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Maura Hennigan

By kryst3000 - 11/3/05 - 1:44 pm

Greetings,

My name is Paul Rice, and I'm the managing editor for Spare Change News, an alternative newspaper in the Boston area serving the homeless community.

My purpose here is two-fold: first, to include our campaign coverage among the various posts here on how the media are portraying the city election -- the latest edition of SCN has in-depth coverage of the election that readers should find useful in determining how they will vote November 8th. We have profiles of various candidates, as well as answers to eight questions we submitted to the mayoral and at-large candidates that cover issues other publications ignore.

By adamg - 11/3/05 - 11:51 am

Less than resounding endorsement from the Phoenix, but better than nothing: basically, Menino's gotten soft and tired and Hennigan's at least as qualified as Menino was 12 years ago. Also getting the paper's nod: Sam Yoon, John Connolly, Patricia White and Felix Arroyo. As well as Susan Passoni in the South End/South Boston, John Tobin, sort of, in JP and West Roxbury and Jerry McDermott in Allston/Brighton.

By adamg - 11/1/05 - 12:41 pm

Maura Hennigan rolls out new TV ads that portray Boston as completely unprepared for earthquakes, hurricanes, terrorists and the release of bioweapons.

Will Councilor Charles Yancey endorse Hennigan today?

The Globe makes its at-large endorsements: Connolly, Yoon, Arroyo and Flaherty.

By adamg - 10/31/05 - 5:03 pm

Arrgh!Will progressives and minority voters bullet vote for Arroyo and Yoon (to help the former get more votes than Flaherty and the latter get on the council)? Will Maura Hennigan be able to pay off her second mortgage?

Meanwhile, the Globe makes endorsements in district council races - all incumbents except for Susan Passoni in the South End/South Boston.

Above right: Artist's rendition of Felix Arroyo, if Arroyo dressed up as a pirate for Halloween.

By adamg - 10/29/05 - 11:48 pm

Craig is compiling a series of true facts, such as:

... Tom Menino toured with Depeche Mode for a brief period in the late 1980's.

Maura Hennigan once killed a man with her bare hands over a parking spot at Home Depot. ...

By adamg - 10/28/05 - 8:46 am

Hennigan, Flynn (Ray, that is) hit Menino for not attending a South Boston meeting on crime after that poor woman's death.

Menino stands on his record; Hennigan takes aim at his flaws.

At-large candidates debated in West Roxbury.

By adamg - 10/27/05 - 7:55 am

Tom Menino, who once said he would serve only two terms, might be looking toward 2009. At least, he hasn't ruled it out, not even after seeing those ambivalent poll numbers.

By adamg - 10/25/05 - 11:11 am

The Herald reports that election-law guy with the legal problems has quit. You can also read the Globe's catch-up piece.

No fluffy Globe pieces today on at-large candidates' preferred finger foods.

By adamg - 10/25/05 - 9:39 am

Chasing the Herald, the Globe reports today that the mayor is reducing the use of unmarked cars by city officials. Carpundit says the issue won't help the challenger in this year's mayoral race:

By adamg - 10/24/05 - 9:50 am

Catching up on the news (was down in Connecticut yesterday; it happens):

By adamg - 10/21/05 - 1:40 pm

For the second day in a row, Brian McGrory actually gets off his tuchus and does some real reporting, this time to check out Maura Hennigan's assertion that the path around Jamaica Pond is a rubble-strewn minefield. McGrory discovers it's not.

By adamg - 10/21/05 - 9:17 am

So the Boston PD suddenly won't release crime statistics and won't let people see precinct police logs (which are public records)? Call Jay a cynic, but:

... I have little doubt if the numbers had pointed in another direction, we would have learned about them a long time ago via megaphones loudly blaring the news from campaign trucks. ...

By adamg - 10/19/05 - 12:56 pm

Which is worse? That somebody tried to kill the city-council president last night or that somebody took a potshot at his SUV just for the hell of it?

The Unchosen One: This was probably not an assassination attempt, but doesn't that make it scarier?

By adamg - 10/15/05 - 5:37 pm

If you missed the WBZ "debate," you can download it in pieces.

Mass Marrier scored the debate high on the Irritate-o-Meter, like listening to Maura Chihuahua yapping at Tom Droopy Dawg. Ultimately, Hennigan lost by coming across as a desperate pol willing to play loose with the facts and unable to come up with a coherent program for change:

... She certainly seems to lack the debating ability and knowledge to prove Tom incompetent. Was she really the best competition available? ...

By adamg - 10/13/05 - 4:43 pm

The Unchosen One doesn't see any particular reason to vote for Maura Hennigan, but says that's partly due to Tom Menino's refusal to hold more than two sorta-debates:

... As long as Menino avoids direct confrontation he should be able to win re-election. However, this is NOT the way to run for office. The purpose of government is to serve the people and in order to choose the right person the public needs an opportunity to view the candidates side-by-side. Any politician that fails in that is not forthcoming enough to hold public office.

By mythicflow - 10/10/05 - 9:43 pm

From BostonHerald.com:

...the two candidates will field students' questions Oct. 12 at Boston University. Ground rules set up at the insistence of the Menino campaign won't allow him and Hennigan to appear on the stage together, said Northeastern student and Boston Intercollegiate Government chairwoman Meghan Loraditch. Former Gov.Michael Dukakis will moderate. 

... 

By adamg - 10/9/05 - 10:53 am

The West Roxbury and Roslindale Transcript asked mayoral, at-large city council and district-6 (JP and West Roxbury) city council candidates how they feel about the BRA, specifically: "Do you feel any reform is needed in how the BRA operates? If so, what changes should be made?"

By adamg - 10/2/05 - 11:53 pm

Adam went to see the Comcast on-demand video of the recent debate between Tom Menino and Maura Hennigan only to discover Comcast only kept it up for only 48 hours:

I don't understand why it's not just online - it seems to that political debates are the ideal sort of non-copyright-sensitive content that ought to be freely available on the Internet.

So, anybody know if the debate is online? If not, anybody have a videotape they could lend Adam so he could translate it to digital and post it?

By adamg - 9/28/05 - 10:24 pm

Chris watches the debate between Menino and Hennigan and comes away more impressed with the challenger than he had been:

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