Employees of the Thornton Law firm in Boston ostensibly have been donating a lot (over $600K, nationwide) to political candidates, mostly Democratic candidates who are currently alive, which means mostly to New Democrat candidates. However, the "donating" employees have also been getting reimbursed for the "donations." Cute, huh?

The Hillarious Democratic candidate for POTUS and Elizabeth Warren, whom Curt Schilling will very likely challenge in 2018 (ironically*), have received quite a few of these donations. So has Maggie Hassan, on whose behalf the Sanders' "revolution" importunes me regularly.

Recipients of these funds are now falling over each other (metaphorically) in a stampede to return the donations. Gee, I wish I could get to donate money I get from illegal schemes. However, I'd just land in jail, while no "reasonable" prosecutor, especially a Democratic one, would prosecute these candidates.

Thornton may not be the only entity servicing political candidates in this way. So much for limits on how much any individual can legally donate.

And you suckas thought you had to worry only about so-called "dark money!" See, boys and girls? Many people can keep the same secret after all. This Thanksgiving, be thankful for whistleblowers and write Judah or Santa for a special prosecutor for Christmas or Chanukah on the 25th day of Kislev or December. And do be careful when you play with Occam's razor.

BTW, whatever happened to legal ethics?

Yet another way corrupt New Democrats suck scissors.

Remind me who was most instrumental in the takeover of the Democratic Party by New Democrats, as well as for spreading the neoliberal gospel abroad? Oh, yeah, now I remember: Bill and Hillary Clinton. (LOTEMA. Lesser of Two Evils, My Ass.)

https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2016/11/02/formal-complaint-against-th...

http://legalinsurrection.com/2016/10/elizabeth-warren-prime-recipient-of...

http://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/2016/11/02/dnc-donations-scandal-may...

http://www.politico.com/story/2016/10/thornton-law-firm-donations-senate...

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*Ironic because Schilling unwittingly played a role in losing Kennedy's seat, which Warren (D. MA) now occupies, to Scott Brown (R. Anywhere That Will Have Him).

WARNING: Only diehard baseball fans or Bay Staters or cats with fatal levels of curiosity may be interested in the rest of this--and maybe not even them.

Warren occupies Kennedy's seat, which Martha Coakley sought when Kennedy died (while he was dying, actually, but that's another story). By then, Schilling had done a lot to help the Boston Red Sox break the "curse of the Bambino" after 86 years, thereby earning the gratitude of generations of people in Massachusetts, living and dead. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curse_of_the_Bambino The sock into which Schilling stitched ankle bled while he continued to pitch a winning Series game is now in the Baseball Hall of Fame. After being diehard Sox fans despite 86 years without a Series pennant, this could be enough to get even Bay Staters to vote Republican to vote out Warren. (BTW, Theo Epstein put together both curse breaking teams, the Red Sox and the Cubs.) But, I digress....

People in Massachusetts who literally don't their elbow from third base know about Curt Schilling and the bloody sock. While Martha Coakley was running for Kennedy's seat, however, she erroneously identified Schilling as a New York Yankee, the traditional arch-enemy of the Boston Red Sox--and of their fans. She thereby horrified almost everyone from Rhode Island to Maine, plus Fort Meyers, Florida and environs (Spring home to Boston's Boys of Summer).

For that reason and others--including not knowing how to come back from that mistake--Coakley blew through a 30 point lead in a few weeks to lose the seat resoundingly to Scott Brown. This allowed a Republican into the Massachusetts Congressional delegation for the first time in a long time. Not only that, but Brown is so dim that having him as a Senator was an insult to a state known for its great number of institutions of higher learning, including the nation's first college, Harvard. (First public school and first public library, too.) Not to mention his sexism.

But then, the Koch brothers lost interest in Brown and the Democratic Party anointed Warren for the seat. Parched liberals, easily and eagerly won over by a few speeches, and unconditional party loyalists alike were thrilled. Of late, however, Schilling has been asking (as have I) exactly what Warren has actually accomplished during her almost four years in the US Senate, other than speeches. So, Schilling seems to be gearing up for a run against her.

Schilling has his own issues, like going bankrupt after a huge loan from Connecticut taxpayers, via the administration of metric system advocate and vanquished, then vanished, Democratic primary candidate, Chafee, when Chafee was a Republican Governor. On the other hand, Schilling and his wife have done a lot to fight ALS, though nowhere near as much as the brilliant ice water challenge that an ALS patient invented. (ALS always had an especially hard time raising money for research because far fewer people suffer from it than from, say, cancer or heart disease.)

You can't tell the players--or their political parties--without a scorecard anymore, but Schilling knows from score cards.