Our home was a host site for a House Party to listen to and discuss the State of the Commonwealth Address. We prepared lamb curry, vegan curry, dry dahl, rice – and brought in wonderful Lakota Bakery cookies. Our dining room was full, and then our family room where our one television is located. Matt Giancola from Lt. Gov. Murray’s staff was kind enough to join us.
I was lucky enough to be able to ask Gov. Patrick a question as to how the currently authorized bond funding was or would translate into jobs this year. I said that, in talking to voters phone banking, and debriefing the 35 phone bankers that were in my home on Sunday the #1 issue is employment, not ideology.
Gov. Patrick made clear the way that brick and mortar projects authorized by bonding would create jobs. I hope that message is given priority in this campaign; the unemployed need hope and need to know that their concerns are heard.
The coming campaign will come down to jobs – who understands that for workers in construction and manufacturing this is a Depression and the job they lost isn’t coming back – and has the most credible plan to get people back to work.
The conversation after the Address became one about policy, planning, changes in information dissemination, as well as the relationship between perception – and the underlying reality.
So – my thanks to the Deval Patrick campaign for the opportunity to view the address with diverse citizens from my region, and have an in depth discussion both with the Governor, and my neighbors.
I’d have canceled my own party and come to Arlington for Lakota Bakery cookies!
I love their lemon ones.
Lamb? Like Mary had a little? I can’t believe I’m in the same town as you, you unfeeling, ecologically reckless, environmentally careless, inhumane barbarian. I have to move now, to a vegan town, heck, a vegan internet, where I don’t have to read about innocent helpless loving animals being “prepared”. Uggh, I feel nauseous…God, forgive me…where’s my pita?
WTF?^^
an uptick in construction type work in my sidewalk observations (no statistics). Most of the folks I know in the building trades up here on the north shore are starting to have steady work again. They have to pursue the work but is is again out there. My best friend is a contractor who took last January off totally and couldnt get his crew a job in February. He replaced my roof in March (otherwise he would have gone without work in March). Since then he cant keep up with the work he is getting. People used to pursue him to do work. THat isnt happening much – he has to solicit jobs but the jobs are coming in for him. He and his crew are working 6 days per week. The new work are jobs that dont depend on people taking out home equity loans, so I think this is healthier than when his business was booming.
And agree that it is healthier – divorcing folks are much more willing to negotiate settlements and less willing to spend home equity loans to pummel one another. On the whole, a good thing.
I love Indian food but have a hard time finding three or more people together that agree. There is always one person that cant stand it, so I never have indian food with a group.