The Boston Phoenix today carried a kowtow-to-incumbency article about John Bonifaz’ videos entitled “Where’s Galvin?” The author, Adam Reilly, is actually a strong progressive — I suggest we all write to him at areilly@phx.com and tell him that we expect better from him. He says in the article that the video doesn’t work, and that Bonifaz has little momentum. The Phoenix’s duty SHOULD be to embarrass the incumbent mercilessly until he debatess — that’s what progressive newspapers DO.
The Herald should do the same, just on grounds of their strong record of incumbent-bashing. We should encourage them to bash THIS incumbent too — he’s as much a “hack” as any of the Herald’s normal victims. Galvin’s moniker, “The Prince of Darkness,” is just custom-made for a Howie Carr column. Let’s all write him at hcarr@bostonherald.com and say so. His political-writer colleague Margery Eagan is at meagan@bostonherald.com — she might run a column too.
At the Globe, perhaps the best strategy is to all write letters-to-the-editor. That’s letter@globe.com — their usual rule is, if they get a dozen letters about one topic, they print the best one.
— Jesse Gordon, jesse@WhereIsGalvin.com
Please read my post at:
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Concerning these ads being filmed during the week that Secretary of State Galvin’s mother was on her death bed…
I hope Bill Galvin can find some solace in this difficult time.
And I’m sure the Bonifaz people would offer their condolences as well.
agreed. there’s been some unusually virulent resistance to the bonifaz campaign, which i just don’t understand. if adam was having trouble with the video, why not just email the campaign and notify them? seems like he just wanted to write up a blog post and had nothing else to say.
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for what it’s worth i would tweak the “where’s galvin” ads a bit anyway. i think the bonifaz campaign should run a series of ads called “got vote?” or something similar, highlighting how many obstacles there are to voting, due to galvin’s performance. make galvin’s absence directly relevant to the voters, then talk about his refusal to debate. it’s a much more powerful message, i’d wager.
Getting Galvin to debate is one thing. But saying that Adam Reilly shouldn’t be speaking his mind on his own blog…
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Oh, well. Reilly himself said it best:
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