2010 elections
Capuano is taking questions Monday 6:30 Park Plaza Hotel, Boston
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A Twitter list for people obsessing over the Senate race
Hey, now that the mayor's race is over, right? MAsenate gets you the latest tweets from the four Democrats and two Republicans and KennedySeat.com.
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Mass. Republicans have the best attack ads
The latest is from Scott Brown. Not quite up there with Jack E. Robinson's "Vote Out the Lynch-pin" or Christy Miho's walking-butts ads, but on such short notice, it'll do:
In case you missed them, here are Robinson's and Mihos's contributions to the ouevre:
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Politician you've never heard of running for office you've never paid attention to
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Senate debate
Your thoughts.
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Go figure: We still have a candidate who opposes casinos
Ever since Sal DiMasi left, it's seemed like everybody who might ever put their photo on glossy stock and mail that out to thousands of people has bought into the idea of casinos or die. Alan Khazei, running for Senate, though, told the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce this morning that he opposes casinos:
... I understand that people are hurting and need work, but we can create good, high-paying jobs in green industries and clean energy, supporting small business and emphasizing health care, education, bio-tech, tourism, and other industries where Massachusetts has a competitive advantage. New gambling machines prey especially on primarily low-income families and people suffering from addiction - the very people who are struggling the most in this terrible economy. ...
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Did the Herald blow Martha Coakley's response to an inane question completely out of context?
At Blue Mass. Group, David Kravits makes the case. At issue: What Coakley said in response to some question by Janet Wu on Channel 5's new political show. Speaking of which, KennedySeat.com wonders when the adults will show up on the show:
... In the three episodes of this show I have watched (I skipped Christy), I have continually been struck by how the guests just run circles around the hosts, who are clearly overmatched. Even Pagliuca, who is a neophyte in the political world, handled the Channel 5 team easily. ...
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Car-crashing grope denier could get onto Senate ballot
The Herald reports Jack E. Robinson filed 10,900 signatures at the last minute to get onto the Republican ballot for the special Senate election. As long as 10,000 of those signatures - which the Herald says he spent $100,000 to collect - are valid, he'll face off against Swearin' Scott Brown in the primary.
Ever the optimists, Red Mass. Group explains why this will actually help Brown win the final election.
Speaking of Brown, the Herald reports the ex-Cosmo model is married to an ex-"murderous, bikini-clad vixen" from a Digney Fignus video, or, in other words, Channel 5 reporter Gail Huff.
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First Democratic Senate debate excludes the average person
Josh Dawson is upset that the first debate among the contenders for Ted Kennedy's Senate seat has a $50 admission fee:
... I, personally, as a representative of the Boston Ward 5 Democratic Committee, along with representative from at least 15 other Democratic Ward Committees in Boston ..., tried to organize a candidate's forum, but was told by two of the front-running campaigns that there was some sort of conflict. Maybe if we would have charged $50 per person, we could have had some luck.
In a period when elected officials are being attacked for not representing the interests of average people, I think this was a political faux-pas.
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Can newspapers fight a two-front war?
The Outraged Liberal, who doesn't live in Boston, wonders if the Boston papers could carve out a couple of inches of mayoral coverage to ask Steve Pagliuca about Afghanistan - or Martha Coakley about anything:
... I know circulation and viewership is down and so is staffing, but is it really impossible to cover both the mayoral race that affects about 600,000 people and the Senate primaries that affects the remaining 6 million of us?
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