Source: boston.com
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Cahill — he of the fast-sinking gubernatorial campaign — couldn’t resist trying to squeeze some mileage out of Governor Deval Patrick’s meeting last weekend with about 1,000 local Muslims. The candidate issued a ludicrous statement accusing Patrick of “pandering to special interest groups” by, you know, meeting with some constituents.

“Now is the time for Governor Patrick to look radical Islamic terrorism full in the face, call it what it is, and make sure that federal law enforcement officials who are tracking the Times Square case give our local law enforcement the information they have in real time.’’

Again, Patrick’s crime here was to meet with a group of people who are not accused of anything, or suspected of anything. But in Tim Cahill’s world, it’s as if any gathering of Muslims is the moral equivalent of an Al Qaeda meeting.

No doubt here who was doing the pandering.

Globe Columnist Adrian Walker hits it on the nail. What Tim Cahill said was beyond stupid and racist and I’m not surprised it gained the ire of the religious community. I’m surely not voting for him.