As the result of an email dump because of an ACLU Freedom Of Information Act (FOIA) request regarding a specific matter, the suspicions that Sheriff Thomas Hodgson was attempting to ingratiate himself with the Trump, administration at a cost to Bristol County residents. Was pr0ovenj true. It was found he was reporting to the White House on local issues, people, and institutions when he thought they were going against Trump. The greatest example was his reporting on his own parish church for being Christian in their approach to immigrants.

Until 2020, when Trump began to claim long before election day that the voting would be rigged meaning that if he lost it would be because the election was stolen, there was no talk of the failure of local law enforcement to effectively secure polling places.

Suddenly in 2020 this was a major concern based on nothing, and as we have seen with the January 6 Committee, the plan to make this claim and then just plow through with it was being formulated by the Trump team long before election day. Any possibility of confusion would be accentuated and used to explain this had affected the election results.

The little confusions added to the bigger ones may not prove there were irregularities, but they would be useful for the narrative. Just look how their nonexistence is still being touted by the GOP.

There are many people in Bristol County who question the sheriff’s activities and lack of duty performance and want him gone. He is, however, the Republican anchor in the state.

His sudden concern for polling place security seemed odd in itself, and this prompted the local state representative to propose a bill and get it passed that made existing law undeniably clear. Local Law enforcement alone is responsible for poll security and others can help if called on by them to do so, but others, like the sheriff, cannot office decide this was its job now.

The original intent was to curb the sheriff’s desire to increase his power, importance, and self-promoted image.

It is only now that we are seeing that this little action had a greater effect.

Being a Trump acolyte who had done his utmost to get noticed and even got to be the Honorary Chair of the Massachusetts Trump Re-election committee, with honorary being one of those nice to be included handoffs to keep someone happy and cooperative. I was an honorary chair once and never got a notice of meetings. The committee wanted my name and that was it.

Considering the number of times Sheriff Hodgson went to Washington to give Trump plaques for being a tough anti-crime guy and a quiet supporter of Constitutional Sheriffs, showed up in pictures with Trump operatives from 2017-2020, bragged about his Kim like love affair with Don, reflexively claimed that any attack on him was an attack on Trump, and is known to have reported on local citizens to the White House if he felt they were not in lock step with the trump administration, it would be hard to dismiss the idea that there might have been unknown communications between Bristol County and the White House, or at least Bristol County being included in whatever the Republican Party planned as a national move to control elections.

This would explain the sudden alleged need for sheriff’s deputies to augment local law enforcement at historically under-control polls.

The aim was not to ensure that the elections were fair and correct, but to have a presence that would enable someone, especially one as creative in his fictions to justify his being sheriff and extol the wonders he has wrought as Tom Hodgson, the sheriff, is to make whatever claims about conditions at the polls they may find useful.

If Trump won this Bristol County acolyte could nod his head and intone he could verify the vote was legit.

If Trump lost, certainly there would be things claimed to have been seen that would have brought into question the votes in Bristol County, the bruise that would spread and affect the vote count and legitimacy of it state-wide and we would have had yet another state that could be used to muddle what was, actually, a very clean election.

And this one, Massachusetts, would have been quite the prize.

Hodgson had to get into the polls because he was the only person on the state with the need to be accepted at the cool kid’s table and a way to play a role.

He would have been believable because he was the law and order sheriff who, incidentally, breaks the laws that get in his way professionally and personally while demanding all county residents follow all laws or face time in his “not a country club” jail.

I don’t know if it is proper to mention Antonio Cabral’s name, but the law intended to avert a local ego trip in preparation for running again two years later and using the polls as his photo-op and self-promotions tool, turned out to have very possibly kept Massachusetts of the lists used to pretend there were problems with elections and kept this prize out of the national mix.

This is the man who stood in front of cameras, microphones, the media, the people of the county, and God saying that the video of the riot at his ICE detention center showed that while the inmates were the instigators, he was the one who stood strong and attempted to properly handle the out of hand situation, only to have that video show the opposite.

Fabrication is in his toolbox.

Recidivism.

Suicides.

Covid mess.

Violation of human and civil rights.

The riot.

There are always stories, but the fictions are getting weak.

The sheriff is running again this year. No talk so far about his department needing to be present at the polls. I suppose it would be bad form if his deputies and he were present on election day and when he loses, claim one of his men, or he himself, saw an irregularity that would call the votes into question.

But there is still time for him to lay his foundation to deny the election results if they do not go his way.

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