Bob DeLeo

Lazy-assed legislators break early for Christmas

adamg — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:34:13 +0000

The Outraged Liberal sums up the current contretemps on Beacon Hill.

Menino could get wish: Legislature looks closer to approving casinos

adamg — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 13:22:52 +0000

And what better place to put a "resort casino" than Suffolk Downs?

Unlike Sal DiMasi, who managed to quash casinos, successor Bob DeLeo favors them.

Tom Menino has long supported a casino in Boston - two years ago, he backed a casino at the racetrack - and repeated that support earlier this week at a candidate's forum in the Back Bay, saying it would help create jobs.

Bizarro Bob DeLeo and cars

adamg — Sat, 09 May 2009 18:10:04 +0000

David explains why Bob DeLeo is completely wrong - and Christy Mihos is right - when it comes to that private program that rehabs old cars and gives them to welfare recipients who need them to get off welfare and to a job.

It's DeLeo's world and Patrick is just living in it

adamg — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 12:05:29 +0000

House passes sales-tax increase by veto-proof margin.

Mike Ball asks that you call your legislators and tell them that's meaningless without reform: Don't let those clowns think they've done enough!

The Outraged Liberal says Patrick could win the war for losing this battle: Patrick either ultimately gets the reforms he wants from the legislature or he has a ready-made issue to use against Republican Christy Mihos next year:

... Higher turnpike polls become lawmakers' problems and they will have hell to pay for the next round of MBTA service cuts and fare hikes. Not to mention they will own the crumbling roads and bridges.

Patrick's popularity numbers may be in the tank, but no politician has ever gone wrong running against the legislature or Congress. The beleaguered Patrick has put an important downpayment on his campaign by taking a stand here. ...

Blue Mass. Group has the roll call vote.

When policy wonks get mad

adamg — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 13:18:00 +0000

Deval Patrick came out of a meeting with Therese Murray and Bob DeLeo and said he angrily wagged his gubernatorial finger at them for failing to squeeze enough reform and money out of state transportation agencies. Murray replied:

I'm a little confused. He just gave us a spreadsheet, and we said we'd go and look at it.

You do that, Ms. Murray. See if you can miss the angry red borders around all those cells.

So what color carpets should be in our new casinos?

adamg — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 14:20:35 +0000

Jon Chesto notes that among the leadership changes pro-casino Speaker Bob DeLeo announced yesterday was moving anti-casino Rep. Dan Bosley out of his job as co-chair of the economic-development committee:

... Even if Bosley chooses to continue to speak out against casinos, his voice will carry considerably less weight now that he’s been pushed out of his committee chairmanship.

What Marty Peretz doesn't know about Massachusetts could fill an entire copy of the New Republic

adamg — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 18:06:15 +0000

Peretz hears about our new speaker of the house and concludes that his election proves Massachusetts is lurching to the right, in part because only Massachusetts liberals like DiMasi opposed casinos (as opposed, to say, Massachusetts conservatives like Patrick?).

Michael Jonas reads Peretz's musings (which also insist that New York is lurching to the right) and concludes that Peretz should stop making such an idiot of himself.