Deval Patrick

Our liveblogging governor

adamg — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 19:22:22 -0400

Deval Patrick blogged answers to real-time questions from his fans earlier today on Blue Mass. Group.

Deval Patrick gets tough

adamg — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 10:14:30 -0400

First state pensioners, now detail-lovin' police, but there's an endgame in mind here and it's not necessarily Washington:

... Make no mistake, Patrick has an election in mind all right. It's the November referendum on Question 1, the income tax repeal. Polls suggest voters are unhappy enough that they could vote their wallet and not their best interests. Sacred cows need to fall.

If that means dealing with upset pensioners and police officers angry because they've been asked to do some dieting along with the rest of the state budget (and there will be a lot of that in the months ahead, particularly if the federal Medicaid waiver is slashed) that drama may only help convince fence sitters that Question 1 is a recipe for disaster. ...

Joan Vennochi gets out her shiv

adamg — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 08:30:20 -0400

So Vennochi writes an entire column on whether the state should throw another one of those no-sales-tax days and then, out of the blue, ends the thing like this:

... What's Patrick really thinking?

Maybe that his friend Barack Obama is going to be president, that he will be going with him to Washington, and that the Massachusetts budget mess will be someone else's problem.

So that's it, then, Joan? Patrick has gotten bored with state government faster than Bill Weld? Or did you just realize on deadline your column on the sales tax was a paragraph short? Or as the Outraged Liberal puts it:

There's a name for stories and columns that praise/criticize an individual for an action that requires group action, then uses the standard political rumor of the day as an explanation for said action.

It's called phoning it in.

What makes the turnpike authority better than the MBTA?

adamg — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 08:42:11 -0400

Third Decade doesn't get why the state plans to rescue the turnpike authority from its crushing debt while refusing to rescue the MBTA from its crushing debt.

The Outraged Liberal asks questions, too:

... Did Cahill -- or Sen. Mark Montigny offer reform suggestions? And how can they be implemented in an agency that operates somewhat independently with a board appointed on staggered terms so that it is not supposed to be in the thrall of one governor. ...

Is Deval Patrick shopping for an official state jet?

adamg — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 20:55:43 -0400

Phillip Greenspun, a pilot who can't stand Patrick, says that's what he's heard - specifically, an $11-million Lear 45, which is designed for flights of more than 2,000 miles.

Governor Deval Patrick proudly supports his lesbian daughter, Katherine

rsiasoco — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 22:57:23 -0400

By now, everyone's heard that Governor Patrick's daughter is a n out and proud lesbian. Good (or planned?) timing with the Boston Pride festivities this weekend. There's a full article on Towleroad, one of my favorite bloggers out there.

Should it be news that the governor's daughter is a lesbian?

adamg — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 14:36:14 -0400

* Yes * No * Dunno * Wha? He has a daughter?

Deval Patrick endorses Day of Fundamentalist Supremacy?

adamg — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 23:07:42 -0400

Blue Mass. Group has the details on a proclamation by Patrick in support of a national prayer day organized by a fundamentalist group that specifically excludes Jews, Muslims, Catholics and even many Protestants from leading its prayer events that day (see its coordinator application).

Is Deval Patrick floundering?

adamg — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 17:42:11 -0400

Not to carp, but the governor looks like his mussels are tiring and he's haddock up to there, coddamnit. Definitely seems like he's in need of a good pint of Bass. Scott Wachtler from the Bulletin Newspapers, Inc. reeled in this photo at yesterday's annual fish release at Jamaica Pond.

Earlier:
Deval Patrick is up to something fishy.

Deval Patrick captured doing something fishy in Jamaica Plain

adamg — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 13:55:11 -0400

Steve Garfield is on the scene with a video camera as Patrick, local kids release fish into Jamaica Pond.