Jim ‘Jones’ Lyons loses again… and again

It’s quite the contrast this week in court between the national and local Republicans.

President Trump is on a roll right now, as the Supreme Court knocks down one unconstitutional virtue-signaling overreach after another by these lunatic DEI lower-court federal judges.

Meanwhile, back here in Massachusetts, the losing just doesn’t stop for Jim “Jones” Lyons and his Kool Aid Kult of Massachusetts Republican losers.

The more Donald Trump wins in court, the more the local crackpots get slapped down. With the difference of course being that Trump is battling over significant issues, while the Kool Aid Kult is litigating petty temper tantrums that barely rise to the level of nonsense.

For four years here in Massachusetts, from 2019 to 2023, Lyons’ hapless crew of toothless knuckleheads couldn’t win a single contested election, not one.

By the time Lyons and his ancient crew of over-the-hill clowns were ejected from the party leadership, the Mass GOP was nearly bankrupt and crippled by assorted criminal and civil probes.

Since then, one of their top leaders has been convicted of welfare fraud and income tax evasion.

But Jim Jones Lyons just refuses to come out with his hands up. How can we miss him when he won’t go away?

He’s turned around the old saying of NFL owner Al Davis, who always said, “Just win, baby!”

Jim Jones Lyons says, “Just lose, baby!”

First he lost his own political office, as a state rep. Then he lost everybody else’s office, at least if they were Republicans.

Now Lyons has switched gears, and he loses one frivolous, preposterous lawsuit after another – two in the last 10 days alone.

This week, Superior Court Judge Paul Wilson tossed out a lawsuit Lyons filed years ago against several Republicans who had committed what the Kult considers the ultimate sin in politics – they wanted to win elections.

It involves, I think, something about a GOP city committee vote in the city of Boston in Ward 15, which is Dorchester. Republicans in Dorchester! In other words, it was a meaningless fight. But aren’t they all, when it comes to Jim Jones Lyons?

“In the complaint,” the judge writes, “Mr. Lyons alleges that the Defendants had a plan to portray him as ‘a racist, a bigot and anti-Asian,’ although the Complaint does not allege that Defendants actually ever said such things to anybody at any time….”

There was something printed in the Boston Globe, apparently, although the judge seems puzzled that if what was said against him was so terrible, why “Mr. Lyons has not put it before me.”

Jim Jones Lyons also only claimed that the false narrative “was released” to the Globe – no mention of any of the actual perpetrators, or how two defendants in particular “said anything to anybody about that ‘false narrative.’”

The judge not only tossed the case, but ordered Lyons to pay attorneys’ fees. Good luck with that one, defendants!

Lyons has always set himself up as untouchable, legally, beyond the reach of anyone. As one lawyer trying to sue him back in 2002 put it, when Lyons was only 48 years old:

“He has no – no pay, no gross income, no banks, no…. He’s not a beneficiary of any trust, he says. He has no interest whatsoever in any real estate, any conversions, any leasehold. He has no interest in any business… He has no stocks… He has no vehicles. He has no interest in any pension, profit-sharing plan. In essence, he has no income of any kind and no expenses of any kind and has had none of that for the last five years….”

But since no one can collect against him, there’s no downside for Lyons to file silly lawsuits.

This week’s case was thrown out under the state’s “anti-SLAPP statute.” SLAPP stands for “Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation,” meaning that the judge found that Lyons was trying to retaliate against his fellow Republicans because of political differences.

That is, they wanted to win elections, and for Jim Jones Lyons, that will not stand.

Ten days earlier, he had another case tossed, this one by Judge Kenneth Salinger. Lyons was trying, I think, to intervene in the case of the state auditor trying to audit the General Court.

You may be asking, what does a failed, elderly politician who couldn’t get elected dogcatcher have to do with this case?

The answer, the judge ruled, is nothing. In a nine-page decision, the word “standing” was mentioned at least 37 times, usually preceded by either “no” or “lacks.”

Here’s a sample:

“Mr. Lyons does not have legal standing to bring these claims…. Unless he can show that he has legal standing…. Mr. Lyons cannot cure his lack of standing… He therefore does not have standing….”

And so on.

“Mr. Lyons alleges no facts suggesting that he suffered or likely will suffer any personal harm as a result of a violation of any legal duty….”

As chairman of the state GOP, Lyons’ loser de camp was Geoff “DoorDash” Diehl, an Uber driver of some minor renown in Greater Brockton. While Lyons just can’t stop losing, it should be noted that one of Diehl’s closest political allies recently did prevail in a criminal case in Essex County.

That would be Russell Morris, who’s contributed at least $800 to DoorDash, and has been photographed on social media with both Diehl and his latest (failed) campaign manager, Amanda Orlando. Morris last fall had child rapes charged against him dismissed.

Here is the nolle prosequi decision by the district attorney dismissing all rape charges against the Gloucester Republican.

“(The state) does not believe it would be in the best interests of the alleged victim emotionally or mentally to testify in this matter. The Commonwealth is unable to proceed without the testimony of the alleged victim.”

So the Kool Kult Aid doesn’t lose every legal battle. But then there’s ex-state Sen. Dean Tran of Fitchburg, a naturalized American citizen who loses elections almost as often as DoorDash Diehl.

As he appeals his recent conviction in federal court on COVID welfare fraud and income tax evasion, Tran has yet another trial on federal felony charges beginning July 28 at the Moakley Courthouse.

So look on the bright side, Kool Aid Kult. Your man Tran will have half the summer to enjoy before he’s potentially convicted of another batch of felonies in the federal court.

As for Jim Jones Lyons, how do you think he’s going to do with his next case against, who is it this time, the Office of Campaign and Political Finance (OCPF)?

To sum it all up, here’s how the GOP court battles are going:

Donald J. Trump, WINNING!

Jim Jones Lyons, LOSING!