Joseph P. Kennedy III May Seek House Seat: Delahunt Retires Kennedy III Emerges?

Joseph P. Kennedy, III, one of the twin sons of former Rep. Joseph P. Kennedy II may run for the U.S. House 10th District seat in Massachusetts in November. Rep. William Delahunt is sending signals that he may not seek re-election. The Kennedy-Free Congress may be a short-lived memory. Democrat operatives are believed to be making it happen. Young Joe has little to lose, other than the Kennedy legacy. No Kennedy has ever lost an election in Massachusetts.

Joseph P. Kennedy, III

J.P. Kennedy, III is 29 years old. A Massachusetts Democrat leaked the story today that he is considering a run. Kennedy the Even Younger is a graduate of Stanford University and, of course, Harvard Law. He is a prosecutor in Barnstable County, and registered to vote in Cape Cod. The 10th District represents the South Shore and Cape Cod. Don't miss the story of Joe III's mother a few paragraphs down.

Delahunt, who has not faced a serious challenge since 1996, told the Boston Globe on February 13th, he is considering retiring.  He is under pressure for his failure to investigate University of Alabama Huntsville murderer, Dr. Amy Bishop in 1986 after she shot and killed her 18-year-old brother Sean when Delahunt was a Massachusetts District Attorney. Bishop shot  and killed three of her peers at a UAH department meeting in early February. Three additional persons were wounded, two of them critically.

The circumstances around Sean's death should have called for an investigation, instead then-Police of Chief Polio spoke by phone with then-District Attorney William Delahunt, and when Polio got off of the phone, Amy Bishop was allowed to go home - no further investigation, no charges - even though a car dealer salesman told police Bishop walked into his showroom minutes after the shooting, still armed with her shotgun, and acted in a threatening manner. There was never a follow-up interview with the saleman, and recent reports say that the autopsy report lacks pertinent data. As District Attorney, the autopsy was under Delahunt's oversight. Bishop's mother was well-known in Braintree and some believe her influence shutdown a investigation.

Massachusetts Democrats are said to trying to broker an "endorse Joe III and retire" plan for Delahunt. Joe the Younger is said to be a bright star among the other Kennedys in his generation, and he will no doubt be a front runner from the moment his candidacy is announced.

An interesting Kennedy-side-story: Joe III's father, Joe II divorced his mother, Sheila Rauch Kennedy after 12 years in 1991. Joe II asked the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston to annul the marriage on the grounds that he was not mentally capable of entering the marriage in 1979. Sheila Rauch, an Episcopalian, refused to agree to the annulment.

Joe II married Beth Kelly, his former staffer anyway, in a civil ceremony in 1993. Rauch later discovered that the Boston Archdiocese granted Kennedy the annulment secretly in 1996. Rauch appealed the annulment to the Vatican and in 2005, the Vatican reversed the annulment. Astonishing that an Episcopalian woman could fight the power of the Kennedy's and a powerful diocese...and win.

Republican Jeffry Davis Perry, currently a third term Massachusetts State Congressman announced his U.S. House candidacy on February 2nd. He will kickoff his race, and his first fundraiser for the Massachusetts 10th District on March 5, 2010.

Linked by Storm'n Norm'n - Thank You!

Amy Bishop Bill Delahunt Wendy Murphy: Delahunt Defends his Influence Peddling that Kept Amy Bishop from being Charged

Wendy Murphy, a victim's rights advocat takes Rep. Bill Delahunt to task. Delahunt was instrumental in University of Alabama at Huntsville (UAH) killer, Amy Bishop Anderson, not being charged in the murder of her brother.

The story was that police were readying to book Bishop in 1986 when the Police Chief Polio talked to Delahunt, then the District Attorney, by phone. When he hung up, Bishop was released.

Rather than taking responsibility, Delahunt pointed the finger of blame at Braintree cops, claiming it was their fault he knew nothing about the fact that after Bishop shot her brother to death, she ran to a nearby auto body shop and aimed the weapon at an employee. Delahunt said he would have filed weapons charges against Bishop, had he known, so that she could have gotten necessary “mental health” services. 

Murphy points a few gaping whole in the current U.S. Democrat Congressman's postition:

1) The question is not whether he charged her, but is whether it was murder or not.

2) He blames Braintree, Mass. police for not giving him a proper report on the incident, but "in every homicide, it's the District Attorney, not the police who decide whether criminal charges are appropriate. The shooting was front page news. Delahunt had to know the details.

3) Delahunt says a witness' testimony, from a confrontation with Bishop and her rifle right after she killed her brother, was not the issue. Delahunt never explored a motive. Didn't explore the autopsy findings, and the fact that you really can't accidentally shoot someone with a 12-guage pump-action shotgun.

4) A State Trooper assigned to Delahunt's office filed a report saying it was an accident with only Bishop's account of the shooting.

and this:

5)...Delahunt also had independent control over the autopsy, which would have been critical to a determination that the shooting was “accidental” because autopsies in shooting deaths show the trajectory of the wound. For example, a bullet that goes “straight” through a body- as apparently was the case with Amy’s brother – would disprove that the weapon went off “by accident” because an “accidental” shooting would create an “angled” rather than “straight” trajectory.


There's more. Read Murphy's comments here, and remember that Amy Bishop killed 3 people and wounded 3 - two of them critically. She is believed to have pipe bombs through the mail to a Harvard professor, and she hit a woman in a pancake house.

Related and Background:
 Amy Bishop Hit a Mom in a Pancake House

Amy Bishop Debra Moriarity: Moriarity Heroic Prof at UAH Shooting Saved Lives 

Amy Bishop at Firing Range prior to Univ Alabama Shootings

Bill Delahunt Releases Bishop? Bishop Points Gun at Passing Car

Amy Bishop Suspect in Mail Pipe Bombing of Harvard Professor 

Amy Bishop Shot and Killed her Brother 20 years ago

Gopi Podila, Maria Ragland Davis and Adriel Johnson Murdered at UAH 

Bill Delahunt Amy Bishop: Delahunt Releases Bishop? Bishop Points Gun at Passing Car?

Rep. Bill Delahunt (D-MASS) was the District Attorney at the time that University of Alabama Huntsville (UAH) shooter, Amy Bishop shot and killed her brother in 1986. Something I've heard nothing about is the current Chief of Police in Braintree, Massachusetts, saying in the video below, that Amy Bishop pointed the shotgun at a passing vehicle as she fled her home, after shooting her brother.

 

 Democrat Rep. Bill Delahunt with Hugo Chavez

Bishop opened fire on colleagues at UAH, last week, killing three and leaving three critically wounded. As the news raced throughout the country, we learned that Dr. Bishop had also shot her 18 year old brother, Seth Bishop, some 24 years ago. He died within minutes of arriving at the hospital. Charges against Amy Bishop were mysteriously dropped, but police around at that time, still remember the case - but they do not all remember it the same way. In fact, even Amy and her mother remember the circumstances differently, of the shot that killed their brother and son.

According to the current Braintree police chief, Paul H. Frazier, Amy Bishop fatally shot her 18-year-old brother, Seth, on Dec. 6, 1986, but was set free the same day by Braintree Police under orders from then-Police Chief John Polio.

In news accounts at the time, Polio called the death an accident that happened when Bishop was learning how to unload a shotgun.

Frazier challenged that account today, saying instead that Bishop shot her brother during an argument and fled on foot with the 12-gauge shotgun before being captured by police, who handcuffed her and took her to the station. The case file, including the report of the incident, disappeared shortly thereafter, he said. 

Police released Bishop after a telephone conversation with then-District Attorney Bill Delahunt, long an advocate for confiscating the guns of American citizens.

The police officers here were very upset about that," said Frazier, who was a patrolman at the time and spoke to officers who remembered the incident that day, including one who filed a report on it. 

In the video below, you will hear current Police Chief Frazier say Amy's mother was a "public figure" and that is why she was never charged in the murder of her brother. Gateway Pundit has the scoop on Judith Bishop at the time her son died. AND also, Frazier says that when Amy Bishop left the house after shooting her brother, she aimed the shotgun at a passing car (about 1:56 minutes in).

The case files on the death of Seth Bishop have been missing since 1987-1988, but yesterday the  police released a 12-page report written on the day of the shooting, saying that Amy Bishop was "too emotional" to be questioned. Authorities returned to the home 11 days later and met with Amy and her parents "individually."

According to the investigation report, after Amy and her father had a disagreement, he left for a shopping trip and she went to her room. Amy decided to go to her parents’ room to teach herself to load the shotgun the family had acquired the previous year for protection after a break-in. She succeeded but could not remove the shells, and the gun fired in the bedroom. Amy then went downstairs to ask for help unloading it and inadvertently shot her brother while her mother watched, according to the report.

Makes me think her father did the right thing by leaving the house.

Her Mother's story:

 Amy’s mother said Amy asked her for help unloading the gun; she told Amy to be careful where she pointed it, and that Amy turned and accidentally shot her brother. Her mother said she screamed and called the police, as Amy ran out of the house.

Amy's story:

Amy said she asked her brother, not her mother, for help unloading the gun, and that she was pointing it beside her leg for safety. She said her brother told her to point it up instead. As he walked across the kitchen floor, someone said something, and Amy turned and the gun went off.

David Codrea at The Examiner has a new bit of information on the UAH shooting. Amy Bishop dumped her gun in a second-floor bathroom before exiting the building. Oh, and did I mention that searches show that the mainstream media, for the most part, is NOT MENTIONING DELAHUNT, or that he is a Democrat. I have have one mention in the New York Times.
 




Current Police Chief Frazier talks about the Death oof Seth Bishop (video)


Related and Background:
Amy Bishop at Firing Range prior to UAH Shootings: Bishop in Therapy? 

Amy Bishop Suspect in Mail Pipe Bombing of Harvard Professor

Amy Bishop Shot and Killed her Brother 20 years ago

Gopi Podila, Maria Ragland Davis and Adriel Johnson Murdered at UAH  

Amy Bishop is UAH  Shooter

Others talking about Bill Delahunts part in the shooting of Amy Bishop:

JammieWearingFool

Althouse

Instapundit - links to other intriguing news