Click here for the text of this somewhat crassly written editorial. Amazingly, the Phoenix neglected to mention that both Galvin and Lynch are BMG chickens, which disqualifies them from higher office right there. Some key sections:
“If political campaigns foreshadow how candidates would govern, then Patrick would be ambitious and energetic, principled and focused.”
“[T]he track record of the Great and General Court of Massachusetts is, to put it politely, heartbreaking; to put it more graphically, it is piss poor.” A Democratic governor will have to “tangle with the legislature. And that will be a formidable test of political will and imagination.”
Goldberg. “Brookline may have a town-style government, but with its population density it faces city-size problems. Solving those problems is solid training ground for any higher office, but especially so for a job that, in recent tradition, has coordinated state and local affairs for the governor.”
Bonifaz. “If ever there were a natural-born reformer, it is Bonifaz. He is perhaps the only person ever to seek office in Massachusetts who is also the winner of a MacArthur genius fellowship for his pioneering legal work in voting-rights and campaign-finance reform. … If you think politics is plagued by cynicism and corrupted by cronyism, then a vote for Bonifaz is a vote for hope that the system, and society, can be made better.”
Dunkelbarger. “Lynchs solid support for President George W. Bushs Iraq war and the Patriot Act, his consistent votes to make it ever more difficult for a woman to exercise her right to reproductive choice, his dodgy position on Net Neutrality, and his decision to validate the Republicans wild overreach of its authority in ordering the re-insertion of Terri Schiavos feeding tube compel us to urge Phoenix readers to vote for his challenger, Phil Dunkelbarger.”
Chang-Díaz. Diane Wilkerson is a disaster waiting to happen … Chang-Díaz, who is bright and progressive, and will bring much-needed fresh energy to the state Senate. … She is a solid supporter of reproductive rights and believes that our state government needs to do more on the special urban needs of education, safety, housing, and environment so badly neglected during the past four years of Romneys reign. Just 28 years old, she could join new city councilor Sam Yoon in ushering in a new generation of Boston political leaders.”
Was Deb Goldberg. I don’t quite understand why it didn’t even seem like Andrea was in the running. Whoever wins this race, I’ll be happy with. However, I’d really like to see it either swing to Murray or Silbert.
As has been noted elsewhere but not in its own user post. I guess it would fall to me as the resident Goldberg supporter to write it, but I’m full out at the day job this week.
The Phoenix’s lack of dignity in identifying Andrea Silbert as a candidate is embarassing for them. I love indie newsies, but for the paper that often trumpets progressive issues like equal marriage and women’s rights, the editors’ failure to reference Silbert when they talk about “two strong candidates” shows why that paper needs (and is soon to get, I believe) new blood at the top.
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I presume Adam Reilly is not pleased to be associated with such an oversight.
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That all being said, congrats to Deb and Deval on the endorsement.
They should be embarassed at using such a wretched colloquialism. Even though they have to give the newspaper away to get readers, one would think they could afford a thesaurus.
I had no idea that the BMG sense of propriety was so fine tuned as to be offended by the phrase “piss poor” — especially when used to describe the general performance of state legislature.
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Do you all wear wing collars and spats?
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Oh, my!