Punch it, Kerry! Wooooo! Kerry Healey’s got a new gimmick to complement the “no new taxes” gimmick: The “Spend-O-Meter”:
During an event, Healey used a spend-o-meter to claim that Patrick would raise spending by more than $8 billion over four years on education and local aid alone.
“My question for him today is: How are you going to pay for $8 billion more in new spending when you’re elected? How is that going to be done? I can tell you right now, we don’t have to wait for him to dodge this question. The answer is: He’s going to raise taxes,” Healey said.
“My response is that this is bogus. These are the same people who pledged no new taxes when in fact we have seen that they have proposed more than $900 million taxes and fees during the last three years,” Chacon said. “She can use all the o-meters she wants.”
… Michael Widmer, of the non-partisan Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation, said he is “bewildered by the numbers in Healey’s spend-o-meter and can’t imagine where she gets them.”[emphasis and hearty chuckles mine throughout]
And furthermore … in her ads, doesn’t Kerry Healey let slip that even she has a few moderately humane priorities: “– like education”, she practically gulps at the end. And what about that local aid? Isn’t she the Good, Generous, Highly Diplomatic and Well-Bred Liaison to the Munchkin Duchies that beset her with baseless complaints whenever she goes au pays, like how their budgets still haven’t recovered to pre-2002 levels? Couldn’t she have picked better targets, like the latte-in-every-cupholder- in-every-Prius -in-every-garage part of Patrick’s platform? (That one’s been top-secret!)
And it’s clearly better to have taste than wealth, folks. Look at that hideous prop. It makes a Little League scoreboard look like a freakin’ Jumbotron by comparison. That’s what $15 million and no imagination will get you.
(Thanks to matthew02144 for the steer — and pablo for the title: Used with, uh, pre-emptive permission.)
Is there ANYTHING more lame than this?
I could be mistaken, but isn’t that one of those Y2K clocks that they had at the post office?
Isn’t that from a song: “In the yearrrr 89909 102775 …”
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I mean, if it’s a clock, that’s a hell of a time.
How about the Patrick campaign announces the use of the “Sphygmomanometer”. The only device capable of verifying that the Healey campaign has any life left in it…
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Dems for Healey! “Healey rolls out Sphygmomanometer to prove campaign is alive”
I was trying to think of a way to incorporate it.
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Thanks!
Lame-O-Meter: The number of voters expressing distain for the Spend-O-Meter.
Lose-R-Meter: The number of points behind Deval in the polls.
Leave-O-Meter: The number of days before Kerry Muffy Healey returns to private life in Beverly.
It won’t be long before we get:
Christ-E-Meter: The number of points behind Mihos in the polls.
Becht-L-Meter: Cost overruns on the Big Dig during the Romney-Muffy administration.
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Oh, wait. I thought the Spend-O-Meter was the personal fortune Kerry Muffy Healey was squandering on a campaign that is convincing voters how much they don’t like her.
perfect.
The five steps Kerry Healey takes when she accuses Deval Patrick of wanting to spend a certain amount of money but not knowing how much her own proposals would cost.
From the Boston Globe:
Healey said she did not know “off the top of my head” how much in new spending her own proposals would require.
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Alternatively: The ironic rollback of taxes to five percent that Kerry Healey wants that will necessitate the dramatic escalation of local taxes.
My first thought at looking at the actual Lame-O-Meter was ohmygawd,they decided to make the Meter the same color as Patrick’s skin. Holy shit. Ugh.
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My second thought was that the stench of desperation whafting off of these folks is serious. Despicable and laughable all at the same time. That’s quite a feat.
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Celebrity Jepoardy was fun, but Healey is just sad.
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Doesn’t she have anything better to do with all that money?
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“Spending it all Healey… on crap”
I saw this on NECN last night, and I thought it was hilarious. Much funnier than the previous story, which was about how a Gloucester resident had died in a fire because two of the four fire stations were closed due specifically to local aid cuts. If it were Deval who was trying to recklessly slash services, would Healey have a “Death-O-Meter”?
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