Over at his new blog, MassChange, hoss has posted one of his excellent monthly roundups of the Lieutenant Governor money race. Here are the facts:1. Andrea Silbert: $408,226.86Starting Balance: $389,255.36Receipts: $ … [Read more...]
New Face in Worcester DA Race
The Worcester T&G reports that Daniel J. Shea, the Houston-based lawyer who has been representing Leominster mom Mary Jean in her fight with the State Police over the baby-cam video, is moving to Worcester to run for district attorney. … [Read more...]
Democrats should boycott health bill signing
The idea of Ted Kennedy, Sal DiMasi, and Robert Travaglini, among others, standing behind "Governor" Mitt Romney as he signs the health care bill at Faneuil Hall makes me positively ill. And it should make them ill as well. … [Read more...]
I was threatened with arrest for collecting official petition signatures
We tried to point him to the ruling many times, telling him these were official petitions protected under the law, but he wouldn't listen and became rather belligerent, threatening to call the police. In fact, he lied later on, when we … [Read more...]
Mr. Irrelevant: Romney to veto assessment
Well, it was speculated; he played Hamlet for a while, wondering if it was a tax or an assessment; was it animal, vegetable, or mineral, golly gosh ...Well, now Romney is going to use a futile, symbolic line-item veto against the $295 per … [Read more...]
Deval Patrick’s Internet Buy
Internet ads have the advantage of being trackable and having the possibility of immediate response (click-through). Sure, a conversion rate of 0.5% doesn't sound great, but internet ads cost about the same per eyeball as TV. To run one 30 … [Read more...]
Weekly traffic report
Sorry this is a couple of days late! Generally, the news continues to be good - we've been consistently seeing 1,000-1,500 unique visitors each weekday for the last several weeks. … [Read more...]
Chris Gabrieli: a battle-tested policy wonk joins the Governor’s race (with poll!)
Gabrieli started with a short summary of what he hopes to see the next Governor accomplish, and why he thinks that person ought to be him. On the first question, he sees Massachusetts as dramatically under-performing - as one example, … [Read more...]