Mike Rush
Resigning from Senate never an option. Mike Rush,“That never even crossed my mind”
By Anonymous - 1/20/11 - 1:34 pmTimothy Robertson at the Dedham Patch takes the stenography:
"A downside of Rush’s deployment: no vote will be cast for the district he represents..."
Downside indeed. Is it too much to ask the reporter to pose the obvious question: Might citizens reasonably expect to have a voting Senator represent their interests? After all, a revolution was fought for that right on the premise, no taxation without representation.
A leader would put the interest of his constituents ahead of his own.
Mike Rush gets elected to the state Senate just in time to be deployed to Iraq
By adamg - 1/14/11 - 6:05 pmWicked Local West Roxbury reports Rush, newly elected Suffolk/Norfolk state senator and longtime Naval Reserve officer, is being shipped out to Iraq as an intelligence officer in March.
Guess who helped James Rush get the Chief Probation Officer job?
By Anonymous - 11/19/10 - 11:08 amWould James Rush have gotten the promotion without the recommend from his son, state legislator Mike Rush? I wonder how the other applicants feel about whether they had an equal opportunity for the position.
Does it seem strange that as an employee of the probation department, his own son's recommendation might have had more weight than his own history of job performance in the probation department?
Campaign roundup: How do you ignore the biggest political story of the day?
By adamg - 10/21/10 - 6:22 amYou're an editor for a metropolitan daily. Which story do you put on the front page: Jeff Perry and the strip search or Barney Frank lending his campaign some money? If you're the Herald, you go with the latter (don't forget to throw in some stuff about how Frank is "panic stricken") and ignore the former (save for a Margery Egan column declaring Perry is a cretin).
Mike Rush lost the suburbs
By adamg - 9/15/10 - 8:24 pmChris Lovett of BNN, Gin Dumcius of the Dorchester Reporter and Steve Poftak of the Pioneer Institute analyze yesterday's legislative results in Boston and what could happen in November:
Primary Election Analysis from Chris Lovett on Vimeo.
Mike Walsh lowers the boom on Mike Rush
By Anonymous - 9/3/10 - 4:07 amYou can't tell the players without a program so here is your program. The candidates for State Senate in the Suffolk and Norfolk District are;
- Democrats Mike Rush, a state representative from West Roxbury,
- Westwood lawyer Michael F. Walsh,
- Wayne Wilson, a Roslindale Democratic activist.
- Brad Williams, chairman of West Roxbury’s Ward 20 Republican Committee
Avoiding debates is nothing new for Mike Rush nor is blaming his opponent for not having a debate.
Besides shaking Mayor Menino's hand, and inadvertently violating campaign finance law, it's not clear what is keeping Rush from spending time on a debate. According to his campaign facebook page, he has held exactly five (5) events since April 13, and nothing between May 25 and August 19.
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).
Mike Rush speaks, sorta, about the probation scandal involving his father
By adamg - 5/29/10 - 8:32 amThe West Roxbury state rep and would-be Marian Walsh replacement issues a statement to Wicked Local West Roxbury that basically says he's innocent, but can't say more because "I was questioned concerning a civil lawsuit against the state involving my dad and the trial court."
The probation patronage pit
By adamg - 5/23/10 - 9:29 amThe Globe reports on the muck. Also fills in the background on that story about state Rep. Mike Rush (D-West Roxbury) exacting some budgetary payback on a judge.
Pulling a mini-Bulger: Mike Rush shows us blood thicker than water in Massachusetts politics
By adamg - 5/10/10 - 3:30 pmMassachusetts Election 2010 reports how Rush, a West Roxbury state rep who wants to replace state Sen. Marian Walsh, used the budget process to get back at a judge he feels slighted his father, a retired probation officer.
