US Senate

Quick: How familiar are you with Elizabeth Warren's upbringing?

By adamg - 11/15/11 - 6:26 am

John Carroll notes what he calls the "chin-strokerati" coverage of the nascent US Senate race by the Globe and other media outlets - they're only writing for other in-the-knowers, not the majority of us. For example, the Globe's constant references to the "now familiar" story of Warren's childhood in Okalahoma:

Ask ten people in the 351 cities and towns of Massachusetts about Elizabeth Warren and 1) 98% won’t know who she is; 2) 99.99% won't know the first thing about her.

Scott Brown's heartbreaking decision to pose nude for Cosmo

By adamg - 10/7/11 - 6:14 am

OK, so Dems get predictably outraged about Scott Brown's public desire to not see Elizabeth Warren naked, but Republicans might want to find a better way to respond than praising Brown's decision to pose nude for a sex-advice rag as an example of an agonizing decision he courageously made.

Yes, Elizabeth Warren is running for the Senate

By adamg - 9/14/11 - 7:03 am

Her announcement. Maybe now that she's officially in the race, she'll stop treating all of her campaign stops, such as her formal announcement at the Broadway T stop this morning, as state secrets (reporters were told in advance, of course, but only on the condition they not tell anybody).

Apparently, nobody in the Globe newsroom remembers Michael Connolly

By adamg - 8/7/11 - 11:44 am

The Globe today profiles Tom Conroy, a Wayland state rep who is walking across the state in his bid to run against Scott Brown next year:

The three-term state representative from Wayland is believed to be the first candidate in the state to walk its entirety seeking votes, drawing inspiration from Lawton Chiles, a legendary Florida politician who traversed his state 41 years ago in a similar underdog campaign that vaulted him from the state Senate into the US Senate.

Tsk. In 1978, Michael Connolly, then a Roslindale state rep, walked across the state in his successful run for secretary of state. It's in the Globe archives (articles on Aug. 24 and Sept. 14 of that year; yeah, I looked it up). And it was actually Connolly's second walk from Bay to Berkshires - he'd done it the year before, to collect signatures for a term-limit ballot question.

Newton mayors' terms keep getting shorter

By adamg - 5/9/11 - 11:19 am

First was Mayor for Life Ted Mann. Then came Mayor Until Newton North David Cohen.

Today, Mayor For a Year and A Bit Setti Warren tweeted he's running for the US Senate seat now held by Scott Brown in next year's elections.

If not Rachel Maddow, how about Elizabeth Warren to run against Brown?

By adamg - 2/16/11 - 6:53 am

There's a boomlet on the left drumstick of the body politic for the Harvard professor turned Washington consumer advocate.

The Herald, meanwhile, reports Salem Mayor Kimberley Driscoll is considering a bid.

Scott Brown to the people who helped get him elected: Thftpt!

By adamg - 4/12/10 - 7:34 am

Brown to give Tea Party rally in Boston a pass; flack earns pay by claiming senator who found time to campaign for John McCain in Arizona now too busy to show up in the largest city in his state.

How Scott Brown is helping the Globe stay afloat

By adamg - 3/26/10 - 9:40 am

By giving Rachel Maddow a reason to buy a full-page ad in the paper.