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This wasn’t the visual Jon Golnik was looking for …

October 29, 2010 By wmccormick-

A picture from outside Jon Golnik’s event with Giuliani in Lowell. Somehow I don’t think this is the backdrop Golnik had in mind for the mayor’s endorsement interview.

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  1. john-from-lowell says

    October 29, 2010 at 9:49 pm

    I was at that counter vis.

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    p>For some odd reason, Golnik’s staff pulled the enemic Golnik vis crew indoors about 20 minutes before Golnik arrived. Then 10 minutes later, Mr. 9/11 got there.

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    p>Rudy showed up to see nothing but Tsongas Tsupporters!

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    p>The event drew less than 50. 80, if you count us.

  2. millburyman says

    October 29, 2010 at 11:12 pm

    Are non-democrats rude when they upstage a democratic event? But democrats, forgive me, are entitled to upstage a non-democratic event? Someone want to try to explain it to me? Niki’s running scared. McGovern is ahead of Lamb by one point, according to Jimmy’s inside polling. Boy, I can’t wait to see the Elbridge Gerry Studds-mandering this time!

    • david says

      October 30, 2010 at 12:51 am

    • rollbiz says

      October 30, 2010 at 1:09 am

      A) You are out of your mind if you think Lamb is up on McGovern by a point by McGovern’s polling. If Lamb were up by 1 even in Lamb’s polling, do you think he’d be throwing every dirty thing, including the kitchen sink, at Jim right now? I don’t know what your inside line to McGovern’s internal polling is right now, but I’d bet you my next year’s salary that it’s not better than mine. Trust me, you’re losing by many ones of a point. Your candidate knows this too, that’s why he’s hitting low, even by his standards.

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      p>B) This picture represents the standout and visibility game. Maybe you’re one of the many political neophytes that the Tea Party has brought out, who seem to mistake enthusiasm for strategy. If so, welcome to politics. This is how it works. If you got upstaged at your own event, it’s because your visibility organization sucks. It is definitely not a signal of Niki “running scared”.  

      • christopher says

        October 30, 2010 at 9:36 am

        He said McGovern was the one up by a point, but I agree that’s still ridiculous.

    • eaboclipper says

      October 30, 2010 at 5:26 am

      can still be bought for standouts Millbury.

      • eaboclipper says

        October 30, 2010 at 5:50 am

        I mean Dems would never pay Unions to hold signs right?

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        p>

      • christopher says

        October 30, 2010 at 9:34 am

        Like I said below I didn’t join them, but I WAS at Tsongas HQ when they all left for this event.  These were just a few super-volunteers who took a few minutes break from phonebanking to do this.  Really, EaBo, the stress of the election must be getting to you.  You’ve been rather hostile lately.

        • mr-lynne says

          October 30, 2010 at 10:43 am

          … means to be a conservative these days: being worried about ACORN, or union members around every corner.  Afraid that the bond-villain like fiscal power of Soros will dwarf the efforts of Chamber of Commerce and shift the axis of the earth causing all conservative candidates to fall off.  Distraught that the black panthers run voter intimidation drills with German concentration-camp-train-like efficiency.  Where foot-stomping, concussion-causing tea partiers are forced to act in self-defense violence only because of gangs of roving “Move-On liberal thugs” spill coffee hot coffee with ruthless tenacity.

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          p>It means to be afraid – at least that’s what Fox says we should be.

          • rollbiz says

            October 30, 2010 at 2:14 pm

            When you claim to be the “people’s movement”, but you don’t have the actual people who will stand out in the rain, hold a sign, etc., you have to invent reasons why the other side does. Paid union thugs, whatever.

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            p>Anyway, off to GOTV.  

      • kbusch says

        October 30, 2010 at 10:36 am

        prefer to be bought out by wealthy individuals.

        • edgarthearmenian says

          October 30, 2010 at 3:00 pm

          those on the right who say the democrats have been bought by the public labor unions.

          • kbusch says

            October 30, 2010 at 4:24 pm

            I am not going to lose a war of clichés; I want to win on every front.

            • edgarthearmenian says

              October 30, 2010 at 4:46 pm

              unwilling to take prisoners; they want to crush the other guys.  The health reform bill is a classic example:  we needed changes in the way health care is delivered and paid for, and leaders of both parties should have worked together to make it happen, if only incrementally.  

              • christopher says

                October 30, 2010 at 6:00 pm

                You make it sound like they shoved through single-payer.

                • edgarthearmenian says

                  October 30, 2010 at 9:24 pm

                  all of its ramifications–a fact that the right is exploiting in this very election. I wish that the left would stop using this expression “single payer.”  What’s so bad about “Universal Medicare”? You would be surprised at the number of people who would support universal coverage, if only out of fairness.

                • kbusch says

                  October 30, 2010 at 11:20 pm

                  That seems to be the mythology, often repeated but never verified.

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                  p>Possibly Republicans never read it as they were uninterested in compromise or even amendment only in defeat.

                • christopher says

                  October 30, 2010 at 11:27 pm

                  …but I’m nore than happy to say universal Medicare and agree it would probably sell better.

    • christopher says

      October 30, 2010 at 9:31 am

      Is the whole Gerry Studs thing personal for you?  You bring up his name in a completely irrelevant context.  Personally, I don’t see the point so I didn’t join them, but I wouldn’t say it’s rude.  Not like the Tsongas crowd showed up and started stomping on the heads of Golnik supporters.

    • kbusch says

      October 30, 2010 at 4:38 pm

      This kind of thing always seems adolescent and cheesy to me.

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      p>There are some kinds of competitions which it is tactically stupid for liberals to enter. A battle of boycotts is one example: with their base of churches, conservatives can out-boycott most liberal efforts. Likewise, Republicans proved in Florida, November 2000, with the riots they staged to stop the recount that they’re quite good at this stuff. People who think they are at war with evil tend to shed scruples and niceties. And with the Republican base as usual whipped up with fear — this time flavored with socialism, tyranny, and the Constitution — civility is not only politer. It’s shrewder.

      • christopher says

        October 30, 2010 at 6:02 pm

        …is largely why the Governor is ahead in the polls.

  3. cadmium says

    October 30, 2010 at 7:21 am

    Since the Health Care Summer of Hate she has been dogged by disrupters at her events.  I was scared for her at the town hall the summer before last.  She has been shouted down by Golnik supporters at debates.  

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    p>I wasnt at this event but it seems mild compared to some of the attacks Nikki had to deal with from Teabaggers at her events.    

    • kbusch says

      October 30, 2010 at 4:39 pm

      • somervilletom says

        October 31, 2010 at 11:30 am

        I don’t know about “Grafton”, but the “0” from JohnD is ratings abuse.

        • kathy says

          October 31, 2010 at 5:29 pm

          đŸ˜‰

        • christopher says

          October 31, 2010 at 11:22 pm

          …JohnD is from Grafton (though I’m not aware of the inside joke another commenter refers to).

  4. judy-meredith says

    October 30, 2010 at 10:24 am

    If he was even half as smart, funny and articulate as Rudy he might really be dangerous………………..

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