D.J. Bettencourt's Star Burns Out

Patch.com:

When former House Majority Leader D.J. Bettencourt first ran for state representative in Salem, locals could tell he was a young man with a bright future in politics.

Eight years later, Bettencourt has left the Legislature amidst scandal, leaving his local compatriots to look back with disappointment, albeit with some hope for his political future.

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Comments

[kamact]

12:34 PM on 06/02/2012

Wonderful! Better now then later...

[send4pizza]

06:43 PM on 05/31/2012

Give the guy a break. He just got confused. Every good Republican knows that they can lie to the American people with impugnity. Bettencourt just thought a law school would be the same easy pickins. Turns out while fellow Republicans like to be lied to, law schools don't so much. Who knew?

[barryrls]

06:24 PM on 05/31/2012

"misrepresenting" the facts? Didn't people once called that lying? What a tawdry world politics has morphed into. There are brief moments when I wish god would save us from these liars, but god gave up on us mortals a very long time ago.

[Michael Willhoite]

11:46 AM on 05/31/2012

Now, if he'll just change barbers....

[CPAwADD]

09:36 AM on 05/31/2012

Bright, ambitious and unethical is a bad combination.

[alpabets]

10:01 AM on 05/31/2012

that describes most republicans with the exception of the bright part...

[jimstaro]

07:24 AM on 05/31/2012

Seems the only way many of these tepubs can win is by lying, while most claim to be following the teachings of a certain son of, purging voters from voting and huge amounts of money from unknown, and now some called people, sources buying the government they want in a representative democracy that barely exists after the past couple of decades!!!

[ThinkCreeps]

04:43 AM on 05/31/2012

A lying liar caught lying? I'm astonished! Has this ever happened before?

[abolugi]

02:32 AM on 05/31/2012

Every time a Republican resigns, an angel gets its wings...

[CPAwADD]

09:36 AM on 05/31/2012

Every time a Boehner cries an angel gets a new liver.

[Demarcus Jackson]

02:29 AM on 05/31/2012

oops

[EvgenyLibek]

11:20 PM on 05/30/2012

Like all young Republicans, the party loved him deerly, until he got caught.

[alpabets]

10:02 AM on 05/31/2012

caught like a 'deerly' in the headlights

[EvgenyLibek]

11:05 PM on 05/30/2012

If you love freedom, cast all of the Tea overboard.

[werewolf90210]

10:36 PM on 05/30/2012

Anytime a Republican resigns, under whatever circumstances. Be glad.

[teatwerp]

10:07 PM on 05/30/2012

another teavalues specimen.

[maximumride]

09:13 PM on 05/30/2012

let the door hit your behind on the way out with a great WHACK!!

[ThinkCreeps]

04:44 AM on 05/31/2012

Thank you sir, may he have another.

[Val Mercy]

08:49 PM on 05/30/2012

"Some people were jealous of him because of his age and how smart he was," Belanger said. "He'd use words sometimes that I'd have to go look up."

LOL

[EvgenyLibek]

11:16 PM on 05/30/2012

There goes the only Republican who knew the meaning of the words: Liberty, Equity, and Honor.
Too bad he never lived by any of them.