Just caught a new Healey ad on Channel 4 (I don’t think it’s on Healey’s website yet). This one not only has a quote from Tom Reilly about how Deval Patrick is “soft on crime,” it actually has footage of Reilly chastising Patrick at some debate or other about the crime thing. (It also has footage of Sen. Steve Baddour and Suffolk DA Dan Conley praising Healey at the recent signing of a bill relating to sex crimes.)
If I were Reilly, I’d be pretty pissed that Healey was using my words and likeness in an ad casting aspersions on the Democratic nominee.
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Is Kerry Healey an idiot? If it didn’t work for Reilly, what makes her think it’ll work for her?
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In fact, I don’t remember this argument ever getting any traction in Massachusetts. Romney tried it against Kennedy… Weld tried it against Kerry… Sure this works at the national level (Willie Horton?), but has it ever worked here???
So, Kerry Healey is so poor a candidate that she needs to directly use someone else’s voice and words to make her case…words that already lost the race for that candidate.
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Geez, you’d think that if she were using videotaped clips of someone else attacking Deval, it would be someone who had done so successfully.
Let’s think through this logic:
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1. Reilly embarrasses himself numerous times during campaign.
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2. Reilly loses big in three-way race.
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3. Kerry Healey decides to associate herself with Reilly against the person who kicked Reilly’s butt in the primary.
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Does anyone else think that associating oneself with a losing foot-in-mouth candidate is an odd way to try to win an election?
My concern with the ad is not the ad itself, but Reilly’s silence since Primary Night. He may have come in third in a three-way race, but he still got a good chunk of votes. We really need him to speak up. I can understand that Reilly has some business to do wrapping things up at One Ashburton and pondering his next career move — but is he out there campaigning for Patrick anywhere, as he promised he would?
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The first “change?” ad that Healey ran had the same quote. I have not yet seen Reilly pop up anywhere and say “Wait a minute….” and go after Romney/Healey for their utter indifference to the budgetary needs of local police departments, etc., etc., (oh, and Hillman’s seeking that pardon so that his friend with the DUI can get his gun permit). Now his image is being used in addition to his words.
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Is anyone else feeling uneasy about this besides me?
Reilly’s got to get out there in a visable way on this, hopefully this ad will spur him into action. His role here is important, a lot of the votes he received are the ones that are most up for grabs in the general election.
That he lied?
He gets on TV. Says that the candidate who is softer than a marshmallow on a warm day is Kerry Healey. He talks about all the cops that were reduced during the Romney-Healey administration – they balanced the state budget by forcing police layoffs in the cities and towns. Put that in an ad, and Kerry Healey is toast. If Reilly doesn’t do that, then some Reilly voters may actually move to Healey.
Reilly’s absence at the Unity Rally in Roslindale was noticed by many. Chris Gabrieli gave a rousing speech enthusiastically supporting Patrick and Murray. Where was Tom?
Has Reilly appeared at all after his primary defeat? Did he even make a concession speech? Since the primary, has he made any public statements himself in support of the Democratic ticket?
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Reilly needs to show his face now. If he does not, he is a sore loser. It would confirm that the voters made the right decision on September 19th.
He did make a concession speech, in which he did explicitly put his support behind Patrick. Whether actions follow those words has to be seen.
And my State Senator is on the ad, too, Stpehn Baddour. Any thoughts on how to go after him?
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Apparently, Deval “hadn’t called him” soon enough after the primary for him to endorse him immediately.
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I already phoned him after he was quoted in Alan Lupo’s column saying that “his people” wouldn’t vote for Patrick, even though “his people” did vote for Patrick – his state senate district and almost Metheun.
It seems there are more Patrick people than Baddour people in that district. Fortunately, the senator (with his double-digit IQ) can’t even do the simple math. The solution is simple. Find the Patrick people in 2008, give them someone to vote for, and remove that disgrace from the state senate.
Do you have one?
The Globe has a story on the new Healey ad.
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First, somebody go up to 20 Maple Ridge Road in Methuen and check to see if Baddour has a Healey-Hillman lawn sign at his home.
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Then, don’t throw out all those Sonia Chang-Diaz stickers. Use them in the Suffolk DA race. Or better yet, sticker Wilkerson for DA and Sonia for Senate.
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Note to Trav. You know that basement closet in the state house? The one that sucks up the auto exhaust from the governor’s car when it’s parked on the street that runs through the building? That’s Baddour’s new office.
Dear Senator Baddour,
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I would hope that Alan Lupo had misquoted you last week saying that
“your people” wouldn’t vote for Deval Patrick. They certainly did in
the primary.
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I would hope that you would pay a decent respect to the overwhelming
majority of Massachusetts Democrats who chose Deval Patrick on
September 19th, and quickly endorse him for Governor.
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And, I would hope that you strenously object to the Republican
candidate using your quotes in her campaign commercials.
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Senator, Deval Patrick came through the gates on September 19th as the
most well-organized, well-supported Democrat since Dukakis in 1982.
He got 452,000 votes in a three way primary with two well-funded
opponents. I understand that he wasn’t your first choice.
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I know that you first and foremost represent the citizens of your
district, that you are not “bound by party,” etc. But, there are many
of constituents, myself included, who vote for you simply because you
are a member of the Democratic party. And we would like to see the
Democratic Party take back the corner office because we are tired of
being governed by Republicans with one eye on the door.
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As your constituent and a fellow Democrat, I would like to see you
take an aggressive approach to counter the new Healey commercial. I
think it would be important for many of your constituents. I would
also like to see you make appearances in the area with Deval Patrick.
I think this region is going to be incredibly important to his
victory.
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Sincerely,
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Bill Callahan
12 Harkaway Road
North Andover, MA 01845
Bill –
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How about in two years we ask every Deval primary voter state-wide to send you just $1 to run against Badour.
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$450,000. That should shake things up.
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Get in line Senator and renounce this ad!
they run like rats off a sinking ship. Baddour and Geno are jumping off the Healey bandwagon this morning. I think they’re beginning to smell the exhaust. Both claim that Healey is using their words in a way they didn’t intend.
Assume for a moment they are smart enough to understand the hilarity of this notion. What exactly did they say that they didn’t mean? Did they think they were being invited to another Big Dig event when Murph called? Which part of their likenesses are not authorized?
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But let’s not make any assumptions. Let’s go with what we know about them and their ilk (remember they were accompanied by Koutoujian and Dan ‘Does anyone know how to prosecute a crime in Suffolk County’ Conley). Less than a week after the Primary that led their candidate to enter the witness protection program (God help you if Conley’s taking care of you) they sit on a staged stage with the Dem party’s main opponent and praise her many, unnoticed skills and the fabulous working relationship they have with her. They follow that up with a series of damaging (but to whom) statements regarding Deval’s apparent liberal positions. And then indicate that their constituents couldn’t support someone like him. Well Duh! Of course they couldn’t if they voted for you. If they want a smart, experienced, independent leader why would they have voted for you?
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These clowns are exactly why the Commonwealth, from liberal to conservative, need Deval Patrick.