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June 30th, 2010 at 2:56 pm
The stark irony of Michael Zaim lecturing ANYone on ethics given who his friends are or have been is just laughable.
Maybe Zaim should recuse himself from representing anyone he has come into contact with or shared a public bathroom with in the last decade? You know, just in the interest of fairness.
Why anyone would hire that guy in the first place is beyond me. His manner of approaching this issue was nothing short of completely rude. It was like he was trying to make Bayliss look bad, and himself look good, it did not come across as him trying to be ethical. Again, look up the dictionary definition of irony…
June 30th, 2010 at 7:44 pm
I’m no lawyer, but I won’t let that stop me. Doesn’t Zaim have the conflict here? Shouldn’t Zaim be forbidden from appearing before these boards? He is a character straight out of the Sopranos. No doubt, over the last administration he’s had private contact with just about everybody on any board on the city. These lawyers who appear before boards should be banned from donating to candidates for elected offices and from representing people they will, no doubt, appear before. He just pissed in his own pool.
June 30th, 2010 at 9:12 pm
correction PC, he “thinks” he’s straight out of the Soprano’s..of course the Soprano’s were much better at what they did vs..well I won’t say in public forum. Conflict? …pay no attention, nuthin’ going on here..move along..the City has it right on this one, bring it to the Bar (and I’m not talking about the SAC).
June 30th, 2010 at 9:43 pm
At least we didn’t elect him to the city council when he ran. What a mistake that would have been!
July 1st, 2010 at 9:15 pm
Wow. Talk about a total jerk.
July 1st, 2010 at 9:59 pm
I know! Really -b, why shouldn’t El Rincon be held responsible for not managing their establishment well and more importantly, providing the venue that got so out of control that it took every cop in the city off OUR neighborhoods! Unfortunately, even if the license Commission comes back with a suspension, El R. will appeal to the state and will likely be overturned. On the state level, the comp. of the ABCC should be changed up a bit.
July 1st, 2010 at 10:59 pm
Ain’t that the pot calling the kettle black!
July 2nd, 2010 at 5:26 pm
KRS gets it - this is about setting up an appeal to the courts. Zaim knew his clients were toast with the ABC, so he picked a fight in order to get Bayliss to not only refuse to resign, but hopefully, say something stupid.
The point being to gin up something for the appeal.
July 2nd, 2010 at 10:51 pm
no doubt, Joe. Doesn’t this equate to Zaim announcing “I’m dirty”? Because of his political ties, doesn’t this disqualify him from appearing on behalf of any client? It should.
July 2nd, 2010 at 10:53 pm
PC..my Dear..he hasn’t the need to announce anything..his ties speak for themselves..
July 3rd, 2010 at 1:20 pm
Zaim is a piece of ****. He belongs in Dracut. edited by mp
July 3rd, 2010 at 2:53 pm
I am a regular watcher of the Lic. Com. and will admit to being “addicted” . I am still puzzled as to why Zaim would ask Bayliss to excuse himself when the land deal was many years ago and favorable to both. At the same time he did not disclose the Weicker connection and neither did Weicker who I often think is too lenient. In all fairness to Weicker, he may not have known all of his contributors. I believe that all of the boards , that don’t already have them , should be expanded to include alternates in case of such future incidnets. Any attorney who has city duties should also be excluded from representing clients against the city.
I heard the scanner call the night of the inciedent and think it is a blooming miracle that they did not have to call for mutual aid. I hope the owner of the property actually does evict them. And the Lic. Com. does need to follow through even if it is closed so that the current manager can not manage another club/bar in Lowell again.
On a side note I think Bayliss is a hoot and would love to be on that board ( but am probably not qualified) .
July 3rd, 2010 at 8:32 pm
Not qualified?? In this city?? Step right up.
July 6th, 2010 at 4:43 pm
“Zaim is a piece of ****. He belongs in Dracut. edited by mp”
Shouldn’t that be “D****t?”
I keed, I keed.