Mass. governor: I got drunk after marathon manhunt
AP Photo: Matt Rourke, File. Patrick went to his rural home the day after the surviving Boston Marathon bombing suspect was captured and got 'quite drunk' alone at a restaurant, he said.
By Associated Press
The co-owner of the restaurant at which Massachusetts' governor said he went drinking after the Boston bombing manhunt said Gov. Deval Patrick had a glass or two but wasn't drunk.
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Gov. Deval Patrick went to his rural home the day after the surviving Boston Marathon bombing suspect was captured and got "quite drunk" alone in a restaurant, he said during a candid conversation at a Boston-area marketing firm.
Patrick also told employees at HubSpot in Cambridge on Wednesday that he was relieved that bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was captured April 19, because otherwise people would have been complaining about the "shelter in place" order he gave that day, locking down Boston and several suburbs.
Patrick went to Berkshire County the day after Tsarnaev was captured, he said. He and his wife have a vacation home in the town of Richmond, about three hours west of Boston.
He said he went for a swim, then out to dinner alone to read a book. The restaurant's co-owner put him in a corner away from other diners.
"She starts bringing me things to drink as a celebration. And by the end of the meal, I was actually quite drunk, by myself," Patrick said, according to the Boston Herald.
Maggie Merelle, co-owner of the restaurant Rouge in West Stockbridge, said Patrick had a "glass of chardonnay or two" with dinner, but she doesn't remember him being drunk.
"He wasn't tipsy. I never would have known," Merelle said.
She said hosting the governor made her feel "like an old Jewish mother feeding him. We just wanted to nourish him."
Patrick also said he had no money and couldn't pay his bill, so he asked if he could come back the next day to settle up. Merelle said the governor "definitely" squared his tab.
President Barack Obama called Patrick on April 19 and advised him that he couldn't keep the region in lockdown indefinitely, the governor said. He said he would have ended the "shelter in place" order once the door-to-door search in Watertown was completed had Tsarnaev not been captured.
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