BOSTON – Speaker Robert DeLeo of the state House of Representatives took to social media Friday to demand an apology from the Boston Globe after Frank Phillips, the newspaper's State House bureau chief, penned a column comparing the powerful Winthrop Democrat to a plantation owner.
"If it could be said that Rosenberg, with his shared leadership system, runs a commune, DeLeo, as he enters his eighth year as the House leader, runs a plantation where he calls the shots," the longtime Beacon Hill scribe wrote in a column published Friday. He was referring to Senate President Stanley Rosenberg, the Amherst Democrat who serves as DeLeo's counterpart in the upper chamber of the Legislature.
Donald Trump threw another social media haymaker at Democratic rival Hillary Clinton on Thursday, this time in the form of a brief video posted on Instagram that features audio of Clinton commenting on women's rights set to a series of photos depicting several newsworthy womanizers, including her husband.
"Women's rights are human rights, and human rights are women's rights, once and for all," Clinton can be heard saying as a slideshow of photos showing husband and former President Bill Clinton with White House intern Monica Lewinsky, the candidate with disgraced former U.S. Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.) and again showing her smiling behind recently charged funnyman Bill Cosby.
