Republican private equity investor Gabriel Gomez announced today that he is refusing to sign the People's Pledge, the proposed agreement among candidates essentially to keep out third-party paid advertisements and mailers, requiring the … [Read more...]
Archives for March 2013
Kate’s Volunteer Guidelines Revisited
I was at an Ed Markey organizing meeting and there was a discussion of recruiting and working with volunteers. People were talking about how important it is to feed the volunteers. I mentioned that this is "Rule Number Four." There were … [Read more...]
Public laws to control one’s own private behavior
March 2012: Cardinal Keith O'Brien said countries which legalise gay marriage are “shaming themselves” by going against the “natural law,” and should not consider their actions “progress”. He claimed same sex unions were the … [Read more...]
Casino Free Milford is getting ready for the referendum
(Cross-posted from GBVDems.org) As many of you are aware, one of the casinos allowed under the expanded gaming law has been proposed for a parcel of land in Milford. Milford has a three member Board of Selectmen, and so far, the only … [Read more...]
Weekly Joke Revue: Citizens Split On Memo Authorizing Government To Kill Them
Onion: American Citizens Split On DOJ Memo Authorizing Government To Kill Them WASHINGTON—Following the release of a secret Department of Justice memo this week that outlines the administration’s legal justification for killing U.S. … [Read more...]
Dan Winslow ties himself in knots – or was it a sailor’s hitch? – over yacht clubs
GOP Senate candidate Dan Winslow spent some time on Scott Brown's campaign payroll, as you may recall. And now it appears that some of Brown's penchant for saying silly things in public may have rubbed off. ThinkProgress caught Winslow in … [Read more...]
Lynch and the DOMA brief – what is going on?
The Globe has an interesting report about Congressman Lynch being the only member of MA delegation not to sign on to a brief urging the Supreme Court to strike down DOMA. Lynch's people blame an "email glitch" as the reason Lynch did not … [Read more...]
Democratic Dispatch – March 1 Edition – Remembering Bill McDermott and More
I was saddened to learn of Bill McDermott's untimely death. Bill was a fellow member of the DSC. He was an expert in election law and had great expertise working with recounts. I am privileged to have worked with him on a number of … [Read more...]
GOP continues march back to 1929
Rallying behind the ghost of Herbert Hoover (or perhaps just the Hoover Institution), the GOP sequester machine continued its march back in time today to the economic policies of the Great Depression: a historic economic collapse on their … [Read more...]
Mass. AFL-CIO votes no endorsement in Senate race
This strikes me as a fairly serious blow to Rep. Lynch and his candidacy. It has long appeared from the outside that he was counting on labor to serve as his ground troops, and yet he failed to earn the endorsement of the state's largest … [Read more...]