According to the just-released State House News poll, each of the three Democratic candidates for Governor is heavily favored over [OK! OK! -ed.] would handily beat Kerry Healey if the election were held today.Gabrieli vs. Healey: 47% - … [Read more...]
Wow! Patrick WAY up in new poll
The latest Channel 4/Survey USA poll is a shocker: Deval Patrick has exploded into first place with 45% of the likely Democratic primary voters; the other two are both below 30%. Story; details.609 (!) likely Democratic primary … [Read more...]
Silbert’s self-funding: why?
The Globe notes that, at the end of August, Andrea Silbert wrote her campaign a check for $25,000.A curious move, IMHO. Did it really matter that much if her campaign account's balance was $494,142.13, rather than $519,142.13, at the … [Read more...]
Globe for Patrick; Herald for Reilly; Ben for Gabrieli. Call it even?
The ever-mysterious Ben, the proprietor of Romney is a Fraud whose missives, sadly, only rarely grace the blogosphere these days, has weighed in on the matter of the Democratic primary.His choice: Chris Gabrieli.Gabs, he says, is a decent … [Read more...]
Herald endorses a Reilly/Goldberg Democratic ticket
The Herald has announced its choice for Governor in the Democratic primary: Tom Reilly. MavDem has the details. My question is this: why is the Herald ed. board, who surely will ultimately back Kerry Healey, endorsing in the … [Read more...]
You know that funny polygamy joke Romney tells? It’s not his.
Mitt Romney always gets a good yuk when he tells his "polygamy joke":"I believe marriage should be between a man and a woman ... and a woman ... and a woman," Romney quipped at the 2005 St. Patrick's Day breakfast in Boston. He made the … [Read more...]
Was Tom Reilly channeling Al Haig in last week’s debate?
During last week's Gov debate, the moderator asked the candidates "what, in your personal experience, has prepared you to lead should another catastrophic event affect Massachusetts?" (She had prefaced the question by mentioning 9/11 … [Read more...]
The anti-Incumbents: Sean Fitzgerald takes on Joyce Spiliotis
Third in an occasional series of posts on candidates challenging Democratic incumbents in the legislature.Sean Fitzgerald has lived in Peabody for most of his life. Now, after having held an impressive variety of public service … [Read more...]
Five years later
I don't have anything especially profound or insightful to say about the fifth anniversary of 9/11. You'll have to look elsewhere for that. If you find it, let me know.Is anyone else a little creeped out by the fact that the … [Read more...]
How can we generate millions of dollars for MA’s public colleges?
The answer, according to the non-partisan - and not particularly liberal - Mass. Taxpayers Foundation, is to allow children of undocumented immigrants (CUIs, for short) to pay in-state tuition if they went to high school here. Here's the … [Read more...]
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