THE REVERE ADVOCATE – FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 2025 Page 7 ~ GUEST COMMENTARY ~ Democrats Hold Press Conference at Neighbor Health Pace in Revere By Sal Giarratani W ith all honesty, I spent most of my adult political life living as a Democrat. I thought as a Democrat. I spoke like a Democrat. I worked on many Democratic political campaigns. I learned my politics as a boy growing up in Boston’s South End and Roxbury on the same neighborhood streets that fourtime mayor, one-time governor, two-time congressman James Michael Curley knew as his own. The only diff erence is that he was born 74 years before me. He was defi nitely Irish as they came. I was a traditional Boston mix, half Sicilian and half Irish. I met Curley once back in 1955 when he was running for Boston mayor at age 81. He lost but fought to the end. He asked me what I wanted to be and I said a politician. He laughed at that one. He knew my mother was Charlestown Irish and told me he always wanted to be IrishItalian just to get more votes. I laughed at that one. I have at short points of time registered as a Republican but mostly didn’t trust them either. I ended up finally in 2020 changing my party status to unenrolled where I have stayed put. I now vote for the person and the issues. I recently observed that a number of elected Democratic offi cials showed up at NeighborHood PACE in Revere where everyone one of them were tearing President Trump apart and directing criticism toward a proposed federal funding freeze that had been rescinded prior to the previously scheduled press conference. All the usual Democratic suspects were there hooting and hollering at Trump’s spending freeze idea. You know, the one I said had been rescinded before anyone took to the mic at the aforementioned press conference. All the pols took turns at the podium expressing displeasure with the funding freeze idea that would aff ect funding for “critical public services including Medicaid, Head Start and community care centers,” except that the proposed cuts wouldn’t be doing any of that. US Rep. Katherine Clark added, “Nurses and doctors would stop getting paid, appointments would be cancelled... and 80 million people would lose access to Medicaid, access to healthcare. US Rep. Ayanna Pressley, not to be outdone, stated, “This will not be the last time they try to rip away essential resources from our communities.” Back a few years when the Dept. of Justice seemed to be engaged in “lawfare” with Rudy Giuliani, he remarked when asked by a reporter about the charges being thrown at him. Were they speaking the truth about him or not? and his response was, “There’s the truth and then there’s the truth.” Of course, everyone from the Democratic side including their sycophant media allies all ridiculed his answer. However, was he really that wrong? As I listened to the words at this recent press conference, all I heard was repetitive spinning of what was “really” happening and the impact it would be having on actual services and actual citizens in need of medical care and needing their doctors’ appointments. None of them actually were lying but they were all spinning the narrative they sought to deliver for the media’s consumption. Lots of misleading information which only can increase the chaos they said Trump’s memo was doing. No politician actually lies, they just spin on an angle of their choosing. You know, the older I get the angrier I get with all politicians who seemingly love to hear themselves speak, and when their speaking stops, most of them say nothing and we all get more cynical with age because we’ve heard it all so much in our lives. Both parties play the same games. Everyone wants to be viewed as the hero in this passion play that they obviously are holding starring roles. I usually have been voting Republican over the past few election cycles since the Democrats have all seemingly gone pazzo. President Trump is far from perfect but compared to Joe Biden, Trump is Washington, Jeff erson, Lincoln and Reagan all wrapped into one but of course, even he stretches the truth beyond recognition more than once or twice. If We Happen To Meet By Accident ... You’ll Be Glad You Found Us! BEST! Celebrating 46 Years In Business! TONY’S AUTO BODY Call or Visit 781-321-0032 34 Sharon Street Malden, MA 02148 TONYSAUTOBODYLLC.COM COME VISIT OUR STATE OF THE ART BODY SHOP • Computerized Paint Matching (State of the Art Spray Booth) • Computerized Frame Machines • R134 + 1234yf A/C Machines Fully Insured -RS2415 Insurance Company Approval ALL OUR WORK IS GUARANTEED! TONY BARTOLO Owner 46 Years Let Us Handle Your Next Insurance Claim. Go With the BEST It Doesn’t Get BETTER! RENTAL CARS Available
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