Hey, John! is a blog aimed at convincing John Kerry to give up some of the millions in campaign funds he's sitting on so Democrats can win this year.

Via W. A. Hurd, who notes that Rep. Marty Meehan, facing no competition this year, is also sitting on a large wad of cash.

Michael Gee, late of the Herald, rips into the Globe in general, and Brian McGrory in particular, for the coverage of last night's gubernatorial debate:

"And Grace Ross?" McGrory wrote of the Green party candidate last night. "She seems really nice. But let's step beyond the political correctness and admit that she has none of the support and qualifications that entitle her to a spot on the stage. She's a distraction and she no longer belongs." ...

Joe Dwinell is posting away.

Mass. GOP News puts together a Deval Patrick word-search game that wittily ties Patrick to alleged perv David Scondras.

So Romney tells Wolf Blitzer Massachusetts is going blue in the governor's race.

Debate on Thursday starting at 7 p.m. on, well, pretty much every channel. All four candidates will be there.

Gun-owner group supports Healey, and for all you cops crying about how this undercuts urban crime fighting, Hub Politics says: yeah, that Boston gun buyback really worked to curb violent crime, huh?

Blue Mass. Group blogs Bill Clinton's pro-Patrick appearance in Boston tonight. Also notes some Herald body blows on Healey.

Hub Politics notes: The Healey campaign doesn't see Clinton's visit as particularly helpful for Patrick because, after all, only loonie leftists care what he has to say.

Jon Keller wonders how Patrick turned into a loser and wonders why Patrick can't seem to stop Healey from setting the agenda (Keller is, of course, completely silent on the role of the media in all this).

Blue Mass. Group wishes the media would get it right: Patrick didn't actually accuse Kerry Healey's campaign of calling up the Herald - only that whoever did do it was practicing the politics of Kerry Healey. So there.

Dan Kennedy tells us what we know at the moment on the Patrick brother-in-law story: The Herald claims the state started looking into it after the Globe called, but then the Globe didn't think there was a story, so somebody dropped a dime to the Herald, which, of course, felt it was vital for voters to know about something that Patrick had nothing to do with.

The Healey campaign, of course, is just shocked that anybody would think it had anything to do with the affair.

Jay Fitzgerald on the latest poll numbers: Sure, the attack ads hurt, but Patrick still has a double digit lead:

... What candidate for any office wouldn't love an 18 percent lead at this point in a campaign? Healey will have to do much, much more than hammer away at a somewhat manufactured coddling-criminals topic that few thought was a major issue just a couple weeks ago. ...

True, Jay, but who is controlling the agenda for the election? Not Patrick.