Deval Must Fire Doug Rubin – DeLeo and His Chief of Staff Not Impressive

 Doug Rubin was brought in to steer the SS Deval on to a proper course after the disastrous start. Doug however has made things worse.

The election is 18 months away and the only thing Deval has going for him is the weakness of the proposed candidates.  Thi is not good. Deval needs a major change.

Jim Aloisi was such a crazy choice that for a moment I figured there had to be a method to the madness.  But I was wrong. Jim did not surprise or disappoint. He brought his slime ball Napoleonic ways out of the caves and tunnels that run between the Mass Pike and Goulston & Storrs, and  Big Dig Contractors and bonding firms, and V-Chip interests and who knows  who else. Jim was sent down earth to by these gods to make sure their life support system does not dry up.

Then Doug managed the “Get Marian Walsh a Job Project”. Standard yet sensitive stuff for any governor’s office. Navigating high patronage jobs is not the same as getting people to picket a strawberry festival, or persuading Hingham preppies to vote for a triple eagle.

Doug flubbed this task in a big way. Because of Doug’s political ineptness Marian Walsh became a state wide joke while SS Deval continued off course.

The back and forth on BMG with Paul Levy was juvenile and cheapened the office. The mea culpa e-mail resulted in another two days of public ridicule. Doug, if you asked anyone in the state house they would have advised against the e-mail. Basic stuff dude.

The fixer is broken and needs to be replaced.

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Bob DeLeo’s speech before the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce last week must have caused many an eyebrow to be raised among the powerful mucky-mucks in attendance.

First he made it more than clear how excited he was to be there. He sounded as if he wanted to be speaker just so he could speak at the Chamber’s breakfast and wanted to do it before they took the job away.

He said we need ethics reform but gave no specifics.  He sounded jumbled and unaware of the audiences concern about serious state of affairs.  He actually looked more like a high school football coach giving an award acceptance speech.

Then he went on to explain that he ordered Ways and Means Chair Charley Murphy not to allow any ear marks in the budget.  

Hey Mr. Speaker. Why didn’t you just have some strings running from you to Charley’s appendages? He was there. People would have understood more clearly that he is your puppet. Murphy should be pissed. I know I would be.

But anyway now Deleo gets to continue the DeLeo Dollars from his new digs. And his chairman? Screw him. Right Bob?

Note to Speaker DeLeo: Have a specific agenda before speaking to groups like the Chamber. None of this “hey look at me, i just got elected speaker” stuff.

Another tid  bit on DeLeo. A few weeks ago I wrote about Grace Hogan, former speaker McGee’s chief of staff who caused an exodus of loyal McGee reps. helping Kevierian with his coup.

While it seems DeLeo’s chief of staff is one Jim Eisenberg who, sources tell me, has quickly earned a reputation among many house members as a dink.

Good for you Jim. Keep up the good work.