Treasurer
Billy Bulger endorses Steve Murphy
By adamg - 8/16/10 - 8:36 pmMike Ball reports on a time for Murphy at Townsend's in Hyde Park tonight.
Meet the candidates in one of the races you probably don't care about: State Treasurer
By adamg - 8/15/10 - 7:55 amThe Globe introduces us to the people running for state treasurer this year:
Democrats Steve Grossman and Steve Murphy and Republican state Representative Karyn Polito are vying for the open treasurer's seat by trying to differentiate themselves based on their financial credentials, investment philosophies, and independence.
Steve Murphy's Web site highlights how he went to Boston Latin
By adamg - 5/31/10 - 3:26 pm
UPDATE: The Murphy folks have reverted to a more boring, if safer, "Coming Soon" Web site. So no more chance to edit pages or read "lorem ipsum."
Or, if one were feeling less than charitable, one might suggest the Web site shows he needs to hire Web consultants who understand the concept of "staging server" and the importance of not putting up pages that any idiot can change the content on (see that "Edit" button below? It actually works, or, at least, did a couple minutes before I started typing this):
Maybe his cell phone was dead
By adamg - 4/30/10 - 11:51 amDemocrat Steve Grossman uses Twitter to accept Republican Karyn Polito's challenge to debate in the race for state treasurer:
... Let's talk jobs, holding big banks accountable, & protecting people's $. When & where?
Now let's see if Polito tweets back.
Tweet for Treasurer
By massmarrier - 4/30/10 - 11:33 amReal-time politics, eh? I see that Karyn Polito got a tweet on her website dare to Steve Grossman's Twitter. He just responded to a debate challenge with:
@karyn4treasurer, I accept your invitation to debate. Let’s talk jobs, holding big banks accountable, & protecting people’s $. When & where? 16 minutes ago via web
Game on, boys and girls. Now, she'll have to come up with some substance to match his specific and elaborate proposals.
Apparently, until today, Steve Grossman was only unofficially running for treasurer
By adamg - 4/28/10 - 4:12 pmMike Ball reports from today's kickoff speech by the former Democratic moneyman who wants to become the official state moneyman. Ball includes Grossman's platform, which is more than just wanting to sign state checks.
Bonus: Mike reports an appearance by fabled Boston socialite Smoki Bacon.
The drinking man's candidate for state treasurer
By adamg - 4/18/10 - 1:33 pm
Looks like Steve Murphy's got the Hyde Park bar-crowd vote sewn up. If nothing else, Murphy, a Boston city councilor unable to ever get elected to anything else, should do well in his base in Boston's southern tier.
We all have hobbies - Steve Murphy's is running for higher office in off years
By adamg - 2/4/10 - 3:35 pmWicked Local Roslindale reports Councilor Steve Murphy is definitely running for state treasurer. This time around, he'd first have to defeat Steve Grossman to take on a Republican for the right to succeed Tim Cahill, who is himself trying to move up.
So how come hardly any Democrats are running to replace Treasurer Tim?
By adamg - 2/2/10 - 9:04 amSteve Poftak wonders: Is Steve Grossman that intimidating? On the Democratic side so far it's Democratic moneyman Grossman and, maybe, Steve Murphy, who seems unable to leave the confines of the Boston City Council. In contrast, the Republicans have three candidates for one of those jobs that makes you wonder why it's still elected.
Joe Connolly drops out of race for treasurer
By adamg - 1/18/10 - 7:37 pmYeah, we went "Who?" also.
