Steve Pagliuca

Imagine if Theo Epstein ran for Senate

adamg — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 22:22:00 +0000

Steve Pagliuca plans to tour the state by bus this weekend - along with the 2008 NBA championship trophy.

Final Democratic candidate debate for the US Senate special election

Kaz — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 16:05:06 +0000

The final debate for the Democrats' primary election will occur this Wednesday (12/2) for one hour starting at 7 PM at the NECN studio in Newton. The Globe, WBUR, WGBH-TV, and NECN are sponsoring the debate and RD Sahl of NECN will be the moderator (Details at Blue Mass Group). You will be able to get live coverage of the debate on NECN, WGBH-TV, and WBUR.

Enough with the phone spam, Pagliuca!

Kaz — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 18:39:56 +0000

I have received mid-day unsoliticed political calls (using minutes on my cell phone no less) for Steve Pagliuca on Thursday, Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday now too. I'm almost positive I recieved one or two prior to Thursday as well but I can't find those as readily in my cell phone's call log.

Enough is enough. Not only is it flat out annoying to receive these calls while I'm at work, but on top of that, they're coming from seemingly random 3-digit "phone numbers" on my caller ID so it's impossible to identify the caller. Then, the other day, one of them came from a DC number.

Am I the only one who is finding this to just be overkill and completely annoying? Is it illegal for a political campaign call to intentionally misidentify their caller ID information?

Senate candidates and the Catholic Church

adamg — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 13:05:35 +0000

The Globe provides the fight coverage.

Jay Fitzgerald thinks Coakley and Capuano delivered solid upper cuts with their references to the pedophilia scandals:

... [T]hey were extremely effective, well-chosen punches that make it hard for the church to respond. …

Steve Pagliuca's self-made Gordian knot

adamg — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 13:34:53 +0000

PACs are evil, except they're not.

Is Spring Street Dunkin' Donuts replacing Roche Bros. as Westie political hangout?

adamg — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 13:12:04 +0000

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.

Pagliuca hires good guy

adamg — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 19:31:19 +0000

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

Pagliuca doesn't have much of a voting record

adamg — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 00:32:05 +0000

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.

Sure, Chris Gabrieli was rich, too, but at least he had a record

adamg — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 16:17:54 +0000

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. ...

Steve Pagliuca's never been to Martha's Vineyard?

adamg — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 20:09:15 +0000

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).

The best volunteers money can buy

adamg — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 12:44:54 +0000

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.

Talk about a Green candidate for Senate

adamg — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 21:54:48 +0000

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.