Regulars carp that they've never seen the insurgents until they just showed up at a caucus. Insurgents sometimes encourage this by winning once and then never coming back to do the steady work of reform from within.Insurgents often … [Read more...]
Of honey and vinegar
So, the convention's over, and it certainly seemed like a big success to me. Everybody came off well; we have three decent candidates; several excellent speeches; graciousness all around, including the gracious agreement of the Silbert camp … [Read more...]
What I did at the convention
Newton was major league Deval country, to the tune of about 85%. The teller, assistant teller, and credentials officer were all Deval people. So you could say I was in enemy territory. But I don't like to use that phrase, since everyone was … [Read more...]
Sound file: Patrick’s post-convention remarks to press
Deval Patrick came right to the press room after the convention ended. For the maniacal, here's my sound file from that: it's about seven minutes and 6.6MB. I apologize that it's so quiet at the beginning; one, he was speaking very quietly, … [Read more...]
Murray Ready For Victory in September!
Tim Murray swept the MA Democratic Convention in Worcester this weekend with 49.02% of the delegate vote! A number which largely surpassed all expectations. I think the majority went in to the Convention knowing that Murray was going to be … [Read more...]
Convention transparency
All candidates gained the ballot.Counting fewer than 5000 votes still took so long that the convention lasted into the evening.Each of the gubernatorial candidates is a credible candidate; I will support the winner after September. … [Read more...]
Affective Party “Leadership”
No, it's not a typo or a grammatical error. David's recent post about Phil Johnston's "remarkable" quote about Gabrielli reminded me of what I personally found most remarkable about his comments at the convention: has anyone … [Read more...]
A Berkshire Slant on the Convention
I've posted our local Convention results and a link to another Beagle article about blogging. … [Read more...]
A remarkable quote from Phil Johnston
In case you missed it (I did, 'til just now), Jon Keller posted a remarkable quote from state party chairman Phil Johnston right before the convention, in the course of discussing rumors of last-minute changes to the 15% rule (emphasis … [Read more...]
More post-convention thoughts (if you can stand it)
To my mind, this weekend's convention was a huge success, not least by avoiding the catastrophe of shutting one of the candidates out of the September ballot. Bonifaz got on; Goldberg and Silbert got on; Gabrieli got on. Good … [Read more...]
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