Marian Walsh
Mike Rush is legislative matters liaison for Mayor Tom Menino
By Anonymous - 7/31/10 - 7:07 am
3 vie to replace Walsh in Senate: Seat is open for 1st time in 18 years
By Robert Preer | July 22, 2010
A pair of outsiders and a Beacon Hill veteran are competing this year for the Suffolk and Norfolk state Senate seat, which Democrat Marian Walsh of West Roxbury has held for the past 18 years. (more).
Marian Walsh puts her house up for sale again
By adamg - 1/21/10 - 2:12 pmEd Coppinger reports; latest sign the West Roxbury state senator won't be seeking re-election this year?
In Rush to push out incumbent state senator, a possible campaign-law violation
By adamg - 1/10/10 - 6:30 pmDavid Ertischek at Wicked Local West Roxbury discovers that state Rep. Mike Rush already has a his state Senate campaign site up (you may recall he said he'd be running this year no matter what incumbent Marian Walsh does). Eagle-eyed Ertischek also notices the phone number on the site's contribution page is Rush's current State House office number, which may just violate the state law that prohibits the use of state property for campaigning.
Rush has been a state rep since 2002, so you'd think he'd know these things by now.
Republican running for Marian Walsh's senate seat, too
By adamg - 12/22/09 - 4:12 pmWicked Local West Roxbury reports that, in addition to state Rep. Mike Rush, Brad Williams, chairman of the Ward 20 Republican Ward Committee, is running for the seat Marian Walsh has yet to say whether she'll try to retain next year.
Rush job for Marian Walsh's senate seat
By adamg - 12/21/09 - 5:38 pm
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.
Marian Walsh puts her house up for sale
By adamg - 5/27/09 - 5:07 pmParkwayBoston.com reports and wonders if that means the state senator who accepted, then turned down a job with the Patrick administration, is moving somewhere.
Marian Walsh says the past two weeks have been like a Jimmy Stewart movie. Which one?
By adamg - 3/31/09 - 5:54 pmMarian Walsh decides she doesn't want that state job after all
By adamg - 3/31/09 - 2:56 pmWalsh withdrew her name from nomination today for that state housing-finance job, Wicked Local West Roxbury reports, adding she'll instead stay in the state Senate (so Mike Rush? John Rogers? That state rep from Dedham whose name I can never remember? Never mind).
Too late, Governor
By adamg - 3/25/09 - 6:49 amOK, so Deval Patrick now regrets calling complaints about Marian Walsh's salary and stuff "trivial," but while Jay Fitzgerald finds that commendable, he adds:
... The thought that cutting Walsh's planned salary will quell the uproar is almost laughable. The damage is already done. Even more laughable is the thought that the permanent bureaucracy hasn't already figured out how to get around wage-freeze demands. ...
The Outraged Liberal is still outraged:
What's still lacking is a solid justification why the job is needed at all after sitting vacant for a dozen years. Or why there needs to be separate agencies with initials and cute names like HEFA and MassDevelopment at all.
What's the difference in the duties that requires two quasi-independent boards with their own hierarchy, power structure and pay scale? If we can eliminate the Massachusetts Turnpike Authority, why can't we reduce the number of agencies selling bonds to support economic development? ...
Was there a zombie attack on Beacon Hill?
By adamg - 3/13/09 - 7:52 amBecause our alleged leaders are displaying a notable lack of brains, from Deval Patrick finding a good hack job for Marian Walsh to, well, Marian Walsh accepting a good hack job, as the state sinks deeper into debt, the Outraged Liberal fulminates.
