Here’s one reporter’s take on Deb Goldberg’s meeting with the Berkshire Eagle editorial board.
Highlights include:
the state can best spur growth by investing in public higher education
does not favor single-payer health care but said she … wants to see the state encourage additional insurers to move to Massachusetts and increase competition
opposes a ballot referendum on gay marriage
supports rolling back the income tax rate to 5 percent from its current 5.3 percent … it should not be done immediately
Please share widely!
All the LG candidates have consistently opposed the roll back. All three just recently (about two weeks ago) repeated their opposition on the Jim Braude Show.
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Is this a Goldberg flip flop, or just another in a mounting pile of embellishments and distortions?
Frank is 100% correct. All three candidates for Lt. Gov. have repeatedly and very publicly agreed that the roll back was not a smart move to make given the many high ticket initiatives that are facing the Commonwealth….I think Ed Jesser has taken control of Deb and is advising her to say or do whatever the poll tells you people want to hear…whether it makes fiscal sense or not…Jesser is from the “tell-’em-anything-to win,-they-won’t-remember-what-you-said-when-the-election-is-over” school of politics. With Ed calling the shots, Deb and her money (not to mention her honesty) will soon be parted.
I was just passing along the Eagle report, figuring that 98% of the readers of this blog wouldn’t be regular Beagle readers.
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From my reading, it sounds a lot like the Gabber’s position, but it’s hard to say from this sketchy account. Maybe someone in the Goldberg camp could enlighten us.
Of course she is flipping…..it’s a sign of things to come from the wealthy hard worker. Come folks it’s all about how well DEB spends her cash.
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Tim for TWO GO Murray !
Goldberg will support anything right now. Ask her if she every supported a wage increase for the employees at her families small supermarket, Stop and Shop !
I put this out here to be informative, not to give people an excuse to bash Deb Goldberg.
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If your candidate has better/different positions/qualifications, let’s hear about it. I think the fact that 78% of people polled don’t have an opinion means that we need to have more productive discussions.
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Disclaimer: I’m working hard on the Deval Patrick campaign, and I’m respecting his position to let the voters decide who should be the LG nominee, so I’m neutral in this race.
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That said, I’d like to see a little bit more intelligent discussion of the race, not more name-calling.
Unfortuantely, the only LG candidate I ever see anywhere is Deb Goldberg. She is ubiquitous and everywhere. She is working hard for this job and she is getting around and clearly not afraid to show up anywhere people will be. I think Deb is pushy, agressive and will do anything to get elected and really wants the job. Whats the problem there. I mean please to Andrea Silbert and her canoe trip??? Who planned that one??? Sounds like a moonbat of a candidate to me. Hold Governor I have to get into the state house by canoe or kyak or whatever the preferred method of transportation by the moonbats was that week.
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GO DEB!!!!!
I love it. In the same post that you thank MFW for calling for some civility, you whack Andrea Silbert. You’re as out to lunch as the trust-fund baby you’re supporting for LG.
And in the same post that you criticize that hypocritical action, you go on the attack yourself. If you’re not part of the solution…
What are you talking about?
Silbert announced last week that she would get to know the state of each river and the people in surrounding communities by taking her kayak for a paddle in each watershed. I don’t think it’s a “moonbat” tactic. Candidates who have less money have to think of ways to create a buzz and to meet people around the state. The best (or most effective) practitioner of this kind of barnstorming was probably Lawton Chiles. Tom Birmingham did a bicycle tour of the state in 2002.
Governor Tom Birmingham?
Sorry Michael, if it was an ordinary profile, which I thought you was as I started reading it, I would not have posted anything.
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But really, supporting the tax roll back after months of opposing it on the campaign trail, is major news and desires comment and analysis. This is a major switch in positions. It’s well documented (and maybe later I do the research and provide links later and post on it.)
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So the moral of the story is, ya neveha know how posts will go. What looked like a puff piece, actually had major news in it.
It wasn’t your comment I was objecting to. You raised a legitimate question.
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Still, I maintain this (obviously) naive hope that people will advocate for their candidate rather than tear down the others.
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Several commentators on this blog have made the point that we Dems have a habit of “eating our young” — or something to that effect.
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I think we (Dems) all need to be cognizant of the fact that unity after the Primary is all-important.
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Anyone who thinks it doesn’t matter who is in power in the State House (or the White House, for that matter) had better think again.
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After 16 years of GOP rule in this state, the bureaucracy is filled with people who are antipathetic to our philosophy of fairness. As one of my local Reps put it after he went to one of the state agencies to advocate for a local cause, “I might as well have been talking to my coffee cup, for all they cared!” We need to end this government-by-indifference, and we need to think beyond September 19.
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Sorry for the lecture, I know you’re on board, but sometimes my patience wears thin. I can tell you, as an avid Patrick supporter, I will work hard for whomever wins the Primary.