According to the Worcester Telegram & Gazette, Tom Reilly announced that he would open regional Governor's offices when elected:BOSTONâ Local officials and residents would not have to go to Boston to reach the governorâs staff under … [Read more...]
Tom Reilly’s Education Plan
Since the mainstream media has zero interest in the candidates' public policy positions, here is the latest installment in Tom Reilly's Massachusetts Action Plan: The "Never Give Up On a Child" education plan.I was away over the weekend, … [Read more...]
Our Very Own Inconvenient Truth
All of the negatives that we try to attribute to the Republicans can just as easily be affixed to our own Party, which has had veto-proof control of the Legislature since 1992. In fact, since the budget has been set almost exclusively … [Read more...]
Minimum Wage Indexing: Healey Was Against It When She Was For It (And Where the Democrats Stood)
The Associated Press' Glen Johnson is reporting that legislative negotiators have agreed to raise the state's minimum wage to $8.00 by January 1, 2008:Under the proposal, which was later approved by the full Senate, the minimum wage in … [Read more...]
Governor Reilly Will Not Take a Pass
I believe that the majority of voters in Massachusetts support Democratic values. And yet their anxiety over a Democratic Governor's inability or unwillingness to stand up to the overwhelmingly Democratic Legislature has played a huge … [Read more...]
AP’s Johnson: Is Gabber Lite Less Filling?
Associated Press political writer Glen Johnson makes a compelling case that Chris Gabrieli's campaign, thus far, has an "unbearable lightness of being" quality in this Boston.com story.BOSTON --Chris Gabrieli entered the 2006 governor's … [Read more...]
Reilly’s Smart Tactic: A New “Gang of Three”
A tip of the cap to Herald blogger Kimberly Atkins who provides the subject matter of this post:Attorney General Tom Reilly, on his gubernatorial campaign website, will use the words of Gov. Mitt Romney to rip a group he calls the new … [Read more...]
Gabrieli Plays The Immigrant Card
Democratic gubernatorial candidate Christopher F. Gabrieli, in some of his most extensive comments to date on immigration, blasted Governor Mitt Romney and Attorney General Thomas F. Reilly yesterday for allowing construction firms that … [Read more...]
Reilly’s Independence, Gabrieli’s Politics As Usual
At the end of last week, I wrote a post about how Tom Reilly, and then Deval Patrick, took a stand against the Legislature as it attempted to create a special pension for former State Representative Michael Ruane. The circumstances … [Read more...]
Reilly’s Independence: Opposes Special Pension for Former Legislator (Updated)
I often make the point that the Democratic nominee for Governor will be running as much, if not more, against the public's perception of the Legislature as he will be running against Kerry Healey. One of the biggest obstacles that the … [Read more...]