcome there's plenty of that era well sure right now
week we try to
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