Marian Walsh

Mike Rush is legislative matters liaison for Mayor Tom Menino

Anonymous — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 12:07:39 +0000

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

adamg — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 19:12:18 +0000

Ed 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

adamg — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 23:30:25 +0000

David 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

adamg — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 21:12:35 +0000

Wicked 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

adamg — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 22:38:34 +0000

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

adamg — Wed, 27 May 2009 22:07:55 +0000

ParkwayBoston.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?

adamg — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 22:54:42 +0000

Marian Walsh decides she doesn't want that state job after all

adamg — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 19:56:04 +0000

Walsh 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

adamg — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 11:49:03 +0000

OK, 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?

adamg — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 12:52:18 +0000

Because 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.

Marian Walsh leaving

adamg — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 17:02:48 +0000

State Sen. Marian Walsh is resigning. More to come, but who'll run for her seat? Tobin? Rush, Consalvo? That guy who boycotted Gary's Liquors?

Westie legislators have beef over beach

adamg — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 01:46:55 +0000

The Transcript reports that state Sen. Marian Walsh managed to deep-six a measure by state Rep. Mike Rush to spend $1.5 million to do something with Havey Beach, that inviting looking area off the VFW Parkway that hasn't actually been useful to anybody except kids having drunken campfires for the past 50 years or so. Walsh claims it's a great idea, but says there needs to be more public input before anything's done.

Marian Walsh thinks suburban schools more important than those in Boston?

adamg — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 13:23:40 +0000

Maybe she was taken out of context - because otherwise a quote from Sen. Walsh in the Daily News Transcript might be enough to give her Boston constituents some pause.

In a story about an increase in state aid to cities and towns, the paper reports:

"Maintaining and increasing local aid, especially for the schools in Dedham, Norwood and Westwood, is my priority," said Sen. Marian Walsh, D - West Roxbury.

In addition to West Roxbury, Walsh also represents those three towns, along with Roslindale and Hyde Park.

Marian Walsh staying a state senator

adamg — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 19:49:38 +0000

ParkwayBoston.com has the scoop: She'll be running for re-election this fall.

So John Tobin might want to start thinking about running for mayor in 2009.

Why we need a Big Dig oversight board

adamg — Sat, 05 Aug 2006 14:14:10 +0000

Sco explains why you should contact your legislator to demand creation of a subpoena-issuing board to get to the bottom of the Big Dig mess, as proposed by state Sen. Marian Walsh:

... How can we ever ask Massachusetts to support a public works project again if we can't reasonably claim that the mistakes of the Big Dig are understood and won't be repeated?