not sure how you are getting that from this one - sounds like this 'rag tag' govenment didn't get powned (completely) and was able to rely on good it practice to recover with minimal impact..
>What if the police chief had emails admitting to bribes or worse stuff
Unless he's admitting to doing something that is directly counter to the platform of the ruling party (e.g. aiding ICE, rubber stamping CCW permits, racial profiling, etc) nobody would care. There would be some token outrage but it would mostly be business as usual. This is just how MA works. There's very much a "well that's government, nothing you can do, no sense getting bent out of shape over it" attitude by the majority of the population in MA.
For example, the state police overtime fraud is a recurring (every 1-3yr or so) "scandal". The latest instance is basically out of the news already.
