Below at ELC is a piece about the Boston Globe-Democrat article and the potential of the Stat Smith voter fraud scandal widening in Massachusetts.  The post also has a clip from the Everett Independent’s declaration in 2006 of Stat Smith as “Man of the Year.”  The piece was written by Augustine Parziale, and it doesn’t seem very “independent.”  In fact, it reads like campaign literature. In hindsight, it is an ode to a vote fraudster, stuffed full of laugh lines.

Among them:

* After barely losing to a popular incumbent, Smith “pulled up his bootstraps” and fought back to win.  It was a “triumph of the American values of hard work and determination.”  Except it wasn’t.

* “Week after week Smith became the target of a brutally negative media campaign against . . .  his character and integrity.”  Wonder why.

* But Smith “rose above it all” and proved “living well is the best revenge.”