Rep. Lyons Co-Authors Bill To Protest Judge's 'Absurd' Ruling
Judge ordered state to pay for transgender killer's sex-change operation and legal fees for Mansfield convicted murderer Michelle Kosilek.
Tewksbury's newest legislator is already making waves on Beacon Hill and a Mansfield convicted murderer is at the center of it. State Rep. Jim Lyons, R-Andover, has co-authored a bill that would require the state to pay legal fees for all "law-abiding tax-paying citizens of Massachusetts" up to $700,000. That's the amount of legal fees the state has been ordered to pay on behalf of Michelle Kosilek, a transgender inmate who won a highly publicized legal battle to force the state to pay for his sex-change operation. Kosilek, 63, was known as Robert Kosilek when he murdered his wife Cheryl Kosilek in Mansfield in 1990. He changed his name to "Michelle" in 1993. Lyons and state Rep. Marc Lombardo, R-Billerica, were outraged when U.S. District…
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John Kef
5:19 pm on Friday, January 4, 2013
While I don't agree with the ruling, it is still in litigation as the state has filed an appeal. Many legislators and the Governor have come out against. What we don't need is boneheaded bills like legislator Lyons who himself is a multiple offense tax cheat with liens. What I find absurd is a tax cheat who feels he can speak for law abiding taxpayers when he is not one himself. It's not over and… more ›