Red Mass. Group reports on the McCain staffers now working for Treasurer Tim.

Blue Mass. Group reports on how Baker campaign manager Lenny Alcivar finds the time to send snarky Twitter messages to Treasurer Tim's daughters.

The Herald reports; doesn't say what happened to the kid who wrote Patrick after the governor left the unidentified school.

Both Red Mass. Group and the Outraged Liberal agree: Tim Cahill lacks any substance in a Globe survey piece on dealing with the state's fiscal crisis.

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.

Megan Johnson provides the proof.

Hokay. She got 2% of the vote as a Green last time around, but apparently Jill Stein already has that nomination sewn up.

Maybe his campaign song could be Lien on Me.

Via Jay Fitzgerald:

I like Christy Mihos. He's Massachusetts' very own loose cannon, in the most positive sense, keeping establishment pols on their toes, especially when he served on the old Turnpike board. But this isn't good. We all have our own financial problems. But he's running for governor. ...

You might be forgiven for coming to that conclusion after reading this Globe story about consultants who say he's not paying them for work on his gubernatorial bid.

Jill Stein will find out.