Let Fire the Earth Confound:


State Senator Brian Lees is a phenomenon.
Faced with the bowel loosening prospect of a tough fire safety sprinkler law passing the state legislature, he swallowed manfully and came out swinging on behalf of conflagration unrestricted by the dead hand of regulation.

To put it another way, Brian Lees is pro-fire…in a contest between the lives of his fellow citizens and raw incineration, flames won out.

Yup according to yesterdays’ Globe, as of June the Great and General Court was poised to pass a tough fire sprinkler law-surely one of the toughest in the nation.
WAS…until Senator Lees decided that “fire” the final biblical scourge was getting a bum rap on Beacon Hill.
Accordingly he slowed the progress of the bill which gave the requisite lobbyists time to descend upon our elected representatives and get the bill “watered down” (pun resolutely intended).
The cut off capacity for restaurants, clubs, and bars was raised from fifty to one hundred persons…a crucial change that came straight out of the shadowy Massachusetts Licensed Beverage Association.
Whatta guy Brian is, he does serious favors for lobbyists who haven’t even contributed to his political fund yet!
Tell me this isn’t reform in action!
Otherwise this isn’t a bad two month’s work for a battered but unbowed toady from East Longmeadow.
Indeed, fire has finally gotten its day in court, Brian Lees can rest easy, he diluted and hamstrung a no brainer bill, he has no higher calling than that.
Of course, Governor Decaf is signing said measure despite being a loud advocate of the fifty person limit as recently as last December.
Never mind, this is reform-RE-FORM! Cryeth Mitt and Brian in happy unison.
Well I for one am glad, but for Brian Lees’ stolid activism and our Governor’s fidgety vanity, Fire’s side of the story might never be heard.

Sick
Demented
Typical…