St. Fleur deserves credit for withdrawing. The members of her district can now decide if they want to re-elect her. In the meantime, Reilly should review the performance of his campaign team. According to a Press Release dated 28 October these include the following: Sean Sinclair, campaign manager, moved to Boston for this job after managing Harry Reid’s re-election in Nevada; finance team led by businessmen Alan Solomont and Steve Grossman; field organizers Lynda Tocci and Amanda Coulombe; and general consultant Neil Oxman.
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Tom Menino and Ralph Martin for their part in this debacle. But at the end of the day, of course, the fault is Reilly’s.
I feel bad for St. Fleur, but she should have known better and not run in the first place (or if she didn’t know how bad it was, that means she REALLY can’t manage her affairs…)
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So, now Reilly may have pissed off 4 Lt Gov candidates and their supporters, AND he has no running mate!
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He can’t add anyone to the race now, right? Deadline’s past?
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So let’s see if he tries to court any of the existing candidates…if he does, he’s REALLY hopeless.
I was thinking the very same thing. I can’t imagine he’ll try to form a “ticket” now – nor can I imagine that any of the candidates out there would accept his offer to do so (except maybe Kelley who could use some instant cred). Reilly will just run himself, and assume that if he wins he can find some common ground with whoever wins the LG race.
I am mad at Reilly, nice job on the vetting. Also, way to plan out your campaign. St. Fleur deserves some blame, but the bucks stops with Reilly.
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Now people don’t really think she stepped down, rather than the campaign pushing her out do they?
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I hope we find out who pushed her out. Whoever did should come forward and take some heat.
Tom: sit down and stay where you are. The Peter Principle has determined that AG is where you should stay, you are not ready to move up..so sit down.
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Martha Coakley: step forward PLEASE! Run for Governor. You are the one Democrat who can beat Kerry Healey handily…with no nonsense along the way…(no matter how much money she spends) You are smart, popular, articulate, and you won’t listen to foolish ideas from a bungling campaign team..you have a mind of your own…you are the one Democrat everyone could unite in support of…if you do it, the money will come…you are the best hope and worth contributing to…
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All Lt. Gov. candidates: keep runnin! build big field organizations! and who ever wins, Martha will carry you and everyone else to a positively united victory in November…wouldn’t that be sweet!?
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It’s not too late. I think 500 delegate signatures can keep Reilly in AG race and switch Coakley to Gov. race…
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That could shake things up in a very positive way!
Can’t inagine Coakley would have much trouble getting 500 signatures. She’s already got the organization in place for the AG’s race. . .
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Not to mention–how fun would it be to watch her debate Kerry Healey?
Birds of a feather. Duval Patrick has just announced that he had a “little” tax problem a few years ago. Seems he had an IRS lien slapped on him.
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The Dems continue to self destruct. Are there any libs who pay their taxes.
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OOPS!! New headline. Reily asks Diane Wilkerson to be her running mate. Unfortunately, Reily forgot he’s chasing her on fraud, too.
i think Anna is right. SHe can be the uniter we all need right now. ANyone know if she’d be willing to run?
Please stop with this Martha thing OK?
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I am a BIG supoprter of Martha – both in time AND $$ – but in a million years she would not change course at this stage of the race and jump into the Governor’s race.
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She’ll win the AG spot. Even if/when Reilly withdraws from the Governor’s race and goes for his current office.
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Martha has too many people supporting her who are supporting either Deval or Reilly. She’s going to piss off half the DEMS in this state if she makes that move.
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She can/will do what is right in 4 or 8 years. And she’ll do what is right now and continue in this AG race.
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By the way – I did not realize there were so many “freepers” over here posting falsehoods. I guess it’s what Willard is doing with all his free time now – or maybe it’s Sean and some of his friends from AMG lurking about.
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I guess that’s the sign of a good blog though that someone would bother.
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Keep up the good work.
I tend to keep an eye on my referal logs, and I get about one hit a day or so from computers at the Mass. State Republican Committee originating from here at BMG. I would say that you folks get about 10x the traffic I do, so if you scale that up, you can expect at least 10 visits from the Mass GOP to this blog.
To say the least! I don’t think we’ll see Coakley running, though. She’ll run for AG, win easily, do a good job, and be well-positioned to run for Gov or the Senate in the future.
It’s ironic — one of Reilly’s advantages was supposed to be his long years of political experience, whereas Deval was a newer candidate. Newer candidates often make more mistakes, but in this case, it’s Patrick who seems to be staying on message and being smart while Reilly flops all over the place.