Mayor responds to full page attack ads
By George P. Hassett

    Mayor Joseph A. Curtatone used his opening remarks at last night‚Äôs public hearing on police reorganization to rebut two full page ads taken out by the Somerville Police Patrolmen‚Äôs Union criticizing him.

   The ads said Curtatone had decimated or eliminated the detectives‚Äô bureau, the domestic violence unit and the juvenile unit
   He said many of the charges leveled against him in the ads were actually the result of decisions made by previous Mayor Dorothy Kelly Gay and others were simply false.
  ‚ÄúThose ads were a mere political response,‚Äù he said.
   Later in the night the President of the Patrolmen‚Äôs Union Jack Leutcher responded to Curtatone‚Äôs statement.
   ‚ÄúThat was just a lawyer being a lawyer, saying just enough so that it sounds like the truth,‚Äù he said.