About a week ago, the “call to convention” newspaper went public with an ad from Deval Patrick featuring the message, “What we’ve got, money can’t buy.”
Then, in a piece in yesterday’s Globe, we saw this comment from Reilly spokesman Corey Welford regarding how Reilly’s campaign collected the signatures to put the A.G. on the ballot with unpaid campaign workers: ”We have something money can’t buy, an army of volunteers who believe Tom Reilly is the candidate to get Massachusetts moving again.”
Of course Deval Patrick got his signatures the old-fashioned way, too…and he didn’t need to steal a line from his rival to come up with the philosophy of his campaign.
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Ben,
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That same quote caught my eye. Not only about the “money can’t buy” part, but the “get Massachusetts moving again” — doesn’t that have a more-than-faint echo of Patrick’s theme, “Moving Massachusetts Forward”?
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Do you suppose this is a prelude to Reilly asking his delegates to support Patrick at the Convention?
because “money can’t buy” and “get the state moving again” are catch-phrases that have never been used by any other candidate in the history of the world until Deval Patrick’s campaign suddenly coined them. . .
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Given recent trends, I doubt the Reilly campaign is trying to emulate the Patrick camp.
It’s sad, you made a perfectly valid point (niether catch-phrases are unique to Deval or likely original), then go right back on the attack and continue the divisiveness.