I have not posted in a while Ive been busy working and going to school at nights, but this just could not wait.
Just heard from a good friend who is a City Councilor from Lynn, who was leaning toward Gabrieli, but is a strong Murray supporter, that he attended a town hall event for Chris, who he was prepared to endorse till he saw Goldberg at the event. After watching how she worked the room along with Gabrieli staff (who made no attempts to stop her) he made the conclusion they look to be running as team. I personally like Chris and think he brings a lot of good ideas, but my vote is now totally going to Deval along with the City Councilor’s. What Chris and Deb look like they are doing is going to be a disaster for our party.
These two are going to make it so easy for the Republican ticket to look like the working class heros. Healey and Hillman will work to paint themselves as having blue collar family roots, while Gabs and Goldy are two hugely wealthy; Harvard educated people who were only able to win because they bought the election. Not because they connected with the voters. Unenrolled voters who make up a large percentage of the votes will clearly support the working class ticket; I can even see union members voting for the republicans. Please Chris say you are not going to hurt the Democrats chances by teaming up with just a rich women from Brookline who does not bring any ideas or substance to the table, but she can surely bag groceries as we learned back in June. Chris do you want someone that can help the ticket and help advance polices or someone who can stack cans? Can someone please explain the logic of Gabrieli helping to elect Deb?? Someone please talk some sense into the Gabrieli team ASAP, before we all get Governor Healey.
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I think you’ve find that most campaigns are somewhat friendly, especially when they are not direct competitors.
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I think your friend read too much into the circumstances of that event…
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By the way, why would anyone try to stop what another campaign was doing? These are public events and campaigns are entitled to do pretty much whatever they want, short of disrupting a speech.
..and there was no sign of coordination among the campaigns.
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I’m not sure Chris even got to say hi to Deb.
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It was, as you said, a town hall forum, with Chris answering questions from audience members. It started about 6, and people continued to trickle into the room after it started. All of the seats were taken, so the Gabrieli staff was standing at the back of the room.
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As I was looking for a friend who hadn’t showed up yet, I was panning the back of the room every few minutes. At about 6:30, I saw Deb Goldberg at the back of the room (near the Gabrieli staff), without the usual entourage of staff (probably just her and a driver), with no campaign signs around.
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To be honest, I have no idea what she did after Chris stopped speaking, so I can’t say who she was going around the room with. From my vantage point, most of Chris’ staff seemed to be trying to pull him away from the crowd so that he could get up to Lowell for the next town hall meeting.
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My guess is that Deb dropped in on her own (perhaps even unscheduled), looking for any political crowd to work.
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I plan on writing up Chris’ town hall meeting as a separate post.
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Disclosure: I am a Gabrieli and a Murray supporter, even though I voted for Goldberg at the convention to get her on the ballot.
I was leaning toward Gabrieli and came to the event in Lynn to hear him in person. I liked what he was saying and now will definitely vote for him.
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I came late and was standing at the back of the room when I saw Deb Goldberg entering the door. Im strongly supporting Tim Murray and was shocked to see her there but nobody else paid any attention. So, she was standing at the back of the room the whole time. Chris, who obviously saw her (he was facing her while speaking), never even recognized her presence. At the end of the meeting he was surrounded by people and after about 10 minutes his staff pulled him out to go to another meeting. I dont even know if they had a chance to say a few words to each other.
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After the event she stayed outside trying to talk to people way after Chris left. She introduced herself to me and I told her that I was very surprised to see her at Gabrieli event. I asked her if that means that she is supporting Gabrieli now. She gave me a standard they are all good candidates reply and said that she was not far away from Lynn and came to the event to meet people. She mentioned that she was attending Patricks and Reillys events before. She was actually very nice in person compare to her strange TV ads but I still think Murray is better.
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Im sorry that someone changed his mind from Chris to Deval because of her visit but I guess people see things differently and make rush statements based on certain assumptions.
Like Mitt Romney and Bill Weld? As for Kerry Healy, you must be joking. I’m not following the campaign closely, but the notion that someone is disqualified because they have money is ass-backward, almost as silly as the idea that Republicans are “working class.”
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Source: Pew research
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Union support and working-class support are two very different notions.
about candidates. Big difference.
different from them roll-up-your sleeve, blue collar Democrat working class folks: John Kerry, Deborah Goldberg, Deval Patrick, Christopher Gabrieli, Ted Kennedy…
are different from regular people. Considering what it costs to run for office in this state/country, there are two kinds of people who can make it: those born wealthy, and those who become wealthy. Tom Reilly is the exception that I can see among Massachusetts candidates for governor this year, but he seems to be polling third for the primary.
was quite funny: “for those of us without nannies, taking out trash is not noteworthy event”