Naturally, the guy who holds five patents on components of Sensodyne toothpaste lives in Cambridge. And naturally, he was put out to read state Sen. Anthony Galluccio's claims that the sorbitol in the toothpaste is why his at-home breathalyzer set off alarms at the probation office.

West Roxbury state Rep. Mike Rush plans to run for Marian Walsh's Senate seat next year even if she decides to seek re-election, State House News Service reports.

Why? Rush thinks she's running on fumes; pointing to her acceptance, then rejection of a good paying job with the Patrick administration earlier this year. There was also her rumored, then never-happened judicial appointment last year, which led to a secret meeting between handlers for Rush and sometimes Westie rival, City Councilor John Tobin, over who would run for her seat.

In recent years, Rush and Walsh have not exactly gotten along. He's represented the 10th Suffolk District since 2002.

Channel 7 reports state Sen. Anthony Galluccio is charged with rear ending a car in Cambridge on Sunday and then just driving away. He turned himself into police Monday morning, the station reports.

In 2005, Galluccio was charged with causing a four-car accident in Boston. A clerk magistrate determined that there was insufficient evidence to charge him with drunken driving, even though he acknowledged having some alcohol that night.

The Globe gets the exclusive interview; she says she didn't do anything for the $70,000 she got but never reported over the past ten years.

Jay Fitzgerald: Incredible:

... I didn't even know that 'personal fund-raising' had been apparently OK'd by the state's ethics commission. Wilkerson has two commission letters to prove it. ...

And, as Jay notes, this is something Richard Vitale is probably reading up on.

Former Senate President Kevin Harrington died Thursday. Former Senate Majority Leader Walter Boverini died yesterday.

The Globe reports.

She promises another announcement on Nov. 5 about her position as a state senator. Her term runs out in January.

The Globe reports she made the statement after a meeting with black clergymen, a number of whom called on her to resign yesterday.

Boston Daily gets ahold of Councilor Turner, who tells the media to look up what Jesus said about juries or something and leave poor Wilkerson alone, judge not and all that. He also says he wouldn't support Sonia Chang-Diaz because she lives in a white neighborhood:

She's not part of our district.

Now what about Rep. Byron "Z" Rushing?

Dianne Wilkerson's campaign Web site is now www.diannedelivers08.com instead of www.diannedelivers2008.com, so don't even think of going to the latter, especially since the campaign simply pulled the plug on it, rather than doing anything so radical and risky as redirecting people who click there to the new site.

On Monday, the Herald reported the old site still listed endorsements from pols who no longer back Wilkerson, now that she's no longer the Democratic nominee for the 2nd Suffolk State Senate seat. The new site lost the endorsement list, along with the "20" in the URL.

Via PolitickerMA.