PACs are evil, except they're not.

Ed Coppinger reports:

It seems 3 days a week for the last month or so there has been a candidate for Mayor or Boston City Council shaking hands at one of the Parkway’s hot-spots. Now I can add Candidate for U.S. Senate to that list.

Coppinger posts a photo of Steve Pagliuca looking admiringly at young ward Matt O'Malley, who used to be a regular at Roche Bros. during his runs for city council.

David Bernstein reports Matt O'Malley is quitting his job as political director of Mass Equality to become a field coordinator for Steve Pagliuca.

Seems Pags was a bit too busy making money with Mitt Romney to bother voting for a decade: Channel 5 posts a copy of his voting record, which shows he voted in exactly one election in the 1990s. Kennedyseat.com says this might be a bit of an issue.

The Outraged Liberal dissects Steve Pagliuca's nascent Senate campaign:

... Unlike Chris Gabrieli, another multimillion candidate of years past, Pagliuca does not even have a record of laboring in the wonk trenches, tackling issues like education.

Rather Pagliuca presents as the ultimate dilettante. His bid to join Jack Connors in buying the Boston Globe rejected, he appears to have turned his attention to another toy to purchase for his personal sandbox. ...

So Pagliuca's in and his paid supporters no doubt gave him a rousing cheer at his announcement. His Web site is up, as well (h/t Kennedy Seat). Call me picky (just not late for dinner), but if you're going to use a Massachusetts outline that's detailed enough to navigate a tanker by, shouldn't you include the Islands, too?

The site has the obligatory YouTube video, which doesn't tell you anything at all, except how to pronounce the candidate's name, but which is filmed in exciting SwivelVision.

Compare with the YouTube video on Mike Capuano's site, which actually tells you the candidate's record (another Kennedy Seat h/t).

Blue Mass. Group reports Mitt Romney BFF Steve Pagliuca was advertising yesterday for attractive people (headshots required) to staff his Senate announcement at the Garden today and, presumably, cheer orgasmically at the end of each of his sentences. $15 an hour.

The Herald reports that Celtics co-owner Steve Pagliuca is thinking about running for open Senate seat as a Democrat.

Ed. I wasn't going to announce this yet announcement: After careful consideration and consultation with my family, I have decided I will not be a candidate for the open Senate seat.