Ideally, we'd like candidates to spend their time talking to voters, and measure their success by how many people they can attract, to vote for them and to volunteer for them. So the first problem is, contributions are a distorted … [Read more...]
Archives for May 2006
Barney Frank Chastises Congress on FBI Raid
As discussed here recently, House leaders have been united in criticising the FBI's raid of Congressman Jefferson's office. Congressional leaders seem to think that allowing an executive branch agency to raid the offices of a … [Read more...]
The Best Executive Experience for Lt. Governor
Ultimately it boils down to which of the three candidates have the kind of executive chomps to handle the LG job and potentially be Governor in 4 to 8 years? On paper, they all meet the criteriaâSilbert, CEO of a successful jobs … [Read more...]
Weekly traffic report
Remembering MA Iraq war dead
While today we remember those who served and died in all wars, here's a list of our <a href="http://icasualties.org/oif/USMAP.aspx?hndState=Massachusetts">war dead from Iraq: <table id="dgSum" style="border: 0px none … [Read more...]
More dumb rule enforcement from the Mass Dems
Here's another dumb rule now being enforced by the MassDems: If you've publicly supported a candidate from another party, you can't be a delegate.The state Democratic Party has yanked the credentials of five delegates to its convention in … [Read more...]
For what purpose a party?
Wikipedia has a very different definition: "A political party is an organization that seeks to attain political power within a government, usually by participating in electoral campaigns."The common thread of these two definitions is the … [Read more...]
Volunteering for Democratic Convention
My name is Patrick Abegg, and I am a volunteer for the Democratic Party. I currently serve as Vice-Chair of the First Essex and Middlesex Democratic Coalition, which is an organization of the 18 town and city committees in the First Essex … [Read more...]
Patrick campaign revises testimonial policy, per BMG comments
As you probably know, the Patrick campaign ran into a bit of controversy when it first started putting video testimonials on its blog (called "The Source"). John Walsh, Deval Patrick's campaign manager (and occasional BMG contributor … [Read more...]
Bribery and strange bedfellows
So Hastert/Pelosi/Jefferson vs. FBI/BushCo was the major story of the weekend. Is it hilariously appalling, or appallingly hilarious, that the Republican Speaker of the House is calling on a Republican adminstration to stop investigating a … [Read more...]
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