Statewide results from Channel 4.
Tom Menino gets ready to host a unity rally in, holy mother of pearl, Adams Park in Roslindale (Roslindale - it's the new black - and I am so there, any UH readers who are going, let me know).
Kristie Helms will be there:
I spent the weekend chasing gubernatorial candidates with my camcorder.....produced three video clips....and then I posted them on a video blog that's linked to the Globe's politics page.
I asked the candidates about their favorite music...and I asked Chris Gabrieli about the first concert he attended.....(it turns out his first show was Elvis Costello at the Orpheum in 1978).
There are three clips so far - one each for Reilly, Gabrieli, and Patrick - and they run about five minutes long. It's worth a look!
- Emily Sweeney
Specifically: The ones who rent those automated calling things that WON'T HANG UP even when you do. Like the spawn of satan that just called me to tell me to vote for Tim Murray and Deval Patrick.
Here are links to some blog endorsements of candidates in tomorrow's primaries (please add any I've missed):
Hub Politics uses a quote from an eight-year-old Watertown Tab article to slam Chris Gabrieli. Blue Mass. Group goes aha - no way could the Margolis Brothers have found that quote themselves, therefore, the Healey campaign is feeding its oppo research to the blog. Bonus: The current editor of the Watertown Tab jumps into the fray.
Blue Mass. Group liveblogged the gubernatorial debate.
Ed Prisby provides the candidate/English translation.
Much gnashing of teeth among the local blogocracy over the recent gubernatorial endorsements of the two local dailies - Globe for Patrick and Herald for Reilly:
John Daley smacks the Globe for reporting on the controversy surrounding the source of that leaked Marie St. Fleur memo even as it admits in passing that it knows who gave it the document:
Ed Prisby imagines Belichick's comments at a post-debate press conference.
At Pasquinade, Amy said the debate was pure comedy gold:
Political Intelligence blogs up a storm at tonight's gubernatorial debate.
Andy at Mass Revolution Now jumps on Reilly's performance:
... I thought that Reilly's debate prep was most likely done in a locker room just before the debate where he put on a helmet and had his campaign staff slap him on the head while shouting things like "who's got a big house in Milton while you are still renting in Watertown!" ...
Kimberly Atkins provides highlights from a debate in Roxbury last night. Kerry Healey was a no-show.
Kimberly Atkins notes the arrival of spoof and negative YouTube videos for this year's elections.
Joan Vennochi writes that Tom Reilly's rejection of Chris Gabrieli as a running mate because he wouldn't release his tax returns and his selection of Marie St. Fleur, who was a tax deadbeat, just doesn't make sense.
Where have I read that assertion before? Oh, yeah, yesterday on Blue Mass. Group.
Chris Gabrieli says "no more finger pointing" when it comes to the Big Dig. Charley says Are you kidding? Let's have more finger-pointing:
[B]lame is the currency of accountability. Because accountability has been so diffuse with the Big Dig, we haven't had one person to blame, and so nothing got fixed. ...
Michael Feldman surveys all the candidates running for governor this year and gets depressed:
... Speaking as a political tout, we can't work up a single calorie of heat over any of these morons. What do they all have in common? Money, ego, ambition, good suits and expensive haircuts, with the exception of Ms. Ross.
Charley on the MTA says yesterday belonged to Deval Patrick:
... This was Deval's day, and he and his delegates were in full command. Reilly gave a truly fine speech, tough, compassionate and populist; Gabrieli got in the game (barely), and rejoiced; but the sheer emotional dominance of Patrick's speeches -- and the delegates' noise -- were what one takes away from the proceedings today. ...
Blue Mass. Group has notes on the debate. Also on the Democratic side, Sco provides some thoughts. Hub Politics provides the non-Mihos Republican view.
The Globe's Political Intelligence has excerpts here and here.
On Blue Mass. Group, Charley on the MTA writes it up.
John Daley zeroes in on Reilly calling out Patrick on his Ameriquest involvement and says he hopes Reilly isn't using his office to dig up dirt on rivals (the Globe has more on Reilly's Ameriquest charges).
The Blue Mass. Group gang snags a 90-minute interview with Chris Gabrieli.
Hub Politics casts a snarky eye on pro-environment Chris Gabrieli's new campaign vehicle, which only gets 10 m.p.g., but which does have "soft-touch captain's chairs:"
... I guess the rest of us have to buy hybrids and pump ethanol while Gabrieli cruises around in a 10mpg powerhouse polluting the air, ripping apart the Ozone layer and contributing to the dreaded global warming ...
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