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...Mark Lane raised the question of Carlino's impartiality after Warren C. Adams, a prospective investor, quoted Lancer officials as saying they had Carlino "in our hip pocket." Adams testified to this under oath, and Carlino admitted that his law firm received $5,000 from Lancer while he personally received other fees in his role as director. But, the accused Speaker claimed, though he was still director of the construction firm when he guided the bill past the Assembly, he had already given notice of his intention to resign. By phone. "I neglected to send that letter," Carlino sighed...
When the case against him seemed overwhelming, Carlino launched a two pronged attack. First he tried a classic smear, telling the Assembly and the press that since the "Communist line" was anti-shelter, his accuser was therefore a Communist or a Communist dupe. Patronizingly, Carlino confessed: "I don't know whether he is being used or is part and parcel of the whole operation...
More significantly, though, Carlino argued that the Governor had urged hasty passage of the shelter program, and that he, Carlino, only did what a good Republican should by falling in line. The following day (Feb. 6, one day before he came to Harvard as a non-political academic), Rockefeller took the stand and insisted that the shelter issue was "beyond party and beyond partisanship and beyond considerations of personal advantage...
This is simply not true, and Rockefeller should realize that the shelter program, a contractor's dream, invites exactly the type of misbehavior that Carlino so plainly has exhibited. As Lane said in self-defense (for the counter-attack took its toll), the shelter bill was simply too important to be slammed on a legislator's desk for virtually automatic approval...
...Governor has already subordinated one respected national value, full legislative debate, to a vague phrase. In upholding Carlino's cheap, dishonest excuses he has indulged a reckless ends-justify-the-means policy in an area where, as he should know, the ends require careful definition and consideration...