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Boston Phoenix backs Capuano

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Capuano arrives at this juncture after two distinct and impressive stints in public office.

First, as a five-term mayor of Somerville, Capuano transformed what had been a city in decline: he rooted out corruption, improved the schools, developed parkland, and invested in neighborhoods.

In his 11 years as a US congressman, Capuano has been a stalwart voice for liberal values, including a woman’s right to choose and opposition to the death penalty. More important, he has stood firm for principles when others did not – notably, by voting against the Iraq War authorization and against the liberty-infringing PATRIOT Act….

Capuano also has continued to aid his home district, through constituent services, earmarks for local industries, and by securing important funds for state transportation projects.

This is the way Kennedy represented Massachusetts. It worked.

But, while Capuano may be following the Kennedy playbook, he has his own style. His priorities and outrage at injustice – which some have criticized as anger, but we see as passion – come from his working-class Somerville upbringing. The Senate will be well-served by those qualities.

Interesting breakdowns in recent endorsements: Capuano gets the Herald and the Phoenix; Khazei gets the Globe, the T&G, and BMG.  Strange bedfellows all around!

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    • Just like the other media, the BMG endorsement reflects the opinions of its editorial board.  I doubt the newspapers polled their correspondents either.

      • The majority of the opinion posted on BMG is posted by the bloggers not the editors.  To call it a BMG endorsement, as opposed to a BMG EDITOR endorsement,  is to imply there is some concensus amoung the “members” of the 4000 member community.  If anything there is a concencus around a different candidate.  So that what I’m saying.  The endorsemnet should be labeled unambigously out of respect for the 4000 member community.    

        • Maybe a few hundred regular posters, and three editors.

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          p>The vast majority of people who visit BMG just give it a quick scan and leave. They never post or comment.

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          p>Who is the community?

        • …I didn’t make the comparison to newspapers polling readers.  I deliberately used the correspondents analogy because as contributers we are like correspondents/op-ed columnists.  The lurkers without accounts are analogous to newspaper readers.

  2. The Herald endorsed Capuano but The Phoenix not so much.  I was shocked the Globe endorse Khazei but it never even crossed my mind to think about who the T&G would endorse.  The BMG endorsement comes from three people, and as such should always be written the BMG EDITOR’s endorsement.

  3. nice job.  But they got it right!

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    p>But Coakley did not get a single endorsement from on major newspaper or blog and is the frontrunner.  That’s interesting.

    • She got an endorsement from the largest newspaper….in Rhode Island.  

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      p>http://www.projo.com/opinion/e…

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      p>And it’s not even a good endorsement:

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      She has also shown considerable character and independence in announcing her run before the other candidates, who seemed to be fearfully waiting for permission from the Kennedy family.

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      p>huh?

  4. From WBUR

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    So far, the only candidate to have accepted Isaacson’s invitation is Mike Capuano. Martha Coakley’s campaign cited a scheduling conflict. Steve Pagliuca’s campaign says it’s trying to find time in the candidate’s schedule. Alan Khazei’s campaign says Isaacson hasn’t gotten back to him. He says the campaign, alone among the four campaigns, has also refused to answer a questionnaire about veterans’ issues.

    No word yet from the Khazei campaign.

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    p>Enough said on the matter.

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