Affordable housing under 40B: No oversight, no accountability, big profits for private business:Inspector General Gregory W. Sullivan's staff has spent the past year examining records from state offices and town halls and financial … [Read more...]
Archives for October 10, 2006
50 Points of Plight – with Poll
A DemsforHealey Instigative Series.If there is anything Kerry Healey is good at it is one-upmanship. Deval says he favors two tax reliefs; she ups to the ante to three. Lets look at some more numbers. God has 10 commandments, Wilson his 14 … [Read more...]
Kennedy-Chase debate
Was anyone else foolish enough to have wasted half an hour of their lives on this incredibly boring display tonight? And is it just me, or does anyone else think that the good Senator could stand to cut back on the President Kennedy quotes … [Read more...]
Remember: Healey has a Ph.D. in crime!
Thanks to Adam Reilly for directing us to an article from a few months back that points out just how silly it is for Kerry Healey to proclaim herself some sort of crime expert.How do we know Kerry Healey is a criminal-justice expert? … [Read more...]
Charlie Baker damns Healey with faint praise
Harvard Pilgrim CEO and ex-Secretary of Administration & Finance Charlie Baker's op-ed in today's Globe is about as weak an endorsement of his fellow Republican as one can imagine, barring Baker's pulling a Gloria Larson and endorsing … [Read more...]
Patrick launches … um … non-positive TV ad
It's not exactly an "attack ad," since all it does is call attention to the fact -- and it is a fact -- that a number of things haven't gone so well over the last four years. But I'd be hard-pressed to describe the latest Deval … [Read more...]
Deval’s New Ad
Edited lightly right after posting, to correct typos.Has anyone seen Deval's new ad, "After?" I think it's one of the best the campaign has done to date. It goes after Romney-Healey vigorously--Skeffington should find some … [Read more...]
Nine men, 112 years
By the numbers: nine is the number of men who have been wrongfully convicted of violent crimes in Massachusetts courts and later exonerated by DNA evidence, according to the Innocence Project. Their names are Marvin Mitchell, Neil … [Read more...]
The Fix: We’re Number 4
The Post rates Massachusetts number 4. Former Assistant U.S. Attorney General Deval Patrick's (D) surprisingly strong primary victory puts Democrats in very good position to win back the governor's office for the first time since 1990. A … [Read more...]
Leadership: The income tax rollback
Before we learned that Deval Patrick is a lawyer and Kerry Healey is not, the major difference between the candidates was thought to be the income tax rollback. "I can tell you we can afford it", spake Kerry Healey with great assurance and … [Read more...]