Happy to hear he is getting out there to help us “get it”, as we have been asking him rather loudly to do. It is terrific that he is coming to Western MA. It will be streamed live at this link Monday night at 8PM. . The questions will come from the audience and can also be emailed in.
Please share widely!
liveandletlive says
I missed the one on NECN. It thought I would be able to watch it later, but they didn’t archive it and it’s not
on YouTube either. So I will definitely be watching.
frederick-clarkson says
that the Globe could do something like this every DAY on its web site, with leading figures in public life.
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liveandletlive says
liveandletlive says
WWLP’s setup clips show that there will be few if any tough questions. We’ll see. See ya after the show!
mass_hysteria says
Did he get fired today or what? I heard he took a bullet (sort of) for Deval. It was a rather odd apology. He couldn’t help mix in some “we are awesome, look what we are doing” stuff with the apology.
doug-rubin says
No, for the record, I did not get fired today.
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liveandletlive says
See how rumors get started. I was just going to fact check that comment by mass_hysteria. I have a lot to say about tonight’s Town Hall meeting. 1st of all, I am very glad he did it and he should definitely do it more often. There are many, many questions, the hour just didn’t seem like enough time. And I think Jaclyn was right to move things along the way she did. She wasn’t trying to be disrespectful, just trying get as much in as possible.
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liveandletlive says
Go Jaclyn, and thank you. Some people can just talk and talk. I thought it was totally fake for Governor Patrick to seem so offended by her moving the conversation along. He has never responded to a single email I have sent him. So I guess it’s OK for him to diss the constituency who sends emails, as long as you don’t do it face to face, or as long as someone else doesn’t do it on behalf of the rest of the constituency who wants to get word in edge wise. Well enough about that.
Tax abortion?! Geez, were you trying to make a statement there buddy.
liveandletlive says
Too many questions on the same topics, mainly health care and education, which are indeed important, but the questions should have been better balanced. Of course, my topic is commuter rail expansion, I would love to hear him talk in depth about his “vision” for expanded commuter rail service and whether it will include connecting Eastern and Western MA, or whether it will end with connecting Western MA to CT and VT. I think the North to South rail line is important, but should rank behind connecting East and West.
Like I’ve said before, I feel like I live in Western MA, CT and it looks like that regional feeling we have will just be set in stone once the North South commuter rail line comes in. If you go to Amtrak and look at their NorthEast Region map, you can see how the rail lines drain from MA, it is a telling map.
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Good-bye Boston, I’ll miss you.
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liveandletlive says
Massachusetts does have a ridiculous drop out rate. I blame both the parents and the teachers.
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So stop complaining, do your job enthusiastically, and make a difference in child life. I expect nothing less from the people who choose teaching as a career.
liveandletlive says
There really is a lot of support for a resort casino in Western MA. The problem is the anti-casino people are more motivated to stop it from happening then the pro-casino people are to have one. I understand that Governor Patrick was counting on resort casinos as way to grow the economy. It makes sense to me too. I was glad he had an opportunity to say tonight that he wasn’t really supporting the casino as much as he was supporting the entire resort concept. I think that message got entirely lost when he first made his proposals and the anti-casino people labeled him a predatory gambling supporter. That did some major damage, not only to the Governor, but to the entire concept of what a resort is, and all of the benefits it will bring, and how the casino is only a portion of the whole project.
So he needs to get that message out loudly, that what he was really supporting was the building of the entire resorts, and that the casino is just a part of it.
liveandletlive says
I just want to say that watching Governor Patrick tonight reminded me of why I liked him so much when I voted for him. He talks like a working or middle class person, uses slang and humor, and seems to “get it”. He doesn’t appear to be a “stuffed shirt” or snob or “above it all”.
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liveandletlive says
It would be really nice if Governor Patrick would come and talk to us at the Convention in June. I don’t know if he is already scheduled to do so, but it would be a great way to reconnect with people from across the state that will be in one area at a given time.
liveandletlive says
Here is how MassLive/The Republican is reporting on the town hall meeting last night. This is the news getting to people who missed the meeting and aren’t internet savvy. That would be a lot of people.
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