By Michael Rezendes | GLOBE STAFF OCTOBER 30, 2012
 

 
 
 
 
US Representative John F. Tierney’s wife was receiving funds from her fugitive brother as far back as the early 1990s, when Patrice Tierney was going through a divorce and John Tierney was her divorce attorney.

According to records recently reviewed by The Boston Globe, Patrice Tierney’s brother, Robert Eremian, was covering her living expenses during her divorce, including $7,000 of John Tierney’s legal fee, at a time when Eremian was under federal investigation for running a sports betting business from his Lynnfield home.

Although there is no evidence that John Tierney knew Eremian was paying part of his bill, the funds that Eremian paid to Patrice Tierney raise new questions about John Tierney’s repeated statement that he was unaware of the extent of his wife’s financial dealings with his brother-in-law.

Less than a month after Patrice Tierney and her former husband filed their divorce settlement, in October 1995, State Police working with federal prosecutors raided Eremian’s residence, seizing evidence that led to an initial 1998 indictment on gambling charges and a 2002 guilty plea on tax fraud charges.

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SALEM EVENING NEWS, DAILY NEWS OF NEWBURYPORT, LAWRENCE EAGLE TRIBUNE, AND LOWELL SUN

(Lynnfield, MA) – Four newspapers from the Sixth District endorsed Richard Tisei’s candidacy Tuesday morning, including Congressman John Tierney’s hometown newspaper, the Salem Evening News. The Daily News of Newburyport, Lawrence Eagle Tribune, and Lowell Sun also endorsed.

The Boston Globe and Boston Herald endorsed Tisei last week — bringing the total number of newspaper endorsements to six.

 
 
 
 
 
“The time has come for voters to back candidates who have the desire to put people before party, the talent to bring a fresh approach to seemingly intractable problems and a willingness to work in concert to move the country forward.”

“In the 6th District, that candidate is Richard Tisei of Wakefield, who has our enthusiastic endorsement.” ~Salem Evening News

 
 
 
 
 
“A fiscal conservative, Tisei supported balanced budgets and generally opposed tax increases, including the 2010 sales tax hike. Even on taxes, however, he can think for himself, opposing the 2008 effort to roll back the income tax rate from 5.3 percent to 5 percent, saying the state couldn’t afford the cut. He cast votes against initiatives by then-Gov. Mitt Romney almost half the time.”

“It’s this kind of record that should ease fears he will fall under the hard-right spell of his national party.” ~Daily News of Newburyport (shared endorsement editorial with Salem Evening News)

 
 
 
 
 
“Tierney, a Democrat from Salem, is running for his ninth term representing the Bay State’s 6th District in Congress. Tierney hasn’t earned two terms, let alone nine. But a series of incompetent opponents has allowed him to waltz back into Congress again and again.”

“Tisei has the right prescription for what ails the economy. As a small-business owner, Tisei understands that businesses are reluctant to make the decisions necessary for expansion and job growth in a climate of uncertainty over taxes and regulations.”~Lawrence Eagle Tribune

 
 
 
 
“Despite the mudslinging and rancid radio and TV ads directed at him from the campaign of a Democrat incumbent, Tisei has remained unshakeable. He’s been the reasonable adult in the room sticking to the pocketbook issues that impact voters.” ~ Lowell Sun

October 30, 2012
Tisei seeking to make history

By Jesse Roman Staff writer
The Salem News

—- — LYNNFIELD — It was March 1981 when 19-year-old Richard Tisei caught the politics bug.

He had just been elected state representative for a day by his peers at Lynnfield High School and had gone, along with other student representatives from around the state, to the Statehouse in Boston. He sat in the House chamber, proposed bills, debated them and passed his first, albeit mock, legislation.

“When I came home that night, my parents asked me what I thought, and I said, ‘You know what? I’m going to be a state rep, because it was such a powerful experience,’” Tisei said from the Lynnfield office he now rents as headquarters for his run for Congress.

“My parents weren’t even registered to vote; my family was not political. They thought it was weird I was so interested.”

Interested enough that when he graduated from American University in 1984, he ran to represent the 22nd Middlesex District and won handily. At 22, he was the youngest Republican ever elected to the Massachusetts Legislature.

“I basically went out and knocked on 14,000 doors, and that’s how I introduced myself,” he said. “My district hadn’t elected a Republican in 20 years.”

In 1990, he moved up to the state Senate and won 10 more elections in a row.

Now Tisei is in the midst of a much larger challenge: attempting to unseat Democrat John Tierney in the 6th Congressional District.

The district has more than twice as many Democrats as Republicans; nearly every city has a Democratic mayor. Would voters here replace Tierney — one of the most liberal members of the U.S. House, whom they have elected eight straight times — with Tisei, who makes no bones about his desire to repeal Obamacare, extend the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy and support portions of the Republican Paul Ryan budget?

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