The Deval Patrick campaign has announced that they are hitting the airwaves starting Friday. Patrick's first TV ad will appear first on Deval Patrick TV on Thursday at 2:30 pm, and then on broadcast and cable stations starting Friday … [Read more...]
Archives for August 16, 2006
Rasmussen Reports Comes out with the latest Gov. Poll Numbers
Poll numbers for Deval don't look promising. Rasmussen Reports Please please Deval get on TV and spend money. I don't want someone who is not invested in MA to do anything in multiple off years, not follow through with … [Read more...]
Everything Is Going To Be OK: The Cogliano Era Begins
Never fear, folks -- bad old Matt Amorello is gone (any sandblasted hard drives this time?), and all-around good guy, family guy, former nursery owner with puppy-dog eyes Atticus Finch John Cogliano is now head of the Turnpike Authority. … [Read more...]
Legislative Vacancy
As I was researching more links for my list of candidate web sites, I discovered that Rep. Thomas O'Brien (D-Plymouth 12) has just been named as Plymouth County treasurer.O'Brien was unopposed in the Democratic primary for re-election, … [Read more...]
You wanna see a *real* political suicide attempt?
So for all the Beltway bellyachin' about how Ned Lamont's victory over Joe Lieberman shows the Democratic Party's fractiousness, just about everyone agrees that Ned Lamont's got a fighting chance to be Connecticut's next Senator.But look … [Read more...]
Israelis/US Army War College: War was a botch
Seems like the Give War A Chance strategy didn't work out so well:Scathing indictments of the way the Israeli government and its military have conducted the longest war in the nation's history filled the country's newspapers and airwaves … [Read more...]
Mass. AFL-CIO: Killer Coke doesn’t speak for us
The Massachusetts AFL-CIO, the state's largest labor organization, has released a strongly-worded statement condemning the tactics of Ray Rogers, Corporate Campaign, Inc., and the Campaign to Stop Killer Coke, in their efforts to link Deval … [Read more...]
Deval Runs from Dianne?
Most pols demand loyalty from their supporters. Looks like loyalty is a one-way street as far as Deval is concerned.According to Wither Wilkerson, Deval "running from Wilkerson almost as fast as he is running from his stock … [Read more...]
“Don’t Do It, Joe”
A young man approached Shoeless Joe Jackson, one of the greatest baseball players of all-time, outside Wrigley Field in 1919 after he and others were accused of "throwing" the 1919 World Series against Cinncinatti. In disbelief that … [Read more...]
BOOK REVIEW: Politics Lost by Joe Klein
Politics Lost traces the disappearance of Turnip Day moments in todays political mise en scène. This disappearance Klein attributes to the development of the pollster-consultant industrial complex, a rise to power of consultants and … [Read more...]