governor
Campaign roundup: The epilogue
By adamg - 11/3/10 - 6:22 amBarney Frank spent much of his victory speech last night complaining about Republicans, added: "Massachusetts has reaffirmed the complete political irrelevance of the Boston Herald." A Republican operative who writes a column for the Herald retorts: I'm irrelevant? You're irrelevant!
WBUR sums up the blue wave that swept Massachusetts. At Blue Mass. Group, David sees in the Massachusetts vote an answer to the Tea Party wave:
Patrick says he's sick of Baker
By adamg - 11/1/10 - 5:34 pmDemocrats held a get-out-the-vote rally in Adams Park in Roslindale Square this afternoon. All the party bigwigs were there, along with assorted union members and party activists. Gov. Deval Patrick told them he's had enough of 15 months of Charlie Baker:
Congressman Mike Capuano warned Republicans not to count Democrats out:
Campaign roundup: Republicans looking for gains in Massachusetts
By adamg - 10/31/10 - 9:16 amBut first, this musical interlude:
Republicans are dreaming big in Massachusetts this year.
Gubernatorial candidates offer their ideas on the economy. The Herald-Republican rides the bus with Scott Brown, is most impressed. Watch Baker at his Foxboro rally.
Campaign update: Baker claims it's neck and neck, which means his campaign is collapsing
By adamg - 10/29/10 - 8:30 amLatest Suffolk poll shows Patrick 7 points ahead. Baker campaign bravely says their own polling shows a dead-even race, which a reporter with an attention span longer than 30 seconds reports really means the Baker campaign is now in free fall.
Campaign roundup: Apparently the Secretary of State's office is shortstaffed, because Bill Galvin has to do everything himself
By adamg - 10/28/10 - 7:31 amMike Ball reports on Jim Henderson's press conference outside Suffolk Law School. Who he? He's the independent running against Bill Galvin, who didn't want to see his shadow and participate in a forum at the school. OK, OK, Galvin tells the Globe because he couldn't take 90 minutes out of his busy day for a debate.
Video from a congressional forum sponsored by the Republican Jewish Coalition in Brookline last night. One of the attendees was parodist un-birther Hudak, who withdrew his Tierney's-mean-to-me lawsuit yesterday.
Campaign roundup: Sticks and stones may break my bones, but lawsuits are awfully satisfying
By adamg - 10/26/10 - 6:26 amWith one week left in the campaign, what have we learned? That every candidate for every office everywhere is a slavering, fanged troll who eats live babies and puppies as snacks, except for that nice Steve Grossman. He's such a mensch.
Speaking of slavering, fanged trolls, don't say mean things about un-birther Bill Hudak or he'll sue you.
Campaign roundup: Charlie Baker's smoking memo?
By adamg - 10/25/10 - 6:12 amAssociated Press uncovers a memo from Baker to then boss Paul Celllucci, urging him to sit on news of escalating Big Dig costs until after Cellucci beat Scott Harshbarger back in the day. Tony ponders:
Baker advocated that the financial mess the Big Dig was causing for the state be hidden from the public until after the election in November 1998. Yes, Charlie Baker advised Governor Paul Cellucci to hide important information from the public, the taxpayers, the citizens, the voters of Massachusetts to assure the the reelection of his boss. This is a condescending, insulting attitude and a perfect example of the politics of lies.
The Herald reports the two major candidates for governor are dogged by questions in the final week of the campaign: Baker by Jeff Perry, Patrick by job losses.
Campaign roundup: The mystery of the state's unemployment numbers
By adamg - 10/22/10 - 6:20 amLook for the Dems to crow that the state's unemployment rate is down and the Republicans to thunder about how the number of jobless increased. The Globe attempts to explain how that could happen; the Herald gleefully predicts the crushing job-loss news will crush Deval Patrick's chances.
Campaign roundup: How do you ignore the biggest political story of the day?
By adamg - 10/21/10 - 6:22 amYou're an editor for a metropolitan daily. Which story do you put on the front page: Jeff Perry and the strip search or Barney Frank lending his campaign some money? If you're the Herald, you go with the latter (don't forget to throw in some stuff about how Frank is "panic stricken") and ignore the former (save for a Margery Egan column declaring Perry is a cretin).
Campaign roundup: Bill Galvin emerges from burrow, sees shadow, six more weeks of fall
By adamg - 10/19/10 - 7:19 amMike Ball reports on a rare live public appearance by Secretary of State for Life Bill Galvin.
Hey, West Roxbury and Jamaica Plain peeps: Today's the very special preliminary election for city council, so go vote.
