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Howie Carr on the Republican convention

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Did you know that the state Republican convention is next weekend?  I confess I didn’t.  Not that there’s a whole lot of suspense as to who the nominees for Governor and Lt. Governor are going to be.  And, as far as I know, there still aren’t announced GOP candidates for Attorney General, Treasurer, or Secretary of State (one Earle Stroll is running for Auditor against Joe DeNucci).  Kind of sad – the Green Party has a more complete slate than do the Republicans.

Here’s Howie Carr on next weekend’s big bash in Lowell:

Next weekend’s gathering in the Tsongas Arena is going to be Muffy Healey’s political cotillion, and her dance card has a lot of openings on it.  Mitt Romney wouldn’t tell her if her Yolanda gown was on fire. Jim Rappaport hates her for obvious reasons. Ditto Christy Mihos, and Christy, if you really want to steal her thunder next week, just cut the price of regular unleaded gas at your convenience stores to $1.99 a gallon.  Every TV camera in the state would be on the Cape. You’ll draw a bigger crowd than Muffy, that’s for sure.

Seems about right to me.

UPDATE: Several alert commenters have pointed out that the GOP may indeed be fielding candidates for Attorney General (Larry Frisoli, of Curley case fame), and Treasurer (Ron Davy – see this post for more on him).  Still no word on a Republican challenger to the winner of the Galvin/Bonifaz smackdown.

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  1. Yup, we are a brand new blog but we’ve got the South Shore covered here

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    Ron Davy is his name and he has one year as a Hull Selectman under his belt:

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    The Hull Times cannot be viewed on line. I’ll be working to convert this article to a pdf  format.(John call me!!I need tech help)However, the article does say that that GOP officials recruited him to run and and those same officials will help him with fundraising and field operations.
    Davy anticipates having to raise a half million dollars to mount this campaign.

    Davy’s background, as spelled out by the Hull Times, is that he is a Marine Corp veteran and he retired as a CEO of a large healthcare company which was not named in the article. He evidently didn’t like retirement and subsequenty started working for Morgan Stanley as a financial advisor.

    He was a member of the Hull Advisory Board and local board of assesors and he was defeated in his first attempt at Selectman.

    Our current State Treasurer, Democrat Tim Cahill, has been Treasurer of the Commonwealth since 2002. Prior to serving as Treasurer, Cahill served as Norfolk County Treasurer and was a Quincy City Councilor.

  2. Larry Frisoli is the candidate for Attorney General.  He is perhaps best known as the lawyer on the Jeffrey Curley case, and is an advocate for reforming auto insurance laws.

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    Wazza matta, Howie – didn’t get the press credentials you wanted?

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    Also -our keynote speaker should put a lot of rumors to rest….

    • I highly recommend going to the Republican convention, in fact, to any convention.  It’s as close to being in the bar scene in Star Wars as anyone of us is likely to get.

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