The Newton resident and 2002 Gubernatorial challenger is a top-tier candidate. It will be interesting to see which other Democrats announce their intentions to run for this seat. Any other names out there?
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I wasn’t expecting that. He definitely is a top-tiered candidate. I hope it’s a good race.
He certainly is a top-tiered candidate, but also remember the awful campaign he ran for Governor a while back. This will be a tough field. I wonder has he got the fire??
I know his family owns a communications firm, but banking? Other financial industry experience?
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p>At least Tim had been a County Treasurer.
Shannon O’Brien?
Shannon O’Brien was a good Treasurer because she was a smart woman who did her homework and changed the Treasurer’s office substantially…the programs that Cahill now touts were started by O’Brien.
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he was the well-known rich Newton businessman being blackmailed by the hooker.
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p>Glad is what not you Steve!
Boston.com has the story here
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p>This seems like a good move on his part to get out in front of the game. Scare off some lowly reps who’ll never have his riches.
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p>Running a Treasurer’s campaign doesn’t require the kind of staff that a Gov race does — he can essentially have 1-2 people through this year, going to town meetings, building the name, etc… Start ramping up staff in the Fall, have a big end of quarter and end of year fundraising effort, and set himself up for the caucuses in February.
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p>Of the other names mentioned in the article, I’d think only Montigny would be the competition. But I think given Grossman’s Demmie bona fides, and given that Dem Convention delegates are older, liberal and not a dynamic group (and I am among those) he wouldn’t have a problem getting his 15% at the convention.
Well qualified and very popular with smart people in politics and government; but will he have a message beyond that?
Well Steve just shot the staring gun on the race for Treasurer, while I suspect others are trying to find their other running shoe, a shrewd move! I suspect Steve will be well received as a candidate he had some good support in a very fragmented 2002 race and he has a lot of favors he can call in, so its Game on!
I remember Steve’s run for Governor I was helping Tom Birmingham at the time and Steve ran a class group He stuck to the issues and played by the rules, I for one have a great deal of respect for anyone who enters this field and stays true to his word and thus far I know Steve Grossman to be that kind of a person.
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p>Lets not forget he is not in this at 63 because he needs a job or is using it as a stepping-stone to a presidential bid. Besides having another democrat in office instead of the likes of a Joe Malone who’s staff was known for raiding the safe when the boss was away makes me feel like we are in good hands in this economic storm.
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p>It is to bad Tim could not take the heat of the Democratic organization and play nice, maybe he needed to be around more instead of just waltzing in to a State Committee and expecting to be handed what ever he wanted on a silver plate, hey I was their as a volunteer and it rubbed me the wrong way and buzz was it rubbed a lot of others as well judging from the results. Hey I was the guy in Woburn for Tim when everyone else including the State Rep was backing some one else so I know what he is capable of doing. Yet since he stepped into the treasurer’s role he seems to have lost his ability to win friends and influence those not yet friends, it would seem he is suffering from the typical politician swallowed by their own press clippings.
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p>So Yes Steve Grossman! Where do I sign up?
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p>As Usual just my Opinion
A month ago, I asked for recommendations of “competent, honest, and progressive candidates” for each of the statewide offices on the ballot in 2010, including the increasingly-important office of Treasurer.
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p>I was resoundingly chastised for my attempt to “[take] down the current leadership team“. One commenter questioned my “progressive cred”.
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p>Funny how all this changes when Steve Grossman is in the race. Funny how nobody remembered him a month ago.
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p>Perhaps we progressives might get more traction for the issues we all care about if we spent a little less time attacking each other for violating whatever credos or dogma we hold dear and worked a little harder to find, emphasize, and build on common ground that we share.
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p>I like and am inclined to support Steve Grossman (though I don’t know for sure yet, mostly because I don’t know the other candidates well enough yet).
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p>There is an election coming up, and our current state government is, no matter how well-intentioned, (a) falling short of solving the many challenges that face us (such as the latest grim revenue numbers for the state), and (b) overwhelmingly Democratic (whether “progressive” or not). We’re behind by 10 with about 5 minutes left in the game, we have the ball, we’ve been running it for most of the quarter, and it’s third down and 25 to go on our own 20. Our running team is still on the field. Is it perhaps time to put in some extra receivers? If we don’t do it now, will we have a better option at fourth and long?
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p>I’d like to ask again — are there any other candidates like Mr. Grossman that might help our cause?