The race for the Fifth. Not rocket science. A special in between the more publicized Boston mayor’s race. No different than any other special election. Thee who gets Thy vote out wins.
Katherine Clark seems to be all in with the women issue while Scioritino scored some big early points with his TV ad. Brownsberger had trouble rounding up his base while Koutoujian is keeping it simple by identifying his Newton/Waltham base while using the patronage he’s developed in the Sheriff’s Office to work the back office. And Spilka is working her education and metro-west base.
Despite the ad Sciortino is still Sciortino. He, Clark and Brownsberger are from same neck of woods more or less and play to progressives. Clarke is a prosecutor and that ain’t gonna cut it so she’s all about the sistahs.
Koutoujian ads are rather bland. Nothing memorable. He has a family and, as chairmen of the committe of Health Care he made a phone call for a constituent. It was huge for her but those in the building know that’s the easy part of the job. Koutoujian can win it if his GOTV works.
Spilka can too. She has a hidden network of teachers etc. and her ad shows she she worked her balls off (yeah she has balls – gotta problem with that?) to help a constituent who was getting sca-rude.
Spilka or Koutoujian I think.
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The Gov’s race. Yawn. I though Charlie Baker could pull it off but less than a month later I’m seeing the same ole-boring-bland-nothing-obtuse-dull campaign. BTW Charlie, how do we know you won’t use some maneuver to shut down the state like your compadres in Washington? Okay, I know you won’t but your reluctance to criticize the national Repubs will kill you. Will you be an obstructionist? Can you work with the Dem legislature? Has your time passed?
Grossman, I’m back with ya Stevie. Separate yourself from the authoritarian, militarized, inexperienced, all powerful, Martha Coakley. As a prosecutor this woman is offended when a criminal has lawyer. She can’t take push back. Ask defense lawyers. Point being, how the hell will she cope with a Terry Murray and Bob DeLeo always saying “no”.
None of this nicey nicey crap Steve. There are ways to do it. She can’t take it.
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The Mayor’s Race – The Herald poll, which missed the mark right before the primary, has John Connolly up by 7 points with 23% undecided. It shows Walsh moving up and a far cry from the double digits the previously mentioned poll said would happen if they squared off.
More interesting is the police arbitration issue mean butkus to the voters of Boston. NO WAY! Hasn’t the Globe and the pundits and everyone else tried to jam this issue down the voters’ throats?
Why I think they thought it was the end all for Marty Walsh. Baahahahahah
Then I turn on the radio to hear Braude/Egan and their reaction to this morning’s poll. What schmoes. Braude and his pundits are still talking about the arbitration issue as if it is the be-all-end-all.
Hey didn’t I tell you folks awhile ago that this issue is meaningless in the campaign?
Why yes Ernie, you did.
Listen folks. The people who write about this race and comment on it are for the most part outsiders who don’t understand neighborhood politics and city slug fests.
Then there’s former carpet-bagger Back Bay city councillor and current rich guy/Globe columnist Tom Keane telling his readers that Connolly has the race won because the pre-primary final Suffolk/Herald poll had Connolly beating Walsh big in a one on one.
Then last Saturday Keane tells us Walsh’s goose is cooked because of the police arbitration issue. Today’s poll begs to differ.
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Here is a sober analysis of the Feds tight tight grip of Tsarnaev and his lawyers from the Empty Wheel. The headline tells it best:
Is Carmen Ortiz Subjecting Dzhokhar Tsarnaev to Solitary To Prevent Him from Learning about Developments in Florida?
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The Globe has said nothing about the unconscionable land grab the Red Sox got through their bobo Bob Travaglini from lame duck Tom Menino. This would never have been done before precisely because of the Globe. The first thing said at the secret meeting would have been “What will the Globe say?’ That usually ends the discussion. But not this time.
Now with John Henry running the keyboards that question was met with Tom Finneran like guffaws.
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I think you’re right, but Clark might surge too.
As for the Globe and John Henry … (Ahem! Cough, cough)
It’s not that I’m prescient. It’s that rules about conflict of interest exist for a reason.
I agree with you and JiMC, the 5th CD could go a number of ways. The win will be made by the campaign that has the best GOTV effort. Given that I will be knocking doors all day on Tuesday next, I hope it does not rain!!! If it rains, people will have another excuse not to vote in what promises to be an extremely low voter turnout election.
You assert:
But, there’s this story from two weeks ago: http://www.bostonglobe.com/business/2013/09/20/red-sox-and-city-redevelopment-authority-reach-deal-for-use-lansdowne-yawkey-way/e8ObGrqSRdMc0qsDXI4x9H/story.html
And this follow-up with “irresponsible” in the title:
http://www.bostonglobe.com/business/2013/09/25/boston-finance-commission-says-red-sox-deal-for-street-use-bad-deal-for-city/otub3eg5W8NvcXXjOyYR2H/story.html
So, really Eb3, what do you mean? You’re looking an editorial on the issue?
one benign announcing the deal, and the other reporting the gripes of the Finance Commission, which BTW could not be ignored.
Putting it in the business section says all you need to know. No gratuitous columns in the metro and op ed pages denouncing. No editorials asking questions.
Of course the Globe reported it. But to them it’s not an issue.
Greta opportunity to watch the Morrissey Blvd machine in action.
Metro and op-ed columnists slamming Walsh on arbitration while voters concern is elsewhere.
Both papers endorsed Connolly that’s why no vetting of his dubious teaching career and his high-end legal practice and his political pedigree and his ,,,,,,
moderation?
can’t stop lying even when the facts are on his side.
So we have two stories in five days in the Globe about the BRA selling out the city. For Ernie “the Globe said nothing.”
By way of contrast, there were two mentions over something like 10 years of Jimmy Kelly’s connection to organized crime. That was a vendetta.
Two Stories in Business Section..(0+ / 0-) View voters
one benign announcing the deal, and the other reporting the gripes of the Finance Commission, which BTW could not be ignored.
Putting it in the business section says all you need to know. No gratuitous columns in the metro and op ed pages denouncing. No editorials asking questions.
Of course the Globe reported it. But to them it’s not an issue.
Greta opportunity to watch the Morrissey Blvd machine in action.
Metro and op-ed columnists slamming Walsh on arbitration while voters concern is elsewhere.
Both papers endorsed Connolly that’s why no vetting of his dubious teaching career and his high-end legal practice and his political pedigree and his ,,,,,,
Sometimes the Globe coughs in the corner, and sometimes it makes real noise.
..simply report on it. Katherine Clark is going to win. No agenda here, no masquerading wishes with the veneer of street analysis. Just an observation from the 5th CD. The others all have their piece, KC simply has the largest slice of it. I’m just saying.