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Tim Cahill indicted

adamg — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 17:11:08 +0000

The Globe reports a Suffolk County grand jury indicted him on charges he used $1.65 million in lottery ads to boost his campaign for governor in 2010.

Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell is Vagina Probe Guy

Anonymous — Sun, 26 Feb 2012 06:41:33 +0000

This week in the GOP war on women's health.

Campaign roundup: The epilogue

adamg — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 11:22:37 +0000

Barney 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

adamg — Mon, 01 Nov 2010 22:34:58 +0000

Democrats 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

adamg — Sun, 31 Oct 2010 14:16:16 +0000

But 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

adamg — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 13:30:47 +0000

Latest 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

adamg — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 12:31:54 +0000

Mike 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

adamg — Tue, 26 Oct 2010 11:26:06 +0000

With 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?

adamg — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 11:12:35 +0000

Associated 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

adamg — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 11:20:16 +0000

Look 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?

adamg — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 11:22:48 +0000

You'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

adamg — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 12:19:14 +0000

Mike 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.

Campaign roundup: An election tomorrow, Big Dig stuff and, finally, candidate fashion sense

adamg — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 11:59:43 +0000

Election tomorrow! Well, for city council in District 6 (West Roxbury, JP and pieces of Roslindale and Mission Hill), at any rate. Will turnout get into double digits?

The Globe says Patrick should stop blaming Baker for MBTA fare increases. But at least Patrick didn't sign documents saying the Big Dig would only cost $7.7 billion when he knew it would cost more than $11 billion. The Herald reports Patrick took donations from gambling lobbyists.

The Herald also shows the sort of gritty courage we expect from a scrappy tabloid: It dares to compare the fashion sense of the three men running for governor:

Campaign roundup: Baker supporter explains why Baker is doomed

adamg — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 10:29:55 +0000

Sam Obar is not happy with his man's camapaign:

We are now less than three weeks away, and I know for a fact many people, including many I have spoken to, still have no idea who Baker is. He has not gotten his message out to voters, he has not highlighted his record at Harvard Pilgrim, and he has not promptly and properly responded to accusations against him about his work on the Big Dig. He has also done a shoddy job indeed of utilizing the media to reach out to voters.

Tom Reilly knows how to hold a grudge.

Oh, noes, how will Massachusetts residents learn we have the best lottery in the country?

I'm a liar? You're a liar! Brad Marston wonders how the head of the Back Bay Association can call him a liar when she gave as much as she could to incumbent Marty Walz two years ago.

Bielat wants Frank to release an ethics report on his trip to the Virgin Islands.

Scott Brown likes all the Republicans running for Congress, even un-birther Hudak.

Campaign roundup: Tim Cahill remains in toaster set to extra dark; Back Bay group calls Marston a liar

adamg — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 12:11:50 +0000

The Globe reports why Tim Cahill may have wanted to block publication of those e-mails (he failed):

Politically explosive e-mails released yesterday by former aides to state Treasurer Timothy P. Cahill appear to show Cahill's top campaign advisers trying to make sure that a million-dollar, taxpayer-funded ad blitz for the state lottery also benefited Cahill's independent gubernatorial bid.