Worcester DA gives Reilly a hand

By going public and shifting the blame onto the Northborough police chief for whatever it is that's going on in the investigation of the death of those two Southborough teen-agers, Worcester County DA John Conte has just given Tom Reilly a hand up from the floor - where he'd fallen in trying to explain why the attorney general of the Commonwealth got involved in a local matter to begin with, FrankSkeffington writes:

Thanks to John Conte, Tom Reilly is no longer on the death watch and with luck...or more facts...may actually become a victim and even attract sympathy. ...

Ralph Waldo Emerson (what is it with these poli-pseuds?) agrees:

... If Reilly does survive this it's going to be in spite of himself and because of Conte. This should not have been a big enough deal to warrant four days of serious coverage, including some national coverage. Reilly needs to rethink his approach to confronting these things (perhaps by adopting Conte's methods) or he's not going to have to worry about this coming back to bite him because something worse is bound to come down the pipe. ...