Because of the peculiarities of the legislative calendar, Governor Romney's decision last week to return the minimum wage bill with an amendment, instead of outright vetoing it, gives him the opportunity to kill the bill completely.Here's … [Read more...]
Archives for July 25, 2006
Tom Reilly’s Education Plan
Since the mainstream media has zero interest in the candidates' public policy positions, here is the latest installment in Tom Reilly's Massachusetts Action Plan: The "Never Give Up On a Child" education plan.I was away over the weekend, … [Read more...]
Celebrating Massachusetts
My daughter enjoying the waves at Halibut Point Park … [Read more...]
Bonifaz hits new low with “Where’s Galvin” commercials.
I know when I attended the wake in Brighton, was when I first heard the disturbing rumors. Confirmation came when I saw the newly posted ads on Bonifaz's web site. Initial text of Boston Globe Obituary for Bill Galvin's Mother:Galvin, … [Read more...]
How to push Secy of State debates?
The Boston Phoenix today carried a kowtow-to-incumbency article about John Bonifaz' videos entitled "Where's Galvin?" The author, Adam Reilly, is actually a strong progressive -- I suggest we all write to him at areilly@phx.com and tell him … [Read more...]
For Romney: $16,640 per year is “very high” pay.
Even at $8 bucks an hour, at 52 weeks, that amounts to $16,640. This is no where near a living wage in this state. We have a significant amount of working poor who are working hard but no doubt still need Mass Health, housing … [Read more...]
Dukakis: “David’s not crazy after all!”
Well, not in so many words. But you may recall that a few months ago, when the illegal immigration debate was particularly hot around here, I floated raising the minimum wage - and then really enforcing it - as a way of stemming … [Read more...]
No campaign finance $$ for LG, Secretary of State primaries
A fascinating tidbit from Kim Atkins at the Herald. Apparently, all of the available money for the primaries in the public campaign finance account is going to Tom Reilly and Deval Patrick (about $400K each), with not even a nickel … [Read more...]
The Incumbent Party – Massachusetts Division
First, a guest poster at Talking Points Memo had a couple of posts up at these links: The Incumbent Party I and The Incumbent Party II that talks about the fact that we have three parties in this country: the Republican Party, the … [Read more...]
Is Rep. Candidate Lonnie Brennan Anti-Choice? (With Poll)
He proudly tells us his campaign manager is an International Knights of Columbus Family of the Year Award Winner.The Knights are not giving family of the year awards to pro-choice families.So what gives Lonnie? … [Read more...]