Then I read Howie’s column’s yesterday and said to myself, Billy, you son-of-a-bitch now I know why they named you “The Prince of Darkness” years ago.
Howie went through the likely reps to go for the A.G.’s job whom he believes will get beat next November by Scott Brown (Really, have Howie and Scott been rendezvousing in rest areas for many years?)
Howie then mentions our Secretary of State and ends with
Galvin’s already run statewide five times, and he was around the last time a GOP tidal wave rolled in and wiped out the Democrat party. Running for treasurer in 1990, he got washed out to sea too, but now at least he knows enough to check the weather forecast before going near the beach.
Isn’t the Secretary of State the keeper of all public records? Interesting.
What’s even more interesting is Fox 25 news coming across all financial records of the 200 state legislatures. Nothing wrong with that. Makes for good reading. Just the timing and ease with which the were recieved gives it a little Galvinesque scent.
Then of course I read the just-throwing-it-out-there-piece in the Globe, saying Galvin takes A.G. and DeLeo takes his job. I wonder who put that out there?
It seems to me a nice campaign is going on to convince the reps and senators that they cannot give this job to one of their own but rather to an outsider. Like Bill Galvin, or whoever the Globe wants perhaps? If a legislator gets the job he or she will be facing campaign hell.
On the other hand, this is a secret ballot so not a whole lot of splainin’ need done by the solons. And maybe some don’t appreciate being politically blackmailed. You’d be surprised how many reps and senators don’t aprreciate being thought of as hacks.
Of course when Howie and Galvin and the Globe get done no one in the State House will want the job. But it also doesn’t have to go to Galvin.
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If the 9/11 terrorists cannot get a change of venue because of difficulty in finding an impartial jury in New York City then result oriented legal decisions rule the day. And that is a not a good thing.
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Football legend Fred Smerlas paid some former New England Patriots to kick the crap out of some high school kids and the janitor at Nashoba Regional High School.
You can read about it and see a video here
The financial records are part of the annual filing with the Ethics Commission that all legislators must file. The Secretary’s office does not oversee the Ethics Commission. It is an independent agency.
And while we’re at it, the Office of Political Campaign Finance (OCPF) is also an independent agency.
The venue is the entire country. No need to change it. I’m glad it’s in New York, for maximum media coverage.
Plus, 40 cents on the dollar?!?! What kind of
scamoverhead do you have?you can’t expect 300 pound competitive ex-Pro football players to be under control executing their basketball “skills”
Hmm. Ostensibly “Go vote in the Senate election.”
…on every state-produced paper for about 190 years, when it was invented.
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p>before that he used etchings.
The provisions I found in the MA Constitution make reference to a “joint ballot” of both chambers, but in my mind the word ballot by itself does not have to mean a secret one. In fact I’d be surprised if the ballot were secret. If this happens all FOUR of the downballot statewide offices will be up for grabs in 2010 – fun times!
As we watched the game, and the play came up – I murmured, “I think they should go for it…” My spouse questiond my sanity, and asked if I had ever WATCHED a football game before. Then, the team came back onto the field…
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p>I am accused at home of remote Belichek mind control, as Bill couldn’t have thought of that. I contend it was because he didn’t have the gray hoodie that the brillant gambit didn’t work (didn’t he learn ANYTHING in the red hoodie debacle?).
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p>Belichek and I have a mutual answer – A genius needs some way to amuse themselves…