attorney general

Campaign roundup: Bill Galvin has an intense fear of public speaking

By adamg - 10/27/10 - 7:17 am

That's one possible explanation for why the Prince of Darkness refuses to debate his opponents.

Speaking of debates, Frank and Bielat debate at 3 p.m. today on WBUR. You can submit questions.

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Campaign roundup: Mother of Louise Woodward's victim to endorse Coakley

By adamg - 10/12/10 - 7:51 am

Debbie Eappen, whose son Matthew died at the hands of au pair Louise Woodward back in 1997, will join with DAs Dan Conley (Suffolk) and Gerry Leone (Middlesex) to endorse Martha Coakley for re-election as attorney general, today at 10:30 a.m. at Faneuil Hall. In 1997, Coakley was Middlesex DA and prosecuted the case against Woodward.

Apparently, Charlie Baker's eyes scare women. Wicked Local conducts your basic wide-ranging interview with Deval Patrick.

The Herald reports on a pair of debates between Barney Frank and Sean Bielat. WBUR's Fred Thys writes Bielat "held his own," proved to be no mere dining-room table.

The Tea Party has a candidate for attorney general

By adamg - 7/24/10 - 12:37 pm

He's Guy Carbone, former commissioner of the MDC (remember that?), big fan of Arizona and a gun-owning opponent of national health care. He's also apparently been running since May - as a sticker candidate - to get on the Republican ballot, which is currently vacant, since nobody bothered to collect enough signatures or get the state convention to endorse them.

Carbone ran for attorney general in 1990, as well.

Barbara Anderson, no fan of the current AG, is no fan of this sticker campaign, either:

... Instead of working to elect Congressional, governor, Senate and House candidates who actually had the foresight to get on the ballot, let's run around in circles getting 200,000 people to put stickers on ballots. You can even raise money to mail stickers to all state Republicans instead of contributing that amount to a viable existing campaign! (Then most of them will forget to take the stickers with them on primary day, if they vote at all). ...

Let's not forget the other Republican sticker candidate for the job: Jim McKenna.

Martha Coakley could have Republican opponent after all

By adamg - 7/20/10 - 2:59 pm

The Worcester Telegram reports James McKenna, a Millbury lawyer, is talking to Republican officials about running a write-in campaign in the September primaries so he can get on the November ballot to run against Coakley.

We'll have Jack E. Robinson to kick around again

By adamg - 3/12/10 - 3:39 pm

MassBeacon.com reports everybody's favorite perennial candidate has decided to run for something this year, after all: Attorney general.

Coakley sets out agenda if re-elected

By adamg - 2/14/10 - 1:39 pm

Richard Howe reports on yesterday's Lowell Democratic caucus, which included a visit from Attorney General Martha Coakley, who addressed the blue throng.

Poor Martha Coakley: Even the governor is ignoring her, at least on health-care costs

By adamg - 2/11/10 - 9:45 am

Paul Levy, CEO at Beth Israel Deaconess (and, yes, a Charlie Baker backer), explains why Deval Patrick's attempt to regulate health-insurance premiums will fail because it ignores the monopolistic overhead charged by archrival Partners HealthCare - a factor Coakley noted in a report released just two weeks ago.

Maybe Charlie Baker didn't want him reading about insurers paying too much

By adamg - 1/29/10 - 9:09 am

The Outraged Liberal got outraged this morning trying to read a Globe story about insurers paying certain hospitals too much money for care that isn't really any better, because an ad for former Harvard-Pilgrim CEO turned gubernatorial hopeful Charlie Baker popped up right over the text.

Tinker Ready, meanwhile, wonders why Attorney General Martha Coakley plans on releasing this report without naming the hospitals that provide Chevy services at Cadillac prices; seems like a massively general hospital overview like that doesn't do much good in solving the issues it raises - which apparently also says hospitals that provide the most care for poor people get paid even less.