You are from my neck of the woods. I grew up in North Adams, MA. While my dad worked at North Adams Regional Hospital there was a nun there, Sister Rose Flanagan, who was an out and out nasty person to work for. My dad finally was able to help get rid of her by telling her he was going to call her order and report her for being president of the nurses association at a hospital where abortions are performed. Her order removed her after that.
Remember the boy Lewis Lent killed, James Bernardo? I consider him a catholic Martyr. Lent was focussing on such children, and that is why he was being protected in that county. Did you notice that onfce in prison he hooked up with writing letters on behalf of imprisoned pedo-priests, after he was arrested while trying to abduct a Catholic girl from the same parochial school as little James?
It was during that whole period that so much was coming to light and the girls in the Pittsfield high schools were being driven to late-term abortion clinics in secret, and also in violation of the laws at that time. The Pittsfield police included detectives, Catholic detectives, who wanted to arrest and prosecute, but they got NO help from the Church which certainly could have shielded them while they did their job, even if the Church protected its own priests in the process, there was so much going on! It was horrible.
Every politician up there is either Irish or Italian Catholic and that is Massachusetts for you. Those parishes were among the first to "go Novo" and that certainly tells us something about the nature of the Beast that has been swallowing our beloved Church.
I have to agree with Ladislaus, to vote for anyone who is part of that mess up there on "Lesser of Evils" grounds is like suggesting the hangman use a less scratchy fiber for the rope.