Sean Bielat

Sean Bielat's glossy brochures [not recyclable, BTW] filled our mailbox, sometimes several each day.

The glossy brochures included inflammatory rhetoric, little based on substantive issues.

Mr. Bielat's interviews were filled with the same: little substantive information.

We attended the rally in Taunton at which President Clinton and others spoke, endorsing Barney Frank.

Bielat's few supporters were downright rude! Yelling nonsense, disrupting, and creating a menacing presence that was offensive and discomforting.

Bielat himself remained on the Taunton Green with, was it 6 supporters?

The article in the Boston Globe [excerpts below] comes as little surprise.

Should Mr. Bielat consider a future run, it would be hoped that he gains some maturity and substance.

Law change helped House candidate pay himself
Bielat took $10,000 salary from campaign in loss to Frank
Sean Bielat, whose spirited challenge to US Representative Barney Frank last year drew national attention, paid himself $10,000 in salary drawn from his campaign account, but waited to disclose the move until after the November election.

Bielat, who said he has not ruled out another run for Congress after giving Frank his sharpest challenge since 1982, sharply rejected the notion that he had deceived voters by intentionally hiding the salary until after the election or by listing a second payment he intended to give himself as debt, instead of as a salary.

“I did not cover it up,’’ Bielat said. “Your zeroing in on this now is indicative of why I wanted to avoid any salary. But it got to the point in the campaign when we had to have some income.’’

Bielat quit his job at the iRobot Corp. a year before the election, giving up a $162,754 salary.

“My wife and I are not wealthy,’’ he said, noting that during the campaign they had a child and were burdened by expenses such as student loans.

But in the months leading up to the election, Bielat was sharply critical of Frank for a lack of transparency and promised to be more open.