"Governor Patrick, What's Your Excuse?"

From my column in the Boston Herald today:

Poor people. High school dropouts. Minorities. If a mortgage company marketed subprime loans the way Deval Patrick targets for taxes, Attorney General Martha Coakley would bust them for predatory lending practices...

I am a self-confessed, small government, “pay your own way” heartless conservative bastard. Shaking down suckers without regard for race, creed or income is part of my fundamental political philosophy.

Gov. Patrick, what’s your excuse?