Political Quotes

“I want to refer to the experience that I had before I was elected to the Congress 2 years ago. I was the first assistant district attorney in Middlesex County, which is the largest county in Massachusetts. And in that position, I had an opportunity to look at the child support enforcement in Massachusetts and a person from the State revenue department came into my office and asked me to make that a priority within the district attorney's office. There had been a new statute that had been passed in Massachusetts for tougher, stricter enforcement, but a case had never been tried, a criminal case under that statute. And I looked at the case of a person from Lowell, MA, someone by the name of Edward Orlando, who had gotten a divorce from his wife. And he had moved out and he moved to New York City where he set up an apartment with his girlfriend. And they lived on 52d street. And at the same time they lived in that very expensive section of New York City, he had a place in the Caribbean as well. The only problem is, Mr. Orlando left 11 children back in Massachusetts, 6 of whom were still living at home in Lowell. Audrey Orlando faced some very difficult choices. She did not receive a single child support payment for over a year.”