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There is a long and dishonorable tradition in Groton of last minute attack fliers. The GGG PAC, a local group composed of mainly affluent folks who would rather not pay their fair share of taxes, is the latest practitioner. They inserted a flier in the Mystic River Press that was delivered today, in which they endorsed various candidates. But the main point of the flier, if vitriol is any indication, was to attack Republican John Scott for standing up to them and exposing their campaign finance violations last year. They reserved a special place on the front of their flyer for him. I reproduce it here:

Okay, I just checked out that scanned image. It’s tiny, but still readable.

This sort of last minute thing used to be the province of the Groton Republicans, though so far as I know John was never personally involved. I am proud to say that I was once on the receiving end of this sort of thing. I’ve written about this before, but I want to mention it again by way of letting John know that he will one day, if he isn’t already, look back on this with unmixed pride. In my case it was the Repubs pandering to the same Groton Long Point types, as they put me in the crosshairs for suggesting that people who want private cops should pay for those cops themselves. In my case, I beat John out, because I was the sole target of the mailing. Lord knows why, since I was a pretty weak candidate. Here it is (click to enlarge):