Tim Cahill

Two indicted over Cahill fundraising

adamg — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 20:05:07 +0000

Treasurer Tim's former chief of staff and the former state probation commissioner were indicted today on charges they organized a campaign fundraiser for Cahill in 2005 in return for a job at the Massachusetts State Lottery for the commissioner’s wife, state Attorney General Martha Coakley announced.

Scott Campbell, 40, Cahill's chief of staff, was also charged with concealing the identity of donors to Cahill's failed gubernatorial bid last year. Campbell and ex-probation head John O'Brien were also charged with soliciting funds for the Cahill campaign despite a state law that prohbits unelected state employees from doing so.

Innocent, etc.

Campaign roundup: The mystery of the state's unemployment numbers

adamg — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 11:20:16 +0000

Look for the Dems to crow that the state's unemployment rate is down and the Republicans to thunder about how the number of jobless increased. The Globe attempts to explain how that could happen; the Herald gleefully predicts the crushing job-loss news will crush Deval Patrick's chances.

Campaign roundup: Baker supporter explains why Baker is doomed

adamg — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 10:29:55 +0000

Sam Obar is not happy with his man's camapaign:

We are now less than three weeks away, and I know for a fact many people, including many I have spoken to, still have no idea who Baker is. He has not gotten his message out to voters, he has not highlighted his record at Harvard Pilgrim, and he has not promptly and properly responded to accusations against him about his work on the Big Dig. He has also done a shoddy job indeed of utilizing the media to reach out to voters.

Tom Reilly knows how to hold a grudge.

Oh, noes, how will Massachusetts residents learn we have the best lottery in the country?

I'm a liar? You're a liar! Brad Marston wonders how the head of the Back Bay Association can call him a liar when she gave as much as she could to incumbent Marty Walz two years ago.

Bielat wants Frank to release an ethics report on his trip to the Virgin Islands.

Scott Brown likes all the Republicans running for Congress, even un-birther Hudak.

Campaign roundup: Tim Cahill remains in toaster set to extra dark; Back Bay group calls Marston a liar

adamg — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 12:11:50 +0000

The Globe reports why Tim Cahill may have wanted to block publication of those e-mails (he failed):

Politically explosive e-mails released yesterday by former aides to state Treasurer Timothy P. Cahill appear to show Cahill's top campaign advisers trying to make sure that a million-dollar, taxpayer-funded ad blitz for the state lottery also benefited Cahill's independent gubernatorial bid.

The treasurer and the e-mails

adamg — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 22:32:19 +0000

Treasurer Tim got a temporary restraining order today, barring some former aides from doing anything with e-mail they allegedly have.

He charges they conspired with Republicans to derail his campaign and says the e-mails have campaign details in them. Republicans charge the e-mails have evidence Cahill was illegally getting workers at the state treasury to do political work for his campaign.

Democrats should be charging for popcorn.

Tim Cahill's pop-up timer just activated

adamg — Fri, 01 Oct 2010 13:40:20 +0000

So get the fork ready. Associated Press reports the guy who'd been running for lieutenant governor with Treasurer Tim just quit the ticket and endorsed Charlie Baker.

Debate thoughts

adamg — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 00:08:02 +0000

What did you think?

My big takeaway was that Jill Stein seemed like an afterthought; she was the only one who didn't really get to enunciate what it was she stood for, besides not being one of the other three. Still not sure if that's because she wasn't able to do so or because she seemed to get a lot less opportunity to talk in the first half of the debate.

Associated Press report.

Charlie get angry

adamg — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 17:54:39 +0000

Charlie get mad.
Give me the biggest lecture I ever had.
I want a brave man, I want a cave man.
Charlie, show me that you care, really care for me.
Every time you debated me,
You let Timmy cut in constantly,
When he'd ask, you'd never speak.
Must you always be so meek?

Guess not.

Credit where credit is due. And kazoos!

Deadblogging the first gubernatorial debate

adamg — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 10:14:17 +0000

John Carroll watched the debate so you didn't have to:

Glossary, Please

David Tuerck? Michael Widmer? The Pacheco Law? The Connector?

Are the candidates so out of touch they think the average voter knows what they're talking about when they just toss out those names?

Memo to gubernatorial hopefuls: You’re done with the insiders. It's real people you need to talk to now.

Richard Howe analyzes the debate. Contrarian David Bernstein gives props to Tim Cahill.

Globe: Patrick, Baker take their shots and Cahill often pushed to the sidelines.
Herald: Charlie Baker, Deval Patrick trade blows.

If you missed the first gubernatorial debate

adamg — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 00:53:48 +0000

Channel 4 has posted the video.

Treasurer Tim has some money issues

adamg — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 13:04:16 +0000

The Globe reports his campaign failed to pay some taxes. Also, the Globe reports, his ads about the scandal-free lottery leaves out the part about a scandal involving the lottery.

Baker, Cahill oppose Cape Wind deal

adamg — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 12:43:32 +0000

Even Green Party candidate Jill Stein took a few tilts at the windmill deal, in a debate yesterday, the Globe reports.

John Carroll has more.

Pro-life group: Tim Cahill bamboozled us!

adamg — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 14:19:45 +0000

With Tim Cahill insisting he hasn't changed his pro-choice stance on abortion, Mass. Citizens for Life is left trying to figure out how its PAC came to endorse him (still, worth noting that Tim hasn't restored abortion rights as one of his core values.).

Tim Cahill: Abortion flip-flopper

adamg — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 02:06:36 +0000

Rob Eno shows us how Tim Cahill's campaign deleted the sentence "I believe in and support a woman's right to choose" from the "core values" page on his Web site sometime between May 25 and his endorsement today by Mass. Citizens for Life, which called him the only pro-life candidate for governor.

Tim Cahill panders to tea partiers

adamg — Fri, 28 May 2010 03:18:19 +0000

Mike Durant covers the brouhaha over Cahill basically calling every Muslim in the state a terrorist.