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Howie Carr's "Graft Mobile"

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So we all know Howie gets a Caddy on the arm from Olsen Cadillac, and he has mentioned that it has dealer plates on it.

Now knowing that it is illegal for a dealer to loan a car out for more than 5 days is Mr Law and Order I am not a beautiful person going to give the car back?

A dealer can loan one of its motor vehicles or trailers with the Dealer Plate attached for the use of a customer for sale or demonstration purposes but, by law, it cannot do so for more than five (5) consecutive days. (Any attempt to extend the period of use by re-loaning the vehicle for an additional period may subject the dealer’s action to review by the Registrar and result in disciplinary action against the dealer by the RMV). When a dealer has signed a Purchase and Sale Agreement for a vehicle, the buyer can no longer operate the vehicle with the Dealer Plate.


Does the Graft Mobile comply with the Mass RMV requirement that That statute requires that whenever a dealer-owned motor vehicle is being operated while displaying the
Dealer Plate, the vehicle must properly display all notices and stickers required by applicable law to be eligible for sale if a “new” vehicle, it must display the MSRP (Monroney) sticker (required by Federal law) and the state-required yellow sticker discussing the “Lemon Law” for new vehicles?

Since Howie is not an employee of the dealership selling for more than 20 hours a week, he can not legally use a dealer plate on the Graft Mobile.
 
im sure entercomm pays the dealership for the use and maybe they regitered it!! or the mass rmv gets ehem donations from some sources and lets it slide!!!
 
The way Howie rolls... It's very unlikely he doesn't have his transportation "legit." Howie knows to many made man to get pinched for a caddy from a local dealer. Nice try though
 
He recently turned in his first Olsen Caddy graftmobile--because it was due for an oil change,
he said--and got another one. Howie also had said that he had gotten sick on the way home
after a Friday show, but apparently he didn't heave in the (first) graftmobile, don't worry. Not sure whose lawn or whatever he did decorate...
 
No talent or ethics has given him fairly high ratings (WRKO fought to keep him from jumping to FM),
a long run at the Herald, one bestselling book with a second tome due in weeks to be followed by a third, a New England-wide "network", etc. As for ethics if you mean all the graft, he's private not public so he gets lots of graft from PRIVATE interests, unlike the folks in the Taj Mahal across the
street offering wine and brie public radio (huge salaries), with some funding coming via confiscatory pay-or-else taxation. Howie is in the Dreaded Private Sector and as he drives that Caddy
around, I truly feel for him.

He COULD be at NPR! Then he'd make some REAL money!
 
Howie has failed at every TV gig he has had. He couldn't last at then market loser CH.7 then got dumped at Ch 56 and Ch.2. His tryout as VB's fill in at Ch. 25 didn't go so well either. That glazed odd look on his face doesn't come across to well on TV. The attempt to syndicate his radio show was over before it began. ABC Radio couldn't sell him and dropped him within six months.Then SuperRadio tried without success. Yes he is on a few stations in New England.

His book sold well around here but didn't sell well outside the region. The Herald column is a shell of it's former self and todays column about Patrick Kennedy's engagementwas despicable.

At the end of the day, HC is a hypocrite and a bully who revels at kicking people when they are down.

WGBH produces more quality programming in one day than RKO produces all year. And the $1.50 a year of my tax dollars that go to support the Corporation for Public Broadcasting is a tremendous use of tax funds
 
Ch 2 gave up its nightly news after they were threatened with losing one-day liquor licenses by the powers that be, Howie has said. Similarly they were pressured by the Globe, IIRC, to dump Howie.

Maybe he is meant for radio more than TV and yes he does have a regional network not national but I think he does well with it, given his own city/state/regional focus.

The book (Brothers Bulger) was a national bestseller or at least it lit up the NY Times bestseller list for a time.

>>HC is a hypocrite and a bully

Meanwhile (re: the Pat K column) the Kennedy defenders are trying to put up a shrine to Teddy and are shocked, shocked that not only can't they get much federal funding, but private/corp. donations aren't exactly forthcoming. Now that Ted no longer is alive, as Howie has said, the clout isn't quite there anymore. And Howie continues to write columns and do shows based on the Kennedys
and there's no stopping him, for now.

If you enjoy NPR so much, give, give more. I'm all for giving to NPR--voluntarily, not on a mandatory basis. Should the government force you to send money to Howie Carr? No. Should they
force you to send it to Terri Gross? No. But give your money if you so desire, and let the folks at GBH build even more Taj Mahal edifices like the one they have across the street from the
Sneaker Building.

"Paid for by donations from listeners like you."
 
NPR will not miss a beat if federal funding was ever cut. It is the small local public radio stations that serve areas with limited media outlets that will suffer. My tax dollars go to a multitude of items that I don't support or benefit from but I chalk it up to the cost of living in a civilized society. For example, I am not happy about the US Army spending $600,000 a year on FOX

This weeks Carr column in which he continuously linked Patrick Kennedy to the tragedy that his father was involved in was a new low for Carr.

His show sounds tired and predictably and I predict Greater Media will not make him an offer when his RKO contract expires, 1200 will be back to playing something else and he will sign a new Entercom contract for less money
 
Pointing out Carr's hypocrisy may be the best post on here in years. If Carr is driving around in dealer plates and they just swap one dealer plate car for another that would seem to be unlawful. And if he's talking about it on the air and not mentioning the promotional consideration, then Entercom's license is at risk.

Today's trivia question: Which pol did Howie take a lot of glee of slamming for getting a legal jam for taking a car...illegally...from a Cadillac dealer.

He does cover his tracks well. 20 or so years ago, somebody got the good on him -- late filed taxes or some such thing. Howie decided the best defense was a good offense, did a column about it, turned it into a real yuk, to take the steam out of it.
 
1. Howie's divorce from his first wife was so messy he had to have his politically connected Attorney Robert Popeo petition the court to seal the divorce file. We wouldn't want the sorted details of his divorce splashed across the pages of some newspaper.

2. Carr used a false address in North Carolina to claim he was a North Carolina resident to receive in state tuition at UNC.

3. After his first wife tossed him out, Carr moved into a rent controlled apartment in Cambridge, while at the same time he penned columns about the beautiful people who live in rent controlled housing.

4. He met his second wife while she was working as a sales rep at the old WHDH, during contract negotiations Carr arraigned for her to have a work from home deal that effectively turned into a no show job for his new wife.


Growing up Howie was always the outsider. In Maine he was the hired help washing dishes for the wealthy. At Deerfield he was the poor kid who was only there because his father managed the book store. At UNC he was the guy from up North. I think that has a lot to do with that big chip on his shoulder.
 
Popeo is mentioned as a lawyer for Howie in the "full disclosure" bits at the beginning of Brothers
Bulger (i.e., the name pops up in the book and he's saying he's served as Howie's lawyer). I do
remember hearing about his divorce, and also had heard how he had met his current wife Kathy
but didn't know about the job connection. (When asked about it he'd probably say yeah but I'm
in the dreaded private sector--i.e., public sector affects us all so I'm off limits). I don't know about the false address but his parents do/did have a connection with NC (maybe he had an aunt or an
uncle there?). His mom still lives there and his dad passed away at the age of 103 or something a couple years back. He went down there on Columbus Day weekend for the funeral but never said
anything on air about it.

Knew about the rent-control bit (he'd go after a _public_ official who would do the same thing).

In some ways Howie has revealed parts of his life on air, from surgeries to his kids to "my two
lovable pugs", but obviously there are parts he won't reveal. He does delight in these kind of
ad deals, but again as he'll point out he's in the dreaded private sector (poor guy, has to live
on RKO salary, Herald salary, and the income from THREE books--after "Hitman", he has a novel
in the works) not the public, so...
 
ever notice he no longer mentions the children from his first marriage?

It was fun when his divorce came through, " Submit" was days away from having his "bastard child" so I guess there was a waiver sought for the waiting period for the divorce from the first Mrs Carr to become final so he could marry the second Mrs Carr before the child was born.

He likes to play Joe Six Pack on the radio, but he has lived a pretty privileged life if you ask me.
 
I do remember how "Submit"'s first child was born not too long after the marriage. And yes he never does mention the first 2 kids

From the obit of Howard L Carr Sr (first two kids mentioned are from H's first marriage):

>>Surviving are his wife of 65 years, Frances; two sons, Jonathan Sutton Carr of Greensboro and Howard Louis Carr, Jr. of Wellesley, Mass.; and five grandchildren, Suzanna, Frances, Charlotte, Carolyn, and Christina.

http://www.legacy.com/News-Record/Obituaries.asp?Page=LifeStory&PersonId=118605036
(Text of that is truncated now but I quoted it in '08 in a post on Free Republic)
 
yes the kids from the second marriage all have names that start with C, hence his wifes old business was called Three Seas Management, Inc., She also has "Concord Street CCC, LLC."

BTW if you search the corporations database you'll see HLC has several corporations

you can learn a lot about someone by a simple search, little things like how many sq feet and bathrooms their house has for example.
 
Interesting...I did notice that 2 of the kids from his current marriage have names related to his
being a UNC grad: Carolyn (aka Caroline--North Carolina) and Charlotte.
 
That remark about a one-day liquor permit doesn't ring true. I had a friend (past tense not because we became unfriendly; he married and moved away) who had connections with WGBH-TV management, and I attended several tapings of the show called "the Club". At least beer and wine flowed freely every time I was there. They taped the show one after another (it was a 30-minute show Monday through Friday) so by the Friday night show, the audience was considerably more boisterous than during the Monday night showing).
 
I believe his mother was originally from North Carolina but Carr was never a NC resident before enrolling in UNC. He was not eligible for the tuition rate that was offered to residents and what he did constituted fraud.

He did come close to having a bastard child and appears not to have any kind of relationship with his daughters from his first marriage. BTW, one of his daughters, I don't know which one works at WGBH on the Emily Rooney radio program.

As a former GBH executive, I do know that some State House politicians especially Billy Bulger were not happy with the 10 o'clock news coverage of the 75 State Street affair but I find the story about the one day liquor license hard to believe.

Many Ch.2 viewers were not happy when Carr was hired and there was an organized effort to withhold contributions until he was let go.
 
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