Mike Ball reports on a rare live public appearance by Secretary of State for Life Bill Galvin.
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Deval Patrick
By dwyer - 10/18/10 - 2:17 pm
Before Barack Obama arrived in Boston last weekend to campaign for Deval Patrick, three Emerson College students and a fourth from Lesley College arrived at Hynes Convention Center around 6 a.m., more than six hours before doors would open.
By adamg - 10/18/10 - 7:59 am
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?
By adamg - 10/17/10 - 10:24 am
The Globe reports on the Obama visit. The Herald sure loves swapping in a dollar sign for an S.
By adamg - 10/16/10 - 12:10 pm
Taylor, of course, appears at a Hynes rally today with Patrick and Obama. Red Mass. Group hopefully asks: Is Barack about to do the same for Deval as he did for Martha?
By adamg - 10/13/10 - 8:47 am
Robert Dwyer, who writes about wine, will be voting yes on Question 1, which would repeal the sale tax on wine. Dwyer explains why that was no easy decision, especially after he learned that even with the tax, Massachusetts still ranks in the bottom ten states for tax levels on booze.
By adamg - 9/21/10 - 8:08 pm
What did you think?
My big takeaway was that Jill Stein seemed like an afterthought; she was the only one who didn't really get to enunciate what it was she stood for, besides not being one of the other three. Still not sure if that's because she wasn't able to do so or because she seemed to get a lot less opportunity to talk in the first half of the debate.
By adamg - 9/16/10 - 1:54 pm
Charlie get mad.
Give me the biggest lecture I ever had.
I want a brave man, I want a cave man.
Charlie, show me that you care, really care for me.
Every time you debated me,
You let Timmy cut in constantly,
When he'd ask, you'd never speak.
Must you always be so meek?
Credit where credit is due. And kazoos!
By adamg - 9/9/10 - 7:40 am
When he lost the primary to Deval Patrick in 2006, Reilly didn't show up at a post-election Democratic unity rally. And he's still sticking it to Patrick, this time over the issue of how the state helped Harvard Pilgrim get back on its financial feet. The Outraged Liberal explains how Patrick should have compared what the state did to a Wall Street bailout, rather than talking about state aid:
By adamg - 9/8/10 - 6:14 am
John Carroll watched the debate so you didn't have to:
Glossary, Please
David Tuerck? Michael Widmer? The Pacheco Law? The Connector?
Are the candidates so out of touch they think the average voter knows what they're talking about when they just toss out those names?
Memo to gubernatorial hopefuls: You’re done with the insiders. It's real people you need to talk to now.
By adamg - 9/1/10 - 9:11 am
John Carroll parses a Patrick press release that's mainly about how Charles (not Charlie) Baker is a Republican, but which proudly states that "For the first time in twenty years and amid a global economic recession, property tax increases under the Patrick-Murray administration went down three years in a row – from 4.2% in the first year of the term to 3.3% presently, representing a 22% decrease."
Or as Carroll explains:
A 22% decrease in increases, for those of you keeping score at home.
By adamg - 8/1/10 - 9:16 am
Technically, the governor has ten days to sign the casino/slots bill passed by the legislature last night. But the odds against that are pretty high.
By adamg - 7/10/10 - 9:33 am
The Outraged Liberal takes note of the anti-Patrick blue line outside a Fenway Park party for visiting governors, says maybe Patrick could have kept his promise to add 1,000 more cops, even with the Great Recession, if only union's such as Nee's would have been willing to regnegotiate contracts over such issues as health-care costs and the Quinn bill:
By adamg - 5/24/10 - 5:00 pm
Deval Patrick says he was only employing "a rhetorical flourish" when accusing Republicans in Washington of getting pretty darn close to "sedition," the Globe reports. The Globe also helpfully defines "sedition" for those of us who, unlike the governor, didn't attend a fancy law school where they learn about big words like that.
By adamg - 4/10/10 - 11:17 pm
Mike Ball reports on the rally, which included the unveiling of Slogan 2.0: "On Our Side."
... So, let us muse on how good is the slogan, which we shall definitely hear repeatedly. Four years ago, together we can took on a magical twinkle. Try as they might before and even after the election, Deval opponents were unable to adequately denigrate the intellectual and emotional pull of that one.
By adamg - 3/18/10 - 9:14 am
It's here, which is a good thing, since the coverage by the Herald and the Globe seems to consist mainly of marveling at how Patrick, an English major, typed slowly so as to not make any typos.
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