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EXCLUSIVE: Details of Ron Beaty’s “Baggage” In An Election Like No Other

Ron Beaty's 1991 Court Case
Written by Brian Tarcy

CAPE COD – Barnstable County Commissioner Ronald Beaty Jr. has long acknowledged that in 1990 he sent threatening letters to the President of the United States and to other elected officials, and that he spent 14 months in federal prison for the crime. He has described his conviction as “baggage.” Of those letters, he told…

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Brian Tarcy

Brian Tarcy is co-founder of Cape Cod Wave. He is a longtime journalist who has written for the Boston Globe, Boston magazine, the Cape Cod Times and several other publications. He is the author of "YOU CAN'T SELL RIGHT FIELD; A Cape Cod Novel." He is also the author or co-author of more than a dozen mostly non-fiction books, including books with celebrity athletes Cam Neely, Tom Glavine and Joe Theisman. His previous book was, "ALMOST: 12 Electric Months Chasing A Silicon Valley Dream" with Hap Klopp,who created the iconic brand, The North Face.
For more information, see Briantarcy.com
Brian is a long-suffering Cleveland Browns fan with a long-running NFL predictions/political satire column connecting weekly world events to the fate of his favorite team, now at Whatsgonnahappen.com.

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